On the Prayer of Jesus (Biblia.com)

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A must-read guide to the Prayer: this is a vital antidote to the temptation, nurtured in our “New Age” era, to treat the Prayer of Jesus as some sort of Orthodox mantra. While guiding the reader in understanding the intensive use of the Prayer, Bishop Ignatius equally guides him to prudence. To the basic work is appended a meditation upon the Prayer and the prayer rope by a monk of Mount Athos.

time to examine and observe our thoughts. He who at dinner has many different foods eats much and with pleasure, whereas he who uses every day the same food not only eats it without pleasure but sometimes perhaps even feels repelled by it. So it is in our state. In psalmody and prayer do not bind yourself, but do as much as the Lord gives you. Do not abandon reading and interior prayer either. Some of one and some of the other and so you will spend the day pleasing God. Our perfect fathers did not

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