simply say the Our Father once a day.… Here, I’ll read for you how these holy fathers censure those who do not try to gain and learn the sweet prayer of the heart. They write that such people commit a sin in three ways. First, such people show themselves to contradict the divinely inspired scriptures. Second, they do not suppose that there is a higher and more perfect state for the soul, and are satisfied with external acts of virtue; they cannot have a hunger and thirst for righteousness and so