A Nashville seminarian has some thoughts on the types of prayer and how to pray:
I had a great talk with a friend who is a university student in South Carolina recently, and the topic of our conversation was prayer—specifically, what is it, really, and how do you do it well?
I told him that there are three types of prayer:— 1) Vocal prayer; 2) meditation; and 3) contemplative prayer.
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