The Jesus Prayer: First Stages and Method (Part 2)

[@YannisH]

I love the lectures! God bless Fr. Peter. 10 out 10

[@szudy76]

Good Evening Fr. Thank you for replaying these episodes. I’m new to Orthodoxy and appreciate all you do to spread awareness and educating others. God Bless

[@stylist62]

Lord Jesus Christ Son of GOD have mercy on me a sinner🙏🙏🙏❤️

[@gscarpentryhandyman3993]

To a question regarding chest pain, I wanted to recommend checking out priest Sergei Baranov from Russian Church. He is the experienced one of these days. He used to serve a liturgy with elder Ephraim of Arizona. I think he mentions just to simply ignore any physical feeling such as this or like dryness of a tongue or any other thing and just ignore them and keep your attention on prayer. Just keep pushing and keep saying prayer focusing on words of a prayer and keeping mind clear of any imagination. Majority of his lectures are in Russian but there could be some English and his monastery is working on translating more content. Hope it helps.

[@paulr5246]

Thankyou Fr. Peter, for reminding me to love Christ.

[@henrybarrett1292]

Father, Bless!!! The most difficult part of this so far for me is in the preparatory “Necessary Spiritual Conditions” from St Paisios that you presented in Part 1. It seems I can bring to mind at a very high level “all” of my sins in far less than 5 minutes, but at 66 years old to do it in detail might take 5 years or more!!! Struggling to find the right balance; God will provide. Certainly aware that i am the chief of all sinners. Thank you , Fr Peter for these greatly helpful lectures!!!

[@TheMatthewLeiby]

Thank you so much Father. I appreciate your works and your time for us.

[@ICONFESSONEBAPTISM]

Quality of prayer is essential, then quantity of prayer multiplies benefit.

[@134-trq]

❤❤❤

[@babajanachka]

I just want to mention something with regard to saying by St Gabriel of Georgia asked by Olga at 1:58:07. I am Georgian myself and have read almost all the books in Georgian about St Gabriel. He did not say that only those will be saved who have noetic prayer in their hearts. He said, in the end times those will be saved who have faith (not prayer) in their hearts. He was stressing on having faith in one's heart as opposed to having faith in rational mind only. What fr Peter says he thinks saint said is exactly what St Gabriel said. There are many proofs of this from his conversations with multiple orthodox people.

[@patriciagray484]

Notes good

[@patriciagray484]

I live 20 miles from all cities. No car, can not drive. No Orthodox church walking distance. Took me 6 hours to walk to town for groceries

[@jasonchase6566]

Envious..

[@mrsnkg7904]

Dear Sister in Christ. Am still praying for you every day. May God provide. Lord Jesus Christ Son of God have mercy on me a sinner 💖🙏🇦🇺

[@patriciagray484]

msnkg. Prayers are well needed and sought after. Thank you. Praying for u. In Thanksgiving to Lord for inspiring you

[@patriciagray484]

@@mrsnkg7904 Ruth 1;16

[@patriciagray484]

​@nikosantikythera2422 Amen

[@patriciagray484]

Good morning first time on. Hope my phone lasts

[@zeusmallo777]

Pope Shenouda is a amazing saint ❤🙏

[@OrthodoxEthos]

I am sorry, dear one, he is not a saint.

[@zeusmallo777]

@@OrthodoxEthos how do you know that?

[@zeusmallo777]

He appeared to someone I know in Canada and brought him back to Jesus

[@Joseph1207]

Father, what is the meaning of "Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me" ? I need to understand this so as to feel the prayer.

[@forevershampoo]

58:00

[@Joseph1207]

What is the difference between priest and spiritual father? Can my priest be my spiritual father ?

[@OrthodoxEthos]

The spiritual father is ideally a priest who can both perform the mystery of Confession and provide spiritual guidance. The saints and Fathers say that we should be very careful in choosing a spiritual father because we are entrusting our soul to their care and we need to be able to trust that they can lead us to salvation. The spiritual father should be someone who follows the teachings of the saints and Fathers and has spiritual experience. This could be a person’s parish priest or it could be a priest or hieromonk outside of one’s parish.

[@Joseph1207]

Thank you father

[@dianelee346]

What about family members in the LGBT community. It’s very difficult

[@peterjackbenson]

Love the person. You don't have to agree with their choices.

[@LadyMaria]

As peterjackbenson said, love them. How? Pray for them to God through the intercessions of the Theotokos and Saints to turn away from these passions, help them as you would anyone, let them know you are there for them, be compassionate as we all have our passions. Don't be condemning of course or bombard with pressure to drop these passions as that will not help. You don't have to accept the actions of people in order to love them. Charity is what they need, and maybe a seed of repentance will be planted and nurtured; may that be for us all. You're probably doing these things already probably. If so, keep on. May God bless you.

[@dianelee346]

@@LadyMaria yes I am. I guess it’s the whole picture of loving them and then how do you get through being in front of their relationship They won’t turn away

[@dianelee346]

@@peterjackbenson Goes without saying. Just the reality of being around it can be difficult

[@LadyMaria]

@@dianelee346 I would suggest asking your Priest/spiritual father for guidance. May God bless you.

[@patriciagray484]

Are you saying, if you dont have spiritual father do not do Jesus prayer?

[@OrthodoxEthos]

We can start praying the Jesus Prayer but in order to make progress and avoid spiritual deception and delusion, personal guidance from an experienced Orthodox spiritual father is indispensable.

[@patriciagray484]

@@OrthodoxEthos thank you. Seeking guidance