WHAT ARE THE TECHNIQUES TO PRAY WELL?

§ The history of Christian prayer is acquainted with many techniques: they aim at preparing the spirit and the body for prayer, sustaining them during the course of prayer and helping the person in recollection and concentration.

§ They include: words, hymns, gestures, iconography and the place of prayer.

§ Methods and techniques are necessary and useful, but they may not necessarily be efficacious.

§ They are a means to help prayer, but they are not, and neither can they become, ends.

§ A method is just a guide: the important thing is to grow, with the Holy Spirit, along the only way, model and teacher of prayer: Jesus Christ.

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