Fascination with wickedness obscures what is good, and roving desire perverts the innocent mind.
Wisdom of Solomon 4:12

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Lent & Spiritual Excercise

When I was in seminary I had the great blessing of becoming the spiritual son of a Greek bishop, Bishop Kallistos of Xelon. He ended his life as the bishop of Denver of the Greek Archdiocese. It was he who taught me the Jesus Prayer. The whole spiritual vision of Bishop Kallistos had three very simple points.
  • Do not resent.
  • Do not react.
  • Keep inner stillness.
These three spiritual principles, or disciplines, are really a summation of the Philokalia, the collection of Orthodox Christian spiritual wisdom. And they are disciplines every single one of us can practice, no matter where we are in life – whether we’re in the monastery or in school; whether we’re housewives or retired; whether we’ve got a job or we’ve got little kids to run after. If we can hold on to and exercise these three principles, we will be able to go deeper and deeper in our spiritual life.  more...

Metropolitan Jonah- OCA

For video of lecture  click  here.

1 comment:

  1. You will perhaps never know how much I have needed to read this, right now, at this point in my life. It was published on a site that I do not read so, had it not been for you, I would not have seen it.

    Thank you so very much.

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