When you want to pray, get up at night, on an empty stomach.

 When you want to pray, get up at night, on an empty stomach. Then, but then there is nothing better and more beautiful. When the people are sleeping, God hears you... Cry out to God, with all your strength, from the depths of your heart.

Especially pray at night, when the enemy is watching. After 12 o'clock at night, until 3.30, then the devil finds an opportunity to act, when people are sleeping. That is why the shepherd must be vigilant for the flock...

...We should not waste the whole night sleeping, because then Satan does whatever he wants to us. Since I was a little child, I loved to pray. I would go to a quiet place and cry out to God. My heart thirsted for Him. I had also learned the greetings by heart and said them. What joy, exultation and peace I had in my heart! Whatever I asked of our good Virgin Mary, she gave it to me...

Saint Demetrios Gagastathis + 29/ 1