From social media (Facebook, Instagram, and X) this past week:

It seems to me that Our Lady’s attitude during the months that intervened between the Annunciation and the Nativity is the model for interior souls, for those whom God has chosen to live within, in the depths of the unfathomable abyss. — Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity

Outside of economic categories, an artist or a contemplative is at times able to see things in themselves, as coming from the hand of God. Without this rediscovery, the use human beings make of things by necessity ends up disfigured. — Arturo Paoli

The contemplative life… is a life of friendship with the Person of Jesus, it is a much deeper inner life, in contact with God. Why should this friendship, this contact, not be able to co-exist with a call to souls, even a call to crowds? — Little Sister Magdeleine of Jesus

A little of this pure love is more precious to God and to the soul and more beneficial to the Church, even though it seems that one is doing nothing, than all other works put together. — Saint John of the Cross

This is the path of contemplative prayer: I look at him and he looks at me. This act of love in silent dialogue with Jesus does so much good for the Church. — Pope Francis