St Justin Popovich: Says St. Isaac, but they all have one aim: pure prayer...

The modalities of prayer are manifold, says St. Isaac, but they all have one aim: pure prayer.

In the depths of this pure prayer there lies “a rapture that is not prayer, for everything that can be called prayer ceases, and there remains a contemplation in which the mind cannot utter prayers.”

“Prayer is one thing, but this contemplation-in-prayer is another, although one flows from the other. Prayer is the sowing, and contemplation the gathering-in of the sheaves, in which the harvester stands amazed at the wondrous abundance of the full ears that have grown from the poor little grains he has sown.”

In this state of contemplation, the intellect passes beyond its own limits and enters “that other world.” Transformed by prayer and other ascetic practices, the mind becomes purified and learns “to contemplate God with divine and not human eyes.”

St Justin Popovich

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