Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mystic, prayer is not an occasional petition to God, but full-time work as tangible and varied in technique as anything a man can make with hand or mind. Sometimes a mystic is able to leave behind some manual or blueprint to help others with the work of prayer...
...Though one of the classics of Russian Orthodoxy that sounds a note often heard in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, it is only now published for the first time in the U.S. under the title: The Way of a Pilgrim (translated by R. M. French; Harper; $2.75). Its subject is mystical prayer, not as something for the sanctified few but for all men and women...
...first concern is to find out how one may fulfill the famed Biblical admonition to "pray without ceasing." He consults a number of authorities, only to come away emptyhearted until at last he meets a holy man who teaches him that to pray without ceasing is to pray the Prayer of Jesus. "The continuous interior Prayer of Jesus," the holy man says, "is a constant, uninterrupted calling upon the divine Name of Jesus with the lips, in the spirit, in the heart . . . during every occupation, at all times, in all places, even during sleep. The appeal is couched in these...
...lends force to the argument that all Christians were meant to "pray without ceasing." Like a self-helper by Norman Vincent Peale, The Way of a Pilgrim is crammed with appropriate case histories -a social gamut of unhappy people whose lives have been changed by the practice of interior prayer. Unlike a modern religious bestseller, though, the book does not suggest that he who prays will become healthier, wealthier or wiser-just happier...
...Pontiff had taken no breakfast when, at 8 a.m., he stepped into a little, white-walled room in his Vatican apartment. Flanking an X-ray table set up for the occasion were four doctors. As the ailing Pope raised his hand in blessing, all knelt for a short prayer. Then, at last, the doctors were able to begin a task that should have been done months, if not years ago: a thorough X-ray of their patient's intestinal tract. (Many times during his recurrent illness the Pope could not have stood the process, but some Vaticaners feel that...