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Work at prayer, to clear your mind for Christ – St John of Karpathos

6 June 2016 By Andrew Leave a Comment

Much labour and time is needed in prayer, in order painfully to achieve a state of mind free from all disturbance — that new heaven of the heart in which Christ dwells, as the Apostle says: ‘Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ dwells in you?’ (2 Cor. 13:5)

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