Prayer: Macarius the Great on Prayer and the Heart
Teaching on Prayer from Macarius the Great: Macarius the Great on Prayer and the Heart
This is a spiritual discipline on heart prayer and depth, drawing on Psalm 51:10, Romans 8:26-27 and Proverbs 4:23.
Macarius the Great (d. c. 391), one of the founders of the Egyptian desert tradition, taught that prayer must descend from the mind into the heart. He wrote: "The heart directs and governs all the other organs of the body. And when grace possesses the ranges of the heart, it rules over all the members and the thoughts. For there, in the heart, the mind abides, and all the thoughts of the soul."…
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