it contains with it the eternal life {the jesus prayer}

I pray that the All-good God will send down upon you the All Holy Spirit, as He did to His divinely sent holy Apostles so that you may be enlightened to walk the arduous path of salvation. “Behold now, what is so good or joyous, as for brethren to dwell together in unity with love” There is nothing more beautiful than for a synodia to be replete with godly love. Then everything is radiant, everything is full of beauty, while God above delights, and the holy angelic spirits rejoice above where love is boundless.

Love one another as I have loved you. By this all will know that you are My disciples if you have love for one another.

John 13:35

O, Love, whoever possesses you has a truly blessed heart, for within love what could one possibly want and not find. Humility, joy, patience, goodness, compassion, forbearance, enlightenment, and so on are all there. But in order to obtain this supremely woundrous love, we must constantly call upon the God of love to give it to us. When the name of God is remembered through the prayer:

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me

Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ ἐλέησόν με

It contains within it eternal life and eternal life is the God of Love. Therefore, he who prays this prayer obtains true godly love.

Elder Eprhaim: Counsels from the Holy Mountain

Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ ἐλέησόν με 

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