Cloistering the heart...

"Your Face is all lovely and Your heart is all inviting,

but my thoughts alas! go wandering far from You.

Come, O God of my heart,

gather together my scattered mental powers

and fix them upon Yourself.” – St Gertrude

"We come to Holy Mass to hearken to 

the words of the Word, to be wounded by them, 

to be espoused by them in such a way that, as the 

one Body of Christ, we are drawn upward with 

our Divine Head to the Father in the Holy Spirit. 

A listening Church will be one in which St Paul's 

goal for the Corinthians is necessarily fulfilled: 

"power to attend upon the Lord,

 without impediment" - (1 Cor 7:35)."

Dom Mark Daniel Kirby
Prior of Silverstream Priory
Stamullen, County Meath, Ireland

 

St Elisabeth of the Trinity prayed:

"O Eternal Word, Word of my God, 

I want to spend my life in listening to You, 

to become wholly teachable that I may 

learn all from You. Then through all nights, 

all voids, all helplessness, I want to gaze on You

 always and remain in Your great light."