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Earthen Vessels: The Practice of Personal Prayer According to the Partristic Tradition
The Fathers of the Church, deeply rooted in the Scriptures, have left us a rich treasure as inheritance, not only of texts, but also of manners, forms and gestures of prayer. Today, western Christianity in a special way, needs to rediscover the intimate union which must exist--in prayer just as in any aspect of Christian life--between theory and practice, between contemplation and practical exercise. One learns how to pray by praying, and the whole of our being is called to participate in this work: the mind, the heart, but also the body, the gaze, the senses.Fr. Gabriel Bung is a Benedictine Monk in Switzerland who has been living the
eremitical life since 1980.