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The Embracing Prayer
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2024
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An article on ‘The Divine Office as a Method of Prayer’ in The Life of the Spirit, August 1951, by Dom Bede Griffiths, impressed me as having much to say that is of use to all Christians both lay and religious, especially in these times when a slow but deep-seated revolution in spirituality is taking place. Perhaps, however, the most significant sentence of all comes in the opening paragraph. After telling the story of the young priest who studied the psalms so carefully that to him they ceased to be prayers at all, the writer says:
‘This is perhaps an extreme example, but it illustrates a fact of great importance, namely, that prayer is not necessarily an exercise of discursive thought, and the study of a certain kind can be an obstacle rather than an assistance to prayer.’
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- Copyright © 1956 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers
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