Prayers

Why We Pray For The Dead

27 April 2009

Just as we love and respect our living brethren, so do we love and respect those of our brethren who have departed this life. We express our love for our departed friends and relatives through ...

Prayer for the Dead

27 April 2009

Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose)

Therefore, we see panikhidas and prayer at home for the dead are beneficial for them, as are good deeds done in their memory, such as alms or contributions to the church. But especially beneficial ...

On the Importance of Prayer

15 March 2009

Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

We are often very successful at learning highly complex subject-matters, mastering very sophisticated skills, and becoming experts in our area of work or study. Yet, when it comes to prayer, too ...

Mental Imagery in Eastern Orthodox Private Devotion

12 March 2009

Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

Unlike Roman Catholicism, the Orthodox Tradition does not encourage the use of mental imagery. In fact, it almost appears to forbid sensory imagination during prayer altogether. In the words of one ...

The Great Prayer of St Ephraim the Syrian and the Moral Person

03 March 2009

Archpriest Joseph Huneycutt

Instead, giving in to the spirit of idle talk, we speak to make ourselves look better, which leads us to be judgmental and slanderous. We live in an age of unprecedented, unbridled, unadulterated ...

His Holiness Patriarch Pavel – ON PRAYER

09 January 2009

There is nothing more precious in man’s life than prayer. It makes the impossible, possible; it makes the difficult, easy; the uncomfortable, it makes comfortable. Prayer is as important to man’s ...

Ten Steps To A Better Prayer Life

01 January 2009

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Build On What You Already Have: If you already have a routine, build on it. If, for example, you pray before you go to sleep, it will be easier to read a chapter from the Bible before your bedtime ...

On prayer and emotion

27 September 2008

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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 ...

On Personal Prayer

22 September 2008

Archpriest Paul Yerger

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 ...

TALKS WITH ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS: On Reluctance to Pray

27 July 2008

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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, ...

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