Night Prayer - FIRST PRACTICAL STEPS. How to pray at night & What to do when prayer doesn't come?

00:00 Do not abandon. Deep prayer requires deep interior change, and deep interior change takes time
02:11 Change of focus – from control over our body and mind, to a reason, a purpose of prayer: WAITING for Christ
04:55 Regarding the Time of night prayer
07:50 Expand and refine the RANGE of spiritual tools available to you - acquire them, learn to use them, learn what each of them is useful for, learn which ones work FOR YOU
09:39 TOOLS of prayer itself (practical examples)
19:18 TOOLS of active waiting (practical examples)
29:10 Be flexible regarding the rules you make – always aim to be consistent in all aspects of your prayer, but be ready to allow fluctuations and change.

Fr Seraphim Aldea from Mull Monastery – the Orthodox Monastery of All Celtic Saints on the Isle of Mull in Scotland – continues his talk about Prayer by night. How to keep vigil? How to watch and pray? How to pray at night?

In this third video on the topic, we talk about the practical first steps of prayer by night. We move from being focused on the discipline of our body to focusing on a spiritual understanding of prayer as an act of waiting for Christ. At this stage, we need to expand and refine our spiritual 'tools' – the tools of our prayer, and the tools of our waiting (those moments when prayer does not flow easily). Fr Seraphim offers examples of such 'tools', but these should only act as the starting point for the process of discovering our own, personal ones. Prayer itself will teach prayer to the one who prays.

Prayer by night (1): How to be Present:
   • How to BE PRESENT. How to let go of t...  

Prayer by night (2): How to discipline our minds and bodies:
   • PRAYER BY NIGHT. How to keep nighttim...  

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