"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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