Pray as You Can

Don't Try to Pray as You Can't.

“Pray as you can, not as you can’t!” I first received this advice from Anthony Delisi, a Trappist monk of Holy Spirit Abbey in Conyers, GA. Such elegant and simple advice, acknowledging that even within one tradition (in our case, contemplative Christianity) one can confront a dizzying variety of methods and exercises of prayer: the Rosary… the Daily Of…