Prayer in the spirit is most important (Eph. 6:18; 1 Cor. 14:14-19).

Prayer is common in church (Acts 3:1). And so on, without end or end.

The Holy Fathers, the heirs of the Apostles, composed prayers, in accordance with the accumulated experience, for every human need and for all occasions of life. The Orthodox Church preserves this experience, calling it Holy Tradition. And Holy Tradition is the primary thing in the world. After all, it confirms the Holy Scriptures from age to age and from generation to generation. The Holy Scriptures are not supplemented by anything and in no way, they remain forever as they were, with their examples and events. Holy Tradition, on the other hand, is supplemented with more and more new experience and spiritual treasures, and by this the Holy Scripture of God is increasingly illuminated and revealed. Thanks to its rich Tradition, the Orthodox Church surpasses all Churches. Protestants, who do not have Holy Tradition, are despair and misery. After all, without Holy Tradition, it is difficult to accept Holy Scripture as the Book of Life. Life flows like a river: somewhere quiet, and somewhere with a rumble, with waterfalls, with floods. All these changes in the river of life are predestined by Holy Scripture and are profoundly illuminated and shown in Holy Tradition.

How, for example, could Protestants prove the truth of the words of the Saviour: "And more than these miracles shall ye do" (cf. John 14:12)? Absolutely nothing. In this way they equate Christ with liars. Meanwhile, in the course of twenty centuries, many testimonies have been shown that the holy people of God in the name of Christ have performed miracles even greater than Christ Himself. Not from himself and not by his own power, but from Christ and the help of Christ. We know this from Holy Tradition. And only Holy Tradition has proved the truthfulness of these words of Christ, as well as of all His other words, and of this prophecy of His, as well as of the rest of His prophecies.

I know, Theodoulos, that you feel sorry for India. And if you feel sorry for her, pray for her, that the Lord may enlighten her with the light of truth. When she learns the truth, then she will also know the right life and learn to turn to God in prayer with the words: Our Father. He will no longer pray to demons and will not offer sacrifices to them, as miserable slaves offer to evil masters; will not listen to the Buddha who did not know about prayer, because he did not know about God as the Heavenly Father. And hundreds of millions of Indians will rejoice when they hear the Good News of Christ that there is no transmigration of souls from body to body, that human souls are passing into the Kingdom of the Father of light and love. Then all these millions of human beings will seek a prayerful connection, a prayerful contact with their Heavenly Father. And the bride India will become holy India; There will no longer be in it the incomprehensible prayer "Om, om, om," but there will be lifted up throughout the whole country the intelligent802 and joyful prayer: Our Father!

Mysterious Book

There are many books in the world, Theodoulos, indeed many, many. If they multiply at today's rate, there will be more teachers than students. And the mind of a person will split from books, like a mirror breaks into hundreds of fragments. And neurosis will become the main disease of humanity. If it could be confirmed that the more books, the more wisdom, then one could rejoice in a multitude of books and a multitude of libraries. But this cannot be confirmed. On the contrary, it seems that those who write books pour out all their minds into books and live without a mind. Many books are written not only in our time - the time of fast printing and cheap paper, but also in the right time many books were written. Three thousand years ago, the wise King Solomon said: to compile many books – there will be no end, and to read a lot – it is tiring for the body. I do not know why he did not add: "And it is destructive to the spirit"? The main thing, says this wise king, of all that you have heard, is this: fear God and keep His commandments, for this is all for man; for God will bring every deed into judgment, and every secret thing, whether it be good or bad (Ecclesiastes 12:12-14).

There are many books in the world, my Theodoulos, but only one of them is called the Book of Life. This is the sacred letter of God.803 Is there any people in the world, except the Serbs, who call this Book of Life the Letter? I do not know. Perhaps you know, Theodoulos? And it is precisely this word "Letter" that says a lot. When an evil son moves away from his father, then the father communicates with him by means of letters. He does not talk to him, does not see him, but sends him letters. This is something quite common in people's daily lives. Meanwhile, the most ordinary explains what is most unusual. Through the sin of Adam, Cain, and Cain's descendants, Ham and Ham's descendants,804 men grew in evil, and became more and more distant and separated from God their Creator. And God no longer received them for conversation, as He once received the righteous forefathers Noah, Abraham and Moses, but sent them letters through His prophets. Everything that comes from God is holy, and God's letters to His lost children are holy. I am very glad, Theodoulos, that the Serbs have called the Bible, or the Book of Life, the Holy Script. After all, this name corresponds to the actual attitude of God to people.

But now I will not tell you about the Holy Scriptures, but about one invisible book. Do you believe, Theodoulos, that there is an invisible book? If you believe in the Holy Scriptures of God, then you must be consistent and believe in the mysterious invisible book. After all, the Holy Scriptures – both the Old and the New Testaments – testify to such a book.

The Prophet Moses mentions the invisible book of God. When the Jews cast the golden calf and proclaimed it their god, the Lord wanted to destroy all this people. And Moses prayed to the Lord, saying, Forgive them their sin, and if not, blot me also out of Thy book, in which Thou hast written.

To this the Lord answers Moses: "Whosoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book" (Exodus 32:32-33).

King David also mentions this book and calls it the book of the living. Speaking of rapists and evildoers, he curses them thus: "Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be written with the righteous" (Psalm 68:29).

And in another place the Psalmist mentions this mysterious book. Testifying that God knows all things and sees all things, he says: