THE MOTHER OF METANS: MITRALIER AGAINST DIAVOL

- Gheronda, what is the meaning of the methane line?

- The Mantle of the Methane is an inheritance, a blessing, which our Holy Fathers have left us. Even because it is an inheritance from the Holy Fathers, it gives it great value. See, one left his grandfather an inherited thing, which he keeps as a talisman. The more the Methany, which the Holy Fathers have left to us!

Long before, when there were no clocks, the monks measured the prayer time with the methane, but the knot nodes were simple. Once a hermit, who was doing much effort, many methanes, etc., he was disturbed by the devil, who unleashed his knots from his marshmallows. He did, the poor man, the methans in one, until he fell broken, because he could not count them, since the devil was always opening his knots. Then the angel of the Lord appeared to him, and taught him how to knit the knots, so that each node can conceive of nine crosses. Then the devil, who was shaking at the Cross, could no longer divorce them. Thus, each node of the Methane Branch has nine crosses, which symbolize the nine angelic angels. - Gheronda, what are thirty-three, fifty, one hundred and three hundred knots that have the Methane Bears?

- Only thirty-three is symbolic. It symbolizes the thirty-three years that Christ lived on earth. The other numbers only help us to count the metaphors we do or the number of times we pray.

There are machines that have a string with a handle at the end, and when you want to start it, pull the string a few times, until the oils are thawed. The same is the methane. It is the string we draw once, two, three, ten times until the spiritual oils unfreeze, and the spiritual machine of unceasing prayer starts. And after that, the heart works prayer alone. But even when the heart started in the work of prayer, we must not leave the array of methans, so that others will not be exhorted to let it, when their hearts still do not work to pray.

- Gheronda, when I hold the Methane Wave in my hand and say the Mechanical Prayer, is there any danger of people enjoying it?

- If you are praying the outside prayer, to please men, even if you make hand wefts, nothing will use you. It will only bring you fatigue and fake feeling that, you are, you are working with the Prayer of the Mind.

"Gheronda, I'm not used to keeping the methane in my hand.

- Keep the Methan in your hand so that you do not forget the prayer, who must work inwardly in your heart. When you leave the cell, do not forget that the enemy is ready to attack. Therefore, be like a brave soldier who, coming out of the shelter, always has a machine gun in his hand. The Methane Shield has great power. He is the monk's weapon, and the knots are bullets that "tum-tum-tum" reap the demons.

Extract from About Prayer - The Holy Father Paisie Aghioritul, Evanghelismos Publishing House - 2013.