The Philokalia, Volume 5

The fifth volume of the English translation of the Philokalia, the collection of Greek ascetic and mystical texts on watchfulness and inner prayer compiled by St Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain and St Makarios of Corinth and first published in Venice in 1782. The translation, made from the Greek and published by Faber and Faber, was the joint work of G. E. H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard and Kallistos Ware, each text with a short introduction. This volume contains the late Byzantine writers, among them Kallistos and Ignatios Xanthopoulos, Kallistos Angelikoudis, Symeon of Thessaloniki and Mark of Ephesus, with further texts on unceasing prayer. It appeared in 2023, after the deaths of all three translators (Sherrard had completed a revision of the draft before his death in 1995, Ware died in 2022), and completed the English translation begun in 1979.