How to Pray: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life

If we want to become the people God made us to be, we need to set aside time every day for prayer. It sounds simple enough, but we often allow distractions, temptations, and our busy lives to keep us from daily prayer. And what is prayer? Prayer is our "no" to self and "yes" to God. Prayer is the place where we freely choose to receive God's love. As we daily try to raise our minds and hearts to God, giving our time to be present with him, God gives us the love that alone can transform us into his image and likeness. In How to Pray: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life, spiritual theologian David Torkington offers everyday guidance for entering more deeply into prayer, whether you are a beginner or looking to go deeper in your prayer life. The forty short, easy-to-read chapters in this guide can be read as a devotional, for meditation, or alongside Sacred Scripture.

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How to Pray: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life

If we want to become the people God made us to be, we need to set aside time every day for prayer. It sounds simple enough, but we often allow distractions, temptations, and our busy lives to keep us from daily prayer. And what is prayer? Prayer is our "no" to self and "yes" to God. Prayer is the place where we freely choose to receive God's love. As we daily try to raise our minds and hearts to God, giving our time to be present with him, God gives us the love that alone can transform us into his image and likeness. In How to Pray: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life, spiritual theologian David Torkington offers everyday guidance for entering more deeply into prayer, whether you are a beginner or looking to go deeper in your prayer life. The forty short, easy-to-read chapters in this guide can be read as a devotional, for meditation, or alongside Sacred Scripture.

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How to Pray: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life

How to Pray: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life

by David Torkington
How to Pray: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life

How to Pray: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life

by David Torkington

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If we want to become the people God made us to be, we need to set aside time every day for prayer. It sounds simple enough, but we often allow distractions, temptations, and our busy lives to keep us from daily prayer. And what is prayer? Prayer is our "no" to self and "yes" to God. Prayer is the place where we freely choose to receive God's love. As we daily try to raise our minds and hearts to God, giving our time to be present with him, God gives us the love that alone can transform us into his image and likeness. In How to Pray: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life, spiritual theologian David Torkington offers everyday guidance for entering more deeply into prayer, whether you are a beginner or looking to go deeper in your prayer life. The forty short, easy-to-read chapters in this guide can be read as a devotional, for meditation, or alongside Sacred Scripture.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781681927442
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor, Publishing Division
Publication date: 01/01/2021
Pages: 168
Product dimensions: 4.40(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword Sister Wendy Beckett 9

Introduction 11

1 Transforming Love 17

2 The Little Back Room 20

3 The School of Love 23

4 Pray, Do Not Babble 26

5 The Parousia 29

6 A Profession of Faith 32

7 Adoration, Praise, and Thanksgiving 35

8 Reconciliation 38

9 The Morning Offering 41

10 Mystical Union 44

11 Interior Stillness 47

12 Prayer and Petition 50

13 Preparing for Action 53

14 Perfect Love 56

15 Lectio Divina 59

16 Prayerful Reading 63

17 Meditation 66

18 Heartfelt Prayer 69

19 The Beginning of Contemplation 72

20 Glorified Love 75

21 Food for Prayer 78

22 Traditional Devotions 81

23 The Rosary 84

24 The Sacred Heart 87

25 An Overarching Principle 90

26 The Essence of All Prayer 93

27 Pray at All Times 96

28 The Prayer Without Ceasing 99

29 True Humility 102

30 The Impossible Made Possible 105

31 Childlike Simplicity 108

32 Asceticism for All 111

33 The Sacrament of the Present Moment 114

34 From Meditation to Contemplation 117

35 The Mystic Way 120

36 The Prayer of the Heart 123

37 Purifying Love 126

38 Waiting on God 129

39 Experiencing Being Loved 132

40 The Only Way to Perfection 135

Epilogue 139

Appendix 151

Morning Prayer 151

Evening Prayer 157

Night Prayer 162

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