And for 20 years or so, I've had a daily prayer practice that involves recitation of the Jesus Prayer: "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me". You regulate your breathing connected to it, so it's very similar to contemplative prayer practices in many other traditions.
He had taken to reciting the Jesus prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a sinner.
From then on the pilgrim walks across Russia and Siberia constantly mouthing the prayer 'Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me'.
Much of it sprang from the simplicity of prayer—"Save me", or "Have mercy on me, a sinner"—and sparse, serial clusters of notes.
There is at least one hour of Bible reading, one hour reciting the Jesus Prayer or the Prayer of the Holy Mountain ("Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me," repeated rhythmically over and over again) and one hour of prostrations.
He recited the Jesus Prayer — "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner" — hundreds of times a day.
Having survived his captivity by endlessly repeating the "Jesus prayer"—"Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner"—he has joined a closed monastic order.
So, she starts saying the Jesus prayer, which is, "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner". Now, she has taken this prayer from a book called The Way of the Pilgrim.
The most widely accepted form of the prayer is "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me".
"Again and at intervals until the prayer ended, 1,700 voices responded as one, 'Lord have mercy.' The new practices had passed an historic test in their long path toward complete acceptance".
