HOLY SILENCE
Reflections on a Journey into God
An Eastern Christian Contemplative Community Dedicated to Prayer and
Healing Pastoral Encounter
Eastern Christian Meditation and the Prayer of the Heart
The Light on the mountain. The Fire in the upper room. An ancient way of prayer that leads to God and back to one another.
Holy Silence teaches the Orthodox tradition of hesychastic prayer — a stillness that leads to meditation and a silence that leads to contemplation or the prayer of the mind in the heart. Seek the uncreated light of Transfiguration and the uncreated silence of Pentecost.
How do I pray?
With the Jesus Prayer, the Holy Spirit Prayer ... in silence and in stillness ... Prayer like this is the ancient, deep, and truly Christian path. It is not borrowed, manufactured, or dependent on trends that come and go. And it begins with specific content ... a Trinitarian God who knows each of us personally and mystically transfigures those who wait on Him in the illuminated darkness.
Why do I hurt so bad?
Whether you experience grief, loss, exhaustion, betrayal, and/or a crisis of faith ... the prayer that never existed or that once came easily ... can feel like words spoken into an empty room. But you are never truly alone! God is still present no matter what you are going through. Even if it doesn't feel like it. Start here to better understand how to find healing in God.
How do I grow closer to God?
We start by simply talking to God. Then we ask for help. We express a desire to be close to this loving, merciful and eternal God who desires our closeness too. He offers us Himself in the sacraments, and we find hope for salvation. Then we sit with Him in contemplation ... in His presence ... in union with Him now and for all eternity?
Rev. Dr. Thomas Colyandro
Fr. Thomas is an Orthodox priest, spiritual counselor, and president of the Holy Silence Foundation. He is a senior lecturer, researcher, and member of the steering committee of the International Orthodox Theological Association (IOTA) Asceticism and Spirituality Group.
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His doctoral work — Uncreated Silence and Orthodox Christian Eldership — identified and named an energy of God based on the spiritual sense of hearing: the unspoken speech of the Holy Spirit, heard in prayer, discerned in spiritual relationships, and lived as pastoral care. It remains the center of his work.
Fr. Thomas has written or edited ten books and led retreats, pilgrimages, and master classes for over two decades. He has prayed and studied at St. Catherine's on Sinai, St. Anthony's in the Eastern Desert, St. Macarius in Nitria, Transfiguration Monastery on Mt. Tabor, and St. John the Baptist in Essex.
He offers spiritual counsel. If you are carrying a burden or want to know more, write to him.
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