According to St Basil, the monk's whole life should be a season of
prayer, both public prayer and private prayer. That is what the
monks of Mount Athos are there to do. That is the basis of their
entire way of life. Athos is sometimes called 'the mountain of
silence', but as one living Athonite has written, 'here you can
hear the hum of unceasing prayer.' The book explores all dimensions
of this mystery, beginning with the deceptively simple question
'what is prayer?' Subsequent papers consider various aspects of
prayer as practised on Athos both in public and in private: the
prayer of the church and the prayer of the cell, prayer when
working, prayer when painting icons, the musical tradition of
prayer and the poetic tradition, culminating in the Jesus Prayer or
prayer of the heart which is the foundation of the current renewal
of monasticism on Athos. Most of the papers in this book were
delivered at a conference held by the Friends of Mount Athos in
Cambridge in March 2019.
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