PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

A New Year Entrusted to the Memory of the Mother In the quiet threshold of the new year the Church places us beside a woman who does not explain God but receives Him. Mary does not stand at the center of the mystery as its interpreter but as its dwelling. The Gospel tells us again and again that she kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds speak. Angels withdraw. Time moves forward. Yet she remains still. The events do not scatter her. They descend