The prayer that is with love and passion is a warm prayer

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III







The prayer that is with love and passion is a warm prayer.
The prayer that is with the spirit is warm by its nature. It is inflamed by the fiery spirit. Therefore, it was said about the prayers of saints Maximos and Domadios that it proceeded from their mouths like flames of fire. And so were the fingers of St. Shenouda the Archimandrite, whenever he raised his hands in prayer...