 | Михаил Николаевич Загоскин - 1834 - Počet stránok 232
...very end of the building, they stopped ; — Sueta knocking at a small door, said in a whisper — "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God ! have mercy on me a sinner !"* • The watch-word used at convents, when any one wishes to enter a cell. f " Amen !" answered some one in... | |
 | graf Leo Tolstoy - 1912 - Počet stránok 342
...room after her. Not only in his heart but involuntarily moving his lips he repeated unceasingly, " O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner, have mercy on me, a sinner." " If you please," he said to her again. She stood in the middle of the... | |
 | Charles George Herbermann - 1913 - Počet stránok 872
...mercy and save us." If, however, the rosary be said as a penitential exercise, the prayer then is: "O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner." The Russian rosary is divided by the four largo beads so as to represent the different parts of the canonical... | |
 | Mircea Eliade - 1958 - Počet stránok 564
...of Hesychastic prayer: "It comprises a twofold exercise, omphaloskepsis and indefinite repetition of the Prayer of Jesus: 'Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me!' By sitting in darkness, bowing the head, fixing the eyes on the center of the abdomen (in other words,... | |
 | Thomas Merton - 1970 - Počet stránok 100
...soft repetition of a lone phrase of the Scriptures the most popular being the prayer of the Publican: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner!" In a shortened form this prayer became "Lord have mercy" (Kyrie deisori) - repeated interiorly hundreds... | |
 | Vladimir Lossky - 1976 - Počet stránok 260
...assisting concentration. The whole of the attention must be given to the words of the short prayer: 'O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.' This prayer, continually repeated at each drawing of breath, becomes to a monk as it were second nature.... | |
 | Adrien Nocent - 1977 - Počet stránok 420
..."Jesus" and "Master" — that they apply to Jesus make clear. In the form known as the "Jesus Prayer" (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner"), the cry of the lepers is now frequently used by Eastern monks and also by the faithful of those Churches.... | |
 | Richard Hauser, Richard J. Hauser - 1982 - Počet stránok 130
...consists of repeating rather slowly, and sometimes coordinated with breathing, the following phrase: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner." I had heard about this traditional prayer but had always been afraid to try it. In addition, I had... | |
 | Ann Belford Ulanov - 1982 - Počet stránok 196
...prayed so constantly — incessantly, really — as the Jesus Prayer, the mantra of Eastern Christendom: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner." Its effectiveness has been attested to again and again by the saints, canonized or not, who have made... | |
 | Kallistos (Bishop of Diokleia) - 1979 - Počet stránok 168
...assigned to it is the frequent repetition of some short "arrow prayer", most commonly the Jesus Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner, We are taught, when reciting the Jesus Prayer, to avoid so far as possible any specific image or picture.... | |
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Prayer ("Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner") synchronized with one's breathing. 
