“The first thing that must happen if a person is going to practice prayer in the Orthodox Tradition is they must be a member of the Church.”
– Fr Thomas Hopko
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The Goal of Prayer Pt 2
Category: Prayer
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The Goal of Prayer Pt 1
“The whole purpose of prayer is to know and to do God’s will. ”
– Fr Thomas Hopko
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To Whom Do We Pray? Pt 2
“The whole creation is created to pray and … the very heart of the creature … is its activity of prayer.”
– Fr Thomas Hopko
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To Whom Do We Pray? Pt 1
“In the Eastern Christian Tradition, we pray to God,
who is the real God, the true God.”
– Fr Thomas Hopko
“The sign of the Cross gives us great strength to repel and conquer evil and to do good, but we must remember to make the sign of the Cross correctly and without haste…”
– Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
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A Prayer Rule
“…the most important thing is standing before God
with the mind in the heart with devotion
and heartfelt prostration to Him.”
– St. Theophan the Recluse
“…and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the Evil One”
“Orthodoxy is not so much a matter of the head,
it’s something living and it’s of the heart…”
– Blessed Fr. Seraphim Rose
Precious reminders for every day…
“Don’t let anyone ever take your books away from you.
But don’t mistake the reading of books for the real thing,
which is the living of Orthodoxy.”
-Fr Seraphim Rose
“Protopriest Seraphim Slobodskoy’s Law of God alone, for instance, is used by hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of children in Sunday schools, while teenagers use this book to prepare for seminary. Many believe that it is one of the finest simple overviews of the Orthodox faith written in modern times.”
– OrthodoxWiki
Orthodoxy of the Heart 