“Contemplate and live the divine events continuously. When someone contemplates the events of each feast, physiologically they will be moved with a special reverence to pray. Then during the Services the mind will be on the events we are celebrating and we will follow the hymns that are chanted with reverence. When the mind is on divine meanings, a person lives the events, and so it is altered…I will pray that your hearts become a Holy Manger and that the Most Holy Child of Bethlehem give you all his blessings.”
(Elder Paisios quoted in “Elder Paisios the Athonite”) [Prayer; Contemplation]

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