<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>
<p>There's some debate about how to translate the Greek of this text. The NRSV may be more accurate<sup>1</sup> but another variation is funnier and perhaps more descriptive:<em> the Pharisee stood there praying to himself</em>. And that's what he seems to be doing. I remember a writing of a Carthusian who warned about prayer becoming just that, a projection, the ego deified.</p>
