Prayer is presented as a fundamental and accessible means of direct communion with God, requiring humility, purity of heart, and consistent effort rather than special knowledge, offering spiritual sustenance, guidance, and divine assistance in all aspects of life.
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Venerable fathers
and my dear
sister, our church is today the learned
memory of the holy village of
Palamas, Archbishop of
Thessaloniki, enlighten
our church and great teacher of prayer
prayer
about the secrets of
converse with my heavenly father, I
have this blessing and this
right, there are not hours when I am
accepted and others not
always, the
door of God is open for
all, no special knowledge
and training are needed,
importance for the achievement of the requests of
mom is mainly the humility and
purity of our heart, the modesty
and reverence of our life [music]
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to speak in prayer freely, heartily,
comfortably and
willingly, prayer
brought moves and consumes the
soul, we can always pray without hesitation,
a beautiful, efficient
and effective
prayer is according to
our churching, all under the roof of the
church, we are a stronger
body, it is worth learning the churching
and children from a
young age will thus become a good
habit for them. We pray there all together for the
goods of the earth,
longevity.
We do not propose
excessively impossible and unattainable
things, but we should
reveal all the spiritual heights of mental
mental theory.
theory.
Prayer is that the most beautiful, holy
and sweet thing the human soul can feel, it
converses with
its creation. This is indeed a great
opportunity and
honor. Prayer is a gift of
God's love to
man. The little man speaks with the great
great
God like a friend. His friend unites
man with God through prayer.
Prayer becomes a guide in
the darkness and takes you to the end.
The soul is satisfied and quenched by
quenched by
praying. Prayer is for
everyone, but also for the perfect and the
the
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on the 28th
step, one must overcome the
passions and to gain virtues in order to
magnify its divine greatness,
there are also newer and valuable books
on the ways and subtle
concluding methods.
The posture of the body is not particularly
important whether one will be standing,
bowed or
kneeling. The
posture of the soul is of greater importance,
being genuinely
humble, not thinking that one is something
special, not having any idea that one stands out, is
stands out, is
different and is higher than the
other. One prays
standing because that is how God created him.
The sin of forgetting is that we
do penances. It
is a corrective, we would say,
movement. We do not remain down in the
fall in demonic
submission, but we rise up.
Penances according to the great
kingdom mean three great truths:
truths:
our creation by God,
our voluntary fall, and
is sad that people
try to achieve something only with their own efforts. their own
strength without divine
help, while with the request for
his visit we would have had better and quicker
results, it is necessary to learn to
pray, to make a good
beginning, those who have loved prayer and have
cultivated it for
years, deserve to make it more humble and
and
warm, with the feeling of the tax collector, the innocent of
the harlot and the
thief, to be led to complete
repentance, thus will spring the most beautiful prayer of
prayer of heartfelt
heartfelt thanksgiving,
thanksgiving, wholehearted
wholehearted
gratitude, and from deep
praise, then tears, devotion,
immeasurable reverence, and
attention will be born, it is worth every
effort to create within us the desire
for continuous and permanent
prayer, a beautiful conversation with
God gives spiritual joy and gives
security to life, which today is so
lacking, prayer is not cut off
from the rest of spiritual
life, a great obstacle to the practice of
prayer is the
egoism of doing devout studies
before prayer In order to break the ice of the
of the
ess and to have a good relationship with the one
one
God, pure prayer is also
hindered by laziness,
laziness, [music]
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demonization, and
inattention. One who is very disturbed by
our prayer is the resourceful
demon. Thus, each time he
creates various causes to
distract us from this deifying
work. As we said, the first prayer, the
study of the Holy Scriptures or the
Synaxarist, can become the oil to
start the
engine. The kompoki unites us with all
those who have reached heaven with it.
Psalmody raises the mind to the
heavenly realms. Repentances give us the
And blessed Elder Paisios, the
Athonite, when asked what
prayer means to him,
replied, "I send a signal, I ask for help. I
constantly ask for help from Christ,
from the Virgin Mary,
from the
saints, for myself and for
others. If I do not ask, I will not be able to do anything." they will
give me in these
few and simple
words there is a deep
greatness hidden the elder speaks empirically he
empirically he
is a radio operator of
God he goes first to
Christ but also asks for the help of the
Virgin Mary and the
saints he asks not only for himself
persistently and has
certainty and hope that he will
receive later he will assist us in
our subject with his latest book on
prayer the main work of monks is
is
prayer only that they do is
enough prayer according to the blessed elder
elder
needs a spontaneous
simplicity and immediacy
immediacy
concentration requires
humility and a strong feeling that he
is in front of God and conversing with
with
Him to get bored and tired in
prayer means that you have not yet understood
understood that
that
the creator of the
universe accepts you in conversation let us become less friendly with
people and more open with
God conversation with God should not be a formal
duty and
unfruitful with longing desire sorrow passion philotimo
and love
to feel like a little child in his
father's arms
if you feel his affection you will
never want to move away from
him prayer unites you strongly with
God magnetizes you attracts you moves you you
don't want to think about anything
else then as the saint says joa of
the climate
like a manic
lover a crazy in love
praying no one can unhook him
this love the people of God in
prayer acquire a spirit of
simplicity blessed chicken [music]
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and have an innocent courage that
moves you God is not good to
our need of course and then he accepts us and
listens to us sometimes even
allows trials
God in our lives so that we can run
to him with longing we have a wonderful incredible many
surprises unplanned God who loves us
infinitely faith hope courage
comfort will give us
God to hang around his neck
God does not gain from our own
prayer we help the
important things God always wants to
help us but we must persistently ask him
to love
prayer if we
feel it as an inalienable need of the
soul without prayer the soul has no
life man
wretched we
remain there are people working
in the world who pray
constantly you see them peaceful and pacify them
pacify them
disarms in our difficult times may
our prayer for the help
of our beloved homeland become more intense we have
unfortunately been disappointed by
people and our only hope is
God we hope only in a miracle of the
Almighty the Most High evil
evil
prevails black is considered
white sin is praised
must be We turn to miraculous prayer.
prayer.
Humble prayer will clear the way
from the well-laid traps of the evil
demon. People opened the door for him. I heard him
enter the house. He
sat in his living room. They gave him that he had
asked for many
rights. That is why so
so
many are suffering now. The monks must be quick, upright, and griffin. They must
pray
more for the deception of the
world. As we said and as Saint
Gregory the
demonization prevent communication with
with
God. As long as a person is cleansed within
himself with divine
comfortable, free, and
happy. Passions defile the soul,
defile it, disturb it, and make a person
person
anxious. With internal
cleansing, prayer is noticeably strengthened.
With purity,
conversation with the divine becomes comfortable, beautiful, holy, and
wonderful. In life,
prayer also gives much
grace. Selfishness makes a person He is
only concerned with himself, he ignores
others, he is not interested in
their needs, and thus he has no spiritual
progress and
advancement. God judges us to the extent that we judge
judge
others. When we do not have the spirit of direction, direction,
and
air. God will bless him richly, my dears.
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sacrifice ourselves for our brother.
A prayer is never heard by
God. The
proud one does not love the proud at all. The rich one
gives his
grace to
the truly humble. He hears them
immediately. He does not delay at
all. Thoughts of pride make it
difficult for us to
pray. We say that we
cannot leave them alone. We
think that we are too
tired to do something else.
It is true that we often find
beautiful excuses
to distance ourselves from this work of
of
prayer. This should
particularly concern us. Pride permeates the swamp of
divine grace. Grace
The honest admission of our weakness
will become strength.
One day, the believer who obeys God
admires everything, seeing God himself
obey him. God does not love haste, frivolity,
panic. We must wait
patiently. The patient will be
saved. People today are in too much of a hurry. They
cannot wait
at all. They want impermanent, shapeless, and immediate
results. This has passed in the spiritual
spiritual
life. The omnipotent
God cannot fail to hear the patient
autopsy of you, a
sinner. Strictness towards ourselves
contributes to better
prayer. Forgiveness. Open wide the door
mercy. With inner contrition,
present before the
Lord who you really
are and not who you imagine. You will be
presented with various
books. Find a
goal to pray for before you
pray. May God illuminate and
lead you on a
straight path. In the realms of justice and rest,
rest,
prayer that lacks spiritual joy
means that something is wrong. Something is not being paid attention to as much
as it
should. Coldness among the people around us
does not allow the prayer to soar
soar
high in
prayer. We weigh ourselves against
ourselves. If we have offended someone, it is difficult for him to
to
ascend. We ask sincerely and with passion. He
leaves with tears and the way
opens. The hardness of the heart is
soaked with holy
tears. Thus the race is corrected. It breathes
spiritually and rejoices.
The condemnation of many of us distances us from
God. The strict rejection of a brother for a
real offense makes us
arbitrarily and proudly like
proudly like
us, judging
gods. In the difficulty of prayer, let each one
examine himself and let him criticize and
and
condemn himself. The humble man, while the one who is
of God, is enlightened and
knows exactly what he did wrong.
Divine grace always cooperates in the
return to the
straight path as long as there is a genuine humble
mind peaceful people can
pray better the agitated have a
lot of difficulty like the
curious gossipers and the quarrelsome
one good [music]
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thoughts creates a fertile vine
for the development of
prayer needs my dears courage bravery
levity and
ladliness and in the struggle of
prayer excessive
emotionality and hypersensitivity
do not do so much
good can be exploited by the
wicked one do not delay gets tired
easily puts off constantly one
thinks he is exhausted and that he will get
will get
sick needs hardening mental
strength greater ascetic
struggle it is a shame for someone to have many
many
strengths and waste them here and there
and not give them pleasantly in the
prayer of theodore they must be given completely
and we must
win not to let the
offering and
sacrifice flow God observing this
our eyes will fill us with precious gifts
of not staying too
long the demon will seize the opportunity
to tease us
accordingly we are not in a warm mood for
prayer let us study something let us chant
something to the
Virgin Mary who always supports
our prayers if you cannot do much do a
little do not do
nothing but at first it takes a certain
violence to enter a continuous prayer
program [music] then prayer
should become a
pleasant work even a little every day is
good when someone is completely abandoned he becomes
lukewarm and becomes
cold and it takes a lot of effort to
come back the little of it than the whole is
is
better the whole leads us to
dangerous stories
leave everything completely then he gets spoiled he gets tired
and in the
little it takes a careful
careful
effort to wake up to find again the
spiritual appetite the longing for the divine
the divine
desire with art in a way with distinction without
frivolities and carelessness How
can man return to the
intimacy of his good communication with God?
God?
No work of God requires flower and
commotion. Much more so does
prayer. Some grit their teeth,
cover themselves up, and tirelessly squeeze themselves with their clothes,
thinking that in this way they will [music]
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concentrate. The heavy oppression of
ourselves is of no use and even has the opposite effect.
effect.
When the soul is sweetened by divine
grace, it will run easily and comfortably on its own and
will not need any of our own tricks. It
will run like a cool breeze and a gurgle
gurgle
under the feet of the man of God. Prayer
rests him and does not
tire him, even when he is sleepy, hungry, thirsty
and in pain. Prayer
revives him, makes him happy, makes him
forget his personal
obstacles. Joy [music]
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dominates. Spiritual joy prevails. There
is no pressure, formality, compulsion, discipline and
and
decorum when someone prays.
prays.
just for his spiritual
development and
progress forget the mind and
think that he is progressing and growing
then he is mistaken and deceived
as we have said before at
the time of
prayer someone remembers something
alone in a job that he has to
do something that he should do
differently numbers that he had
forgotten loved ones sleepy trouble headache
these mean that someone is
bothered by the work of
prayer and sets up misleading obstacles
obstacles
as we say in
physics where there is action there is also
reaction so arrange
your affairs and pay no attention to
strangers [music]
let us pray
more Christ said to his disciples
and to us to
pray that we may not enter into
temptation an undistracted life contributes
prayer many pray those who
love the most some monks stay awake and
sleep comes to them many lay people want to sleep
and cannot
the elder Paisius used to say that
the monks should send
the undesirable state to the people
of the world who are unable for various
pray and cannot
sleep. Temptation, as we have said,
knowingly and knowingly
sets dangerous traps to
distance us from the supreme prayer of God. It is
very disturbed by our praying because this brings various thoughts,
various thoughts,
thoughts that are different for each person and
similar for each person. It
wants not only to judge prayer from the
love of God
but to lead us to the Mother of God. We should get
bored and give up
up
everything. Like a deaf person, you do not hear and like a blind person, you do not
not
see. Do not pay any attention to
his lies, but insist on
constantly invoking the Lord.
In this way, you will betray the resourceful
demon who is
always looking to find new ways. It
is
strange how even people of the
church devote a lot of time to
various good works and have great difficulty
in its work. prayer
perhaps deep down they do not consider it
greater and
better at the time of prayer they are
removed, it is darkened, they are scattered
and they cannot stand it and they do not like it
at all they think that with their words their
advice their ideas and their
actions they will help
others more
they leave the almighty God and [music]
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they present their almighty self
this work has no blessing and
grace because the heavenly
visitation is missing great attention is needed in the various
various
points so that we do not think that we see Christ the
Holy Mother of God the saints and
believe in visions it will be
analyzed then the demon will
play with us and we will think that he
informs us the prayer of Jesus is for
everyone everywhere and
always it is worth finding a
special place and
time first importance as the fathers have is that it is
done with purification
ascetic struggle bright mind and pure
heart to remove any
thoughts fantasies and representations
impure and blasphemous
pride sometimes they are permitted and
and
granted by God to push us to admit
the sin of
guilt and
apostasy when it gives us awareness of
sin and ingratitude it
helps to stimulate the [music]
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heart the blessed prayer rope is
needed to count
the knots of the wishes
each knot is made with new
knots the skin kombo has power we
hold it in the hand and has the ability
to motivate the mind to
prayer the sifting
the holy fathers
the prayer rope the permanent ornament of the
not wear it as a cucumber for an amulet for
for
display but as a
prayer scepter the nuns cut it like the cross they
cross they
have the necessary
weapons they fight the demonic alchemies
and do not leave the demon to the
the prayer of Jesus is It is good to be
accompanied by the whole work of
virtues. The visit of divine grace is necessary.
Study, as we said, is a prayer before
before
prayer. Not the study of any
book, but that which gives a
conclusion. Psalter also rests
the soul.
Psalter does not please the demon at all
and he
leaves. Repentance exercises the soul. Repentance
is a request for forgiveness and an
thanksgiving. When someone loves exercise and
and
struggle, he seeks and finds various
ways to please
God. The lover of God is theotokos and a holy leaf. The Virgin Mary,
holy leaf. The Virgin Mary,
as we have said before, is very much
listened to by
her son. Honoring and invoking the
Virgin Mary does not mean that we do not honor Christ. The Virgin Mary
fills our hearts
with Christ.
Our Virgin Mary loves to hear
hear
her prayers and
her greetings. The greetings have abundant grace and give
give
joy. Our prayer can always be It is heard
It is heard
immediately when there is no great need, it is
delayed, so that we may become more
full, to connect, my brothers, more with
with
our saints, to love the
Synaxarion, to read the
life of the celebrant every day, to
imitate him, to invoke him
according to the holy
Chrysostom, to become beggars of the saints
and of
God, to give us what we do not
have, to ask that they pray for
us and other
people, with the intercessions and help
of the saints, we achieve
much. It is very
important, very important, their assistance
in the course of
our lives. Some saints, out of great
humility, help in
secret so that they
themselves are not honored but that only
God may be glorified. There are also saints who have
special specialties, and it is good.
The constant work of the saints is to
protect the suffering
people with their sleepless intercessions.
They want very much to sacrifice us to Christ
as they are. Blessed are
I, the sinner, can
pray for
Of course, I can and
must pray for
ourselves. For others and for them.
We simply pray constantly,
humbly, warmly and
attentively. When we pray in this
way, others will also be helped. Let us
always ask for the good and the
interests of
our souls. Let us ask sincerely for
the will of God to be fulfilled in
our lives, which is and that it is most
beneficial for
us to pray. May
God enlighten us. What will we
say? When will we say it?
Why will we
say it? To whom will we say it?
How much will we say it? And if we have to
say it? When we are not
well, we can pray
better. The extension of the illness
does not mean that God does not hear.
Critical
doctors prepare wreaths, but also the intercessions of the saints
and the
Theotokos the guide to patience in
illness is a form of
prayer sometimes prayer is stronger
in a bed of pain
the pain for the praying person becomes a
blessing prayer softens the
illness makes it more
bearable health is a great gift from
God then you can more easily
others when God ignites within you the
fire of love for others you cannot help but
pray for them too
if you pray for others with
with
heartache then there is greater
success praying for
everyone more but
for those who
ask for it when others pray for
you it does not mean that you should not
pray too you
have great importance in prayer
how and not so much how much
persistence will certainly bring
blessing if one is sick to
pray for his illness not to leave
the other sick alone
leaving all the suffering people in the
great love of
God the good God will comfort all
praying go it is necessary to
pray for our loved ones and
common minds
the forty liturgies help the souls a lot
to regularly commemorate the names of the deceased
deceased
especially those whose souls recently
departed from the [music]
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bodies the souls are also helped after
memorial services and alms
the elder paisios said the deceased
have a greater need of prayer than the
the [music]
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beings the living can
repent but the cut off cannot
with our prayers are relieved
relieved the
the
komineas many and contemporary testimonies
that the souls of the
dead were helped after long and fervent
prayer until the second coming and
the final judgment the dead are receptive to
prayer an amazing book of beautiful prayers
prayers
is the psalter of david it
god call
inspires rejoices and teaches
benefits this and other well-known books
of ours as well as
prayer books all these prayers
help us for the so-called
heart mentally monologue prayer of
Jesus especially today when the world
is so
painful we need
prayer with the heart with tears and with effort
the well-known small full comprehensive
prayer Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me
can be said everywhere and
always at any
time and in any
place at home in the office in the
car on the road at work in the
taxi already in
your room but a
special place and a suitable
throne should also be found prayer is not only for
monks having the mercy of God
we have
everything prayer unites us with
God is a powerful weapon against the demon
and this puts many obstacles and let's not say
the prayer
keta fears and God mainly cleanses
with the humble
prayer the prayer to the humble worker
gives her a lot of
joy the thoughts in prayer they will leave the more
one humbles oneself
the soul becomes sweeter with the constant repetition
of the name of
of
Jesus prayer is not only for the
saints but for everyone the beginning to be
aware of one's sinfulness humility is timely deception
requires great attention to
thoughts and advice advice from an experienced spiritual
spiritual
guide church attendance is essential
the temple is the house of
our heavenly father the place of common
prayer common prayer is
superior to
private prayer the church is the earthly
paradise the
culmination of our church attendance is the
divine liturgy and the divine
communion the experience of the mystery the wonderful
joy holy communion is not a
prize but a
medicine holy communion and prayer
are the two greatest gifts of God to
to
man to
commune comes to
sing to study with
harm supplication and provincial prayer are good
doxology A
pleasant and cheerful
person loves praise very much.
Praise of
God is to
praise God and the many gifts.
gifts.
Praise, we would say, is a joyful
and joyful
praise out of
gratitude for the infinite blessings of
God. Papakon the Russian, the Athonite,
said that praise God has a
greater reward than the Lord. Have mercy. Prayer,
thanksgiving and praise
bring unceasingly, effortlessly, warm hearts and
many tears. According to Saint John of the Ladder,
Ladder,
the good God, and even though we struggle,
constantly gives us little by little his grace in
in
prayer. One should not
pray only when it is sweet and
feels the divine visit and the
fairy tale. The visit of divine grace
changes the
believer to make him more humble, silent, modest and
and
present. The most noble and God-pleasing
prayer is
praise from the depths. Epilogue of the martyr's life of the
divine and holy Chrysostom in the
place of his exile he was the
wholehearted God of all things because of
the fabric elder Porphyrios the Kaso
Kaso Kafsokalyvite
Kafsokalyvite
advised to pray to God with
longing and
love in
calm with gentleness softly without
without blackmail
blackmail
continues love
everything is
love love with the Lord fabric Christ
become a bearer of the love of
Christ so that you do not go into
darkness turn on the switch of
prayer so that the divine light may come your soul
soul
in the depth of your fiber
if Christ
there in the depth is the kingdom of
of
God and ends
ends
God gave us this
ability to be our prayer a constant
constant praise
praise
angelic prayer here lies the great
secret when we say in this
prayer we will praise God
constantly leaving everything to
him you I thank you very much for
your attendance and your attention and I
wish you all the best for the rest of the
spiritually beneficial and holy
season and a good reception of Holy Easter,
since we will have
prepared during this
period which
our church offers in succession to
this important and
essential preparation and cultivation. Amen
Amen [music]
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