The Life of Prayer: Where to Begin | Father Gabriel O'Donnell, O.P.

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🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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This lecture was given at a Thomstic Institute Intellectual Retreat at The Dominican House of Studies w North Carolina State University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events. Speaker Bio: Fr. O’Donnell grew up in Syracuse, New York. After two years as a student at Providence College, he entered the Order of Preachers in 1963 and was ordained a priest in 1970. In 1971 he earned an MA in Liturgical Studies from the University of Notre Dame, and in 1980 earned an STD degree in the area of Liturgical Spiritual Theology from the Pontifical Faculty for Spirituality, the Teresianum, in Rome. He has previously taught at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, St. Charles Seminary in Philadelphia, PA and the Angelicum in Rome. In addition to teaching, he currently serves as a vice-postulator for the cause for sainthood of Father Michael J. McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Columbus, and as vice-postulator for the cause of Rose Hawthorne, founder of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, NY. He previously survived as postulator for the cause of canonization of Father Paul of Graymoor, which has also been submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome. With Robin Mass, Ph.D., Fr. O’Donnell is the author of Spiritual Traditions for the Contemporary Church and has contributed to A Love That Never Ends: A Key to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

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1:15.7	We have to get a little bit practical this afternoon, I think, you know, get down and dirty there.
1:17.0	I want to talk about how to begin to pray.
1:19.8	Now, I don't know how many of you would be people who have practiced meditation or mental
1:24.8	prayer daily for, I know, is this part of your life or are you
1:29.2	beginners or where are we? How many do this regularly?
1:36.1	Okay, I get so, okay, yeah. Brother, do you too? Yeah, yeah, you do, okay. Okay.
1:43.8	Well, first I want to, you do too. Me too. First, I want to pick up on something that sister... See, what Sister Maria was saying about Lexio de Vina is really one of the central issues in the life of prayer, as you will see when I talk about how to begin to pray
2:02.7	because the practice of Lexio-Devina, which now is still, of course, is talked about as a kind of
2:11.2	something that you do every day for 20 or 30 minutes, in the tradition is really not, it is not something that you do, it's
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