Prayer: this intimate dialogue with God in the desert of interior silence, in the absence of temporal tasks, this dialogue without which we have nothing to say to the world. Tomás Morales Pérez SJ (1908–1994)
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Intimacy and Greater Confidence
Prayer directed to God… makes us enter into intimacy with him; when we adore him in spirit and truth, our spirit is raised up to him and enters into a colloquy of spiritual affection with him. In praying thus, this affectionate intimacy prepares a way to return to prayer with even greater confidence. Saint Thomas …
Diseases of Soul and Body
Diseases of the body are cured by fasting, those of the soul by prayer. Saint John of Ávila
A Noble Supplication
Prayer is the noble supplication which we lift up to the throne of God. It is the most efficient means to obtain from God the graces which we need, and especially the strength of persevering in these times, in which the hatred of the sons of the devil is breaking out violently against the sheep …
To Pray Is…
To pray is, at the least, to look towards God; to pray is to think of God, to speak to God, or to entreat God – whether it be with spoken words or with ideas or mental images or, more simply, with the infinitely deeper but obscure regard of contemplation. When there is none of …
More Possession, More Desire, More Prayer
One desires the divine realities only in the measure one already possesses them. So the more you pray, the more you will desire prayer. René Voillaume (1905–2003)
Incomplete Until…
We shall not feel that our lives are in any way complete, nor shall we find any peace in our hearts, so long as we are unable to say that we have done our utmost to become abidingly men of prayer. René Voillaume (1905–2003)
Length of Prayer
Length of prayer consists, not in praying for many things, but in the affections persisting in the desire of one thing. Saint Thomas Aquinas
Involution of Causes
The desire to pray is already an effect of prayer. René Voillaume (1905–2003)
A Little Theology of Work from the Pen of a Teenager
Work is the brother of prayer. Sometimes it seems tough, but there are satisfactions for those who endure it… Virtue, meanwhile, is that tender flower which seeks to immolate itself for the benefit of others, which makes happy those around it, which gives gentle consolation… Work and virtue! Voilà two weapons we ought to be …
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Contemplative in the Mud 