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Prayer, as Saint Sophrony said, is ‘infinite creation’ because it opens before man infinite paths to eternity. It abolishes the power of the spirit of evil, which is a spirit of destruction and ruin, and attracts the Presence of the creative Holy Spirit. The Paraclete Spirit endlessly enlarges the heart of man. He renders it into a place of charismatic divine Presence and a temple made without hands, where supplication and intercession are offered for the whole world. The hidden energy of prayer is nothing other than the natural momentum that God placed in the soul when He created man in His image and likeness. This momentum is the almighty attraction of all things to the Lord of glory being lifted up on the Cross. It grants the energy that refashions the soul by the grace of repentance. Prayer then becomes a continuous summoning of the world back to the ontological level of divine eternity.

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AuthorArchimandrite Zacharias Zacharou

LanguageEnglish

FormatAudiobook

Total listening time12 hours, 15 minutes

PublisherStavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist

Edition1st edition

Publication year2023

ISBN978-1-80746-000-6

The more one rubs against the divine energy, the more the veil of the heart is removed. When this energy accumulates, the veil is completely lifted, the deep heart opens and the mind of man finds the place wherein its awesome presentation is performed. The visible world retreats, and the higher spiritual world becomes a tangible reality. The mind ceases to reason and becomes still in extreme attention. The heart is filled with a life-giving reverential fear. The breath contracts and God becomes ‘all in all’.

Chapter Title	Duration
Opening Credits	00:32
Prologue	07:19
Introduction - Prayer, A Supernatural Endeavour	31:50
Section 1 - Commentary on the Writings of Saint Silouan and Saint Sophrony - Chapter 1 - Whoever loves God prays to Him	61:46
Chapter 2, Part 1 - Spiritual Perfection Through the Grace of Prayer	78:46
Chapter 2, Part 2 - Spiritual Perfection Through the Grace of Prayer	52:26
Chapter 3, Part 1 - Healing and Unifying our Nature in Fervent Prayer	70:36
Chapter 3, Part 2 - Healing and Unifying our Nature in Fervent Prayer	41:38
Chapter 3, Part 3 - Healing and Unifying our Nature in Fervent Prayer	52:20
Chapter 4, Part 1 - Prayer, the Wealth of Spirtual Life	72:19
Chapter 4, Part 2 - Prayer, the Wealth of Spirtual Life	60:53
Section 2 - Basic Anthropological Principles - Chapter 5 - Man, the Author of his Likeness to Christ	59:52
Chapter 6 - The Fiftieth Psalm - A Cry of Repentence	58:37
Chapter 7 - The Jesus Prayer	57:39
Epilogue - 'God is with us'	28:46
Closing Credits	00:36

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The Fall caused the disintegration of the powers of man’s being. It also shattered his relationship with God and his fellows, yet through self-reproach, man is healed on all three levels. Having discussed the first two, we turn to a more practical level: it can be observed that people are increasingly unable to live together in harmony. This is because, according to the standards of this world, taking the blame is equivalent to weakness. Everyone is looking for scapegoats. The Apostle Paul warned us, ‘If ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another;’(Gal. 5:15) yet every day we see this becoming a reality. Peace and concord can be restored when each man only blames himself; when he sees his own faults and strives to correct them. Then self-condemnation is not weakness, but humble courage that strengthens him in his presentation before God.

— Excerpt from: Prayer As Infinite Creation (p. 21)

According to the Fathers, self-reproach assimilates man into the sufferings of Christ and consequently yields the grace of the Resurrection. The sinless and voluntary Passion of the Lord brought salvation to the world. And the sufferings of man, when they are sinless and accompanied by self-accusation, have ‘glory’. They place him upon a righteous path of sinlessness, which is well-pleasing to God and attracts the Spirit of His salvation. ‘For he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin.’

When man chooses the path of descent out of love for the Lord, his spirit is humbled and crushed in a powerful way. The curse of death came into our life because of the enemy’s jealousy, the blind acquiescence of man and the righteous judgement of God. The luciferian virus with which man was infected generated an insane urge to dominate, to undermine everyone else, and to usurp even God. Caught up in this devastating current, man irrevocably condemns himself to death.

By contrast, each time he chooses to follow the downward and humble path of the Second Adam, the New Forefather, Jesus Christ, he receives grace to resist death and defeat it. This path is the voluntary death of man’s personality, that is, of his fallen self. Yet it is the only death that defeats eternal death.

— Excerpt from: Prayer As Infinite Creation (p. 235)