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  • lindakwarciany Flag

    hmmmm
    I always thought silent prayer was just not-out-loud. It's a friendly comfortable space where no words are necessary. I guess I was doin' it right all along! Same thing with the other types of prayers. Then there's the venting type of prayer the yelling and screaming type - better than paying a therapist, works better too.

  • GusOlive Flag

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    Hey Linda, you are an idiot, and you should stop going to therapy. I would bet you that, your madness started there.

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  • How do I practice silent prayer?

    In this video, Spiritual Director Joe McCloskey, S.J. answers questions about the techniques and the mechanics that can be part of a good prayer life. This video is designed for anyone of any faith who has question about ways to go in deepening a relationship to God by prayer. It would be useful to anyone who is checking up on how they pray and interested in seeing other ways to pray. It is directed at anyone who prays and is not afraid of trying out something different that might be a better fit to style of relating to God. The golden rule is that the form one uses is the best. But it is always possible to be better.

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    <p>Host: How do I practice silent prayer?</p><p>Joseph McCloskey: How do I do the prayer of silence is as far as I am concerned, where I am the best typical you will ever meet, because I am not sure that I am capable of being silent, but the prayer of silence is really when I am with somebody that I know so well, that I am just glad to be with them. I can't create that state of my soul, my mind, I am a hyperactive that's why I like to talk with my hands up. I always have to be different something and the prayer of silence is suddenly being drawn into a tranquility of peace, this is so deep and so wonderful than in the sense you can't move. It's a willingness to be with somebody whose love for you is so awfully expressed that you are wordless. I don't know what that event would be in my life so that had me silent.</p><p>There is a mountain climber and I was on top of a volcano, celebrating mass at 50 degrees below zero. If you can imagine a cold that 18,000 feet glacier can give you and you at the same time how is it,how it's quite like a silence, because it was so beautiful that it was beyond my putting words on it. But it's an experience of God that allows God to soul alive to you, that you are no longer trying to limit Him to a word. Whole of your life was a preparation for that moment. You are quite into something that expresses everything in the smallest of what I would call the hidden life grace. The hidden life being the 30 years that Christ lived, where nobody saw what He was doing. But for me the hidden life grace is the great equalizer, because every human being is hidden from their world.</p><p>I don't even really know myself. So I know that nobody really knows me. So the prayer of silence is really an entering into like and only if you said forever and touching in the moment now, the forever of life.</p><p>1</p>

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