Pseudo-Macarius: The Fifty Spiritual Homilies and the Great Letter (Biblia.com)

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The writings of Pseudo-Macarius, a Syrian monk of the 4th century, bring to Western Christianity a holistic “heart” spirituality that offers a necessary complementarity to the “head” spirituality of the West. The homilies reveal the typical traits of Eastern Christian asceticism and The Great Letter instructs the monastic community.

with inner subjectivity possess an immediate appeal. He exploits to the full the language of feeling and conscious awareness, employing as his key words plerophoria (“confidence” or “assurance”: cf. 1 Thess. 1:5), aisthesis (“sensation” or “feeling”), peira (“experience”), energeia (“energy”) and dynamis (“power”). Christianity, as Macarius understands it, involves much more than assent to reasoned arguments or outer obedience to a moral code. It consists above all in the awakening of our spiritual

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