Dear Orthodox Friends and Friends of Orthodoxy, Upcoming services Liturgy on Sunday, September 14th, Feast of the Holy Cross, will be at 10 am at St. Silouans Chapel, Johnstown, ON. There will be a potluck lunch following the service. Cars leaving from Potsdam and Canton. Please e-mail Cindy Eyler at [email protected] if you would like a ride. You must have appropriate ID to cross into Canada. To find the monastery via GPS use the following address: Monastery of St. Silouan the Athonite 2801 Newman Road R.R. 5 Edwardsburg/Cardinal Township Ontario K0E 1XO CANADA Fr. David may be reached for pastoral reasons via his cell phone: (780) 288-2455. Next liturgy in Potsdam will on Sunday, September 21st, at 10 am Prayer List The Mission keeps prayer lists, both for the living and for the departed. Names received are commemorated at every liturgy. Please send names of your loved ones and anyone else in need to [email protected] for inclusion. In addition, with your specific permission, we can also publish names of people in this newsletter so that members of the Mission can also remember them in prayer throughout the week. Book Review The Jesus Prayer by A Monk of the Eastern Church, revised edition with foreword by Kallistos Ware This book stands in sharp contrast in tone and substance to another book on the Jesus Prayer that has been reviewed in this newsletter, Praying the Jesus Prayer by Frederica Mathewes-Green (e-mail of 5/31/13). While the latter is very personal, down-to-earth and conversational in its tone, this older, earlier classic on the subject is far more exhaustive. It begins with an extensive foreword by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware that includes a fascinating account of the life and character of the author, Fr. Lev Gillet, who remained anonymous for much of his life. Metropolitan Ware also provided extensive revisions of the translation from the original French, improving both accuracy and readability. The chapter titles show the scope of this book: Invocation of the Name of Jesus in Scripture and the Patristic Tradition; The Jesus Prayer in Athonite Hesychasm; The Age of the Philokalia; The Way of the Pilgrim and the Jesus Prayer in our Age; and On the Practical Use of the Jesus Prayer. There are two appendices: The Psycho-Physiological Method of the Jesus Prayer and The Invocation of the Name of Jesus in the West. The book concludes with an extensive further reading list that was augmented by Bishop Kallistos in this edition. Lest the Jesus Prayer be seen as no more than a counterpart to meditation techniques of the Far East, the monk tells us that To pronounce the name of Jesus in a holy way is an all-sufficient and supposing aim for any human life…. We are to call to mind Jesus Christ until the name of the Lord penetrates our heart, descends to its very depths…. The name of Jesus, once it has become the center of our life, brings everything together. As Metropolitan Ware says, For the Monk of the Eastern Church the Jesus Prayer is not a technique but an act of love. It expresses a direct relationship between persons. Available in our bookstore
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