Jews around the world have entered into the Days of Awe — that period from the start of Rosh Hashanah until the breaking of the Yom Kippur fast — days of prayer and contemplation, days … ...

When I am at my most rattled or in victimized self-righteousness, I go for walks, another way to put my feet to prayer. I pray for help, and in some dimension outside of my mind or language, I relax.

Prayer, for Kassiani, enchants us to God’s boundless mercy. As an inspired and exceptional poet, she prayed through music. More than 800 of her hymns and nonliturgical verses have survived.

The core of Jesus’ prayer is to rest in him, to find one’s help in him. It is what Jesus means when he says, “For my yoke is easy, and my burden light” (Mt 11:30).