Prayer and the Community

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We have stressed the fact that prayer is an event that begins in the individual soul. We have not dwelled upon how much our ability to pray depends upon how much our being a part of a community.... How can we forget that our ability to pray we owe to the community and to tradition? We have learned how to pray by listening to the voice of prayer... We never pray as individuals, set apart fromthe rest of the world... Every act of worship is an act of participating in an eternal service, in the service of all souls of all ages. ~Abraham Joshua Herschel Herschel was a renowned Jewish Rabbi and Philosophy scholar. He is widely read by both Jews and Christians. He did much work with the Catholic Church. He believed that Religious experiences were fundamentally human. His beliefs were that no one religion could claim a monopoly on religious truth. What are your thoughts on this? Shalom~Adoniah