{"id":6708,"date":"2019-06-02T12:55:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T16:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2019-06-01T08:56:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T12:56:30","slug":"fr-alban-waggener-on-prayer-and-life-in-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6708","title":{"rendered":"Fr Alban Waggener on Prayer and Life in Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Abiding in Christ is essentially our life of prayer; the spiritual rule of our life.\u00a0 The corporate prayer of the Body of Christ in the Daily Offices, and the Communion with our Lord in the Holy Eucharist, but especially that third component of our Rule, our \u201cprivate\u201d prayer, which, while done in private is still very much a part of the prayer of the Body of Christ, of which we are members in particular.\u00a0 It is also our meditation upon Scripture and the life and acts and words of our Lord, and on the great doctrines of the Faith; our converse with Him in \u201ccolloquy\u201d as it is called in the traditional vocabulary of ascetical theology; our self-examination which flows from the above and leads to our confession of sin; our \u201crecollection\u201d or \u201cpractice of the presence of God\u201d throughout the day.\u00a0 All this is designed to free us from a sporadic life of prayer, as slaves to our feelings alone, to balance us in Christ, and enable us to truly abide in Him.\u00a0 And, as we progress, virtue is built in our lives as efficient Christians, as contributing members of His Body, to the building up of the whole Church.”<\/p>\n

– Pererinion blog<\/p>\n

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