Five Essential Dimensions of Christian Prayer

Deepen Your Intimacy with God through Each of these Ways of Praying

I talk a lot about silent prayer in this blog, which is understandable considering that my focus is on contemplative prayer, which the Catholic Catechism describes as “wordless prayer.” As importantas silence is to contemplative and mystical forms of prayer, it’s only one of fiveessential dimensions of Christian prayer. In this post I look at allof these dimensions of prayer: what they are, why they matter, and how to cultiva...