St. Augustine, How do I Begin to Pray?
Question 003 What do I need to begin to pray? Your desire is itself your prayer. And if your desire is continuous, then your prayer is continuous as well. from St. Augustine Answers 101 Questions on Prayer by Fr. Ermatinger. Like all labors in this life, the beginning of labor is first the desire to undertake the labor. The labor of prayer is no different. However, there is the tendency to complex prayer into [...]
St. Augustine, What is the Work of Prayer?
Question 002 What happens in prayer? “The Lord our God wants us to petition him, not in order to inform him…but that we might be prepared to receive what he wants to bestow upon us…in proportion to our simplicity of faith, firmness of hope, and ardor of desire, we will be able to be more open to receiving what is immensely great, which neither eye has seen, nor ear has heard…” from St. Augustine Answers [...]
Come, Let Us Go Up to the Mountain of the LORD
Part I in a Series by Pseudo-Ermatinger Soria Moria by Theodor Kittelsen (1881) Gregory the Sinaite instructed those who desired to pray to take a guide, lest they get lost in the venture. Who then should we take for our guide? There is a two-fold temptation; the first, to chart our course using our wiles or to despair that no sure guide can be found. The first is to wander aimlessly in the dark of [...]