On Watchfulness and Holiness

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On Watchfulness and Holiness is a spiritual treatise by St. Hesychios the Priest that teaches inner vigilance, prayer, and ascetic discipline as the path to Christian holiness.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian spiritual work
ascetical text
spiritual treatise
associatedWith Mount Sinai monastic tradition
desert spirituality
author St. Hesychios the Priest
surface form: Hesychios the Priest

St. Hesychios the Priest
concerns purification of the mind
spiritual warfare
temptations
emphasizes Jesus Prayer
ascetic struggle
discernment of thoughts
grace of the Holy Spirit
inner stillness
focusesOn guarding the heart
inner purification
noetic prayer
spiritual sobriety
genre monastic instruction
patristic text
goal Christian holiness
union with God
includedIn Philokalia
influenced Eastern Christianity
surface form: Eastern Christian spirituality

later hesychast writers
intendedAudience Christians seeking spiritual growth
monks
language Greek
mainTheme ascetic discipline
holiness
inner vigilance
prayer
watchfulness
period Byzantine era
purpose guidance toward holiness through prayer and asceticism
instruction in inner vigilance
religiousTradition Christianity
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
teaches constant attention to thoughts
hesychia
humility
repentance
self-control
unceasing remembrance of God
tradition hesychasm

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St. Hesychios the Priest notableWork On Watchfulness and Holiness