What is prayer Fr Aimilianos of Simonopetra

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Fr. Aimilianos of Simonopetra (+2019) talks about the universal dimension of prayer as the feeling of the presence of God, a form of communion with God. • Languages: English, German, Greek, Romanian • Video recording: Ormylia Monastery, Greece, 1990 • • Altvater Aimilianos Ueber das Gebet • Fr. Aimilianos: • What is prayer? • Prayer is a real feeling of the presence of God. • It is also the assurance of communion with God, to Whom man speaks and reveals the depths of his heart. • Thus, man perceives the presence of God, and, at the same time, his own work, without this divine communion to create any confusion between the two persons. • Each of these natures, the human and the divine, stays within its limits, but, man is the one who ascends to God, and it is God who descends to man. • Man offers himself to God through prayer, and God offers Himself to man... • And from this comes the wonderful thing of having a God and a man at the same time... • Why do the monks pray? • The monks pray, of course! Because it is a natural work which springs from the hearts of all people and of all human nature. • There is no man who does not feel this need for prayer, and this need is also a privilege, a human right: to seek Him and find God... • Therefore, as we understand it, all the people pray, not only the monks. Laymen have the example of monastic communities, and the monks have the example of angelic hosts...

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