Adjutorium

Here is a quotation by St. John of Karpathos which does not need any commentary by me, of all people.
Blessed is he who, with a hunger that is never satisfied, day and night throughout this present life makes prayer and the psalms his food and drink, and strengthens himself by reading of God’s glory [...]

We very much pity those Orthodox Christians who think that the best rest for their exhausted soul is to watch television news. This isn’t a bad thing, perhaps, but it’s a dead thing. You may spend all of the earthly time you have been allotted with such distractions, but you will never be at peace. [...]

Isaac maintains that the Adjutorium is applicable to all the times and conditions of our lives.
For it embraces all the feelings which can be implanted in human nature, and can be fitly and satisfactorily adapted to every condition, and all assaults.
There is probably a lot to be said about this, but here is what has [...]

A Buddhist monk has worn the imprint of his feet in the floor of the temple where he prays every day.
We often are tempted to think our prayers produce no fruit, no perceptible change, or that faithfulness especially to the tedium of monastic, eremitic, or lay lives is worthless.
From Notes from Stillsong Hermitage: Changing the [...]

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 [...]

Le Christ est ressuscité ; en vérité, il est ressuscité. (Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. in French)
Conferences of John Cassian | Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
This link, to a chapter of St. John Cassian’s Conferences, contains a little something I’m going to write about later. But now it’s late and time for bed.

I am not the best person to write about continual prayer, but…