Frequent Prayer

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“Without frequent prayer it is not possible to find one’s way to God, to understand truth, and to crucify the lusts of the flesh. Only fidelity to prayer will lead a person to enlightenment and union with Christ.

I say frequent prayer because purity and perfection in prayer is not within our reach, as St. Paul the Apostle indicates. The Spirit comes to help us in our weakness when we do not know how to pray (Rom. 8:26). Consequently, our only contribution toward perfection in prayer, the mother of all spiritual good, is regularity and constancy. ‘If you win the mother, you will have the children also,’ says St. Isaac of Syria. Acquire the habit of prayer, and it will be easy for you to do good.”

~From The Way of a Pilgrim