PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

On Faith That Enters, Not Observes “Put your finger here, and see My hands; and put out your hand, and place it in My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.” John 20:27 ⸻ There is something almost unbearable in the moment when Thomas stands before Christ. The others have seen. They have rejoiced. They have believed. But Thomas does not stand at a distance with them. He does not accept their word. He does not borrow their faith. He speaks with a kind of severity that bord

Abiding in the Open Side “Let us concentrate ourselves so completely in the divine love, and enter so far into the living fountain of wisdom, through the wounded Side of our Incarnate God, that we may deny ourselves and our self-love, and so be unable to find our way out of that Wound again.” — St. Philip Neri Philip tells us to enter the Wound and lose the way back out. It is not a metaphor meant to stir passing devotion but a command to relocate the whole of our life. Conce