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The Jesus Prayer has been on the lips of Christians since the time of the Desert Fathers. What is its history? How do we make it our own? This booklet traces the development of the Jesus Prayer through the early centuries of the Church, follows its progression through Mount Athos, the teachings of St. Gregory Palamas, and others, and discusses its modern revival in the nineteenth and twentieth...
110. Keep your eyes lowered while you are praying. Deny your flesh and your desires and live according to the mind.6 Evagrios accents the intellect in prayer and has only a few scattered references to the Word and Trinity, and no reference to the Incarnation, the Church, or the sacraments. He conceives of prayer as an immaterial contact of the intellect with God. Evagrios’s teaching was posthumously condemned, along with that of Origen, at the fifth Ecumenical Council in 533. His writings, however,
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