The Christian’s Posture in Prayer, Especially at Home
Standing, kneeling, prostrations, raised hands, the Jesus Prayer — what the Holy Fathers teach about the posture of the body in prayer, especially at home.
Category About Prayer
Orthodox Christian articles on prayer, the Name of God, the Jesus Prayer, hesychasm, and the inner life of the Church.
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About Prayer
Articles on prayer, the Name of God, the Jesus Prayer, hesychasm, and the inner life of Orthodox Christianity.
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The Prayer of the Heart — the Living Heart of Orthodoxy
A clear entry point into the Jesus Prayer and the hesychast tradition.
The Psalter and Its Reading — The School of Prayer
The Psalter is the Church’s school of prayer: the book through which Christians learn to pray with the psalms, attentiveness, order, and heart.
The Name of God (V): Taking the Name in Vain — The Third Commandment and the Christian Responsibility for the Name
Final part of The Name of God series: the Third Commandment, taking the Name in vain, oaths, blasphemy, and guarding the Name through watchfulness.
The Name of God (IV): The Jesus Prayer and Hesychasm
Part IV of the Name of God series: the Jesus Prayer, hesychasm, Saint Gregory Palamas, the Philokalia, and the calling of the Name in the heart.
The Name of God (III): How the Early Church Lived the Name of Jesus — Power, Liturgy, Martyrdom, and Prayer
Part III of The Name of God: how the early Church lived the Name of Jesus in Acts, Baptism, Eucharist, exorcism, martyrdom, and the desert of Egypt.
The Jesus Prayer on the Bus
Why the exhortation to “say the Jesus Prayer anywhere” is not the same as the prayer of the heart: Poiana Mărului, the Burning Bush, and the loss of living transmission.
The Name of God (II): The Incarnation as the Revelation of the Name
How does YHWH's hidden Name become speakable and saving in Jesus? An Orthodox study of Incarnation, Kyrios, Cross, Resurrection, and the Jesus Prayer.
The Name of God (I): YHWH in the Old Testament
Why was YHWH, the Name revealed to Moses, no longer spoken? An Orthodox study of the Tetragrammaton, the Psalter, and the path to the Jesus Prayer.
Saint Basil of Poiana Marului (II) — His Writings, Teaching, and Philokalic Legacy
Saint Basil of Poiana Marului — Part II: His Writings, Teaching, and Philokalic Legacy “The writings of Elder Basil can and must be regarded as the very first book to which anyone who wishes to practice the Jesus Prayer with…
The Prayer of the Heart — the Living Heart of Orthodoxy
From the deserts of Egypt and Saint Isaac the Syrian, through Saint Gregory Palamas and the Philokalia, to Saint Paisius Velichkovsky and Saint Joseph the Hesychast: the unbroken thread of the Jesus Prayer in Orthodox tradition.