It’s Vocations Week. Normally, I don’t have many thoughts on cloistered contemplative life, except insofar as I have to read those Doctors of the Church who wrote predominantly about contemplation (John of the Cross, Teresa, Thérèse) and try to translate this into contemplation in a life lived on the world’s muddy highways. Today I’ll offer some small thoughts. What is …
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Alone and Together
In the Book of Her Life, Saint Teresa says, Contemplative prayer (oración mental) in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us. And this is a key part of contemplative union with God: silence with him. But there …
Contemplative in the Mud 