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.

one’s own efforts is impossible. This striving which crashes furiously against the gates of the mystical temple of God is forbidden in order that it may not prevent the mercy of God from eventually having mercy on us, and regarding the unworthy as worthy, and giving the gift to those who were not expecting the gift, having doomed themselves to eternal torments in the prisons of hell. The gift is given to those who humble and abase themselves before the greatness of the gift. The gift is given to

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