Prayer: The Arrow Prayer: Short Prayers Throughout the Day
Teaching on Prayer from John Cassian: The Arrow Prayer: Short Prayers Throughout the Day
This is a spiritual discipline on arrow prayers and brief prayer, drawing on Psalm 70:1, Nehemiah 2:4 and Luke 18:13.
The Desert Fathers practiced what later writers called "arrow prayers" or "ejaculatory prayers" -- brief, intense cries of the heart shot heavenward throughout the day. John Cassian reported that the Egyptian monks favored Psalm 70:1: "O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me." Augustine commended the practice of the Egyptian monks who "are said to have very frequent but very brief prayers, thrown out as if suddenly, lest that watchful and alert attention, so necessary for one who prays, should by long continuance be weakened."…
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