Our Father who art in heaven

The apostles said to the Lord: Teach us to pray.

Shouldn’t we ask the Lord the same question?

+ Prayer is raising the mind and heart to God. So, I say to Christ: Teach me how to lift my heart and mind upwards to the Father.

+ Prayer is throwing yourself into the arms of the Father. As long as I am present in prayer as a son in Christ, I can beg Christ to teach me how to throw myself into the bosom of the Father whit the privilege of children, because He is in His fatherly bosom at all times.

+ Prayer is the constant presence in the sojourn of God, and no one can teach me this except Christ, who is one with the Father.

Therefore, first of all, I must insist on my request to Christ, saying: Teach me to pray, so I must truly learn prayer.

Those are not words that are said, or phrases that are recited, nor obligations that are fulfilled.

Prayer is not the words that anyone can say.

Take, for example, the psalms that we recite in prayer. They are originally a prayer that David's heart had previously cried out in the spirit in some circumstances of the life he lived, he uttered it in the spirit, while he was in the spirit... and he prayed it, wetting his bed in the dark night of life with tears.

Are they just words that are said? No, it is a prayer.

If a person say it while he is in a state of prayer, and in the spirit of prayer, the words of the psalm will give him its strength, because it is essentially a living word.

What the soul obtains in true prayer is very difficult to describe. Therefore, our holy fathers, while in a state of constant prayer, spoke very little to people.

There is no doubt that the ability to realize this day after day, along with upright behavior, and monitoring external activity in terms of worldly life, will prepare the soul more and more for the true enjoyment of being in the presence of God; Little by little, prayer does not become an act that we perform in limited times.

When a person recites it merely as a repetition of reading, he will not feel within himself the power of the word and it will not touch the core of his life.

Therefore, when we turn to God the Father to call upon Him, and -in our heart - we are far from the blessing of sonship , we are like those who say: Lord, Lord...or think that they will be answered for their many words.

I wish, then, before I raise my eyes and hands, to call upon the Father: Our Father... let me enter into the depths of my heart, and feel the grace of sonship that resides deep within me, which is my inner man and my deep being... created again... which is “I am in Christ”... my new self. In fact, it is the Grace of sonship. If I realize it, I realize my true being, and through it - with all spiritual awareness - I realize my right in the Father as a true son. Then I will cry out to the Father with the privilege of sons, and with all that the Son has with the Father.

Then I feel deep down how the Father embraces me, embraces my spirit, and consoles my soul, far from all the standards of matter and the terms of human language.

There I find my comfort; About which he said, “Come, and I will give you rest.”

Where the soul settles in Peace , and enjoys inexpressible joy.

They are not words of prayer, but rather a state of real presence in God.

Rather, it is a permanent state that cannot be affected by all the worries of the world or spoil it.

The simplest example of this is to see a small child, running and playing in the presence of his father, under his gaze and under his care. This well-known and familiar sensory sight is the true expression of what souls chosen for the blessing of sonship enjoy from permanent presence in the presence of the Heavenly Father, and this at the level of the soul is something that cannot be expressed in human words.

Father Louka Sidarous