Elder Aimilianos (+2019) lived as monk of Mount Athos, serving as Abbot of Simonopetra Monastery from 1973 to 2000. He was instrumental in the revival on the Holy Mountain that took place in the 1970s and has written a number of books on the spiritual life, including “The Church at Prayer” where this text comes from. He is numbered among the great Athonite Elders of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The Elder gives us insights into the mystical reality of the Divine Liturgy and what Orthodox Christians experience when we worship Christ in the holy temple. We join in the heavenly worship; we are no longer only on earth. Elder Aimilianos says, “We find ourselves in church. As we've said, it is the most suitable place from which to look at heaven. But where is the window? How are we to open it? The answer is simple. The window is the Divine Liturgy which we are celebrating. We aim to turn our eyes toward spiritual things. Let us therefore turn our soul to the Holy Spirit, and let us ask him to shine his light on the darkness of our thoughts. When he does, we will be able to feel, to believe, to understand, and make our own, everything which is said and done during the Divine Liturgy.”
This text come from “The Church at Prayer” and can be found here: www.stpaul-orthodox.org/resou...
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27 окт 2020
