#Aristotle

Origen’s treatise On Prayer (chapters XXXI–XXXII) examines the formal aspects of Christian prayer: the appropriate place for prayer (at home or in church), the time (unceasing prayer and the three daily times), bodily posture (outstretched hands, eyes raised, kneeling) and facing the East, all of which are seen as outward expressions of the supplicant’s inner spiritual state.

A year dedicated to a saint of the cultural stature of Saint Antim Ivireanul, Hierarch and Martyr, has given rise to a series of wide-ranging studies. There is no risk of the subject being exhausted as a topic for analysis. We owe him a moral debt, and we cannot be indifferent to the direction in which our theological understanding of his deeds will develop.