Dom Augustin Guillerand Learn to Pray as Monks Pray For nearly a thousand years monks of the Carthusian Order have withdrawn from the world so they can place themselves in the presence of God Alone in their cells they pray work and take their meals freed from worldly distractions and the cacophony of thoughts that course through your mind and mine when at the end of the day we kneel down to pray A thousand years silnece has enabled the Carthucians to perfect a way of praying suited for the cloister but it s also right for those of us whose obligations force us to work and pray in the rush and hurry of the world In these pages the monk Augustin Guillerand reveals the secret of the Carthusian s remarkable prayer of the presence of God Obviously this way of praying excludes quick Our Fathers and hasty Hail Marys but it also requires that we do more than pause and say our prayers slowly In fact the Carthusians know that the prayer of the presence of God isn t prima