“I have a little booklet at my prayer corner, with a list of personal petitions I ask in the morning. Sometime back, I decided to write down in these daily petitions the request: “Help me to pray unceasingly.” It surprised me how I struggled to even begin requesting this. It felt foolish, even arrogant. Who am I? How could I pray unceasingly? Of course, I cannot as I am now. Unceasing prayer can only be a gift from God. Is it not a gift we should desire? Should we not long for this above everything else?”
(Fr Peter Cavanaugh in ‘According to the Whole’ blog)