The Jesus Prayer with Mary Minifie

Spiritual Practice Session of the 2015 Festival of Faiths 'Sacred Journeys and the Legacy of Thomas Merton,' held May 12-17 at Actors Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky. Visit www.FESTIVALofFAITHS.org The Jesus Prayer is particularly esteemed by the spiritual fathers of the Eastern Orthodox Hesychast tradition as a method of opening up the heart and brining about the 'Prayer of the Heart.' The 'Prayer of the Heart' is considered to be the unceasing prayer that the apostle Paul advocates in the New Testament. St.Theophan the Recluse regarded the Jesus Prayer as stronger than all other prayers by virtue of the power of the Holy Name of Jesus. Mary Minifie is a classical realist painter who has practiced the Jesus Prayer for almost forty years. She studied the Jesus prayer under Rama Coomaraswamy, son of the renowned art critic and scholar Ananda Coomaraswamy.