10 June 2012
When we recognise the essential continuity of a prayer-defined life - we are in a position to develop and practice a working, customised askesis that is as suitable for pastors as much as monks in a monastery, for us all. We need to understand our lives vocationally as a life of prayer, otherwise any askesis will only be a cubbyhole for devotional narcissism. To understand the life of prayer as anything less than the comprehensive interior of the pastoral vocation, then any askesis we construct will be no more than a stage prop for a religious performance.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Prop For Religious Performance • Opuss № I