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Conscientious Christians pray. Their typical days, weeks, months, and years are seasoned with prayer – traditional prayers, liturgical prayers, spontaneous prayers. They make prayer commitments, giving structure and consistency to their faith journey. Prayer keeps Christians united to the Vine, so their lives can bear the fruit both they and Christ long for.1Among the most basic prayer commitments is one that can have more bearing on your life than any other, because it is more personalized: the daily meditation. Certainly you can’t mature as a Christian without the sacramental life, just as crops can’t mature without sunlight and soil. And the various devotional and vocal prayers that punctuate your day keep you strong and focused amid the unrelenting blows of the unchristian culture all around you. But, as generations of saints and sinners have found out, that is not enough.Without the daily renewal and deepening of your personal relationship with Jesus Christ that happens especially through meditation, sooner or later routine sets in. You get into a rut. Your prayers get mechanical, your sacramental life slides into hollow ritualism, and before you know it, your faith gets sidel
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Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Bartunek, Fr John
- Publisher
- ministry23; Sophia Institute Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780991603862
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Christian, Christianity, Religion
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (131 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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