The 400 Chapters of Love, by St. Maximos the Confessor
Talk by Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen), part 4

Chapters 101-160.
Includes discussions of 
1. Pure prayer ... leaving behind thoughts, images, sensations and passions and entering into deep silence ... pure awareness of God; 
2. Attaining to pure and undistracted prayer; 
3. Driving out self-love, the mother of all passions; 
4. On our battle against passions and the demons who play on them; 
5. On the role of spiritual reading; 
6. On dispassion and pure motives; 
7. On our awareness of our human weakness, and dependence on divine help, and the humility and compassion it brings; 
8. God as the Divine Physician and His use of hardships and trials for our benefit; 
9. Encouragement for non-monastics.

Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Washington, DC
March 9, 2021
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