How to pray really SLOWLY and DEEPLY | Great Lent | Fr. Stephanos Anagnostopoulos
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- The following is an excerpt of a homily delivered by Protopresbyter Stephanos Anagnostopoulos during the parish celebratory events [for St. Dimitrios] in October 2019 with the title “Dimitria 2019” that took place at the church of St. Dimitrios, in the municipality of St. Dimitrios, Athens, Greece.
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Ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ
I've been telling myself this for a while now: no matter how slow you recite the Lord's Prayer to yourself, you cannot say it slow enough! All of our life as Christians is met in its entirety within it, as it is our the Lord Jesus taught us to pray:
* We praise God, acknowledging Him as Father and ruler of Heaven.
* We ask for His Kingdom to come within us and around us before it comes in its fullness on the Last Day, and that His will would be done instead of our own.
* We ask for our "daily bread," which means everything that we will need in that day.
* We ask for forgiveness and that we would forgive others, meaning that we ought to love God and love our neighbor.
* We ask to be delivered from sin and the devil.
Everything is there!
Amen ☦️💟
@@AntiochianOrthodoxy very good reminder. Are you from the Coptic Church?
That is good brother. There are many Oriental Churches in Syria I think? the one thing I really wish to see is One Orthodox Church. God has His own time to do His works. Correct, the Coptic Church has many great gifts to the Church like '"The desert Fathers" and "The Martyrs".
@@OrthodoxMezmur2127 A fellow copt?
@@davidbeskhyroun I am actually an Ethiopian Orthodox, we are sister Churches with the Copts and sometimes go to Coptic Church.
This video series has been a blessing in my life. I thank everyone involved in its creation, may God bless you all and grant you many years!☦️🙏☦️
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I think many of us have the temptation to pray fast and mechanically. Thanks for this
Love you Jesus 😍 💗 I am blesed that you give me life in Orthodox family
pride is sin...
thanking you....
Now I can feel it....the power of praise the Lord Jesus Christ!
From Indonesia ...blessing all of you brother🙏
I pray at the pace that is right for me, although this practice seems to be a very good addition to our “Christian meditation” that is the prayer!
This is very good. I tried it a bit to say the prayer or Lord’s Prayer and I thought I was going to jump out of my skin. The desire to speed up is so so strong, and in felt uneasy, but I’m going to stick with this and force myself to pray slowly and fight thethe passion of frenzy and rush and go word by word. Thanks for this.
When I came back to Orthodoxy I struggled majorly with attentiveness, distraction and my mind drifting and what to pray
After watching this however many months ago and learning to pray VERY SLOWLY my quality of prayer has dramatically changed. It’s not perfect but thank all heavenly goodness it has improved
One thing that has helped with is reciting a prayer with 2-3 words, sometimes even 1 word, on every slow exhale. Focus on your breath really helps
THANK YOU FOR SHARING SUCH A BLESSED LESSON
Thanks fot the advice, i already slowed my prayer down after watching and it does make a difference..quality is better than quantity
Thank you father. I will take your advice ➕️❤➕️
I once was told that each time you pray, say the prayer as if it's the very first time you are reading that prayer.
Thank you for this. What a blessing. God bless Protopresbyter Stephanos Anagnostopoulos
Thank you so much for these translations. You've brought to me the words of the wise.
You have my gratitude
All glory be to God!
@@otelders amen
Thank you God, for allowing me another day, and to where I could see this wonderful video. Do not let me forget what it says.
You are loved, Joshua! May your heart remind you of that whenever you need it!❤️
Thank you so much for this teaching shared! God bless ALL Orthodox during Lent with this gift! Amin!☦
Absolutely amazing. How blessed we are to have such grace filled elders still among us. And the, I am not a politician bit is the cherry on the cake. Priceless! 😊🙏
You express my sentiments exactly - including the priceless ending !! 🙏😊
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I am listening and learning so much .Thank you !
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The Peace of God is here, thanks for this!
This video has left me speechless!
Hope in a good way. :)
The point where he says please please I am not a politician gave me chills. This character is lacking in our Pentecostal and new age pastors. They want the pomp and pageantry…
brother, I always found that humility and sacrifice are the two qualities that exist nowhere else in Christianity other than orthodox clergy, priests and monks-not to mention Orthodox Saints, of course. God bless!
Bucurie! Va mulțumim din suflet!!! Chiar imi doream ceva tradus video din cuvintele p. Ștefan. Are mama din Brăila, menționează in cuvântul de introducere (prefața) la cartea “Explicarea Dumnezeieștii Liturghii” apărută la Ed. Bizantina! Cealaltă carte “Rugăciunea in lume” tot de la Ed Bizantina o alta comoara pt viața duhovniceasca!
Va rugam sa continuați cu p Ștefan sa mai vedem si sa învățam din experiența sa!
Un preot mirean dar adevarat ascet isihast in lume!!!
Har si Bucurie!!!
Thank you Father God bless you 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤
Thank you . Yes Slowwly is the key - and the heavens open and I take my place way in the back :-))
Glory to God!
Doamne ajută!
Thank you for this great advice 🙏☦️❤️
Beautiful
May Peace be upon you All!
Love from a Muslimah 🫶🫶🫶
Wow. I really needed this today. Thank you...
Very helpful advice.Thank U 💜🙏🏽💜
This has been most helpful
ამინ, ამინ, ამინ!
Brilliant guidance, elder Stephanos :
as we start to pray slowly, that
f o r c e s
us to think
alone the prayer.
🦋 E f c h a r i s t o . 💙
Ce mult îi iubesc 🙏
That was truly beautifully explained 🙏🏼
Thankyou,for such wise words,& spiritual guidance,I am very much in need of this.I am so grateful.God Bless You & those who created this online channel.Blessed be God,Forever.Amen.
AmeN🙏👑👑🙏.
🙏 thanks 🙏
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Wow.
It is meditative. ❤️
Was a blessed opportunity to encounter Fr Stephanos in Pireaus, Athens where the Church of St Barbara (Varvara) is. I also an opportunity to do confession with him. I found it heartwarming and a bit humourous because he would refer to me as 'Canada' (being Canadian). It would be so blessed if I could meet with him again.
Beautiful!
Amen.
O traducere pentru cei mai puțini școliți ar fii bine venita. 🙏
subtitrari sunt in engleza. dar cred ca o sa puna si in Romana mai tarziu
Rezolvat, ar trebui sa apara si in romana.
@@otelders Acuma da 🙏
Thankyou Lord
❤️God Bless my dears ❤️ Salvation only in Christ Jesus ❤️🌈☀️
Now this really is interesting: St.Theresa of Avila (yes I know Catholic, but pre the great schism so Orthodox may accept her) said exactly the same thing, that the Our Father, prayed very slowly, once a day, is itself enough to the lead the soul to the heights of holiness: if this were done everywhere the Kingdom of Heaven would arrive the more quickly
How is Theresa pre-schism if she died in the 1500’s?
The Protestant Reformation?
St. Theresa of Lisieux?
@@TropicalGardeningCyprus No, St Teresa of Avila is also a Doctor of the Church. You can look her up in Carmelite history. She wrote books on Contemplative Prayer ,Meditation etc.... She was a great Mystic.
The Orthodox and Catholic Church have been divided for almost one thousand years now.
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Doamne ajută.Deși nu am înțeles ce a vb părintele în inimă și suflet am simțiți o liniște și pace.Vă mulțumesc frumos.!!!
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@@otelders Vă mulțumesc frumos am găsit cum se procedează.
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“Please… please… please… I am not a politician…”
DEAD 🤣🤣🤣
Te ia somnul...
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I love this. I only know English. Can you teach me Jesus Prayer in your language? Can you write out the words to me phonetically so i may learn? Thank you
Kyrie Iesou Christe, Eleison me!
Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me!
@@otelders thank you
Thank you for this video. In the Protestant tradition (Baptist) I come from, this is a completely foreign concept.
One question: in all Spanish (my mother tongue) translations, as well as in several English ones (ESV among them), Luke 17:21 states "…the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.” This is different from saying "…the kingdom of God is within you.” Am I missing something here? Is "within you" a/the correct rendering? Thanks a lot in advance.
Original Greek New Testament: "ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐντὸς ὑμῶν ἐστιν", which means "is within you". Some newer translations use "in your midst", as you said.
Still, we have older interpretations: “The kingdom of God within you” means that the joy, which the Holy Spirit cultivates in your hearts, is an icon and pledge of the eternal joy, which the souls of the saints, enjoy.
St. Gregory of Nyssa, 4th century
Hi andre
@@otelders Thank you so much for clarifying this!
I guess I'll have to start learning Greek, then. ;-)
@@Andrew-hq4wu Hi there, Andrew!
@@andres.e. seek christ math mark luke john
Do you have anything about one finding his/her purpose in life?
pray to do God's will
Micah 6.8
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Do all the Will of God described in The Bible as much as you can, then God will definitely will reveal the specific Will for your life. Becareful no to think that the Will of God always the same as your will.
@@otelders Thank you for the reply.
@@OrthodoxMezmur2127 Thank you
This is probably too advanced for the typical internet crowd and we can easily fall into spiritual delusions from such methods. Definitely slow down our prayers, but this slow can lead to pride and delusion for us in the world. Please read what the saints say about spiritual delusion. There are too many of us worldly ascetics who want to practice all the wonderful methods of the monastic fathers without giving up the world and the hard sacrifice of obedience in a monastery. Frankly all of us “Orthodox” on the internet are vain spiritual infants and are not in any condition to be following prayer methods of the phylokalia or what Fr Stephanos is saying with our minimal supervision. Once we are at that level, we will not be on the internet anyways.
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St. Ignatius Brianchaninov disagrees.
Fr. Stephanos recommends this method only in special cases when it's hard to focus.
and he is absolutely right...
Any words for Putin’s Great Lent?
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Amen
Wow.