Part, Chapter, Paragraph
1 I, 2,4 | primary task is the life of prayer, and it is through this
2 I, 3,3 | nature and the methods of prayer used in the Orthodox ~Church. ~
3 I, 3,3 | recollec-~tion and secret prayer). While using the apophatic
4 I, 3,3 | the body and its place in prayer. Evagrius, like ~Origen,
5 I, 3,3 | from Platonism: he wrote of prayer in intellectual ~terms,
6 I, 3,3 | Orthodox often talk about .Prayer of the Heart.. What ~does
7 I, 3,3 | the heart,. and so his ~prayer becomes .prayer of the heart..
8 I, 3,3 | so his ~prayer becomes .prayer of the heart.. It becomes
9 I, 3,3 | emotions, will, and body. The prayer fills the entire consciousness,
10 I, 3,3 | out, but says itself. This Prayer of the Heart cannot be attained
11 I, 3,3 | Orthodox writers use the term .Prayer of the Heart,. they usually
12 I, 3,3 | in mind one ~particular prayer, the Jesus Prayer. Among
13 I, 3,3 | particular prayer, the Jesus Prayer. Among Greek spiritual writers,
14 I, 3,3 | specially valuable form of prayer, the constant repetition
15 I, 3,3 | sentence, known as ~the Jesus Prayer: .Lord Jesus Christ, Son
16 I, 3,3 | modern Orthodox practice ~the Prayer sometimes ends, ..have mercy
17 I, 3,3 | recitation of the Jesus Prayer had become linked to certain
18 I, 3,3 | regulated in time with the Prayer, and a particular bodily ~
19 I, 3,3 | the Hesychast method of ~prayer,. but it should not be thought
20 I, 3,3 | constituted the es-~sence of prayer. They were regarded, not
21 I, 3,3 | the role of the body in prayer, and ~the Divine Light came
22 I, 3,3 | materialistic conception of prayer. He was also scandalized
23 I, 3,3 | of bodily exer-~cises in prayer, and he argued, against
24 I, 3,3 | the ~Hesychast methods of prayer: the Hesychasts, so he argued,
25 I, 3,3 | the part ~of the body in prayer, are not guilty of a gross
26 I, 3,3 | did not regard mystical prayer as a means ~of bypassing
27 I, 4,2 | were ven-~erated at Kiev; a prayer to the Holy Trinity composed
28 I, 4,3 | visions granted to ~Sergius in prayer, which his biographer Epiphanius
29 I, 4,3 | his experience of mystical prayer he deepened the inner life
30 I, 5,2 | the theory and practice of prayer, especially the ~Jesus Prayer.
31 I, 5,2 | prayer, especially the ~Jesus Prayer. It has proved one of the
32 I, 6,1 | of ~Christian piety and prayer. Joseph emphasized the place
33 I, 6,1 | worship and of liturgical prayer: ~ ~A man can pray in his
34 I, 6,1 | liturgical but in mystical prayer: before he ~settled at Sora
35 I, 6,2 | ascetic rules and liturgical prayer. They expected not only
36 I, 6,2 | to spend long periods at prayer each day, ~either in church
37 I, 6,2 | attended more ~to mystical prayer, they might have argued
38 I, 6,3 | Orthodoxy; ~in his own life of prayer he underwent an experience
39 I, 6,3 | the practice of continual prayer . above all the Jesus Prayer . ~
40 I, 6,3 | prayer . above all the Jesus Prayer . ~and on the need for obedience
41 I, 6,3 | Nilus had done to liturgical prayer and to social work, and
42 I, 6,3 | successive nights in continual prayer, standing motionless throughout
43 I, 6,3 | He ~practiced the Jesus Prayer, and like the Byzantine
44 I, 6,3 | were all devoted to the Prayer of Jesus, each of ~them
45 I, 6,3 | place practicing ~the Jesus Prayer. For those who know nothing
46 I, 6,3 | know nothing of the Jesus Prayer, there can be no better
47 I, 6,3 | a Pilgrim shows how the Prayer is not limited to monas-~
48 I, 6,3 | awareness ~of the power of prayer, and as he celebrated the
49 I, 7,1 | saints, ascetics, and men of prayer formed in ~the classic traditions
50 I, 7,1 | recitation of the Jesus Prayer. So long as Athos numbers
51 I, 7,6 | an ~eastern monk has been prayer; but, besides this traditional
52 I, 7,9 | specifically western forms of prayer . not the Byzantine ~Liturgy,
53 I, 7,10| Philokalia and the Jesus Prayer . so far from being forgotten,
54 II, 0,12| sung at Matins; the Lord’s Prayer is read at every~service.
55 II, 0,12| faith is expressed in their prayer. Orthodoxy~has made few
56 II, 0,12| very~act a theologian (On Prayer, 60 (P. G. 79, 1180B)).
57 II, 1,1 | As a much used Orthodox~prayer puts it: ‘Thou art everywhere
58 II, 1,2 | all~men as God Himself (On Prayer, 123 (P.G. 79, 1193C)).
59 II, 1,3 | Orthodox doctrine of~mystical prayer. As for the Resurrection,
60 II, 1,4 | conversation with Motovilov: ‘Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all
61 II, 1,4 | God. As for fasts, vigils, prayer, and almsgiving,~and other
62 II, 1,4 | climax of the~Eucharistic Prayer, the Spirit is solemnly
63 II, 1,4 | save our souls (This same prayer is used at the beginning
64 II, 1,5 | employ the~words of the Jesus Prayer ‘Lord Jesus Christ, Son
65 II, 2,3 | is well expressed in the prayer used at a consecration: ‘
66 II, 2,4 | chain of~mutual love and prayer; and in this loving prayer
67 II, 2,4 | prayer; and in this loving prayer the members of the Church
68 II, 3,1 | the different nations at prayer. The~Orthodox approach to
69 II, 3,2 | the~Creed and the Lord’s Prayer.~In the Orthodox Church
70 II, 4,3 | Creed~C. The Eucharistic Prayer~ Opening Dialogue~ Thanksgiving —
71 II, 4,3 | followed by the Lord’s Prayer~D. The Elevation and Fraction (‘
72 II, 4,3 | course of the Eucharistic Prayer. The priest reads the opening
73 II, 4,3 | upon the entire Eucharistic Prayer as forming a single and
74 II, 4,3 | three main sections of the prayer — Thanksgiving, Anamnesis,
75 II, 4,3 | change: the Eucharistic Prayer in the Liturgy simply uses
76 II, 4,3 | offered’ (From the Priest’s prayer before the Great Entrance).
77 II, 4,4 | upon the stole, says the prayer of~absolution. In the Greek
78 II, 4,4 | he does not pronounce~the prayer of sacramental absolution,
79 II, 4,7 | evchelaion, ‘the oil of prayer’ — is described by~Saint
80 II, 4,7 | them~pray over him. The prayer offered in faith will save
81 II, 5 | Feasts, fasts, and private prayer~“The true aim of prayer
82 II, 5 | prayer~“The true aim of prayer is to enter into conversation
83 II, 5 | presence of God.~The goal of prayer is precisely to be with
84 II, 5,1 | Bible and the Book of Common Prayer;~similarly in the Roman
85 II, 5,2 | Private prayer~When an Orthodox thinks
86 II, 5,2 | When an Orthodox thinks of prayer, he thinks primarily of
87 II, 5,2 | primarily of public liturgical prayer. The corporate~worship of
88 II, 5,2 | same words as~he. ‘Personal prayer is possible only in the
89 II, 5,2 | practice’ (G. Florovsky, Prayer Private and Corporate (‘
90 II, 5,2 | guide and a framework of prayer; and each Christian is also
91 II, 5,2 | recollection, for a living prayer to the Living God. At the
92 II, 5,2 | the Manual, the first a prayer for the beginning~of the
93 II, 5,2 | There is one type of private prayer, widely used in the west
94 II, 5,2 | considered to constitute prayer, nor has it~been systematized
95 II, 5,2 | another type of personal~prayer which has for many centuries
96 II, 5,2 | of Orthodoxy~— the Jesus Prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son
97 II, 5,2 | essentially a Christo-centric prayer, a prayer addressed to and
98 II, 5,2 | Christo-centric prayer, a prayer addressed to and concentrated
99 II, 5,2 | the tradition of the Jesus Prayer are never allowed for one
100 II, 5,2 | a help in reciting this prayer many Orthodox use a rosary,
101 II, 5,2 | makes no noise.~The Jesus Prayer is a prayer of marvelous
102 II, 5,2 | noise.~The Jesus Prayer is a prayer of marvelous versatility.
103 II, 5,2 | marvelous versatility. It is a prayer for beginners, but equally~
104 II, 5,2 | beginners, but equally~a prayer that leads to the deepest
105 II, 5,2 | concentrate~upon other kinds of prayer. But while of course every
106 II, 5,2 | every Christian can use the Prayer at odd moments~in this way,
107 II, 5,2 | those who use the Jesus Prayer systematically should, if
108 II, 5,2 | comes a time when the Jesus Prayer ‘enters into the heart,’
109 II, 5,2 | nor when he is awake, will~prayer be cut off from his soul;
110 II, 5,2 | in sleep, the perfumes of prayer will breathe in his~heart
111 II, 5,2 | occasionally, the~Jesus Prayer proves a great source of
112 II, 5,2 | and ceaselessly repeat the Prayer of Jesus, which is more
113 II, 5,2 | fact that I am saying my Prayer. When the bitter~cold pierces
114 II, 5,2 | pierces me, I begin to say my Prayer more earnestly, and I quickly
115 II, 5,2 | I fix my thoughts on the~Prayer, and do not notice the pain.
116 II, 5,2 | think, ‘How sweet is the~Prayer of Jesus!’ and the injury
117 II, 6,3 | turn have found their own prayer and worship incomparably
118 II, 6,3 | Orthodox icon, the Jesus Prayer, and the Byzantine Liturgy.~
119 II, 7,9 | Alban and St. Sergius). Prayer Book,~Jordanville, N.Y,
120 II, 7,9 | the Orthodox doctrine of prayer, see: Igumen Chariton, The
121 II, 7,9 | Igumen Chariton, The Art of Prayer: An Orthodox~Anthology,
122 II, 7,9 | the Eastern~Church, The Prayer of Jesus, New York, 1967.
123 II, 7,9 | 73~from the Philokalia on Prayer of the Heart, London, 1951;
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