Introducing us into the realm of the spiritual world, the Name of the Lord chases away despondency from our life. Even if we keep the prayer albeit sporadically throughout the day, while at work, when we are alone or when we are walking, then, at the end of the day, when we come to stand at prayer in our cell, we will have acquired a foundation, we will have done some preliminary work and prayer will embrace us without delay.
The Name of Jesus becomes our continuous companion, the very breath of our life, if we bear it continuously on our lips, in our mind and in our heart. It instills in us the strength to perform every act in a way pleasing to God and to be faithful to the word we received from our Elder. Unless the Name of the Lord Jesus is stuck unto the very breath of the monk, he cannot reach a divine state. In other words, he will be deprived of experiencing the exchange of lives which takes place in the Divine Liturgy, and of the enlargement of heart through which he may love his brother as his own life.
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
“Monasticism” p.118
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