Adjutorium

Whether continuous prayer is a viable spiritual strategy for contemporary Christians is a question that I would not like to discuss. What does interest me, however, is another question: Do old prayers, like the one under discussion, “hold up” if the conditions which once gave them their pungency disappear? Most of us, I suspect, do [...]

Here is what Abbot Isaac the Great of Egypt has to say about the Adjutorium.
And so for keeping up continual recollection of God this pious formula is to be ever set before you. “O God, make speed to save me: O Lord, make haste to help me,”(Psalm 70:1) for this verse has not unreasonably been [...]

St. John Cassian recorded the use of the Adjutorium by Egyptian monks. [more]