“We must return to the Faith of our fathers by way of the prayer of our fathers.” ~ John Senior
The Vacuum of our Secular Era
As modern day Americans, it is nearly impossible for us to imagine what a balanced and healthy Christian lifestyle actually looks like. Protestantism has played a primary role in shaping the way we Americans understand religious life. All too often, this has reduced religion to a private matter, with little to no regard for contemplation. In Orthodoxy, indeed, in all traditional Christian societies, religion is fundamentally communal and contemplative. Christian culture, the culture that creates saints, begins and ends in the liturgical prayer life of the Church.
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