the truth, to crucify the flesh with its passions and desires, to illuminate the heart with the Light of Christ, and to be savingly united with God. None of this can be accomplished without preliminary frequent prayer. I say frequent because both perfection and righteousness of prayer are beyond our own capabilities, for, as even the holy apostle Paul says, We do not know how or for what we pray.32 Consequently, only frequency and regularity are left to the portion of our ability as means to acquire