About the booklet: The Jesus Prayer is the most popular devotional prayer in the Orthodox Church and increasingly popular in the West.
A simple and direct method of invoking the mercy of Jesus Christ by repeating his Holy Name, it is a way of obeying St Paul's instruction to "pray always".
In an increasingly noisy and frenetic world, the Jesus Prayer offers us an oasis of inner peace and a lifeline back to God.
The Jesus Prayer was first published in 2014 by The Incorporated Catholic Truth Society.
Excerpt from page 3: Once there was an old man who spent several hours each day in church. "What are you doing there?" his friends exclaimed. "I'm praying," he replied. "Praying!" they exclaimed. "There must be a great many things that you want to ask from God." With some indignation the old man responded, "I'm not asking God for anything." "What are you doing, then?" they said.
And the old man replied, "I just sit and look at God, and God sits and looks at me."
About the author: Kallistos Ware, Bishop of Diokleia, is the best-known exponent of Orthodoxy in the United Kingdom and has a lifetime of experience teaching the Prayer.
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