ARROW PRAYER
Short Prayer used in Personal Devotion / (alaturarea textului si a fotografiei a fost facuta de chiar Staretul Trifon)
Many Church Fathers taught the use of the "arrow prayer", deliberately short prayers for personal devotion that were easily remembered, and could communicate one's love for God, while see...king His help. They were like arrows being shot into the air, wholeheartedly demonstrating our sincerity in asking God's help. One of my personal favorites is an arrow prayer attributed to Saint Gregory Palamas.
Lord enlighten my darkness, Lord enlighten my darkness, Lord enlighten my darkness.....
This is the perfect prayer when seeking God's help in keeping His commandments, and doing battle with habitual sins. By this prayer we are asking that grace abound and transformation take place. It is a prayerful plea for God's mercy, and that He make us holy by coming quickly to our aid.
It is the perfect prayer to utter at the very moment we are receiving the Holy Mysteries of Christ's Body and Blood, the hot coals that burn within and bring about healing of body and soul, and illumine our heart. It is a prayer in which we confess before God that we are living in a state of darkness, and asking Him to dispel all that darkness which keeps us from attaining holiness, and communing with Him.
Love in Christ,
Abbot Tryphon / All-Merciful Saviour Monastery, Vashon Island in the Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington.
Short Prayer used in Personal Devotion / (alaturarea textului si a fotografiei a fost facuta de chiar Staretul Trifon)
Many Church Fathers taught the use of the "arrow prayer", deliberately short prayers for personal devotion that were easily remembered, and could communicate one's love for God, while see...king His help. They were like arrows being shot into the air, wholeheartedly demonstrating our sincerity in asking God's help. One of my personal favorites is an arrow prayer attributed to Saint Gregory Palamas.
Lord enlighten my darkness, Lord enlighten my darkness, Lord enlighten my darkness.....
This is the perfect prayer when seeking God's help in keeping His commandments, and doing battle with habitual sins. By this prayer we are asking that grace abound and transformation take place. It is a prayerful plea for God's mercy, and that He make us holy by coming quickly to our aid.
It is the perfect prayer to utter at the very moment we are receiving the Holy Mysteries of Christ's Body and Blood, the hot coals that burn within and bring about healing of body and soul, and illumine our heart. It is a prayer in which we confess before God that we are living in a state of darkness, and asking Him to dispel all that darkness which keeps us from attaining holiness, and communing with Him.
Love in Christ,
Abbot Tryphon / All-Merciful Saviour Monastery, Vashon Island in the Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington.
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