St. Augustine, What is the Work of Prayer?
Question 002 What happens in prayer? “The Lord our God wants us to petition him, not in order to inform him…but that we might be prepared to receive what he wants to bestow upon us…in proportion to our simplicity of faith, firmness of hope, and ardor of desire, we will be able to be more open to receiving what is immensely great, which neither eye has seen, nor ear has heard…” from St. Augustine Answers [...]
Come, Let Us Go Up to the Mountain of the LORD
Part I in a Series by Pseudo-Ermatinger Soria Moria by Theodor Kittelsen (1881) Gregory the Sinaite instructed those who desired to pray to take a guide, lest they get lost in the venture. Who then should we take for our guide? There is a two-fold temptation; the first, to chart our course using our wiles or to despair that no sure guide can be found. The first is to wander aimlessly in the dark of [...]
St. Augustine, What is Prayer?
Question 001 What is prayer? … prayer can be compared to the breath of the soul…this life is for praying, (while) in heaven there will be no praying only praising… In prayer we turn to God alone, because… we are all beggars before God…we can only plead. from St. Augustine Answers 101 Questions on Prayer by Fr. Ermatinger. In the prayers of this life, man is a threefold beggar; 1.) As a creature, everything [...]