Books by Timothy (Kallistos) Ware: The Orthodox Way,  The Orthodox Church

Part 1  - 33 minutes

Part 2 - 37 minutes

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Bishop Kallistos Ware is Spalding Lecturer in Eastern Orthodox Studies at Oxford University, Bishop of Diodleia in the Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain, and a monk of the Monastery of St. John the Theologian in Patmos. 

His presenation begins by considering how the heart is understood in the Bible and in mystical tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church, where it signifies not just the emotions or affections, but more profoundly, the spiritual center of the total human person, linked on the one side to the physical body and on the other to the nous--or visionary intellect. In considering how we enter the heart, particular attention is given to the Invocation of the Holy Name, the Jesus Prayer, a prayer of words which leads at the same time beyond words into creative silence or hesychia. As for what we find when we enter, the answer is expressed in terms of the Macarian Homilies: "In the heart are unfathomable depths...All things are there."