This requires that I place myself in silence and solitude to be present to God alone and to listen to God completely. For this I must enter into the “inner chamber” of my being in order to encounter God deep in my interior silence. For these ways to be efficacious, however, the whole person has to be gathered up and be made present to the whole being of God, since his integrity of self-giving (God does not give himself only partially!) calls for my own integrity of response. Prayer does, of course, involve an intimate discourse with God by words spoken aloud whose meanings are intended by words spoken interiorly in humility and truth and by thoughts and ideas that reveal and submit my real self to the living God. Prayer does not primarily have to do with any kind of mental exchange (although that has its place) but with a proximity of hearts in other words, with love. I learn the nature of Christian prayer by simply praying and doing so with the intention of entering here and now into a deeper and ever more real relationship with God: to place my being into his presence and abide there. Perhaps a few words about the monk’s approach to prayer will be helpful although the subject can never be exhausted by words. Monastic life has prayer at its very heart. Sayings and Stories from the Desert Fathers.How We Pray and Chant – Monastic life has prayer at its very heart.Abbot’s Archives – Personal reflections from our abbots across the years.Subscriptions – We can add you to our postal or electronic mailing lists for monastery news and homilies.Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity 2022.
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