The Power of Liturgical Versus Private Prayer

The Power of Liturgical Versus Private Prayer

For several reasons, I recently began to re-read sections of Father Ron Rolheiser’s spiritual classic, “Sacred Fire: A Vision for a Deeper Human and Christian Maturity.” Probably the main reason I began to re-read some of Rolheiser’s beautiful comments on prayer was that I did not wish to allow my experience of praying to become a thoughtless routine. Perhaps many of us have to work against that happening to our prayers. Rolheiser stresses the d…