“Sometimes people call prayer that which is not prayer at all; for instance: a man goes to church, stands there for a time, looks at the icons or at other people, their faces and dress, and says that he has prayed to God; or else he stands before an icon at home, bows his head, says some words he has learnt by heart, without understanding and without feeling, and says that he has prayed, although with his thoughts and heart he has not prayed at all, but was elsewhere with other people and things, and not with God.”
St. John of Kronstadt

Prayer should not be something that is said and forgotten as well. We should live in every word of prayer we say, even after we finish it and go about our business. Just reading through the words and forgetting is not prayer.

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Jerusalem Patriarch: “Silence in the face of suffering is a betrayal of conscience”
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Speaking to gathered clergy and press, Pat. Theophilos III described Gaza as “a land bruised by prolonged affliction and pierced by the cries of its people.”

☦️🕯️"The soul that loves God detaches itself from all created things, for God alone is its true rest."🕯️☦️

♰ St. Maximus the Confessor ♰