PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

The School of Disillusionment and the Freedom of Christ “The better you treat them, the worse they become. I am more and more trained in discipleship by their ill usage of me.” — St. Ignatius of Antioch There are certain passages in the Fathers that are so fierce we are tempted to place them behind glass. We admire them. We quote them. We call them heroic. Then we quietly move on before they ask anything of us. This passage from Ignatius is one of them. Most of us can underst