For three years, November 2021 to November 2024, I wrote a series of articles for Exeter Cathedral monthly magazine, complementing the material I contributed to the “Explore Prayer” section of the Cathedral website.
I particularly wanted to introduce the reader to the practice of contemplative prayer as a way deepening our relationship with God, because I believe we are all called into the depths in whatever form that takes.
So I wrote about embarking on the journey and forming habits of prayer; about various methods and their limitations; about different approaches to prayer, through for example scripture, the imagination, the body, nature, liturgy; .
Here is the full list. I hope you find them engaging and helpful.
- “Explore Prayer” for Exeter Cathedral news, November 2021
- “Waiting on God”, December 2021
- “Forming habits of prayer”, January 2022
- “Centring Prayer and the Sacred Word”, February 2022
- “Distractions in Prayer”, March 2022
- “Praying with a prayer-phrase: Maranatha and the Psalms”, April 2022
- “Pilgrimage: Prayer on the Way”, May 2022
- “Prayer which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes”, June 2022
- “Embodied prayer”, July 2022
- “Praying with the Bible – Lectio Divina”, August 2022
- “Praying with the Bible – Ignatian meditation”, September 2022
- “Praying the Daily Office and the Psalms”, October 2022
- “Pray the Collects and write your own”, November 2022
- “The kataphatic way: praying with metaphor”, December 2022
- “The apophatic way: desiring God in the darkness”, January 2023
- “Praying the Examen”, February 2023
- “Walking and Praying the Labyrinth”, March 2023
- “Praying with three questions”, April 2023
- “Praying the Lord’s Prayer”, May 2023
- “The purpose of prayer techniques”, June 2023
- “Discerning the path of prayer”, July 2023
- “Playful prayer”, August 2023
- “Visio Divina, praying with the eyes of your heart”, September 2023
- “Contemplative intercession”, October 2023
- “Petition through contemplation”, November 2023
- “Praying our Gratitude”, December 2023
- “Always beginning in prayer”, January 2024
- “Accompaniment in prayer”, February 2024
- “Friendship with God”, March 2024
- “Praying with icons”, April 2024
- “The Jesus Prayer”, May 2024
- “Praying continuously”, June 2024
- “Finding God in all things”, July 2024
- “Spiritual journalling”, August 2024
- “Prayer at/on the edge”, October 2024
- “What is the point of contemplative prayer?”, November 2024