Prayer is our entire life. I can’t pray on a schedule: morning, afternoon, and evening....

"Prayer is our entire life. I can’t pray on a schedule: morning, afternoon, and evening—but all day, all night, all my life. Prayer all day! That the Lord would be with us in our hearts and in our minds. What’s necessary isn’t just to pronounce the words of the prayers, but to have Christ in our hearts. No matter what work I do throughout the day, whether I’m carrying out some obedience, cooking, cleaning, sitting in my office, driving a car, Christ should always be with me, in my heart, so as not to forget Him in my life. It’s pointless to say our prayers if that’s all we do! I can have the presence of Christ within me and the memory of God without words."

But Elder, how can we have Christ constantly in our hearts while living in the world?

"Like a mother—wherever she is, she remembers her child. She might not call him by name—George, Alexander, or Constantine—but her children—they’re in her heart. And her mind is with her children. She never forgets them. It’s the same and even more with Christ! He should be in our hearts. And wherever we go, Christ will go with us."

+ Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol