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Contemplative Prayer and Hope for America, by Anthony Lilles – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Man in prayer. Image: Matea Gregg. Unsplash.com

By Anthony Lilles, Catholic World Report, September 18, 2025 

Professor Anthony Lilles is an expert in the Catholic mystical tradition and currently serves on the faculty of St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park, CA. Co-founder of the Avila Institute of Spiritual Formation, he also directs the Initiative for Priestly Renewal for the ongoing formation of priests.

 

Prayer in the Catholic Tradition is about facing the materialist swamp, facing even the social horror that it engenders, and answering it with the peace of Christ.

In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, how do we answer the violence that grips America’s public square?

This latest social horror is part of a disturbing pattern of other assassinations, massacres, and violent riots that have gripped our country. Confused and cowardly men vent their rage on defenseless children and people of faith. Drugged-out gangbangers terrorize schools and neighborhoods. Deadly plots of lone-wolf assassins foil safety measures and rob our society of important voices that we need to hear. Our whole social reality is unraveling, and until we return to the truth of our own humanity before God, we risk even greater horrors to come. The Catholic tradition proposes that the only adequate answer to the social horror we are witnessing is the peace of Christ, and the saints and martyrs of this tradition discovered this peace through a return to contemplative prayer. Contemplative prayer as an encounter with the saving mystery of Christ is America’s only real hope. …

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