Let My Prayer Arise

This video was created at the St. Herman of Alaska Monastery, using footage shot on the monastery's property.
The following quotations from Orthodox Christian saints, drawn from their profound experience of prayer for the world, provide further reflections on the video's theme:
"There [in heaven], all those who mastered themselves will be glorified, those who prayed for the world, who bore the burdens of the whole world's sorrows, for theirs was the love of Christ, and love cannot suffer a single soul to perish."
"When the soul stills her passion and grows humble, the Lord gives her His grace, and then she prays for her enemies as for herself, and sheds scalding tears for the world world"
-- St. Silouan of Mount Athos (1866-1938), from St. Silouan the Athonite, by St. Sophrony of Essex. (Essex, England: Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, 1991), p. 297.
"The world is so full of misery! When someone gets to feel so much empathy that his heart aches and he cares more for others than he does for himself, he can see the entire world as if through an X-ray that beams with spiritual light. So many times when I recite the Jesus Prayer, I see poor little ones, sad children, passing in front of me and pleading with God.... We switch to the same frequency; we communicate."
-- St. Paisios of Mount Athos (1924-1994), from Spiritual Counsels of St. Paisios, vol. 1: With Pain and Love for Contemporary Man (Souroti, Greece: Holy Monastery of the Evangelist John the Theologian, 2007), p. 29.