Philocalic

This article inaugurates the publication of the *Philocaliques*, a collection of prose meditations by Jacques Touraille, translator of the liturgical texts of the Christian East and of the Philokalia. Written in the postwar period by a young Frenchman in search of meaning, these pages bear witness to a spiritual journey leading from Romanesque churches to an encounter with spiritual Byzantium on Patmos. The approach is that of a poetic and theological meditation, articulating human freedom, eschatological vocation, and life in Christ. The central idea is that man, neither of this world nor a stranger to it, is called to an inner transfiguration through grace, the only path toward the Kingdom. The contribution of these texts lies in their attempt to formulate, outside of any intellectualism, a theological anthropology rooted in the patristic tradition and nourished by Romanesque aesthetics.