On November 15, 1994, for the 200th anniversary of the repose of St. Paisius Velichkovsky, the staff of the Saint was presented as a gift to the Holy Ascension Novo-Nyametsky Monastery in Transnistria, Moldavia by the Bishop of Donetsk Alipy.
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The Life and Mission of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1722-1794)
THE LIFE AND MISSION OF ST. PAISIUS VELICHKOVSKY 1722-1794
An Early Modern Master of The Orthodox Spiritual Life
By John A. McGuckin
Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality
(Volume 9, Number 2, Fall 2009, pp. 157-173)
Many people today have become familiar with the figure of the Russian Pilgrim. The book, The Way of a Pilgrim, purports to have been written as the autobiographical record of a poor and barely educated Russian peasant of the 19th century. Treading his way across the Steppes, enduring countless hardships and adventures as he persevered, gripped only with the reading of his beloved book of the spiritual writers of the Early Church, he directed all his mental energies around the countless recitation: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.” This famous story is designed to advocate how the prayer of the heart can happen if one wills it: a mystical transitioning from prayer on the lips, to prayer in the mind, to prayer of the heart: namely, prayer in the deepest levels of the human spirit’s personal communion with the Risen Christ.
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