meta nous, which is the root of metanoia, which means repentance. The stone must receive the carving, the patient must receive the healing, and the asceticism required to become liturgical theologians means the mortification begun in baptism must continue to soak into our minds, making them new. The liturgy creates the capacity for union with God, and union with God was called theologia in the ascetical tradition. Evagrius speaks of going through three stages. First, praktike begins by disciplining