Prayer – a Manifestation of Faith and an Expression of the Love for God
Prayer – a Manifestation of Faith and an Expression of the Love for God

Summary/Abstract: Prayer is essential in knowing God, is a way of communing with Him, and perfect help for spiritual progress. God descends to us by His uncreated energies, and we, by prayer, let ourselves be filled with the fruits of these divine energies. For the Orthodox Christian, each prayer occasions the entering into dialogue and the confession of the faith in the Holy Trinity. For the Orthodox Christian, each prayer is an opportunity for entering into dialogue and confessing the faith in the Holy Trinity. Prayer is the first manifestation sprung from faith, is an answer following God’s calling to collaboration. Prayer is the main means by which man has drawn God’s revelation of Himself and by which man has expressed the thirst for dialogue with God. The Christian prayer has in Christ an eternal foundation, because He ascended with the human body and made it eternal on the right side of the Father, remaining eternally God and eternally man. The One supporting the relationship between the rightly-glorifying faith and prayer is the Holy Spirit. Thanks to the Holy Spirit, in the Orthodox Church, lex credendi and lex orandi constitute an entirety expressed in different forms. All the Church prayers are expressions in a doxological (meaning: of maximal glorification) form of the rightly-glorifying faith.

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