PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Faith does not ask us to believe in fantasies. It asks us to remain when certainty has disappeared. “Let us also go, that we may die with Him.” — John 11:16 Thomas has been remembered as the doubter. Perhaps we have remembered him wrongly. Long before he placed his hand near the wounds of the risen Christ, Thomas had already revealed something essential about his heart. When Jesus turned toward Judea again, the disciples understood the danger. They reminded Him that the autho

Learning to Pray from the Wounds of Christ “I have not a mournful heart wherewith to seek Thee.” — St. Isaac the Syrian, Homily 16 This prayer of St. Isaac is unlike many of our prayers because it contains almost no demands, explanations, or arguments. It is a cry. It is the speech of one who has reached the end of himself and has finally discovered that every part of him is wounded and that only Christ Himself can heal what has been broken. The desert fathers would say that