The Philokalia Volume 3 G K I embrace You as if

I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You

Archbishop of Sydney

It is the "£nuclear bomb" of prayers and with it the faithful can clear away all enemies and temptations with the simplest of wordless gestures

the religious and the laity and our own vocations

The Philokalia Volume 3 G K I embrace You as ifThe Philokalia" is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, then translated into Slavonic and later into Russian, " The Philokalia "has exercised an influence in the recent history of the Orthodox Church far greater than that of any book apart from the Bible. It is concerned with themes of universal importance: how man may