I do not have the answer to the question that I am asking myself but certainly I feel that there is something missing in our prioritisation and process of stressing on prayer and a meaningful prayer life.
The insistence on prayer (especially community prayer) is a very common reminder that I have heard of since my initial years of formation and training. Nonetheless, I fear that we have consistently misplaced our importance. That we have put the cart before the horse. That we have missed stressing the core and have focused on the accidentals or sure by products.
For me, the insistence and effort should be at offering our young people, our formees and certainly ourselves, a profound personal God-experience. A sincere thirst, a passion for God. Now how exactly do we do that, I have no magic formulas. But if I truly taste God and have an experience of him, no matter how fleeting or far-in-between my many days on earth, I will find may own ways of staying in touch with him, relishing him. Prayer, attendance at the Eucharist, partaking in the sacraments, will all happen by default thereafter.
Aim big, achieve big. Dream small, achieve small! Certainly God-experience is no small aim.
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