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His Life Is Mine

By Archimandrite Sophrony , Rosemary Edmonds

Book information

Publisher
St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
Year
1977
ISBN
0913836338, 9780913836330
LCC
BX382.S6313
Google Books ID
P75VokdzV5IC
Open Library ID
OL4908191M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1122042 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
128\129
Topic
Religion Orthodoxy
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2023-08-30 07:51:21
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Description

Contemplation, prayer, spirituality these words have become popular in our day among those despairing at the banality and emptiness of the contemporary scene. But popular as well are a myriad of pseudo-spiritualities, each offering its own shortcut to spiritual satisfaction. His Life is Mine is a refreshing contrast. The book deals with prayers, and especially with the 'Jesus Prayer' of Orthodox monasticism. Yet it is not simply a presentation of 'techniques.' The book is permeated by the awareness that prayer is not just the cultivation of a particular spiritual state, not the investigation of an abstract Idea or dissolution in an anonymous Whole, but an encounter with the personal Being, I AM, demanding in turn our own growth in personhood. As remarkable as the book is its author, Archimandrite Sophrony. Like a good plot, his life has proceeded from possibility to probability to necessity from marked success as a painter exhibiting in the great Paris salons after the Russian Revolution via a brief period of study at the Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris to Mount Athos, the Holy Mountain of Eastern monasticism, where he spent twenty-two years, first as a monk in the Russian Monastery of St Panteleimon and for the final seven years as a hermit in the 'desert.'

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