💖 The Essence of Prayer 🤲 Prayer, according to the teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ Himself—who taught prayer and practiced it—is a constant transformation of human nature and a constant assimilation to the Heavenly Father, revealed by His only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who said, "Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect" (Matt 5:48). The goal of prayer is to be united with the Heavenly Father, to be one with Him, as our Lord Jesus Christ says: "that they may be one in Us." The goal of prayer is accomplished by the Holy Spirit; for we cannot become like God by our own abilities, but by the power and gift of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, to transform us into the image of God. To receive the gift of the new life that our Lord Jesus Christ portrayed in His incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection, our Lord recreated humanity anew through His incarnation from the holy Mary, when He transferred humanity from the nothingness from which it was created to the gift of life by the Holy Spirit, the Lord of life and the giver of all gifts. Whoever prays is transferred from the old, fallen Adamic nature, which was created from nothing, to the new human nature that our Lord Jesus Christ constituted through His incarnation. #Prayer #EssenceOfPrayer #Transformation #UnionWithGod #HolySpirit

💖 The Essence of Prayer 🤲 Prayer, according to the teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ Himself—who taught prayer and practiced it—is a constant transformation of human nature and a constant assimilation to the Heavenly Father, revealed by His only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who said, "Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect" (Matt 5:48). The goal of prayer is to be united with the Heavenly Father, to be one with Him, as our Lord Jesus Christ says: "that they may be one in Us." The goal of prayer is accomplished by the Holy Spirit; for we cannot become like God by our own abilities, but by the power and gift of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, to transform us into the image of God. To receive the gift of the new life that our Lord Jesus Christ portrayed in His incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection, our Lord recreated humanity anew through His incarnation from the holy Mary, when He transferred humanity from the nothingness from which it was created to the gift of life by the Holy Spirit, the Lord of life and the giver of all gifts. Whoever prays is transferred from the old, fallen Adamic nature, which was created from nothing, to the new human nature that our Lord Jesus Christ constituted through His incarnation. #Prayer #EssenceOfPrayer #Transformation #UnionWithGod #Theosis #HolySpirit #Incarnation

❓ Is Belief in the Divinity of Jesus a Belief in a Metaphysical Issue? ❓ Certainly not, although we see in life people who studied the New Testament and believed in Christ. But within the human entity itself, we find the transformation that may begin with a change in behavior but moves to what is more sublime than moral behavior: union with Jesus. This is what we see in the books of leaders of the mystical life, East and West—from Anthony the Great in the East to Meister Eckhart in the West. They are a group of those who journeyed from the world of vast knowledge to the reality of personal experience of Him who is closer to us than the heartbeat—the Lord Himself, who shares our existence and came so that we may share in His being and His embodied divine life. #DivinityOfChrist #MysticalTheology #PersonalExperience #UnionWithGod #ChristianMysticism