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A practice of short prayers or divine names uttered during meditation.

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The Daily Meditation with Brother Richard
Keeping the Peace Between Sessions

Let's consecrate those words as arrow prayers we will use throughout the rest of the day.

The Daily Meditation with Brother Richard
Keeping the Peace Between Sessions

All of these words and the virtues associated with them make perfect arrow prayers.

The Daily Meditation with Brother Richard
Keeping the Peace Between Sessions

Well, they were very short lines from scripture or from traditional prayer or simply the divine name uttered in a prayerful way.

The Daily Meditation with Brother Richard
Keeping the Peace Between Sessions

I'm sure you've seen those movies in the past where people scaling the walls of medieval castles would fire an arrow over the wall attached to a rope and so be able to climb the wall and get to a place of safety.

The Daily Meditation with Brother Richard
Keeping the Peace Between Sessions

such that at least once an hour, more if one needed it, one paused for a very quick, short session of prayer.

The Daily Meditation with Brother Richard
Keeping the Peace Between Sessions

The arrow prayer or aspirative prayer, coming from to aspirate, to breathe, was the idea of holding oneself to a practice in between formal sessions of meditation.

The Daily Meditation with Brother Richard
Keeping the Peace Between Sessions

the practice of what was known as the arrow or aspirative prayer, and the practice of the glance of the heart.