Showing posts with label Prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prayer. Show all posts
Monday, 7 September 2020

The Prayer Rule of St. Ambrose of Optina To Be Read in Times of Temptation

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St. Ambrose, elder of Optina offered to those who came to him with various sorrows and trials a special, brief prayer rule that is...
Wednesday, 13 March 2019

ST. NICODEMUS OF THE HOLY MOUNTAIN - Aids to Success in Gaining the Habit of Prayer

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If you desire to seek success in the work of prayer, adapt all else to this, lest you destroy with one hand what the other builds...
Monday, 25 June 2018

15 Points on Noetic Prayer

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1. Prayer is one of the foremost and strongest powers that causes him who prays to be born again, and it grants him bodily and spir...
Monday, 26 February 2018

Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetras-On Prayer

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Excerpts on Prayer from The Authentic Seal: Spiritual Instruction and Discourses By Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetras, Mt. Athos. ...
Wednesday, 21 February 2018

The Meaning of the Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian- “O Lord and Master of my life”...

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  Saint Ephraim The Syrian Every day of Great Lent, with the exception of Saturdays and Sundays, the prayer “O Lord and Maste...
Sunday, 11 February 2018

Does a Soul live after Death and Communicate with us?

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              There lived on a beautiful island in the Aegean Sea a very pious Orthodox priest.  His soul was filled with ...
Wednesday, 4 October 2017

How Does Prayer Begin?

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Once we realize how great is the gap between our earthly being and the transcendent and all powerful God, we begin to appreciate ho...
Tuesday, 27 June 2017

A Life of Spirit or Words?

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  Are we stuck with a faith that is external, following this rule or that tradition, or have we developed one that is internal, o...
Wednesday, 21 June 2017

Fr Zacharias of Essex-"The Spiritual Heart"...

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  Fr Zacharias from Holy Monastery of John the Forerunner, Essex, England, speaks on the nature of what Church Fathers call as  ...
Monday, 27 March 2017

Saint John Climacus- On Prayer

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Prayer is by nature a dialog and a union of man with God Its effect is to hold the world together. It achieves a reconciliation wit...
Tuesday, 7 March 2017

Saint Gregory Of Sinai - How to Master the Intellect in Prayer

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No one can master the intellect unless he himself is mastered by the Spirit. For the intellect is uncontrollable, not because it is by na...
Wednesday, 1 February 2017

Elder Moses the Athonite-Prayer presupposes faith

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Prayer presupposes faith. People who don’t pray are without help, uncertain, blind and alone. They’re earthbound, not knowin...
Wednesday, 25 January 2017

The Church's Prayer for the Dead

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The Holy Orthodox Church, like a concerned mother, daily, at every divine service, offers up prayers for all her children who have...
Wednesday, 10 August 2016

Third century Greek prayer to the Theotokos uncovered on papyri scroll!

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This remarkably preserved papyrus scroll dating to approximately AD 250 (52 years before the start of the savage Diocletian persec...
Tuesday, 26 July 2016

St. Theognostos: When . . . you find yourself full of tears in prayer before God...

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When, energized by divine grace, you find yourself full of tears in prayer before God, lie on the ground stretched out in the form of...
Thursday, 17 March 2016

St.Ephraim the Syrian, Spiritual Psalter, 'How many times have I promised...'

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  Written by St. Ephraim the Syrian "How Many Times Have I Promised, Yet Every Time I Failed...
Thursday, 18 February 2016

Prayer of the Heart for the Faithful Living in the World

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  by Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi (Spiritual Child of Elder Joseph the Hesychast) The question is always being asked, "Is i...