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Freddy

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OUR FATHER/ANGELS... - 8/20/2009 10:47 AM ( #1 )
http://bloggen.be/Krisbiesbroeck_afbeeldingen_onzevader/
 
Our Father in many languages
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0QAyHF00f4
 
9 orders of Angels
 
and much more on Orthodox faith
 
http://krisbiesbroeck.skynetblogs.be/
 
PAX,
Fred
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Re:OUR FATHER/ANGELS... - 8/20/2009 11:10 AM ( #2 )
Eastern Orthodox spirituality is very interesting and rich.
 
There is, among other things, a form of prayer that is called hesychasm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesychasm, Jesus Prayer or prayer of the heart, which I am aware of and practiced.
 
Quoting from Wikipedia:
"In solitude and retirement the Hesychast repeats the Jesus Prayer, "Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner." The Hesychast prays the Jesus Prayer 'with the heart'—with meaning, with intent, 'for real' (see ontic). He never treats the Jesus Prayer as a string of syllables whose 'surface' or overt verbal meaning is secondary or unimportant. He considers bare repetition of the Jesus Prayer as a mere string of syllables, perhaps with a 'mystical' inner meaning beyond the overt verbal meaning, to be worthless or even dangerous. This emphasis on the actual, real invocation of Jesus Christ marks a divergence from Eastern forms of meditation."
 
I have a few books about that, including one (all my books are in French) that has the word Philokalia in the title.
 
It has brought me great comfort.
 
Have a good day!
GreenWoman ♀
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Re:OUR FATHER/ANGELS... - 8/21/2009 3:16 AM ( #3 )
Dear GW & others,
 
Here are some excellent books on Eastern spirituality:
 
http://www.amazon.com/Vladimir-Lossky/e/B001K7PHAU
 
http://www.amazon.com/John-Chryssavgis/e/B001HCWMOC
 
http://www.amazon.com/Olivier-Clément/e/B001JOXOC2
 
http://www.amazon.ca/Orthodox-Way-Kallistos-Ware/dp/0913836583
 
I am Flemish and I speak (some) and read (more) French.
 
PAX,
Fred 
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Re:OUR FATHER/ANGELS... - 8/21/2009 6:44 AM ( #4 )
Dear Fred . . .
I believe that it is comforting and reverential and uplifting
to pray . . .
but I also believe
that God lives within our hearts
with love . . .
sparrow
everything counts...
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Re:OUR FATHER/ANGELS... - 8/21/2009 6:57 AM ( #5 )
That's right, dear Sparrow and that's why my only practise these days is this vipassana like breathing exercise every day, morning and evening that I have on tape. I was just replying to 'Green Woman'...
 
It is really a pity you cannot read this by my 'master' (student of Draayer and von Dürckheim): http://peterkampschuur.blogspot.com/
http://www.xs4all.nl/~robvd/jose/nieuwsbriefarchief/De_verlichting_van_ons_lichaam.html (on the transfiguration/transformation of our body!)
 
These are really excellent texts on VD:
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewwork.asp?id=4583v (download and read free preview!) and http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewwork.asp?AuthorID=821&id=4581 (idem)
 
Look also at these links:
http://www.contemplative.org/cynthia.html
http://www.contemplative.org/books.html
 
PAX,
Fred
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Re:OUR FATHER/ANGELS... - 8/21/2009 7:01 AM ( #6 )
First link was not right, look at this one:
 
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewwork.asp?AuthorID=821
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Re:OUR FATHER/ANGELS... - 8/21/2009 7:03 AM ( #7 )
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