For years I believed that I was bad at contemplative prayer. Heck, I just believed that I was bad at all all kinds of prayer. I didn’t really know where to start with prayer other than just talking a ...

The approach to contemplative prayer is largely counterintuitive for many American evangelicals. Contemplative prayer tells us to withdraw and retreat in order to one day move forward. Contemplative ...

Pope Leo XIV meets with the International Commission of Dominican Contemplative Nuns at the Vatican and encourages them to ...

Contemplative prayer is a communion in which the Holy Trinity conforms man, the image of God, ‘to his likeness.’” Yes, the spiritual tradition is still left bouncing and grasping at every possible ...

The life of prayer is a process that has great advances and setbacks. There is no monotony when it comes to spending time with God. For those who commit themselves to pray, there is a daily adventure ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The mystery of the interior life of God and how to experience even a glimpse of that life through deep, self-forgetful prayer is the subject of a new book by Fr. Donald Haggerty, ...

It could be very easy in this modern age to look at a Christian who is practicing the Centering Prayer and assume that they are being blasphemous, relying on other religions like Buddhism, or outright ...

While some may view the Rosary as outdated, the Catholic Church continually points to it as a beautiful method of prayer. In particular, St. John Paul II believed it was a perfect way to practice ...

Sometimes I think I should have been a Quaker. It’s taken me a lifetime, now 62 years, to realize that worship for me takes place in silence or very minimalistic atmospheres. I knew this as a child, ...

First, I fidget. I cross and uncross my legs, fold and unfold my hands, bow and raise my head. I discover muscles I didn’t know I had, muscles that twitch, quiver, itch, and ache. So I waste several ...

"Keeping silence is an act of the will that engages the whole person and helps to cultivate solid relationships, because they ...