Vol. 6 - On Prayer (Saint Paisios) service_All-Night Vigil “A person cannot overcome the

“A person cannot overcome the passions on his own

But sacrifice as practiced in the Old Testament and throughout the ancient world was most often the occasion of joyous celebration - a way of drawing near to God and to the other members of the community

Nikon to maintain his spiritual equilibrium no matter what the circumstances—and his lot was to be a difficult one

and others who desire to become acquainted with the fullness of the Christian tradition on death and the afterlife

to see and to know reality as it truly is

Vol. 6 - On Prayer (Saint Paisios) service_All-Night Vigil “A person cannot overcome theThis new volume in the collected teaching of Elder Paisios of Mt. Athos deals specifically with prayer. The elder insisted that we understand prayer to be a necessity and earnestly sought to help those who had not learned to pray "to make a start in order to get their heart working on prayer". The books discusses prayer more generally, the hindrances that we encounter in prayer, the Mother of God and the saints who pray for us, watchfulness, prayer in