This is futile, isnt it? We both know it. So whats the point? G'night friend.Thank-you, my Brother...
The Orthodox Communion of the Faithful lives in a vast prayer tradition spanning two thousand years. Paul was not kidding when he instructed the faithful to be praying without ceasing. The acquisition of prayer is one of the most basic and fundamental features of discipleship in Christ, and is at the same time the most exalted one, giving us from St. John the Theologian the Book of Revelation, wherein he reports that he was "in the Spirit" receiving this revelation from Christ...
So that when your progress in the Faith of Christ which He discipled to His disciples, there can come a point where prayer becomes all consuming, wherein the Apostles appointed Deacons to serve the Church so that they could continue uninterrupted in prayer for the faithful... How prayer works is a great mystery taking many forms... The entry into one's "prayer closet" is the isolation of self from the world for the sake of union in prayer with Christ... That is the meaning of eternal life - eg of "...knowing the one true God and His Son, Jesus Christ...", where that "knowing" means "union with" in a profoundly deep manner, as is does in an infinitely more shallow manner when "Adam knew Eve"...
Yet prayer is the basis of a Spiritual life, being an essential feature of repentance, and its acquisition in the sense of knowing (union with) God is Life Eternal itself...
It is a very big deal...
Arsenios
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