Advent Retreat, “Atomic Habits of Prayer“ 

 Fr. Brendan says, it is possible to learn how to pray in many different forms and some of these methods will work for you and some won’t. Finding the ones that work for you can only be discovered by praying them. And that requires the forming of new habits which can be hard for incredibly busy people with full calendars. Yet we can always find time for the things we desire. 

 We desire to be people of prayer because a person of deep listening prayer is a person who is able to listen to others, to be peaceful and centered in their own hearts, to be calm in the face of chaos, to be kind and gentle especially those least deserving of it, to be loving at all times and to be present to others in their difficulties. 

He wants to help us develop the habit of listening prayer. He will share the science behind the formation of habits and how to lose old bad habits and make new ones. Then he will apply this science to the tradition in our Church of mystical prayer including meditation and other forms of contemplation.