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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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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue
Prayer, a Supernatural Endeavour
COMMENTARY ON THE WRITINGS
OF SAINT SILOUAN AND SAINT SOPHRONY
Whosoever Loves God Prays to Him
Spiritual Perfection by the Grace of Prayer
Prayer: co-working with God to become like unto Him
The holy joy of prayer
The diapason of divine love
The prophetic earthquake in prayer
Running to apprehend the One Who has apprehended us
The man of prayer and his spiritual constitution
The transformer of love
The word of God − well-spring of inspiration
God’s bounty is incomparable with the devices of men
Pure prayer
The wings of prayer
Prayer, the converse and union of God and man
Aributes of prayer
Wavering in the struggle for perfection
Prayer and the environment, visible and invisible
Healing and Unifying our Nature in Fervent Prayer
Revealing the division of our spirit
Repentance and regeneration
Surrender to the gift of God
Christ, a model for imitation in every situation
The ‘right’ of self-love, the beginning of death
Self-reproach, the beginning of the Lord’s way
Hypostatic prayer for the whole world
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep
The present: the precious time of salvation
The supernatural and paradoxical life of the man of God
The vision of God deadens and quickens to life
The creation of the sons of God
For many are called, and few are chosen
The faithfulness of God’s friends
The narrow road
The commandments are hard because God has a great purpose for us
Gratitude for the spiritual instruction of our Fathers
Repentance for a lapse in spiritual vision
With true repentance even a fall can become an occasion for greater grace and stability
In the deep heart, man possesses his nature
Prayer, the Wealth of Spiritual Life
Foundations of prayer
The chastisement of God as the shame of prayer
Prayer as a ‘rod and staf’ on the path of the Cross
Prayer as a training for eternity
The knowledge of God through prayer and love
The breadth of the love and knowledge of Christ
BASIC ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES
Man, the Author of his Likeness to Christ
The Fiftieth Psalm: A Cry of Repentance
The Jesus Prayer
Epilogue: ‘God is with us’
INDEX OF SCRIPTUAL REFERENCES
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All that unfolds in the world testifies to its falsehood; it shows the absence of God, but also the hell in this absence. Each person must judge and choose. If a man has a little spiritual wisdom, he will turn to God in a frenzy, without knowing rest. And perhaps through this uprush of desire for the Lord, he will even overtake those who for years have sluggishly trodden the path that leads to Him. Only this madness of love for God can overcome the world that has already gone astray and heal man from paralysis and the pestilence of despondency.
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’.
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Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
Father Zacharias studied theology at the Orthodox Theological Institute of Saint Sergius in Paris and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has translated all the writings of Saint Silouan and Father Sophrony from the original Russian into Greek and he presents their rich theology to the Orthodox world by writing books and articles and taking part in conferences. Moreover, he serves as a spiritual Father and minister of the word of God to his brethren and the people that come to him. Read more…
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