How to get to PERSONAL PRAYER? Can I pray with MY OWN WORDS?

The B O O K L E T 'The Shape of Christ. Blessings from the Celtic Isles' is available from the Monastery: https://shop.mullmonastery.com/produc... --- V I D E O C H A P T E R S 00:00 Celtic prayers of blessing 03:04 Can we pray with OUR OWN WORDS? 04:25 Nature of Prayer: Like Marriage and Monastic Life, Prayer is NOT A PRODUCT, but the life-long Process of a RELATIONSHIP 07:25 Everything CHANGES: the ones who pray (we), our understanding of the One to Whom we pray (God) and the Relationship (Prayer itself) 09:03 We have ZERO IDEA what is useful for our salvation. Should we pray for health, money etc? 11:38 St SERAPHIM OF SAROV - A lesson in prayer from a Saint whom the Theotokos has called 'one of us' 14:20 THE ROPE (slowly pulling us from the swamp of our sinfulness) 18:05 From the Prayers of the Saints to our own PERSONAL PHILOKALIA 21:34 From our own Philokalia to our own PERSONAL PRAYER BOOK 23:59 'A Celtic Philokalia' - A practical example of building our own Prayer Book Remember to S U B S C R I B E and S H A R E ! --- T O S U P P O R T the Monastery (PayPal & Credit / Debit Cards): https://mullmonastery.com/donate/ U S A Friends can also support the Monastery by cheques made to 'American Friends of the Celtic Saints' - a 501 (c) (3) organisation - and sent to 3736 W County Rd 4, Berthoud, CO 80513. All donors by cheque to the AFCS will receive a tax receipt. --- Fr Seraphim, from the Orthodox Monastery of All Celtic Saints on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, talks how to pray for someone, how to bless someone, and discusses Orthodox Prayer in various forms - following a rule of prayer, creating a personal collection of prayers of the Saints, and developing that collection into a personal 'book of prayers'. Personal prayer, the intimate prayer of the heart, grows slowly from using the prayers of the saints to using our own words in prayer.