"It may very well be that the monastics of the Church today as well as in the past, in their unending prayer, are exactly what keeps sin from totally destroying the world,"
Second Thessalonians says it is the Holy Spirit who is the restrainer of evil and He will be removed from the earth just before the Lord comes again. It is the effectuial fervant prayer of righteous man that availeth much. That's your and my responsibility, not just the professionals. We both need support to prevail in prayer.
"It is the effectuial fervant prayer of righteous man that availeth much. That's your and my responsibility, not just the professionals. We both need support to prevail in prayer."
I agree 100% But you and I live "in the world" and just as you and I have not lived the training life of Olympic marathoners so that we can jog, neither have we lead the prayer life of holy monastics in the "spiritual meadow" of monasticism.