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  1 Pref   |      common task of defining the spiritual treasures of Orthodoxy and
  2 Pref   |       hand, earnest seekers with spiritual interests perceive the power
  3 Pref   |     existentially unmoved by the spiritual treasures in and behind
  4 Pref   |    renewed, deep theological and spiritual vision. Rather, the essential
  5 Pref   | Orthodoxy? They are: the Gospel, spiritual life, and a balanced vision
  6 Pref   |    toward commitment and change. Spiritual life as worship, prayerfulness,
  7 Pref   |      experience of freshness and spiritual energy for service in the
  8 Intro,4|        by the sacred majesty and spiritual power of its worship. A
  9 Intro,5|      transform secular life into spiritual life, formal faith into
 10 Intro,6|      repentance, deep prayer and spiritual renewal. The evangelical
 11 1,1    |          theological meaning and spiritual power of the Gospel itself.
 12 1,2    |       teaching and life of their spiritual leaders and had to receive
 13 1,2    |         answer is because of its spiritual benefits. The Antiochean
 14 1,3    |          and boasted about their spiritual gifts in a worldly manner.
 15 1,4    |  reception of the word of God is spiritual cleansing. The words of
 16 1,4    |         to those who are in good spiritual health. The cleansing and
 17 1,4    |        souls becomes a place of “spiritual surgery” (iatreion peumatikon).[
 18 2,3    |          desires we may pursue a spiritual way of life, thinking and
 19 2,4    |     repentance, inner cleansing, spiritual illumination, and growth
 20 2,4    |     diversified treatises on the spiritual life covering a period roughly
 21 2,4    |          of his understanding of spiritual life, especially as related
 22 2,4    |          have reached a state of spiritual insensibility, their baptismal
 23 2,4    | intervention, they yielded their spiritual treasures.[75] Though being
 24 2,5    |        joy in prayer, a depth of spiritual wisdom, a catholic vision
 25 3,1    |         by which to build up the spiritual character of our parishes
 26 3,1    |      growth of the parishes, the spiritual vigor of the whole Church,
 27 3,2    |    opinion, the root of the deep spiritual crisis of Orthodoxy in America.”[
 28 3,2    |        action. The ecclesial and spiritual bonds of parishioners, if
 29 3,2    |         be given the appropriate spiritual leadership, the basic presuppositions
 30 3,2    |     guiding us in our education, spiritual formation, liturgical life,
 31 3,3    |         Early Christianity was a spiritual movement, an explosion of
 32 3,3    |        movement, an explosion of spiritual dynamism, with an invincible
 33 3,3    |        parishes faltering, their spiritual focus waning, their identity
 34 3,4    |          Church. But somehow the spiritual beauty and power of the
 35 3,4    |        convinced of the Gospel’s spiritual power and convey the confidence
 36 3,4    |      preaching and teaching is a spiritual event; it is not merely
 37 3,4    |      attention to the process of spiritual growth by means of prayer
 38 3,4    |       the source of the greatest spiritual power and renewal in the
 39 3,4    |       Such biblical passages and spiritual principles must be attended
 40 4,3    |          yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood,
 41 4,3    |        holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to
 42 4,4    |          12:7-11). Similarly the spiritual qualities evidenced among
 43 4,4    |       are united in one seamless spiritual reality evidenced by a vibrant
 44 5,1    |       The “Liturgy,” the abiding spiritual center of our life in Christ,
 45 5,1    |         Liturgy is the center of spiritual life and renewal, as it
 46 5,2    |         lawyer to concentrate on spiritual life. As a zealous young
 47 5,2    |         endured all with amazing spiritual strength derived from his
 48 5,2    |         prayer fulfils a similar spiritual function. Prayer draws the “
 49 5,2    |     grace and gives the soul its spiritual beat, the basis of all spiritual
 50 5,2    | spiritual beat, the basis of all spiritual life. He wrote in The Ladder
 51 5,2    |        include many books on the spiritual life written with penetrating
 52 5,2    |        deliberate and systematic spiritual growth. The key was heartfelt
 53 5,2    |   criterion and guide behind all spiritual endeavors. He writes in
 54 5,3    | routinely and formally, but with spiritual awareness and receptivity.
 55 5,4    |      Symeon completely lost this spiritual treasure and turned to worse
 56 5,4    |     Prayer provides needed daily spiritual sustenance. We pray, “Give
 57 5,4    |       striking images. Prayer is spiritual breathing gardening. Our
 58 5,4    |     power. Prayer is the ongoing spiritual breathing of the soul —
 59 5,4    |          age, let us call prayer spiritual air-conditioning. Prayer,
 60 5,4    |        persevering prayer plants spiritual flowers but also takes out
 61 5,4    |       were to lead holy lives in spiritual separation from the world. “
 62 5,4    |       request as a check against spiritual pride on account of the
 63 5,5    |          attains to a fulness of spiritual maturity imaging “the measure
 64 5,5    |    defined prayer as the highest spiritual activity which he identified
 65 5,5    |          in the whole process of spiritual growth marked by various
 66 5,5    |         the three main stages of spiritual life: purification, illumination,
 67 5,5    |  elements, just as the stages of spiritual life, are closely related
 68 5,5    |   belongs to the final stages of spiritual growth.~ The transfiguration
 69 5,5    |         of having achieved great spiritual heights, much less actual
 70 6,1    |        Saint Silouan: A Model of Spiritual Life.~ “O what a Lord is
 71 6,1    |       joy, encompassing love and spiritual radiance. The opportunity
 72 6,1    |       was a Russian “staretz” or spiritual elder who was proclaimed
 73 6,1    |     insights especially into the spiritual struggles of the Saint.
 74 6,1    |        not correctly reflect the spiritual message of Silouan. The
 75 6,1    |         are, to be sure, gems of spiritual wisdom but the Saint would
 76 6,1    |    valuable contributions to the spiritual witness of Silouan whose
 77 6,1    |         a life of corruption and spiritual death. This experience generated
 78 6,1    |          for his later ascent to spiritual heights. At the age of twenty‑
 79 6,1    |       with great zeal. The first spiritual fruits soon appeared. He
 80 6,1    |          This is a high state of spiritual prayer, known to Orthodox
 81 6,1    |          the heart, it is a high spiritual gift. Not long afterward
 82 6,1    |         his soul. This was a new spiritual birth. Silouan himself is
 83 6,1    |       figures coming to seek the spiritual advice of the Staretz to
 84 6,1    |        He was well‑known for his spiritual wisdom. But he had come
 85 6,1    |       101]~ ~Silouan grew in the spiritual life but not without severe
 86 6,1    |  struggles. An initial period of spiritual exaltation followed his
 87 6,1    |       again? How can one grow to spiritual stability? Silouan himself
 88 6,1    |   himself makes reference to his spiritual struggles. He is open about
 89 6,1    |        learned more deeply about spiritual vigilance, the subtle warfare
 90 6,1    |        God. In general Silouan's spiritual life was molded through
 91 6,1    |        nourishment for Silouan's spiritual growth.~ Silouan's most
 92 6,1    |          discerned and renounced spiritual pride, Silouan was especially
 93 6,1    |      truths of Scripture and the spiritual teachings of the Church
 94 6,1    |  Temptations diminished. Greater spiritual stability prevailed. His
 95 6,1    |        order to write. Like many spiritual writers before him, he wrote
 96 6,1    |         his life, after his long spiritual struggles, when he had deeply
 97 6,1    |      evangelist. He wrote with a spiritual directness reminiscent of
 98 6,1    |        Spirit, prayer, the inner spiritual struggle, and the criteria
 99 6,1    |        the criteria of authentic spiritual life.~ ~
100 6,2    |    knowledge of God. Through his spiritual journey he had come to see
101 6,2    |      Guest transform life into a spiritual feast in which the believer
102 6,4    |     Orthodox Church. Progress in spiritual life is virtually identifiable
103 6,4    |          but a life of prayer, a spiritual condition of the heart by
104 6,4    |      warmth, measures a person's spiritual growth. Silouan's life was
105 6,4    |          struggles, a key to the spiritual life.~ The Staretz had some
106 6,4    |          his notations that true spiritual prayer is to dwell with
107 6,4    |         Unceasing thanksgivings, spiritual songs and praises can go
108 6,4    |         to God. This is the true spiritual worship of which Christ
109 6,4    |   Secondly, it may not be to our spiritual benefit. Finally, pride
110 6,4    |       God, he acquires exceeding spiritual sensitivity. In all his
111 6,5    |                              The Spiritual Struggle.~ In the tradition
112 6,5    |  vigilance, obedience, and inner spiritual warfare. These themes are
113 6,5    |        God, always ready to wage spiritual battle. Jesus also said
114 6,5    |         called to wage ceaseless spiritual warfare against evil and
115 6,5    |          of Christ. He knew that spiritual warfare is at once simple
116 6,5    |          Holy Spirit.[115]~ ~The spiritual struggle begins with repentance,
117 6,5    |         person cannot even begin spiritual warfare without this fundamental
118 6,5    |    Therefore, the whole basis of spiritual warfare is to place God
119 6,5    |    activity is prayer, a dynamic spiritual condition of being in conscious
120 6,5    | repentance, the simplest path to spiritual life is described as follows
121 6,5    |         not in your soul.[116]~ ~Spiritual warfare is primarily a matter
122 6,5    |       Orthodox saints called the spiritual struggle “invisible warfare” (
123 6,5    |      This exactly is the goal of spiritual life: to acquire the mind
124 6,5    | separation from God which brings spiritual darkness. Another Orthodox
125 6,5    |        the Christian struggle to spiritual victory by God's grace.~ ~
126 6,6    |       the chief signs of genuine spiritual life? Staretz Silouan knew
127 6,6    |       well the subtleties of the spiritual struggle and how easily
128 6,6    |          are against him, brings spiritual injury to himself and shows
129 6,6    |    second criterion of authentic spiritual life is humility. “Were
130 6,6    |       but an admonition to check spiritual pride. Let the Christian
131 6,6    |         in all things. The whole spiritual warfare wages around humility
132 6,6    |          into self‑assurance and spiritual pride in subtle ways, as
133 7,2    |        provide the diagnosis for spiritual growth lest the Christian
134 7,3    |        disciplines of piety, and spiritual ethos. Of course all fields
135 7,3    |          seriousness, talk about spiritual or theological discernment
136 7,3    |          in the process of one's spiritual growth and ultimate salvation.
137 7,3    |       eclipsed by obedience to a spiritual father, as for example in
138 7,3    |    temptation to violate a clear spiritual principle or biblical commandment.
139 7,4    |                        Stages of Spiritual Growth.~ In Orthodox theology
140 7,4    |   variously named, for measuring spiritual growth. A basic one consists
141 7,4    |       called: (a) practical, (b) spiritual, and mystical. Some remarks
142 7,4    |    second stage of illumination. Spiritual discernment, a critical
143 7,4    |  discernment may be called truly spiritual primarily because it is
144 7,4    |     awareness of God's presence, spiritual vision, that is, vision
145 7,4    |         s presence — precisely a spiritual vision of all things in
146 7,4    |      this level of illumination, spiritual discernment is neither directly
147 7,4    |        but be entirely devoid of spiritual discernment (and, alas,
148 7,4    |   obligation to speak the truth, spiritual discernment perceives the
149 7,4    |          the importance of love, spiritual discernment is guided by
150 7,4    |       one before God's presence, spiritual discernment delights in
151 7,4    |        received knowledge with a spiritual light. In the full stage
152 7,4    |        prayer.~ Many examples of spiritual discernment can be given
153 7,4    |       the level of illumination, spiritual discernment is ad hoc, that
154 7,4    |     inspired by the Holy Spirit. Spiritual discernment perceives not
155 7,4    |   discernment perceives not only spiritual insights but expresses and
156 7,4    |  expresses and applies them with spiritual power and freedom appropriate
157 7,5    | concerned with our own continued spiritual growth to the attainment
158 7,5    |      growth to the attainment of spiritual discernment. We may remember
159 7,5    |          of Church leadership is spiritual life. From this viewpoint,
160 7,5    |          s people be guided with spiritual discernment otherwise? The
161 7,5    |       discernment otherwise? The spiritual vigor of the Church and
162 7,5    |          related to the depth of spiritual life of its leaders.~ Secondly,
163 7,5    |      guarantee higher degrees of spiritual discernment to anyone on
164 7,5    |    surely support the process of spiritual growth. The Church Fathers
165 7,5    |           and the application of spiritual therapy. A number of handbooks
166 7,5    |  application of therapies toward spiritual growth. For example, under
167 8,3    |     states that they are not the spiritual but the physical Israel (
168 8,4    |         theological discernment, spiritual sensitivity and pastoral
169 8,4    |          1 Cor. 8). Saint Paul's spiritual insight is that “knowledge
170 8,4    |       and separation, a sense of spiritual and moral purity, the rituals
171 9,2    |          we may live in the same spiritual realm of the Father — the
172 9,2    |     regulations. Rather we are a spiritual movement alive with the
173 9,3    |       liturgical problem and the spiritual problem.[124] The same problems
174 9,3    |     while being boastful of your spiritual heritage as if it were your
175 10,1   |        giving instruction on the spiritual life. Enthused by the talk,
176 10,1   |          Christianity began as a spiritual movement through baptism
177 10,1   |          in our daily lives, the spiritual renewal of the community
178 10,2   |       Bible calls this condition spiritual deadness. Minimalism is
179 10,2   |        14, Saint John exalts the spiritual gifts of the early Church
180 10,2   |          leaders, as well as her spiritual jewels, and is satisfied
181 10,2   |        of the Church. He had the spiritual maturity to go to his Lord
182 10,3   |          the ongoing task of the spiritual revitalization of the Church.
183 10,3   |      Trinity.~ The Church is our spiritual home, our spiritual family,
184 10,3   |          our spiritual home, our spiritual family, and we are all members
185 10,3   |   positive. And the Church, your spiritual home and spiritual family,
186 10,3   |          your spiritual home and spiritual family, indeed your spiritual
187 10,3   |    spiritual family, indeed your spiritual mother, needs you, your
188 10,3   |   planning for the~future. A new spiritual vision must be set to work
189 10,3   |      unless common ecclesial and spiritual bonds are built. Formal
190 10,3   |          essence of their common spiritual heritage and lift up those
191 10,3   |        that massive reservoir of spiritual power which was decisive
192 10,4   | acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed
193 10,4   |          the Spirit, the veil of spiritual insensitivity is removed
194 10,4   |          of Orthodoxy today is a spiritual problem, as Alexander Schmemann
195 10,4   |         are afraid of the words “spiritual renewal.” We point to the
196 10,4   |       hypocrisy, and the odor of spiritual death — all the while, as
197 10,4   |    present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in high
198 10,5   |      They tell us that growth in spiritual life is not a hit or miss
199 10,5   |     specific knowledge and clear spiritual principles. God is always
200 10,5   |           and our hope of glory. Spiritual life and renewal result
201 10,5   |        life is the indispensable spiritual principle which, when activated,
202 10,5   |        holy fire in our lives, a spiritual force which transforms human
203 10,5   |          is the driving force of spiritual renewal.~ However, living
204 10,5   |  literally, “change of mind”), a spiritual about face, a thorough conversion
205 10,5   |          gateway to heaven.” The spiritual principle of repentance
206 10,5   |       God, a forward movement of spiritual progress in the image and
207 10,5   |        16-17). Christianity as a spiritual movement has its inception
208 10,5   |         serves as the context of spiritual renewal.~ Because repentance
209 10,5   |        what is heard. This third spiritual principle is loving obedience
210 10,5   |        words without deeds, as a spiritual elder has said, is like
211 11,3   |          of fullness of faith, a spiritual quality anchored on the
212 11,3   |      manifest the good order and spiritual vision of our communities
213 11,3   |          although sharing common spiritual roots, also have clashing
214 11,3   |          the necessary moral and spiritual strength, to seek and to
215 11,3   |        intrinsic theological and spiritual grounds. I firmly believe
216 11,4   |          renewal, involving both spiritual and practical aspects, go
217 11,4   |  precisely because of our common spiritual roots and mutual experiences
218 11,4   |         conflict but to profound spiritual meditation and theological
219 11,4   |   substantial part of the Jewish spiritual heritage is universally
220 11,4   |          as “holy,” “good,” and “spiritual” (Rom. 7:12-14) and did
221 11,4   |        Orthodoxy in America: The Spiritual Problem,” St. Vladimir’s
222 11,4   |   Orthodoxy in America: III. The Spiritual Problem,” St. Vladimir’s