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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...
In the mid-fifth century, Saint Diadochos, the Bishop of Photike of Epeiros, was one of the greatest popularizers of desert spirituality in the Byzantine world. In his One Hundred Chapters on Perfection, he recommends purification of the heart by calling to mind the “memory of Jesus.” In Chapter 85 he writes: Grace at first conceals its presence in those who have been baptized, waiting to see which way the soul inclines; but when the whole man has turned towards the Lord,
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