On prayer, mindfulness and contemplation

A lot of people seem to mean a lot of different things by ‘prayer’.

Comment Kirsten Birkett

I once went to what was advertised as an Augustinian prayer day. That sounded eminently attractive, I thought: I’m interested in Augustine, and I’m interested in prayer. What we were told to do, however, was to sit in silence, individually, for 30 minutes, concentrating on our breathing.