Το Άγιο Πνεύμα: Η Θεία Παρουσία του Θεού

so communion with God is mainly through

prayer and it is recommended by Saint Paul the apostle Paul recommends without ceasing

he says pray that is to pray constantly what does this mean it does not

mean constantly to pray it means to have the memory of God to

keep in the back of our mind and in our hearts the memory of

God, that is, what we heard in church, what we saw, let us

constantly recreate them and preserve the memory of God within us, this is one

secret prayer yes and yes if we can

also work on mental prayer which is a superior form of prayer in relation to the

logical prayer we do in the church all the services of the

church are logical prayer because it is done with the intellect the

intellect participates mental prayer but it is mainly done with the heart because according to

mental prayer when mental prayer means the monologue

prayer of Jesus who is the Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on the

sinner, this prayer when the person says it and brings it down from the mind,

from the intellect, it comes down to the place of the heart, this prayer can be

done from the heart and become continuous with the grace of God and when

it comes down this prayer in the space of the heart and when the grace of God acts

then tears come to man, the tears of repentance which

cleanse his soul from the passions and when he receives when

the man acts for a long time this prayer and God gives him the uninterrupted

heart prayer as a gift of the holy spirit then what happens the

holy spirit comes and prays here in the heart space in the man and the

man feels here in this space of the heart a prayer should be acted that

is not his so this is the prayer of the holy spirit and then

it happens when the night acts day this happens when this acts in the

heart of man, the prayer of the holy spirit comes and acts here,

that is, grace comes and acts here and the holy spirit prays on

behalf of the person, then man really becomes a temple of the holy

spirit, his body that is, because with the holy baptism we are a temple of the holy

spirit but by virtue that is because holy baptism the soul with passions and

sin are buried or grace is buried inside and with repentance

and tears, the soul cleans these debris little by little, and when

it cleans one by one, the soul and God wants to give us this

prayer, that is, a finding from our life, God gives us this prayer in

the heart of the holy spirit where the holy spirit prays permanently

inside the person and then the person begins and

progestogen before wish gives him joy gives him peace gives him a state that

does not exist neither anxiety nor depression nor anything so this is the main

work of the monk but because the gospel is the same for the

laity and the monk and the layman can achieve this state

of unceasing heart prayer it is a little more difficult but he can

achieve it and there are lay people who have achieved

this, so here we answer the first question, how does communion with

God manifest itself in monastic life, this communion with God in monastic life manifests itself through

prayer and study and the permanent memory

of God that man must

maintain within himself and how man loses the memory of God when he turns

to the world when he turns on his cell phone when he watches television when he starts

talking worldly and his mind leaves God and he starts talking about

worldly things the memory of god goes away and then he has to come back and

find it again and struggle to find it again the memory of god

Very important for listening and learning

says the holy sack hero, just as we have two eyes of the body, we also have two eyes

of the soul, when man reaches a pure

soul, then God first opens him one mental eye, with this mental

eye he sees the mysteries of the acquisition of nature, this is called the theory of being

here you see all around we have trees we have flowers we have grass all this

in every little friend in every bird in every little fish in the sea in every star all

these are hidden mysteries of nature it is full of hidden mysteries

this is yes and in every mystery or in every building in every creation the

reason that is the reason that exists the cause the reason that exists is is the

reason of yes the reason of is a word that means the cause of of its existence

, this reason for the existence of every building, its mystery is revealed

, that is, it is revealed only by the grace of God, the wise Solomon had been given

to the wise Solomon was blessed to have this wisdom the revelation of the theory

of beings and the fathers say in fact Saint Joseph the Caveman says that the

theory of beings is the first revelation that God will give to

man when He wants to reveal His mysteries to him god gives him the theory

of which he says is for beginners grandpa josif says so then so then so

when he opens your mental eye of one, God sees the theory

of beings, that is, you see the reasons for the existence of beings, and in an experience

of grace, man can see it, to see all possession glorifying God,

when in this theory, when you act man with the grace of God what does

man do he sees all the possessions glorifying at this point he had arrived he

had arrived saint Siluanus had seen this theory and explains it explains

he had said every flower girl says every every grass glorifies God and this one

had the same experience and Saint Porphyrios had the same experience and the elder Ephraim

her Philoth and this is the first the first step of the theory the

second step is when God opens to you and the right eye the other

mental eye and then you see the uncreated light the uncreated light as it is is

the light the energy of god the energy of the holy spirit which

God reveals when He wants to whomever He wants, but usually you have to

reach to see it, you have to reach a pure soul and Abba Isaac says

that in a natural way man will reach to see the light of God when

his soul is healed when both of his mental eyes are healed and as

he says the physical eyes cannot see the light if it is if they have a disease

because you don't have cataracts your eye sees darkness doesn't he can see the light,

however, when the surgeon treats your cataract and removes

the scale from above that prevents the light from entering, then you see the light, i.e. when

the physical eye is healed, you see the light of the sun, similarly when the physical eye

is healed psychic eye the two psychic eye and then you see the light of god

naturally you don't ask for it it comes by itself so we why don't

we see it because we don't have a pure soul and furthermore why doesn't it allow now God

because God does not want us to see his light here because he will

oblige us and he is a lord and he does not want to deprive us of our freedom

if you want you can believe him because all the unbelievers and atheists if

God showed them his light what shone in the tabor they would immediately believe, they could not

deny it since it is a terrible experience so that

God does not force you to accept him, but he does not show you now and he wants you to be saved through

faith, and when will he show you knowledge, that is, from faith, when will he lead you to

knowledge when you believe and reach a pure heart, may the pure heart

be the one who despises God, when you reach a pure heart, then he will show you God

his light before he wants you to be saved by faith does not show you at the beginning

so you have to believe walked you learned always the nations are baptized in

them in the name of the father and of the holy spirit the believer

baptist is saved says the gnos the believer in the word of the apostles in the

word of the gospel and will be baptized in the holy pool and will live with

repentance in his life and will arrive with his ascetic struggle and prayer

in a pure soul he will see the god when he reaches a pure soul therefore and

then he will know God, that is why Saint Sophronius explains very clearly what

happens when man sees the uncreated light which is the light of God and he

describes it there very beautifully, he says that it is so so so so so because

they had seen it and it is a a testimony like this one of knowledge of god and then god

shows it to you he puts you in the mysteries you keep calling them mysteries which

of course are mysteries god starts and shows you when he gives you the prayer inside

here in the heart it begins and shows you mysteries, therefore, for the most part, when

you see it, you act in the light, then you begin and see, you now participate permanently in

God's breakfast and live from here on in the kingdom of God to the extent that

God gives you this experience and life when you see it Aktis, this light is

together with the fact that it shows you that Christ is God, that is, the

divinity of Christ is confirmed by the Aktis in the light and indeed says Job when

you see the saints so that God can reach you plus extreme humiliation so rather when

you see the akti in the light then you reach extreme humiliation and you really become

you understand what your nature is that you are dust and ashes says Job before

I heard he says for you now that you are earth and with him he says

that he is dust and dust therefore the saints and the grandfather Joseph

used to tell him that man is dust and ashes, your nature is dust and plaster,

nothing you can do without the grace of God and you experience this when

you see the ati in the light that you are dust and ashes, you experience it with a sense of the soul

that is, it becomes your experience, it becomes you, it becomes an absolute one of knowledge,

you know this, so when you see it, you come to light, you have the experience that

you are a zero and at the same time you see the greatness of god and you compare

yourself which is nothing with the greatness of god and there you marvel and

the fathers the theologians say that by seeing it you create the light because it is

indescribable because it does not look like anything you know unknowns let's go to apophatic

theology you know the unknown god, that is, you see him, you see a miracle, an

amazing phenomenon in front of you, you admire it, but you cannot understand

what it is, and you know a you know God, that is, you know the

mysteries of God in a way that is unknown and cannot be conveyed

in language, the apostle Paul when he went to heaven and saw the ear

in the light, then he could not speak and say what he saw because the human language

cannot convey these things of heaven