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Homilies On The Lord's Prayer: Homilies On The Blessedness
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On the Lord's Prayer: Five Homilies Saint Gregory of Nyssa A New Modern English Translation
Saint Gregory of Nyssa stands among the greatest theological minds the Church has ever produced. Together with his brother Saint Basil the Great and their friend Saint Gregory the Theologian, he forms the triad of Cappadocian Fathers whose defense of the Orthodox Faith at the Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople in 381 shaped the dogmatic inheritance of the Eastern Church for all time. It was Gregory himself who served as a presiding theological voice at that Council - which gave the Church the final form of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, confessing that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father, is worshipped and glorified together with the Father and the Son, and is not a creature but the Lord and Giver of Life.
In these five homilies Gregory does not merely explain the words of the Lord's Prayer - he opens them as doors into the innermost life of the Holy Trinity, the true nature of the human person, the disease of sin and its healing, and the soul's journey toward God. The address Our Father is shown to be not a formula but a claim of genuine likeness with God through παρρησία - filial boldness. The petition for the Kingdom is revealed as a prayer for the Holy Spirit Himself, whose full divinity Gregory defends with unbreakable theological precision. The essential bread (ἐπιούσιος) is expounded as the supersubstantial bread of the Holy Mysteries - Holy Communion, the Body and Blood of Christ, the medicine of immortality. The forgiveness of debts is the soul's participation in the divine act of forgiveness itself - the very path of θέωσις, deification, through genuine likeness with God. And deliverance from the evil one is the soul's liberation from worldly preoccupation and its complete turning toward God.
These homilies were written against two heresies whose influence has never ceased. Against Eunomianism and Pneumatomachianism - the denial of the Holy Spirit's full divinity - Gregory demonstrates that the Holy Spirit is consubstantial with the Father and the Son, King and not servant, Lord and not creature. Against Messalianism - the separation of prayer from the Holy Mysteries - Gregory shows that the essential bread for which we pray is Holy Communion, and all ascetic preparation in prayer is preparation for its worthy reception.
Previous translations have imported the very errors Gregory refutes - rendering his therapeutic language of disease, healing, and restoration in the language of penalty, satisfaction, and legal acquittal. This translation is produced under four standards: accuracy, literary quality, smoothness, and complete freedom from Western theological contamination. The Holy Spirit always proceeds from the Father alone. Sin is always disease, wound, and passion. Forgiveness is always release and healing. The essential bread is always the supersubstantial bread of Holy Communion. The doxology is always: now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Offered to the Orthodox faithful and all who seek to encounter the Lord's Prayer as the Eastern Church has always understood it - as the soul's participation in the life of the Holy Trinity and the path toward deification.
The Blessedness
Saint Gregory of Nyssa's eight homilies on the Μακαρισμοί present the blessed life not as outward observance but as the soul's genuine θέωσις - its ever-onward ascent into κοινωνία (communion) with the Holy Trinity. Each Μακαρισμός unfolds as an ascending step toward the vision of God, the restoration of the Divine εἰκών (image) within the soul, and the Kingdom of Heaven. Free from Western theological frameworks, faithful to the Greek text, offered in the living inheritance of the Holy Fathers.
Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God. - Matthew 5:8
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