Prayers

The Lord is my Shepherd

19 April 2010

Psalm 23 (Psalm 22 in the Septuagint) is particularly dear to my heart, as it is sure to be to millions of people of faith. This psalm has a very human character and it applies to our own existential ...

Prayer Life: Bringing Life to Deadness in Prayer

18 April 2010

Archpriest Geoffrey Korz

It is not a rare thing for zealous Christians to experience what the Church father call "dryness" in prayer. A daily rule of prayer requires effort and will, and these can be weakened by ...

“Lord, Teach Us to Pray!”

08 February 2010

Protopresbyter Lawrence Barriger

The truth is that while it would seem that prayer should be the most natural of things, it is often the most difficult - even for the Disciples of Christ! Talking with God sometimes seems like ...

Whose Life Is It Anyway?:Why We Pray The Way We Pray

21 October 2009

Now, imagine my even greater shock when I opened an Orthodox prayer-book for the first time. Again, I was confronted by the harshest self-criticism that I had ever seen. Men like St. Ephraim, who ...

An Aid to Prayer Some Thoughts on the Use of a Prayer Book

21 September 2009

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Many Protestants would argue that using a prayer book results in formal, ritualistic prayer and stifles a truly personal relationship with God. By contrast, some Orthodox are of the opinion that it ...

“Prayer: the test, the source, the driving force… of all things”

18 September 2009

Archpriest Andrew Jarmus

Written prayers can be a font of wisdom and comfort. There are those, however, that do not feel that written prayers completely fit their personal "voice". For these people, spontaneous ...

Saying the Jesus Prayer

17 August 2009

Dr. Albert S Rossi

There is no ascetic effort more difficult, more painful, than the effort to draw close to God, Sophrony tells us. When we begin to pray, we expend desire and effort. The results are up to God. Real ...

The Jesus Prayer

04 August 2009

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

Numerous writers have mentioned the physical aspects of the prayer, the breathing exercises, the attention which is paid to the beating of the heart and a number of other minor features. The ...

Prayer. Private and in Church.

07 July 2009

Today one can hear opinions such as it is better to pray by the prayer book and in the Church (because it is better to go by the way the Church shows us, rather than by the way that is invented by ...

Prayer: The Test of Everything

21 June 2009

In the Orthodox Church we are taught that the life of faith is dependent upon progress in prayer. Those who grow in the grace of God thus do so because their prayer is genuine, while those who “lose ...

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