Serve the Lord with Gladness brings together two related meditations on liturgical and priestly service. The first meditation 'Our Life in the Liturgy' consists of a simple yet beautiful explanation of the Divine Liturgy. It leads the reader step by step through the unfolding Eucharistic mystery, providing a profound spiritual vision of this most significant aspect of the Church's service to the Lord. The second mediation, entitled 'Be My Priest,' focuses upon the spiritual nature necessary for those called to the priestly ministry. Both evangelical and Eucharistic in its emphasis, the work proclaims that all priesthood finds its sources and fulfillments in the person of Jesus Christ. These two meditations will be read and reread by anyone, whether lay or ordained, who is concerned with ministry in the church. The texts fill a very real need for a popular and highly accessible, yet deeply theological presentation of the most important features of both Eucharist and priesthood. Beautifully written and simply expressed, these mediations are theology at its best - the fruit of 'one who prays.'

Serve the Lord With Gladness: Basic Reflections on the Eucharist and the Priesthood : Our Life in the Liturgy, Be My Priest

Religion & Spirituality

A Monk of the Eastern Church

Christian Books & Bibles

St Vladimirs Seminary Pr

<p>To pronounce the name of Jesus in a holy way is an all-sufficient and surpassing aim for any human life... We are to call to mind Jesus Christ until the name of the Lord penetrates our heart, descends to its very depths... The Name of Jesus, once it has become the center of our life, brings everything together. So writes the "Monk of the Eastern Church&" in the course of the present work. To those who wonder how such claims can be advanced on behalf of the Jesus Prayer, and how it is that this particular way of praying continues to appeal so powerfully to contemporary Christians, Eastern and Western, Orthodox and non-Orthodox, this short book provides an answer. Starting with the veneration of the Holy Name in the Old and the New Testament, the author traces the gradual development of the Jesus Prayer first in Byzantium and then in the Slav lands. He concludes with practical suggestions for its use today, showing how it is a prayer not only of the past but equally for the twentieth century. Indeed, there are good reasons to believe that the "way of the name," as he call it, is being followed by more Christians in our own day than ever before - a striking sign of hope in an age of anxiety. Simple yet profound, this book reveals to us the secret of the continuing attraction exercised by the Jesus Prayer. Since its first appearance some thirty-five years ago, it has become a minor "classic" of the spiritual life, and it still remains the best introduction to the subject.</p>

The Jesus Prayer

<p>This volume was originally published  in French by the monks of Chevetogne, a dual-rite (Roman and Orthodox) monastery in Belgium dedicated to the reunion of Christianity. It presents the reflections of a "transparently evangelical" man in forty-six chapters, seeking to recapture the words and scenes of the Gospel. There is no eloquence, no dissertation, no evocation whatever to bog them down. Rather, we find a direct contact with the soul of the Saviour who speaks to the soul of the reader: "Follow thou Me!"</p>

Jesus: A Dialogue With the Saviour

Lev Gillet

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Serve the Lord With Gladness: Basic Reflections on the Eucharist and the Priesthood : Our Life in the Liturgy, Be My Priest

The Jesus Prayer

Jesus: A Dialogue With the Saviour