Friday, August 21, 2009

PRAYING


Get use to praying..

Learn how to pray and then you will be able to defeat the most disastrous powers you can imagine, which hold traps around you waiting for you to fall inside.

Prayer is one wing. The other is faith. With both you can be lifted up high. Nobody could ever fly with just one wing. Prayer without faith doesn’t make sense, neither does faith without prayer. But if your faith is very weak you can repeat continuously: “Lord, add faith in me”, “Give me faith”. A prayer like this is always heard.

The seed, Lord says, grows, to become a tree. Whoever needs air and sun, opens the window. It would be insane for someone to sit behind shut doors and windows and say “there is no light at all, there is no air to breath”.

This picture shows what prayer really is. The mightiness and grace of God is accessible to all and to every place, but, you can’t be a part of it, if you don’t desire it and function through this desire of yours.

Praying is an action. Praying means acting in the superlative degree. Every kind of action needs training in the beginning. You manage to learn a foreign language adequately, when you speak it out loud. In such a way, someone learns how to pray, when he prays. There is no way for us to find what we want without praying.

Praying is the beginning for every effort that tends towards God. Praying lights the flame. And prayer sends the first presentiment of what we should ask. Prayer motivates our mood to go a step further.

Prayer is the foundation of the world. Prayer is the bridge that leads man from his carnal self and his temptations, to his spiritual self and freedom. It’s a defence against the concerns of life, against despair. Praying annihilates sorrow and manipulates rage. Praying is the manna of the soul and the illumination of the mind. So..

Start praying....

Monday, August 10, 2009

THE MOST-HOLY BIRTH-GIVER OF GOD [THE THEOTOKOS]




Thus spoke the Lord Most High

From your heart, Virgin pure,

Living water, to flow,

That, those who thirst, drink Christ -

Life-bearing Source,

We are all boastful of you!

So that the thirsty, drink Christ:

By Him, the bitter to be sweetened,

By Him, the blind to be washed

And by Him, the sorrowful, to heal their grief

Life-bearing Source

We are all boastful of you!

Beverage, from eternity arrived,

The arid time, the brook filled,

And again, toward the heavens raised;

The world exhausted, became refreshed-

Life-bearing source,

We are all boastful of you!

O All-pure One, glory to You,

O Mother of God, glory to You!

For us, to the Living Christ, You gave birth

The living water of grace -

Life-bearing source

We are all boastful of you!