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"Prayer is a refuge of God's great mercy to the human race."
The refuge is a place of inner stillness and peace where the heart is fully opened to the embrace of God's love. It is a return to the ancient paradise from which the human race, in Adam, had to depart because of disobedience to the command of God.
The Refuge is an exposition of the concrete actions we should take if we truly desire to live with and in God. It weaves together meditations on scripture (from the Psalms in particular) and amplifies these with the wisdom of early Christian saints, in particular the ascetical writings of St John of the Ladder, St Macarius the Great and St Isaac the Syrian. It is an active exhortation for us to reacquire the original nobility with which God fashioned us in the beginning.
Contents
Foreword
Blessed is the Man
Joseph: An Edifying Story taken from the Book of Genesis
A Letter to the Brotherhood of the Sergiev Hermitage from the Nikolo-Babaev Monastery
The Fear of God and the Love of God
The Judgments of God
A Meeting of the Soul and the Mind
Seeing One's Sins
The Image and Likeness of God in Man
A Reflection on the First Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to Timothy, Referring Primarily to the Monastic Life
The Essential Work of a Monk
The Spirit of a Beginner's Prayer
The Cell Rule of Prayer
Prayer in Church
Prayer Spoken Aloud
Remembrance of God
The Prayer of the Mind, the Heart, and the Soul
The Jesus Prayer
A Wanderer
A Mystical Interpretation of Psalm 99
Salvation and Christian Perfection
The Various States of Human Nature in Relation to Good and Evil
