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Distractions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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The unequivocal command to continual prayer so clearly expressed by Christ in the Gospels is by no means so clearly understood by the average christian of today. That everybody should pray the sincere Christian will readily admit, but it is the element of eternity that is either glossed over or assumed to refer only to those who have received a special call to a life of contemplation in the cloister. The fact plainly is that it is a call to all who Pretend to follow Christ, and we are bound to pray always. There is no doubt an unconscious prejudice based on a misconception of the meaning of prayer. The reasons for this Prejudice may be said to be two which are very closely allied, one being in a sense the cause of the other.

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Copyright © 1952 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers