On the Holy and Deifying Prayer

A text connecting hesychast prayer to the Church's liturgical and sacramental life by Symeon, Archbishop of Thessaloniki. Where many Philokalic texts treat prayer as an individual contemplative practice, Symeon insists on its ecclesial and sacramental context. The Jesus Prayer is presented not as a private technique but as participation in the deifying grace communicated through the Church's worship. Important for readers who want to understand how the hesychast tradition relates to the broader life of the Orthodox Church.