Help in Mental Prayer

[SeriousQuestion]

I have been looking at the method of Saint Alphonsus on this matter but it kind of is confusing for me. I guess the root of the problem is how certain parts like the considerations and affections are supposed to be a prayer.

 

[TheLittleLady]

I’ve found Fr Dubay’s books and Fr. Phillipe’s books on prayer to be so very helpful.

“Time For God” is the best book I have read on mental prayer

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003V8BSA4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

However we do mental prayer, we can be sure of encountering difficulties. Some have already been mentioned: dryness, distaste, a sense of our own worthlessness, the feeling the effort to pray is useless.

The first thing to say about such difficulties is that they should not come as a surprise or cause us to worry or be upset. Not only are they inevitable, they are actually good for us. They purify our love for God and strengthen our faith.

• Time for God, p.96