The Fathers of the Philokalia and I have not been the best of friends. You may recall my incessant – nigh panicked — questions the last time we read these texts about how I was supposed to incorporate intense fasting and vigil keeping and extreme poverty into my already exhausting life as a nursing assistant. [...]
A Holy Selfishness: On Using Evagrios to Read Evagrios and Why I’m Not Called to be a Solitary
October 22, 2012 by 1 Comment
A Reflection on Second Corinthians
July 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
My dear sisters and brothers, I write to you in contemplation of our deaths, “for we are convinced that One has died for all; therefore, all have died.” And I write to you in contemplation of our Life, for “He died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but [...]
Prayer without thoughts
February 20, 2012 by 3 Comments
[The following was presented at the House of St Michael the Archangel Devotional Conference in January of 2012] Attentiveness is the heart’s stillness, unbroken by any thought. […] If we have not attained prayer that is without thoughts, we have no weapon to fight with. – Hesychios Prayer without thoughts. What does it mean to [...]
The Pursuit of the Flaming Sonnet
September 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment
As we have said, from the instant we are baptized, grace is hidden in the depths of the intellect, concealing its presence even from the perception of the intellect itself. When someone begins, however, to love God with full resolve, then in a mysterious way, by means of intellectual perception, grace communicates something of its [...]
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