“In order for prayer to be true and to reach up to heaven, it must be God-given, that is, it must be a prayer of the Spirit, it must come down from God Himself, it must be recognized by God as something of His own. Through true prayer man is filled with God and achieves not only the simple unity of faith, but also of the whole of the life of the human being, together with the whole Church. ” Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonos Petras

“The great books of mankind have the destiny to permeate culture and even historical life, not only by their truths, but also by the way in which they have been understood and interpreted.” It is now the turn of today’s generation to be influenced, through Father Aimilianos’ interpretation, by this philocalic masterpiece and to preserve, with the help of the interpretation, the same understanding of prayer and the same practice of it as all the saints of the ages.