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You will earn 0 Point for purchasing this product.Metropolitan Anthony Bloom & Georges LeFebvre OSB
translated by Dinah Livingstone
translated by Dinah Livingstone
Publication Data: Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1995
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 123
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.6 cm × 14.1 cm × 0.9 cm
ISBN 13: 978‒0‒88141‒031‒0
ISBN: 0‒88141‒031‒4
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom & Georges LeFebvre OSB
translated by Dinah Livingstone
“Prayer is the search for God, encounter with God, and going beyond this encounter in communion. Thus it is an activity, a state and also a situation; a situation both with respect to God and to the created world. It arises from the awareness that the world in which we live is not simply two dimensional, imprisoned in the categories of time and space, a flat world in which we meet only the surface of things, an opaque surface covering emptiness. Prayer is born of the discovery that the world has depths; that we are not only surrounded by visible things but that we are also immersed in and penetrated by invisible things. And this invisible world is both the presence of God, the supreme, sublime reality, and our own deepest truth.”
—“A DISCOVERY”
CONTENTS
Part I: Courage to Pray by Metropolitan Anthony
A discovery
A triple relationship
Encounter
As through a glass darkly
The nature of this encounter
Seeing
Hearing
Humility and obedience
Obedience and love
An eye purified to judge
The experience of a staretz
It is terrible to fall into the hands of the living God
Let me know myself
Let me know you
The absence of God
Bartimaeus
Prayer in tumult
The stilling of the storm
Constant prayer
The role of ascesis
The consolation of the scriptures
Bearing with ourselves
God’s silence and man’s silence
The search for silence
Prayer and our neighbour
Intercession
Nathalie in Christ
The Intercession of Christ
The image of the mother of Jesus
The church is a mystery of encounter
The living and the dead
The saints
Liturgical prayer
Part II: Lord Stay With Us by Georges LeFebvre OSB
INTRODUCTION
1. NEVER ALONE
Losing oneself
A communion
In our humble condition
2. HUMBLE LOVE
In faith
Be humble ‘with’ God
Needing another
3. LEARNING TO BELIEVE
He who loves us
The humility of faith
With Christ
4. KNOWING WE ARE LOVED
An amazing love
Loving is belonging
The simplicity of faith
Love which unites us
Love which satisfies us
Love which sets us free
5. SIMPLICITY AND FREEDOM
Boundless love
United by God’s love
In the light of faith
6. LORD I HAVE NO ONE BUT YOU
A guiding love
A merciful love
An infinite love
He who is everything to us
Humble confidence
Be obedient
The silence of faith
Knowing we are loved
7. THE GIFT OF GOD’S PRESENCE
In God’s presence
Respect for the mystery
God looks on us with love
Total acceptance
He in whom we believe
Total trust
He who speaks to our heart
8. A MYSTERY OF GRACE
God’s close presence
The secret language of our heart
A listening heart
A communion of faith and love
9. THE EYES OF FAITH
Our inmost self
A mystery of grace
A close presence
The freedom of love
Alive with Christ
CONCLUSION
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 123
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.6 cm × 14.1 cm × 0.9 cm
ISBN 13: 978‒0‒88141‒031‒0
ISBN: 0‒88141‒031‒4
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom & Georges LeFebvre OSB
translated by Dinah Livingstone
“Prayer is the search for God, encounter with God, and going beyond this encounter in communion. Thus it is an activity, a state and also a situation; a situation both with respect to God and to the created world. It arises from the awareness that the world in which we live is not simply two dimensional, imprisoned in the categories of time and space, a flat world in which we meet only the surface of things, an opaque surface covering emptiness. Prayer is born of the discovery that the world has depths; that we are not only surrounded by visible things but that we are also immersed in and penetrated by invisible things. And this invisible world is both the presence of God, the supreme, sublime reality, and our own deepest truth.”
—“A DISCOVERY”
CONTENTS
Part I: Courage to Pray by Metropolitan Anthony
A discovery
A triple relationship
Encounter
As through a glass darkly
The nature of this encounter
Seeing
Hearing
Humility and obedience
Obedience and love
An eye purified to judge
The experience of a staretz
It is terrible to fall into the hands of the living God
Let me know myself
Let me know you
The absence of God
Bartimaeus
Prayer in tumult
The stilling of the storm
Constant prayer
The role of ascesis
The consolation of the scriptures
Bearing with ourselves
God’s silence and man’s silence
The search for silence
Prayer and our neighbour
Intercession
Nathalie in Christ
The Intercession of Christ
The image of the mother of Jesus
The church is a mystery of encounter
The living and the dead
The saints
Liturgical prayer
Part II: Lord Stay With Us by Georges LeFebvre OSB
INTRODUCTION
1. NEVER ALONE
Losing oneself
A communion
In our humble condition
2. HUMBLE LOVE
In faith
Be humble ‘with’ God
Needing another
3. LEARNING TO BELIEVE
He who loves us
The humility of faith
With Christ
4. KNOWING WE ARE LOVED
An amazing love
Loving is belonging
The simplicity of faith
Love which unites us
Love which satisfies us
Love which sets us free
5. SIMPLICITY AND FREEDOM
Boundless love
United by God’s love
In the light of faith
6. LORD I HAVE NO ONE BUT YOU
A guiding love
A merciful love
An infinite love
He who is everything to us
Humble confidence
Be obedient
The silence of faith
Knowing we are loved
7. THE GIFT OF GOD’S PRESENCE
In God’s presence
Respect for the mystery
God looks on us with love
Total acceptance
He in whom we believe
Total trust
He who speaks to our heart
8. A MYSTERY OF GRACE
God’s close presence
The secret language of our heart
A listening heart
A communion of faith and love
9. THE EYES OF FAITH
Our inmost self
A mystery of grace
A close presence
The freedom of love
Alive with Christ
CONCLUSION
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