GIFT OF PRAYER
If we had to manufacture prayer, make it out of whole cloth, create or perform it, we could look forward to a dreary, burdened future.
But we are given the prayer of Christ, and our job is to receive the grace by which we let that prayer sink its roots deeper and deeper in our hearts.
Benedictine prayer embraces the liturgy, lectio divina, quiet prayer, and the many individual calls that wind their way in and out of a day.
Prayer is not a stand-alone element of monastic life. Our prayer and our life of conversion intertwine all the way along the journey. Conversion, the day by day opening of one's self-interest, one's love affair with poor choices, to new and more constructive attitudes, surely fosters one's prayer. Without it, prayer can become a thing-we-do, instead of a person we are becoming.
We will have more on prayer in the website, and if you have questions, let us know. We will field them as best we can, even though the mystery of prayer is the mystery of the self-disclosure of God, and not at all easy to talk about.