The Jesus Prayer has been handed down by desert fathers, Athonite monks and Russian starets. This set gathers the saints who taught stillness and the prayer of the heart.
These saints taught or lived the Jesus Prayer and the hesychast way of stillness.
This bundle includes 11 different handmade prayer cards, one of each saint listed below.
The 11 cards in this bundle
- Saint Silouan the Athonite: A Russian peasant turned Athonite monk (feast: September 24) who found the mercy of God through hiddenness and interior battle.
- Saint Sophrony of Essex: The close disciple of Saint Silouan, born in Moscow in 1896, who carried his teaching to the West and founded the monastery of Saint John the Baptist in Essex.
- Saint Gregory Palamas: Archbishop of Thessalonica and former Athonite monk, the great teacher of hesychasm and defender of the prayer of the heart.
- Saint Joseph the Hesychast: A twentieth century Athonite elder born on Paros in 1897 who renewed hesychast monasticism and taught the Jesus Prayer.
- Saint Isaac the Syrian: A seventh century ascetic bishop whose writings are among the most tender meditations on the mercy of God. Feast: January 28.
- Saint John Climacus: John of the Ladder, a sixth and seventh century monk of Mount Sinai and author of The Ladder of Divine Ascent.
- Saint Seraphim of Sarov: The gentle monk of the Sarov forests who greeted everyone with "Christ is risen, my joy." Feast: January 2 (new calendar).
- Saint Paisios the Athonite: A beloved Athonite monk born in 1924 whose small hut became a living confessional for the suffering.
- Saint Evagrius Ponticus: A fourth century desert monk who mapped the battlefield of the mind, the patterns of temptation, anxiety and distraction, in his writings from the Egyptian wilderness.
- Saint Macarius the Great of Egypt: A foundational Desert Father of Scetis in Wadi El-Natrun, associated with Saint Anthony, who endured persecution in the Arian controversy.
- Saint Arsenius the Great: A learned Roman deacon who tutored the sons of the emperor, then left the palace for the Egyptian desert to become a teacher of silence and repentance.
Each card features sacred artwork on the front and a short biography with a prayer on the back. Every card is handmade and laminated in Austin, Texas, and a prayer is said for the person who will receive it.
The Jesus Prayer has been handed down by desert fathers, Athonite monks and Russian starets. This set gathers the saints who taught stillness and the prayer of the heart.
These saints taught or lived the Jesus Prayer and the hesychast way of stillness.
This bundle includes 11 different handmade prayer cards, one of each saint listed below.
The 11 cards in this bundle
- Saint Silouan the Athonite: A Russian peasant turned Athonite monk (feast: September 24) who found the mercy of God through hiddenness and interior battle.
- Saint Sophrony of Essex: The close disciple of Saint Silouan, born in Moscow in 1896, who carried his teaching to the West and founded the monastery of Saint John the Baptist in Essex.
- Saint Gregory Palamas: Archbishop of Thessalonica and former Athonite monk, the great teacher of hesychasm and defender of the prayer of the heart.
- Saint Joseph the Hesychast: A twentieth century Athonite elder born on Paros in 1897 who renewed hesychast monasticism and taught the Jesus Prayer.
- Saint Isaac the Syrian: A seventh century ascetic bishop whose writings are among the most tender meditations on the mercy of God. Feast: January 28.
- Saint John Climacus: John of the Ladder, a sixth and seventh century monk of Mount Sinai and author of The Ladder of Divine Ascent.
- Saint Seraphim of Sarov: The gentle monk of the Sarov forests who greeted everyone with "Christ is risen, my joy." Feast: January 2 (new calendar).
- Saint Paisios the Athonite: A beloved Athonite monk born in 1924 whose small hut became a living confessional for the suffering.
- Saint Evagrius Ponticus: A fourth century desert monk who mapped the battlefield of the mind, the patterns of temptation, anxiety and distraction, in his writings from the Egyptian wilderness.
- Saint Macarius the Great of Egypt: A foundational Desert Father of Scetis in Wadi El-Natrun, associated with Saint Anthony, who endured persecution in the Arian controversy.
- Saint Arsenius the Great: A learned Roman deacon who tutored the sons of the emperor, then left the palace for the Egyptian desert to become a teacher of silence and repentance.
Each card features sacred artwork on the front and a short biography with a prayer on the back. Every card is handmade and laminated in Austin, Texas, and a prayer is said for the person who will receive it.
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