What a gift it was to me in my young adult years to have the opportunity to meet with my pastor Alex Aronis an hour a week over ten weeks to introduce me to the approach to prayer found in the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola. I think back with deep gratitude that this was a pastor with a vision to teach parishioners how to pray and he was prepared to teach them one on one one by one. He was never so busy or preoccupied with church management that he did not have time for this very basic dimension of pastoral ministry. Yes it takes time but it may be one of the most powerful gifts we can give another teaching them how to pray.