Athonite Audio God, Where is the Wound? Healing Remedies for Today’s World (Part 1)
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Mar 14, 2025 Mother Siluana, a Romanian Orthodox abbess and spiritual teacher, shares her insights on healing and faith. She discusses the transformative power of prayer and its role in counseling youth, particularly in crisis situations. Delving into inherited trauma, she connects modern science with spiritual truths, emphasizing forgiveness and personal healing. Mother Siluana also highlights the importance of community and liturgical life in nurturing spiritual desire, urging clergy to merge psychology with faith for holistic support.
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Prayer Teaches Deep Understanding
- Prayer trains the soul to understand spiritual realities that intellect alone cannot grasp.
- Mother Siluana learned theology by praying the Jesus Prayer and then understanding the fathers, not by academic study.
Conversion Through A Simple Prayer
- Mother Siluana described her conversion: despair, a simple prayer, and a consoling inner response "good" followed by peace.
- She then began repeating the Jesus Prayer and received progressive illumination of Scriptures and the Philokalia.
Use The Jesus Prayer To Learn
- When you don't understand spiritual texts, keep praying the Jesus Prayer and ask God to illumine you.
- Trust prayer to convert intellectual knowledge into living understanding.
