CÂNTARE ȘI RUGĂCIUNE TĂMĂDUITOARE LA SFÂNTUL GRIGORIE PALAMA
SINGING AND HEALING PRAYER AT SAINT GREGORY PALAMAS

Summary/Abstract: The collection of philocalic words is a pharmacy with medicines for the human soul. It teaches us that the purpose of the Orthodox faith is the Christian's endeavor to acquire virtues, which culminate in love and peace. At the same time, the philocal writings represent a spiritual analysis of the stages through which the Christian converts the passions into virtues. In this endeavor, the writings and lives of the Holy Fathers represent sources of life for Christians living in the middle of the world, where the struggles are more even than in monasteries, struggles to which St. John Chrysostom often referred. Saint Basil the Great said that “as painters usually do, when they paint other paintings, they always look at the model, doing everything they can to bring its features into their work, just as the one who longs to be perfect in all heights, he must turn his eyes to the lives of the saints as to living and moving statues, and to appropriate their virtue by imitation.1 Describing one of the special philocal works, we refer to: , light and debauchery, vol. VII, translated and arranged by Fr. Prof. Dr. Dumitru Stăniloaie.

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