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The Vigil of the Heart: On Hesychia and the Fruit of Watchfulness
A reflection on St. Isaac the Syrian, Homilies 20:4–12 and 21:1–11 St. Isaac the Syrian speaks with the deep and experiential authority of one who has lived the word “hesychia,” not as theory but as the very air his soul breathed. In these passages, he opens the inner meaning of silence, night vigil, and the unbroken remembrance of God. What emerges is a vision of ascetic life as a slow, patient flowering of grace in the soil of obedience, attentiveness, and compunction. The
Father Charbel Abernethy
Nov 11, 20255 min read
Father Charbel Abernethy
Nov 11, 20250 min read
Urban Asceticism: Finding the Desert Within - Chapter One
Chapter One: The Ache for Silence There are moments when the heart simply cannot bear any more noise. Not only the noise that fills the air, engines, voices, screens, but the deeper noise, the interior storm of thoughts and anxieties that scatter the soul in every direction. It is then, in that unbearable restlessness, that the desire for silence awakens: a hunger that is not of this world. I did not seek the desert by crossing mountains or seas. It found me here, among the s
Father Charbel Abernethy
Nov 7, 20253 min read
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