But many may naturally ask: "Why is the Jesus Prayer put forward here, that is, to the Lord Jesus Christ, when the Holy Fathers have composed a multitude of other prayers used by the Holy Church for the salvation of her faithful children?"

This is not because the Son of God preeminates in the threefold unity of the Godhead, but because He has won us for God and the Father by His precious Blood, and is our Saviour and Reconciler with Divine truth. He took our nature into His Divine person, redeemed us from our sins by His life, death and resurrection; He bore for us the punishment that urgently lay upon us for our ancestral sins and his own sins. Being tempted himself, he can also help those who are tempted (Heb. 2:18).

Therefore, in all fairness, we must first pray to Him.

Apart from Him, all our prayer is ineffective and should be recognized as vain. In all the prayers that are lifted up from earth to heaven, He is the Mediator, the Intercessor and the Mediator, only by Him and through Him do our prayers receive power, and we have access to the Heavenly Father and to the Throne of grace. And whatsoever ye ask of the Father in My name, that I will do it: that the Father may be glorified in the Son. And whatsoever ye ask in My name, I will do it" (John 14:1314).

We, who are born in the flesh on earth, now have the audacity to call Almighty God our Father, whereas before the coming of the Son of God to earth, no one dared or had the right to call Him so. But the Son of God, having become the Son of Man, gave us this supreme blessing. All the apostles especially try to inspire us with this feeling of our sonship with God.

The holy Apostle John the Theologian teaches: "See what love the Father has given us, that we may be called children of God, and be children" (1 John 3:1).

It is written about St. Gregory the Sinaite in the Philokalia that he, having diligently read the writings of all the holy fathers and carefully considered, discussed and pondered everything, and also in the experience of his life saw the incomparable superiority of the Jesus Prayer, the abundant Divine power hidden in it, the complete satisfaction of the highest needs of the spirit by it, and the complete peace of his heart, that, of course, all this happens from the union of our soul with the Lord, – commands all who only wish to be a participant in eternal life, to have all diligence and diligence in its production and acquisition.