On one occasion I asked him whether there would be more spiritual loss in omitting the exercise of mental prayer or in omitting that of recollection and aspirations.
All the masters of spiritual life have had similar opinions of the value of mental prayer as this contemplative Saint, and they have pointed out the necessity of it for advancing in the ways of virtue.
The practice ofmental prayer no way diminished the zeal of St. Francis for vocal prayer, which every Christian ought to resort to as he did.
Begins to grow lukewarm, and gives up mental prayer.
The truth is that, in the beginning, this almost always happens after much mental prayer.
Other condemnations were directed against the claims of inspiration and revelation, against the suspension of the faculties in mental prayer, against the Union with God which had been the aim of all the mystics.
Francisco de Osuna, the teacher of Santa Teresa, asserts that oral prayer is a positive injury to those advanced in mental prayer.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mental prayer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
