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“Ten Minute Spirituality”: Practical Advice on Prayer

December 1, 2015 By St. Paul Emmaus

We very much recommend to you the following video from Fr. Sergius, the abbot of St. Tikhon’s Monastery here in Pennsylvania. Fr. Sergius here gives very practical advice on prayer.

Filed Under: Education, Featured Tagged With: Fr. Sergius (Bowyer), prayer, video

St. Paisios on Praying at Home

July 9, 2015 By St. Paul Emmaus

paisios-athoniteSilence greatly helps in spiritual life. It is good for one to practice silence for about an hour a day: to test himself, to acknowledge his passions and to fight in order to cut them off and purify his heart. It is very good if there is a quiet room in the house which gives him the feeling of a monastic cell. There, “in secret,” he is able to do his spiritual maintenance, to study, and to pray. A little spiritual study done before prayer helps greatly. The soul warms up and the mind is transported to the spiritual realm. That’s why, when a person has many distractions during the day, he should rejoice if he has ten minutes for prayer, or even two minutes to read something, so as to drive away distractions.

—St. Paisios the Athonite (1924-1994), from Family Life

Filed Under: Featured, Wisdom Tagged With: family, Paisios the Athonite, prayer

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