ΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
Question
from the audience:
Fr.
Savvas, what about the noetic prayer?
Answer
by Fr. Savvas:
I
told you already. When we start doing it right and ceaselessly, there
will be a moment when the very Holy Spirit will come into us and do
it!
Noetic
prayer and how to get used to its practice
Fr.
Savvas replying to the question on noetic prayer again:
Just
do it as you can… let me tell you a method for everybody.
I
knew a soul who practiced the noetic prayer for 2 hours in the
morning, 2 hours at noon and 2 hours in the evening, either standing
upright or on her knees. She learnt how to do it. She forced herself,
but then she got used to it… and then she ended up practicing the
prayer 24h a day! It is the Holy Spirit that takes over afterwards;
it doesn’t need any force at all anymore.
Well,
we need to set a program, like the athletes do. Do you know what the
athletes do? (was anybody of you here ever an athlete?). You’ll be
amazed by their heavy training schedule. They wear, for example, iron
chest-vests and go up and down the stairs of the stadium stands, to
grow their leg muscles! A kind of torture, we could say. What for? To
make the 100-meter race faster, for example, and receive an empty
cup! So, what? 20 years later, no one will remember who you were…
If we work so hard for such vain goals, wouldn’t it be reasonable
to put at least some effort for eternal life?
f. Savvas Agioreitis
To be continued...
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