Sentence examples for method of prayer from inspiring English sources

A monk of Mount Athos, Callistus became a disciple of the method of prayer known as Hesychasm.

During this period she published the most important of her many writings, Moyen court et très facile de faire oraison (1685; "Short and Very Easy Method of Prayer"), and began to write her autobiography and an extensive biblical commentary.

In the late 13th century, St. Nicephorus the Hesychast produced an even more precise "method of prayer," advising novices to fix their eyes during prayer on the "middle of the body," in order to achieve a more total attention, and to "attach the prayer to their breathing".

Another text in the Philokalia, titled The Three Methods of Prayer is also attributed to Symeon it describes a method of practicing the Jesus Prayer that includes direction on correct posture and breathing while reciting the prayer.

Some religions have very ritualized methods of prayer, while others are more informal.

He was influential in reviving the practice of Hesychasm, a Byzantine method of contemplative prayer.

On Wednesday, he will apparently cross another frontier, making a significant change in the rosary, a signature method of Catholic prayer for many centuries now.

The methods of "methodical prayer" as taught by the Devotio Moderna group in northern Europe had entered Spain and were known in the early 16th century.

Its central theme is the conviction that, by applying the classical methods of mental prayer, one experiences a contemplative "vision of light," a symbolic term denoting the intuitional illumination that the mystic realizes in his encounter with the Divine Unknown.

After succeeding to the patriarchal throne in June 1350, Callistus convened, in the following year, a synod in Constantinople that vindicated Hesychasm as the preeminent method of Orthodox contemplative prayer.

In Roman Catholicism the rosary became a popular method of public and private prayer.