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eBook: Prayer as Infinite Creation

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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

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PublisherStavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist

Edition1st edition

Publication YearReprinted 2024

ISBN978-1-918281-46-0

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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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)