Personal experience of God is the only [experience] capable of opposing the materialism present in our life. It gives to us the firmness of a rock in this world where faith is, simultaneously, attacked in its philosophical bases and held captive by ambient immorality. Tomás Morales Pérez SJ (1908–1994)
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Without Which We Have Nothing to Say
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)
The Most Beautiful Church that Exists
A Christian is the most beautiful church that exists. The living God abides in her. Close your eyes, close your ears, make silence within and listen to the Voice which says to you, “If someone loves me… That day, you will know that I am with you… Whoever eats my flesh… Live in Me and …
Dialogue, Interiority, and Movement
A dialogue begins. It becomes more and more intimate, fusional, with Someone who loves me and comprehends me. You discover more and more that God does not look at the exterior walls of your actions, but he sees straight through to the heart and interior motive that throws them into movement. Tomás Morales Pérez SJ …
Convictions
The convictions acquired in prayer are the only ones that do not collapse. The reason is, as Charles de Foucauld tells us, this: to pray is to think of God and to love him. In the light of the Truth, in the fire of Love, decisions become realities. But that only if the recourse to …
Not a Technique, Not Reserved for a Select Few
Contemplation is not a technique of specialists, a privilege exclusive to a few. It is rather the natural consequence of a soul that loves God and, full of admiration, adores in silence. Tomás Morales Pérez SJ (1908–1994)
Contemplative in the Mud 