Posts Tagged: prayer

PL 9 Prayer and Meditation— The Lord’s Prayer

My dear friends, today I would like to speak about prayer and meditation. What is the difference between the two? Many people are not quite clear about it. It is always a matter of agreeing upon the meaning of terms. I should like to make the following distinction: Prayer is a preliminary step to meditation.…

PL 36 Prayer

Now what is prayer? Many people have no questions about it; they just take it for granted. Many others  cannot understand prayer. They say—in their own way and not without logic—why should God grant a human being help or grace simply in response to prayer? Why should someone else who works but fails to pray…