PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

When the Cross Is No Longer Outside Us “We preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block…” 1 Corinthians 1:23 ⸻ The Cross has not ceased to be a scandal. We have only learned how to step around it. We know how to venerate it without being pierced by it. We kiss it, we lift it up, we sing of it. But we do not become it. And so it remains outside us. An object. A symbol. A memory. Not our life. The scandal of the Cross is not that Christ suffered. It is that He reveals what love i