How to pray the Prayer of St Ephrem, with prostrations and bows demonstrated

[@meangreenmememachine2890]

thank you father! ☦

[@theresiamaria6824]

Thank you Father...

[@lindaphillips4646]

Thank you, Father. I started these late enough in my life that making 'fluid' movements never has been my 'style'. I am leaving this comment because i am watching this with captions which often say 'frustrations' instead of 'prostrations'. A rather apt term for my efforts. Such a beautiful prayer.. THANK YOU, DEAR SAINT EPHRAIM.. ☦📿☦

[@romainreyes5906]

Im not sure but I think in the bible it says to not call anyone father except the father and your dad

[@seraphimh]

My words and Google transcribes them and most of the time they change pro strations into frustrations. This just happened, and I had to make a correction. Since I am a terrible proofreader occasionally that correction does not occur. The funny thing is that nothing is further from the truth. Prostrations are beautiful and they're not in any way frustrating

[@lindaphillips4646]

​@@seraphimhthank you, Father Seraphim. What a pleasant surprise to see a response from you. Yes, prostrations are are blessing.. and not frustrations. I am just so bad at them now. I hope that you and all your church have a Blessed Pascha. It is almost here... but i am by no means ready in any way.. Thank you. ☦📿💝📿☦

[@andrewkain7518]

“O Lord and Master of my life, a spirit of idleness, despondency, ambition, and idle talk; give me not.” “But rather a spirit of chastity, humble-mindedness, patience, and love, bestow upon me, Thy servant.” “Yea, O Lord and King: grant me to see mine own sins, and judge not my brother; for blessed art Thou unto the ages of ages. Amen.” For anyone who wants to copy/paste this prayer elsewhere

[@treenelson4063]

Thank you

[@freeman7079]

Thank you, brother.

[@xxxmickyxxx3]

Thank you 🙏🏾

[@orthodoxnet]

Yes, although the days appointed in the church services are the weekdays of Great Lent, and Holy Week until Vespers. But there is no reason why a person cannot say it year round

[@setsappa1540]

Thank you, autotranslate fails and my English hearing skill is too low to get the exact wording from this speed.

[@vanessablaz8058]

Thank you so much for your teaching ❤

[@Rahulchowdary69]

Thank u father

[@orthodoxnet]

God bless you!

[@freeman7079]

I have struggled the last year trying to find my way back to Jesus. I grew up Protestant. My mother remarried and converted to Catholicism, as well as my siblings. I struggle with accepting the dogma of immaculate conception, as well as a couple of other areas. Recently, I have found myself increasingly interested in the Orthodox Church. I live in extremely rural Texas, the nearest Greek Orthodox Church is approximately 70 miles. I reached out to the priest and have scheduled a visit in the next couple of weeks. Whilst I’m excited to hopefully grow in my faith, I am nervous about how my wife will handle this as she grew up non-denominational Protestant and has become very disheartened and discouraged at the way politics has invested the churches in our small town. I can’t say why I have become so interested in the orthodoxy, but I want to do this right and hopefully encourage my wife and possibly discover the same enthusiasm as have I over the past year. Being in such an isolated area, I spend so much time reading and studying this independently that when I do discuss it, my excitement can be overwhelming especially to disinterested people. What would be the best way to bring my wife and daughter with me on this path? Attending services as a guest and trying to help them get comfortable, I suppose. I do not feel pressured to convert or to have my wife catch up with where I’m at, rather I feel like I need to slow down and grab my family by the hand and gently show them why this has become such an intriguing, rather important part of my life…

[@Emily-hr6uh]

Fun fact Saint Ephrem believed in the Immaculate Conception. Prayers for your journey+

[@fishosoficaldebaitsphiloso7760]

How is it going for you know friend? I started my journey 5 months ago. The nearest church is 120 miles from our home, but thankfully it has a good tradition. We usually go once every 3 weeks and stay overnight to attend vespers as well the night before. My husband is curious and supportive. I studied a lot to get to this point. I was an atheist existential philosopher by education and analyst by trade. So naturally it took quite a bit for me to become Christian in 2010. Then when I retired early to a remote area I studied apologetics though an intense certification program. This led me to the unexpected conclusion that I simply wasn’t holy enough to talk about God to others. At the same time, I was finding that Protestantism was not helping my spiritually. Through Johnathan Pageau (by way of Jordan Peterson) I began to see a deeper way of looking g at things of God… a deeper more appropriate way than simply parsing and dividing scripture. This led me to EO. Of course, at first, I had to analyze that too (on account of my nature), but now I feel far less inclined to read or listen to arguments for EO. I just want to absorb the spiritual teaching that are beyond reason. This is what my soul has longed for unknowingly. Stacy

[@Userofyoutube335]

I pray for you and your family, in Christ name, ameen.

[@sofiasofia9323]

It's very funny that I searched about this in Greek and did not find anything in you tube ... thank you father

[@SamRaul7]

thank you very much for sharing with us, this is the true way of praying to GOD.

[@mattwatson6259]

Thank you, Father.

[@johns.9819]

thank you

[@jasonmed2119]

Thank you Father

[@gzoro8645]

Everyone in my church prays in Serbian, but my Serbian is very poor, can I pray the prayer in English or must it be in Serbian?

[@seraphimh]

Pray in the language you know

[@marlo8456]

God hears all languages

[@predragterentic2742]

I am serbian, but you can pray in whatever language you know the best. Even if you compare services and chanting in the churches between different languages you will see that is all the same only words different 😊

[@melissabarham4837]

​@@predragterentic2742Amen ☦️☦️☦️💜

[@jzzanetis]

Yes

[@pazserenaeuna]

Very important

[@spiralsone]

this was so helpful. great job!

[@fishosoficaldebaitsphiloso7760]

That was helpful. 😊

[@zainpervaiz331]

Hello Father, is there a book that Prayer of St Ephrem, with prostrations and bows. God bless you Thank you

[@timetoventureout189]

Can you explain why doing it in such an order and doing prostrations a certain amount of times is important?

[@samsonshaul3240]

Thank you for your teachings. Where I can find orthodoxy prayers book?

[@mrendy9831]

I have 2 questions if I’m a catholic can I pray like this cause no where in the bible states that how you should pray and question number 2 can I do the mini prayer thing even though I’m not injured so that I can properly be inferior to god

[@paul_321]

Yes, do a variety of prayers. It doesn’t say to do the sign of the cross in the Bible but it was written about in the early 100s.

[@jenny-DD]

Finally! Someone not sold out to the foolish sheep of the church

[@trinitarianchampion]

So only perform this prayer on weekdays during Great Lent?

[@orthodoxnet]

Sunday evening (at Vespers, or at home), through Friday. Not Saturday or Sunday until the evening. These rules are for church. At home, we may pray as our spiritual father blesses. For instance, we do not prostrate in the church on Sunday, but I do, when I pray in the morning at home.

[@amerelioo]

@@orthodoxnet So i can pray this whenever i want at home?

[@handofthehigh]

@@amerelioo* answer of creator on another comment* : Yes, although the days appointed in the church services are the weekdays of Great Lent, and Holy Week until Vespers. But there is no reason why a person cannot say it year round

[@LAGENDSTARS-c9b]

Do you know that who is Syrian bishop jozeff yousaf?tell me please

[@Baskl757]

I didnt know i was so out of shape

[@NobitaNobi-ld7xe]

Im not orthodox but I wanna know if i can pray like this every day or i should pray like this only in a chirstian event that we celebrate like lent

[@Userofyoutube335]

Yes, they only pray like this in Church on spesific day, but at home you can pray like this everyday

[@NobitaNobi-ld7xe]

​@@Userofyoutube335thank you for your answer

[@joshnyvox1525]

Thank you! But aren’t we supposed to do prostrations with our fists closed?

[@orthodoxnet]

I like to but there's no absolute rule about it

[@TedBruckner]

Prayer of St. Ephraim Lord and despot of my life do not give me spirit of laziness, curiosity, lust of power*, and empty talk**, (give prostration) but spirit of wisdom, lowliness, patient endurance, and love give graciously me your servant. (give prostration) yes, Lord King, give me to perceive my faults and not to give judgment against my brother· for blessed are you into the age the ages. amen. (give prostration) o God, cleanse me a sinner. (12 times, each time making the sign of the cross then a deep bow, then say the entire prayer, and then give a prostration.) * φιλαρχίας (philarchias) LSJ definition: love of rule, lust of power, LXX 4 Ma. 2.15; efforts to gain power. ** αργολογίας (argoloias) from αργολογώ - hot air, empty talk; i.e., the chatter, the cunning verbiage, the condemnation, the slander, but also that which is neither beneficial nor harmful, but is neutral and useless and fruitless. Spiritual laziness, empty talk, and curiosity bring about the death of works, which gives birth to selfishness and the abominable need to see those around us as our debtors and servants. Κύριε και Δέσποτα της ζωής μου, πνεύμα αργίας, περιεργίας, φιλαρχίας, και αργολογίας μη μοι δως. Πνεύμα δε σωφροσύνης, ταπεινοφροσύνης, υπομονής, και αγάπης χάρισε μοι τω σω δούλω. Ναι Κύριε Βασιλεύ, δώρησαί μοι του οράν τα εμά πταίσματα, και μη κατακρίνειν τον αδελφόν μου· ότι ευλογητός ει εις τους αιώνας των αιώνων. Αμήν.

[@shaikhsafat8870]

Is this charitain prayer

[@valerieduru2873]

yes absolutely its in the bible also

[@6dxd6hxru68]

Wow thats kinda similar to the Muslim was but the instead of doing the cross prostration we put our left hand on the belly button and our right one on our left wrist almost like Jewish

[@shaikhsafat8870]

I am muslims '' That's why we are called Abrahamic religion '' same as like Muslim prayer'''i love Jesus as we love Muhammad ''yahudi , Christianity, and muslims are the same pillar of one bridge 🤲🤲

[@romainreyes5906]

But you won’t be accepted in heaven if you don’t give your life to Jesus

[@soymilk9156]

It’s not the same buddy your fake prophet Muhammad took all of these ways of proper praying to praying ropes, etc from the first church orthodox Christians first learn your history before you compare that we are similar to Muslims because we are way different thanks Have a blessed life.

[@Lucas-tt9dt]

No

[@LukeGordon-j8f]

I appreciate your kind words, however we are not the same as Muslims reject the Holy Trinity and Christ as God. We would be the same if Islam accepted the Trinity and Christ as God, but then that would make Muslims Christians.

[@Lucas-tt9dt]

@@LukeGordon-j8f “Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.” ‭‭I John‬ ‭2‬:‭22‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

[@desertrose9700]

Waw they pray just like our prophet muhamed said in islam Alah is one . May alah accept ur prayers ❤️ All my respect to the real Christianisme

[@niveamoses1420]

No christians have been praying like this before Muhammad

[@lazorplayz4556]

@@niveamoses1420 yes christians are also part of the holy books

[@monabarakat7383]

@@niveamoses1420 True......we are praying like that since over 2000 years

[@proteinpapi7595]

We prayed like this before Muhamed

[@Grzegorz_Brzeczyszczy1_.]

Like Muslim pray

[@okbrostartcoping5835]

lol no

[@TheIndogamer]

Interesting how we could find similarties between prayers of semitic religions that involves prostration. Could definitely tell how we have same roots, wallahu a'lam

[@lmtt123]

Buddhists did it first

[@craeddock]

​@WAlter white trees did pray first, if you go technically by literal scripture. All of creation sings his praise.🙃

[@craeddock]

It doesn't matter who did it first. It matters whose spiritual science you believe in and where you direct your heart and intent.

[@iminsideyourwalls9432]

Father can i recite the prayer outside of Lent?

[@seraphimh]

Absolutely, you can say this prayer anytime you like. I have in the past said it every day of the year tell me with the exception of bright week

[@iminsideyourwalls9432]

@@seraphimh Thank you Father,this prayer has a powerful impact on me,because whenever i recite it,i feel like all my worries and anxiety go away.God bless!

[@henryholly8472]

Thank you father

[@jdy4967]

Thank you Father