An Introduction to Prayer
Basil Pennington, a Benedictine monk, once said that for most of us prayer has become a heavily burdened word, and practice. This, he adds, no doubt has been the result of misunderstanding what prayer is and is not. John Michael Talbot, a Franciscan friar and musician refers to prayer as a mystical union and loving embrace between God and ourselves; understood in this context prayer is in essence the intimate communication between God and us.
This introduction to prayer deconstructs our old beliefs about prayer and allows us to discover new and exciting ways of being in prayerful union with the God of the universe. The aim being to move us from thinking of prayer as more than a shopping list of intercessions or being limited to our liturgical texts. Thus we discover what prayer is and is not; opening us to discover the richness of ancient prayers, the beauty of contemporary styles of prayer, and the freshness of creative praying.
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