prayer & discernment
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THE PEOPLE at the
foot of the hill and
the people at the
top of the hill have
a spiritual link. The
townspeople and
the monastic-semi-nary community
are responding to
Christ’s summons to
“pray always without
becoming weary.”
Prayer traditions observed in a small “monastery town” can lead to new
prayer horizons and practices as well as a newly energized prayer attitude.
BY INUS MUNDY IHAVE WORKED and lived for many L years in a hilly “monastery town” in southern Indiana: St. Meinrad. It
is here I have learned of the diversity of
ways to pray. But even more I learned
the benefits of a prayer discipline and
Linus Mundy is the publisher
at Abbey Press. He has written widely for the religious
press, including books on the
desert mystics, Saint Benedict,
and prayer-walking. For many
years on the staff of St. Anthony
Messenger Press, Mundy is
the founding director of the Abbey Press imprints
CareNotes and PrayerNotes.
the necessity of a prayer attitude. As one
of my monk friends in seminary used
to teach: “Until you are convinced that
prayer is the best use of your time, you
will not find time for prayer.”
This article will offer three distinct
“encouragements” to finding time for
prayer—for answering the call to “pray
always” by praying all ways: praying the
Liturgy of the Hours; prayer to Our Lady
of Guadalupe; and an African American
prayer attitude.
This combination of themes is in
itself quite diverse, I know, but is intended to set the tone for expanding
our prayer possibilities. My hope is this
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