Metropolitan KALLISTOS Ware - What is Prayer? Orthodox Christian Lecture

Lecture delivered at Seattle Pacific University

[@blackhumanity103]

I was deep in despair and thought about ending things. I came upon a book called the philoklia in a second hand book store..opened the book my life was changed for ever. This prayer saved my life...so few words...so powerful.

[@petereskander4463]

blackhumanity103 it's a life-changing book I am reading it now

[@mikeparker840]

Praise be to God! Keep up the good fight and never give up. Fight the good fight and look to Jesus brother. I might check that book out, thank you for sharing an amazing testimony. "They overcame by their testimony and the word of God"

[@Popupclothingdeals]

That book is a holy wellspring

[@Mark-yb1sp]

Such a beautiful man with a beautiful voice declaring a beautiful message about our beautiful Savior. It’s good to be Orthodox. Christos Anesti !

[@DFMoray]

Alithos anesti!

[@shivabreathes]

Indeed 🙏

[@vivekapihl5179]

Memory eternal! Thank you, Father, for this teaching.

[@yuukannahoshi]

His voice is really captivating.

[@davidmaligo1020]

Yeah it is. A true scholar

[@mos619]

I'm just discovering orthodoxy, but I try to say/chant/sing the Jesus prayer and the trisagion often. Glory to God

[@Wisdom1944]

Good to have you in the Orthodox Christian world.🥰.

[@judyharley5288]

Thank you so much for having this available online love in Christ, Judy Harley

[@behealed9773]

Thank you so much for sharing this. There is much love felt while listening to this. Thank you Father for this opportunity to listen to wonderful talks of wonderful children of God. May there be more good workers in this world, Amen.

[@willrobinson1229]

Thank you for uploading this excellent lecture!

[@andreaspetrou3580]

His teachings is from his practice and experienced this makes him unique cause he knows!!!

[@KairosDBT]

A hero of the faith. Memory Eternal.

[@philmattox8500]

Amen, Amen, Amen!!!

[@davidstankiewicz2049]

Rest in peace dear Fr.

[@blackhumanity103]

Yeah, I have a daily struggle with evil thoughts and I beg for mercy and help everyday. I pray I do find someone that I can be honest with because eveyrone else expects so much from me. Pray for me

[@GottaFly]

are you ok?

[@gigitiger6283]

Hi how are you?

[@AmayaUsagiTenshi]

I will pray for you tonight. Let us know how you are?

[@samharris4073]

It’s been a while. How are you?

[@fromchronictocure7152]

God Grant You Many Years

[@serenasztein5065]

Beautiful indeed God bless his soul

[@Templarswordxx7]

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on Sulaimaan, myself, and us. Pray for Unity+

[@larrysharp80]

Great message

[@forrestlong9603]

A powerful and profound lecture on prayer. We can learn so much from it

[@thattimestampguy]

17:38 How? 19:31 The Jesus Prayer + A Confession + Repetition but not Vain Repetition. 20:45 + Mercy 21:17 Mercy, the oil of God’s Love ❤️ 21:41 The Jesus Prayer is a Trinitarian Prayer 🙏🏼 22:36 Free Way of The Jesus Prayer 🙏🏼❤️ 23:12 Fixed Way of The Jesus Prayer 🙏🏼☦️ 23:52 The Christians sees everywhere Christ ❤️ 24:18 Poet George Herbert said… 25:20 See God in All Things 26:22 When you can say The Jesus Prayer 🙏🏼 ❤️ + Short + Simple + Always Available 27:45 The Desert Fathers Arrow Prayers 💘🏹 28:55 See Christ Everywhere. ❤️ 29:35 What do we mean by Silence? + Fullness + Presence + Stillness + Know God is Here + Listening To God 30:45 The Goon Show 📺 31:30 Finding difficulty to hear God, the wordless voice. 32:29 -wandering pointless irrelevant thoughts- Jesus Prayer 🙏🏼 to gather together into our prayer 🙏🏼 33:37 Saint of Russia 🇷🇺 ☦️ Seraphim of Sarov + Acquire Inner Peace❤️ 34:49 Derrick Hamiscour and his book 📖 _Markings_ + Understand through the stillness + Act out of the stillness + Conquer in the stillness

[@mangispangi]

Starts at 5.44min

[@ShaoLeFen]

If you still feel this way or ever do again I would encourage you to find a priest or someone you can talk to. Sometimes problems doing go away even if we feel that they do for a while. In any case, I hope you are walking on a path way God now.

[@elizabethshaw734]

I have a 33 knot prayer rope that I just received. When I use it to do the Jesus prayer I go into some sort of a trance state or a meditative state. I have meditated since I was 12 so I think that's what's happening and I hope it's not something bad

[@alexandretskitishvili3315]

Be carefull! Are you Orthodox?

[@teodoracazacu4023]

Actually this is supposed to happen. I watched a documentary with a hermit monk and he described the same thing.

[@elizabethshaw734]

@@alexandretskitishvili3315 why be careful? There is nothing that feels like the devil and I don't see anything that looks like the devil. Yes I am.

[@elizabethshaw734]

@@teodoracazacu4023 I had a Catholic priest tell me that meditation is the highest form of prayer so I'm glad to hear it from someone else. :-)

[@ExVeritateLibertas]

@@elizabethshaw734 Catholics do view prayer this way so I am not surprised what the Catholic priest told you. In the Orthodox Church it is not encouraged to "meditate" or indeed to attempt to visualize anything during prayer, as this can lead one into various temptations. There is a lot of literature on the subject by the Holy Fathers of which I am not an expert unfortunately. But I can tell you if you are still praying this way it is not encouraged by the Orthodox tradition.

[@Razamaniac]

I so love this accent XD

[@godislove1776]

Do women lead prayer session in Orthodox Christianity? First time seeing this.

[@lefteriscolocassides4759]

even if someone has money... is it the only thing you could see from this wonderful speech? Even if someone has money and was blessed with it, how do you know if many people arent being helped from that money people in need? Or how many times have we helped a poor person who is need?

[@ServantofGod88]

You can be honest with me! :)

[@786pad]

May God Guide This Person. Go On Zakir Naik, Comparing Religions

[@thomaswayneward]

I read one of your books years ago and really liked it. I like listening to you talk also, but when you fall into the woke, climate change jingo, you lose me entirely. The problem with "climate" change and saving the world is it is not really about saving the environment, it is about power to the few and hardship to the rest of us. I hate to see Christians fall into the trap.

[@jefferygriffith9627]

Jesus is the only way to heaven and if you don't believe or except him as Lord then Hell will be your home.

[@Razamaniac]

it needs action yes ?

[@aahlstrom93]

That's true, Raza. In Matthew 7:21-23 shows that even though many will claim they believe in Him and tried to do good people they ultimately did not pass. You can not believe in Jesus and rape and murder villages... that would make your faith invalid.

[@svarog8126]

Hell is only feared by those who believe, therefore it is a type of paradox. So trying to fear people into believing is pointless

[@Mark-yb1sp]

Wow, Jeff, that was a great way to draw people to Christ. 🙄. Not. If a person doesn’t understand the joy of Jesus, they don’t understand the horrors of Hell. Learn to shape your invitation to Christ that isn’t an immediate turn off.

[@joylarson9040]

How dare you put Orthodoxy on the same plane as western Christianity?(

[@thetechmaniac101]

His accent shows how much money he has....

[@Razamaniac]

lol you figured out by accent ? lol dude

[@alanparker7417]

Sulaimaan Khan Like,say, the Aga Khan?

[@Mark-yb1sp]

Horse crap. It just shows how arrogant and judgmental you are. Is this all you got out of his sermon?

[@WilliamSmith-pc8xr]

Often, the ignorance if the prisoner of false religion sees evil everywhere it looks, even in the good. This is not your fault Sulaimaan . The Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God have mercy on you my friend.

[@ServantofGod88]

You can be honest with me! :)