The practices
Complete guides to the ways Christians have prayed for seventeen centuries. Nothing here is held back for the app.
Ten guides.
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How to pray Lectio Divina
The four movements — reading, meditation, prayer, contemplation — and what to do on the days nothing catches.
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How to pray the Liturgy of the Hours as a layperson
The Church's daily prayer without a four-volume breviary. Which hour to start with, and why one is enough.
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The Jesus Prayer
Twelve words, the hesychast tradition behind them, and the warnings the tradition attaches.
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How to pray the daily Examen
The five steps of St. Ignatius, and how to pray it on the evenings that have gone badly.
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Is Christian meditation the same as mindfulness?
What the Church has actually taught, where the traditions differ, and what they legitimately share.
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Silent retreats at American monasteries
What a monastic retreat is actually like hour by hour, what it costs, and three houses worth the drive.
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How to pray Compline
Night prayer — the shortest hour of the Office and the easiest to begin with. Structure, psalms, and a full text.
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How to write a rule of life
Not a schedule and not resolutions. A shape you have chosen, small enough to survive an ordinary week.
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When prayer feels empty
Acedia, the dark night of the senses, and what the tradition says to do when nothing comes.
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Who were the Desert Fathers?
Fourth-century Egypt, what they taught, and how their sayings are meant to be read.