ON THE JESUS PRAYER
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbto.2022.2.12Keywords:
prayer of the heart, Jesus Prayer, hesychia, hesychasm, St. Silouan the Athonite, St. Sophrony (Sakharov), knowledge of God, God’s grace, return of the mind, contemplation, the “deep heart” of man, repentance, vision of light, discernment of thoughtsAbstract
This paper focuses on the Jesus Prayer, attempting to explain (1) how in this prayer, by the grace of God, our mind can be united with the heart and (2) what the fruits of this marvellous union are.
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