Our Faith : Prayers
On prayer and emotion
When reading prayers, we should try to feel the words of prayer as if they were our own. This way we assimilate the prayerful spirit of the prayer's authors. We can then keep those positive feelings long after we finished reading the words of prayers. The feelings become a support in our struggles throughout the day.

Sep 28, 2008, 10:00

Our Faith : Prayers
On Personal Prayer
The purpose of prayer is not to ask favors of God but to unite our lives with Him. For this purpose prayer with the Church and private prayer are both important. Some people imagine that because they go to Church they don't need to pray at home, or vice versa.
Sep 23, 2008, 10:00

Our Faith : Prayers
Prayer: The Test of Everything
In the Orthodox Church we are taught that the quality of our faith is vitally linked to the practice of prayer. Simply put, our relationship with the Holy Trinity is dependent upon the authenticity of prayer. This is the basis of the maxim that says, “the theologian is the one who prays and the one who prays is the theologian.”

Aug 7, 2008, 10:00

Our Faith : Prayers
TALKS WITH ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS: On Reluctance to Pray
Most of us have encountered the Rampart of Reluctance - towering hundreds of feet high, cutting off all reason and light, and winding into the distance like the Great Wall of China. Looming over us, it threatens imminent collapse if we attempt to scale it. The stones themselves cry out, "I can’t pray…. I’m too tired, too bored, too busy, too late, too many children!… Just let me finish my novel!…" Suspecting that this dilemma may not be confined to the English-speaking world, we decided to ask Russian Christians about their own prayers, and how they go about dismantling this masterpiece of masonry.
Jul 29, 2008, 10:03

Our Faith : Prayers
Because if it’s in the mind it’s also in the heart. An interview on prayer
Standing in the doorway before the Great Lent, we search for some guidance, for some way to start this thorny and blessed journey with Christ. A way to seek him and words to show us the way. Elder Dionysius (Ignat) of the St. George Kellion (Mt. Athos, Greece) answers questions of the most important kind (about prayer) during Lent.
Feb 17, 2007, 21:28

Our Faith : Prayers
Morning Prayers
Having risen from sleep, before all else stand reverently as if before God Who seeth all things. Having made the sign of the cross, say: In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Oct 22, 2005, 02:26

Our Faith : Prayers
Evening Prayers

Oct 22, 2005, 02:20

Our Faith : Prayers
Prayer And Life
I have to speak about prayer and action, but I should particularly like to talk to you about prayer, or rather about the aspect of that complex situation which is both prayer and action, and is constantly revealed in effective thinking, in a life grounded in the deepest possible reflection and a truly lucid understanding of the situations in which we live.
Jun 7, 2005, 00:43

Our Faith : Prayers
Some Orthodox Prayers
The following are some good basic "training prayers" for children, but can't replace a good Orthodox prayer book. And remember, that the Troparia and Kontakia for the feasts (usually listed in the back of your Liturgy book) may also be used in personal prayers!
May 19, 2005, 23:17

Our Faith : Prayers
Prayer And Life
First, I would like to say a few words on the relation that exists, between life and prayer. All too often the life we lead attests against the prayer we offer, and it is only when we have managed to harmonize the terms of our prayer with our way of life that our prayer acquires the strength, the splendour and the efficacy which we expect it to yield.
Jan 11, 2005, 00:40

Our Faith : Prayers
Prayer in the Spirit
We may not pray in tongues, or prophesy, or perform astonishing miracles. But insofar as we remain open to the inner working of the Spirit, allowing Him to intercede for us “with sighs too deep for words,” we can be sure that our prayer is real and genuine, that it is heard and welcomed by God. Then, in rare moments, by the illumination of that same Spirit we can actually “behold Christ,” the Image, and through that illumination find ourselves led into an intense and joy-filled communion with the Father.
Dec 31, 2004, 11:18