Fr. Jonah Paffhausen, The Path to Prayer: Part 1:
By admin | January 14th, 2008 | Category: Specials |The Path to Prayer: Part 1: Do Not React
The Path to Prayer: Do Not React, Do Not Resent, Keep Inner Stillness
This is the first part of a lecture series given by Fr. Jonah Paffhausen, abbot of the monastery of St. John of Shanghi and San Francisco.
Do Not React, Do Not Resent, Keep Inner Stillness— these three principles are really a summation of the Philokalia, the collection of Orthodox Christian wisdom.
These disciplines are for everyone to practice and Fr. Jonah gives real life examples to translate this Christian practice into reality.
A Link to the article by Fr. Jonah Paffhausen
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Thank you for posting this. I think I’ve listened to it at least a half a dozen times already. I look forward to the other podcasts.
Thanks again.
AWESOME lecture and related article. I am currently studying “Living Prayer” By Metropolitan Anthony Bloom in a class and this lecture/article built so well on the chapter on “Meditation/prayer.” When is part due out?
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Based on this first installment, it sounds like this is going to be a great series. As one who has benefitted from twelve-step recovery, I have to acknowledge Father Jonah for making note of it in talking about resentment. Resentment is a key issue for the addicted person, because it is often the primary reason a person uses drugs and/or alcohol in the first place. The twelve-steps were instrumental in Christ bringing me back to Himself. I also think it has helped me be more open to Orthodox Christianity because of the similarities that they share:
1. A disease/healing model of salvation.
2. A prescribed method of treatment requiring surrender, inventory, confession, prayer and service. Works matter.
3. A continuing “journey” of sustained treatment and progression instead of a one-time “event” type of salvation.
I have up to this point been part of a large evangelical megachurch in metro Detroit. It offers an evangelical (Saddleback) version of recovery that has to do, in my opinion, some theological acrobatics to get the twelve-steps to fit into its program. I always had some questions about the way that was done, but it wasn’t until I started to investigate Orthodox Christianity that I saw just what a problem it was. OC and the 12-steps work together much better, it’s a natural fit and the fact that the 12-steps have helped me heal and truly follow Jesus Christ says a lot to me about Orthodoxy. I wonder if there are any books addressing the relationship between OC and 12-step? Anyway, I am making the moves toward becoming an Orthodox Christian, I have become convinced that it is the One Holy Apostolic Church. Keep up the good work, Iconnewmedianetwork!
Part 3 is now up enjoy
whoa…I SO needed to hear this!
thanks!
[...] this has probably already listened in… but “just in case you missed it”… it’s here over at Icon New Media Network. I’d add that listening to this is even better than the written piece… as I think [...]
[...] us learn another way to react. In fact reacting is what we want to avoid, as now Metropolitan, then Abbot Jonah said in one of his talks, ” The Path to Prayer: Do Not React, Do Not Resent, Keep Inner [...]