— Father, does the place where prayer is performed affect its result? Where is the best place to pray?

— Father, does the place where prayer is performed affect its result? Where is the best place to pray?

“The Lord says about it: if you want to pray, go into your cell and pray in secret.” And the Lord will see in secret and reward you openly. But the Lord further says: where two or three are gathered in My name, there I am in the midst of them. Nowhere can we hide from the glory of God, from His wisdom, from the all-seeing eye of the Lord. The Lord is present both in the wilderness and in the crowd.

Of course, in a church where everyone is united by a single goal, a single desire to pray, to pray to God, there is a special presence of God’s grace, God’s mercy.

Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin)