Understanding Prayer 
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(Editor’s Note: this is one of the last articles in this series. In it Fr John summarises a lot of earlier material.)
In former articles I have strongly emphasised that in my view both John Main and Thomas Keating have offered us forms of passive meditation or contemplation that can be profitably used by everybody. But I confined myself largely to theory. I …
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Bedroom Prayer
“But when you pray, go to your private room, shut yourself in, and so pray to your Father who is in that secret place…” Matt 6:6
Our eldest granddaughter is of an age where she is beginning to discover that she is a little person in her own right. As she weans herself off her mother she show signs of wanting to have little friendships …
Techniques of Prayer
Before we can speak meaningfully of techniques of prayer we need to remind ourselves once again of the nature of prayer. In this series we have adopted for the most part St. Teresa’s definition of prayer as “loving communion with One whom we know loves us.” If prayer is “loving communion” with God, it follows that techniques of prayer are all those factors that contribute …
The Need to Water the Roots
In the last article I pointed out that as a basis for prayer and the life of union with God we need in the first place to be fully human. Part of being fully human is that we find ways of cultivating the spirit and the deep-self. In this article I wish to demonstrate more fully the need to activate our hidden potential. It is …