...very end of the building, they stopped ; — Sueta knocking at a small door, said in a whisper — "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God ! have mercy on me a sinner !"* • The watch-word used at convents, when any one wishes to enter a cell. f " Amen !" answered...

...room after her. Not only in his heart but involuntarily moving his lips he repeated unceasingly, " O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner, have mercy on me, a sinner." " If you please," he said to her again. She stood in the middle of the...

...mercy and save us." If, however, the rosary be said as a penitential exercise, the prayer then is: "O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner." The Russian rosary is divided by the four largo beads so as to represent the different parts of the...

...soft repetition of a lone phrase of the Scriptures the most popular being the prayer of the Publican: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner!" In a shortened form this prayer became "Lord have mercy" (Kyrie deisori) - repeated interiorly hundreds...

...assisting concentration. The whole of the attention must be given to the words of the short prayer: 'O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.' This prayer, continually repeated at each drawing of breath, becomes to a monk as it were second nature....

...titles — "Jesus" and "Master" — that they apply to Jesus make clear. In the form known as the "Jesus Prayer" (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner"), the cry of the lepers is now frequently used by Eastern monks and also by the faithful of those Churches....

...usually assigned to it is the frequent repetition of some short "arrow prayer", most commonly the Jesus Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner, We are taught, when reciting the Jesus Prayer, to avoid so far as possible any specific image or picture....

...consists of repeating rather slowly, and sometimes coordinated with breathing, the following phrase: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner." I had heard about this traditional prayer but had always been afraid to try it. In addition, I had...

...prayed so constantly — incessantly, really — as the Jesus Prayer, the mantra of Eastern Christendom: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner." Its effectiveness has been attested to again and again by the saints, canonized or not, who have made...

...in Christ. The tree-roots of my being stand fast in their source. The means of attaining this is the prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Repeat it aloud, or only in thought, slowly, lingeringly, but with attention, and from a heart freed...