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Article: Prayer and identity (transcript of a taped conference).(COMMENTARY)(Report)
- Article from:
- CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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A few things on the life of prayer ... Do we know why we want to live lives of prayer? Are we praying in such a way that our prayer is simply for "something else"? It's all very well to pray for intentions, and to pray for the world, and to pray for health and all those things; still, a life of prayer tends to be an end in itself. It is right for prayer to be an end in itself insofar as it is entirely centered on God, who is our end, if we can still use those terms--I suppose people still believe that God is our end, in the sense of the goal toward which we orient all our lives, or should orient all our lives.
As religious we still think of our religious life as ...