"When we are before the Blessed
Sacrament, instead of looking about us,
let us
shut our eyes and open our hearts; and the good God
will open
His. We
will go to Him, and He will come to us,
the one to
give, and
the other to receive. It will be like a breath
passing
from one to the other."- St. John Vianney
"Our own
silence is not disagreeable to God; it does not repel Him. He listens to the longing
deep within our soul. With God we must learn a new language of love in which
words are often unnecessary. ...
Our longing for Him
hides beneath words. A bedraggled,
branded spirit may be the reality of the day, the humbling truth of the current
hour. But it does not preclude a cry of love from the silent core of our
being. ...
There is in a sense
no option. One cannot
seek God after a while except inside a greater density of interior silence in
prayer where there is no help from words, no distinct utterance that would
predictably cast open a door. The soul can only wait in a poverty of
speech."
Father Donald
Haggerty
Professor of Moral
Theology
Capuchin Institute
of Philosophy and Theology , Ethiopia
Contemplative
Provocations (Ignatius
Press)
Image: Stilles Gebet, Silent
Prayer
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