In the 1600’s in France, Brother Lawrence, a lay brother in a Carmelite monastery, practiced and wrote about prayer. Essentially, he envisioned two kinds of… Read More »Growing From Times of Prayer to a Life of Prayer
Praying Scripture is a transformative spiritual discipline. Using the words of biblical writers like Paul to shape our own prayers deepens and widens them. Below… Read More »Praying Scripture
Ignatius of Loyola offered a prayer as the capstone of his “Exercises,” a series of prayers and meditations. Called the Suscipe, the prayer contains many… Read More »Suscipe: Some Breath Prayers for Thanksgiving
21 And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife… Read More »She Went to Inquire of the Lord (Gen. 25)