Watch and Pray: Christian Teachings on the Practice of Prayer

By Lorraine Kisly

As Bishop Seraphim Sigrist says in his heartfelt introduction, Watch and Pray is "a landmark anthology of Christian reflection on prayer, past and present," as described by Christians of every persuasion over the last two thousand years. In this companion volume to Ordinary Graces: Christian Teachings on the Interior Life Lorraine Kisly sounds the great themes of Christian prayer-praise, supplication, thanksgiving, willingness, repentance, and purification. She raises the difficulties we all experience-self-will, fear, blindness, ignorance-and their remedies. The sequenced passages reflect on one another and gradually reveal a community intimately united in powerful and sanctifying experience. A collection of great depth, richness, and variety, Watch and Pray again and again opens out to include us in this great current of Christian prayer. From Abraham of Nathpar in the sixth century to the wonderful contemporary Cistercian Andr? Louf, from poet William Butler Yeats to Patrick, saint of Ireland-each of the men and women, mystics and monks, Presbyterians and Dominicans, Syrians and Swiss calls us to the path of prayer meant for every Christian. "If this book is read truly," Bishop Seraphim concludes, "the reader will surely find the beginning of prayer itself, and this is to open another book with no end at all."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609608991
• ISBN13: 9780609608999
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Bell Tower Book
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A book to be treasured, cherished, and savored!

This book is for the Christian who wants communion with Christ and desires to know His Peace and Joy. A wonderful companion to any journey of faith! Well-written and easy-to-read.

Every Page is a Gift

While I found Ordinary Graces to be not at all ordinary (other than that it related to me) and totally eye opening, Watch and Pray is entirely soul opening. Ms. Kisly has done all the grunt work so that I can sit back and perceive in absolute awe the connectedness and global universality of God's gift of the holy spirit and the power of prayer - not only in me but in everyone in and of all ages. Every cycle, indeed every page is a gift. I am deeply grateful for Ms. Kisly's phenomenally successful endeavor.