PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

The terrible distance between the person at our gate and the heart that refuses to behold him “And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus.” There is something terrifying about this Gospel because the rich man does not appear to do anything particularly monstrous. He does not strike Lazarus. He does not order him driven away. He does not mock him. He simply lives as though Lazarus were not there. And Christ tells us that this is enough to reveal the abyss already opening wit