POETRY AND PRAYER - COMMON ROOTS.

The process of modernisation and secularisation leads the present society to the loss of the Christian identity and to a departure from God. The individual finds himself in a continuous search for solid bench-marks and for solutions that would offer meaning to his existence, by being aware of his identity. One can enter the sacred through poetry and prayer, stemming from love. The poetry of religious inspiration triggers a state of self-reconciliation, of harmony with the world and of accepting your own destiny. The presence of divinity in the creative act offers the poet the chance to overcome his limits, to go beyond mysteries and to become spiritually enriched. Through invocation, the poet brings offerings to the deity, thus attaining some higher knowledge followed by the illumination reflected in poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]