Comments on: Prayer as a true science http://chriserdman.com/all-blog-entries/prayer-as-a-true-science/ awakening the spiritual life Fri, 18 May 2012 00:55:25 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: The Technology of Prayer | chris erdman http://chriserdman.com/all-blog-entries/prayer-as-a-true-science/comment-page-1/#comment-13103 The Technology of Prayer | chris erdman Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:05:21 +0000 http://chriserdman.com/?p=1190#comment-13103 [...] Prayer as a true science [...] [...] Prayer as a true science [...]

]]> By: chris erdman http://chriserdman.com/all-blog-entries/prayer-as-a-true-science/comment-page-1/#comment-13101 chris erdman Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:21:10 +0000 http://chriserdman.com/?p=1190#comment-13101 I do need to figure out how to better link internally between these posts:) I do need to figure out how to better link internally between these posts:)

]]> By: chris erdman http://chriserdman.com/all-blog-entries/prayer-as-a-true-science/comment-page-1/#comment-13100 chris erdman Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:20:27 +0000 http://chriserdman.com/?p=1190#comment-13100 Thank you Bill. This is very helpful. There are a number of posts on my site that get at this including references to texts like the Way of the Pilgrim. And I'm moving toward what you've said here. Thanks for helpfully anticipating that direction. You're right on. Thank you Bill. This is very helpful. There are a number of posts on my site that get at this including references to texts like the Way of the Pilgrim. And I’m moving toward what you’ve said here. Thanks for helpfully anticipating that direction. You’re right on.

]]> By: Bill Fulbright http://chriserdman.com/all-blog-entries/prayer-as-a-true-science/comment-page-1/#comment-13097 Bill Fulbright Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:15:14 +0000 http://chriserdman.com/?p=1190#comment-13097 Chris, I didn't see the prayer on your site, and some readers may not know exactly what it is. So, I thought this quote from Wikipedia would help: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” The Jesus Prayer is for the Eastern Orthodox one of the most profound and mystical prayers and it is often repeated continually as a part of personal ascetic practice. Its practice is an integral part of the eremitic tradition of prayer known as Hesychasm (Greek: ἡσυχάζω, hesychazo, "to keep stillness"), the subject of the Philokalia (Greek: φιλοκαλείν, "love of beauty"), a collection of fourth to fifteenth century texts on prayer, compiled in the late eighteenth century by St. Nicodemus the Hagiorite and St. Makarios of Corinth. The monastic state of Mount Athos is a centre of the practice of the Jesus Prayer This prayer can be used by anyone. To read a inspiring story "The Way of the Pilgrim" is a classic in which the prayer is the focal point of the story about a man devoted to the prayer, and the miracles the followed in his life. Chris,

I didn’t see the prayer on your site, and some readers may not know exactly what it is. So, I thought this quote from Wikipedia would help:

“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.”

The Jesus Prayer is for the Eastern Orthodox one of the most profound and mystical prayers and it is often repeated continually as a part of personal ascetic practice. Its practice is an integral part of the eremitic tradition of prayer known as Hesychasm (Greek: ἡσυχάζω, hesychazo, “to keep stillness”), the subject of the Philokalia (Greek: φιλοκαλείν, “love of beauty”), a collection of fourth to fifteenth century texts on prayer, compiled in the late eighteenth century by St. Nicodemus the Hagiorite and St. Makarios of Corinth. The monastic state of Mount Athos is a centre of the practice of the Jesus Prayer

This prayer can be used by anyone. To read a inspiring story “The Way of the Pilgrim” is a classic in which the prayer is the focal point of the story about a man devoted to the prayer, and the miracles the followed in his life.

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