What is Passive Prayer & 3 Mistakes that Block your Progress | Advancing in Personal Prayer - Part 5

These common mistakes many a time go unnoticed, but are actually a HINDRANCE to experiencing a deeper intimacy with the Lord. Are we too caught up with “activity” in prayer? How can we learn to “be still”? 1. Is your prayer time too structured? 2. Giving up during times of dryness 3. Attachment to spiritual objects Some practical lines from St. John of the Cross are included at the end. “If, while saying your vocal prayer, you feel your heart drawn and invited to interior or Mental Prayer, do not resist the attraction, but allow your mind to go gently in that direction, and be not concerned at not having finished the vocal prayers which you had intended to say. For the Mental Prayer, which you would have made instead, is more pleasing to God, and more profitable for your soul.” - St. Francis de Sales Bk 2, Ch. 1, Introduction to the Devout Life