Week 3 - Friday

Bible Passage

Philippians 4:6-7

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 

Commentary

St Isaac the Syrian’s Ascetical Homilies 

Every good care of the mind directed towards God, and every meditation upon spiritual things is…called by the name of prayer…whether you speak of various readings, or the cries of a mouth glorifying God, or sorrowing reflection on the Lord, or making bows with the body, or psalmody in verses, or all other things from which the teaching of genuine prayer ensues. 

A Silent Patriarch

Prayer is the mother of virtues and every religious instinct…It is the controller of anger and calming of the arrogant heart. It is power for the weak, wealth for the poor, a resort to the afflicted, a comfort to the grieving, and an intercessor for sinners. Prayer is the power of everything, without it, we lose everything.