The Beginning of Mystical Prayer ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Beginning of Mystical Prayer ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Before the 1960s, mental prayer took place behind the closed doors of a personal prayer life. However, as the charismatic movement began to spread amongst Catholics, communal charismatic style prayer became more and more popular, not least because of unusual phenomena, from speaking in tongues to slaying in the spirit. When criticised as a deviation from the normal Catholic prayer tradition, they claimed that far from being new, their way of wor…