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If we let the words slam by with a quick skim and scan, we do not see it, we do not hear it, and we certainly don\u2019t learn from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liturgical prayer is a lot like this, of course.\u00a0 It is not for the faint of heart.\u00a0 Perhaps it requires crash helmets, as the author Annie Dillard once quipped.\u00a0 Liturgical prayer requires plenty of grace, mercy, and continually demands that we practice patience.\u00a0 How long, O Lord, how long?\u00a0 The answer might take our entire lives to unfold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we&#8217;re practicing, crash helmets or not, there\u2019s nothing that helps us to <em>hear <\/em>liturgical prayer better than actually <em>doing <\/em>it.\u00a0 Surprised?\u00a0 Maybe <em>you\u2019re <\/em>not.\u00a0 But I was.\u00a0 I, who have long loved liturgy, have long been terrible at praying that great pastoral juggernaut: the Liturgy of the Hours.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve had promptings in at least two ways this year:\u00a0 One, from my spiritual director (yes, a Benedictine).\u00a0 Two, from subbing as an organist for evening prayer with our Benedictine Sisters here in St. Joseph, Minnesota.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, my spiritual director encouraged me to read a psalm from morning prayer first thing to start the day.\u00a0 And so I have been \u00a0doing so: I make a feeble but dogged attempt at <em>lectio divina <\/em>over breakfast\u2014between feeding two children seeking fruit loops and bagels and dealing with a dog demanding kibbles.\u00a0 I might gain a word or two.\u00a0 I read it slowly, and sometimes twice.\u00a0 Coffee helps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, it\u2019s the sisters who I\u2019m accompanying that have taught me\u2014or rather are teaching me\u2014to hear the psalms and canticles slowly.&nbsp; With patience.&nbsp; With mercy for myself and others.&nbsp; And to give room for grace to speak.&nbsp; There is plenty of space for silence\u2014between the psalms and readings, between the stanzas, even between the lines.&nbsp; There is space for prayer to speak.&nbsp; For God to speak.&nbsp; And for us to be silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m far from perfect in my hearing of the liturgy.\u00a0 But I feel as if I\u2019m getting very slowly tuned to hear<em> just a little bit <\/em>better.\u00a0 It certainly is easier to hear liturgical prayer speak in community.\u00a0 In fact, the community slowly speaking\u2014better yet singing\u2014evening prayer animates the texts in a way I\u2019ve never quite experienced, but perhaps in the way in which liturgical prayer was intended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So maybe it will take my whole life.  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