WE HAVE EMPHASIZED, with calculated repetition, St. Teresa’s fundamental theory of meditation: a loving conversation with Christ. St. Teresa, though, was a clever pedagogue; she
If you want all your prayers to be answered without fail and oblige God to meet all your wishes, the first thing is never to
Without exaggeration we can say: Whatsoever is truly great in this world is a fruit of prayer. Every man who has achieved something extraordinary in
O most loving Mother of God, Mary ever-virgin, you overflow with a miraculous sweetness, which the human mind is not able to comprehend or describe!
“And all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.” -John 21:22 God has solemnly promised to hearken to a prayer said
“Be still and know that I am God.” I seek you, my God, but not through any of the senses of my body or through
The anemic style so frequently noted in recent translations and compositions of prayer, particularly over the past sixty or so years, is not quite so
“For the Church, precisely because it embraces all nations and is destined to endure until the end of time…of its very nature requires a language
EIGHTH TRUTH: My interior life will be no better than my custody of my heart. “Before all things keep a guard over thy heart, for
In this book the words life of prayer, contemplative life will be applied, as they are in the Imitation of Christ to the state of
Invitation of the Heart of Jesus Part I The Devotion to the Sacred Heart is the Last Effort in These Latter Ages of the Love
One of the most common and deplorable illusions consists in judging of our prayer by the consolation or dryness we meet with therein. In thinking
Is Reparation Destined to Save Society? In the nineteenth century Blessed Pope Pius IX stated, “Reparation is destined to save society!” One addresses God by
Stop. Be still. Calm the mind for a moment; allow the striking, jarring, chilling words of the God-man to sink deeply into your soul: “And
“Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.” -Matthew 6:7 A man
Sermon for Ash Wednesday, February 9, 1622, concerning the spiritual fruits of fasting and the conditions which make fasting pleasing to God: fasting universally, that
By tradition going back to early Christian times, the Divine Office has been prayed by Roman Catholics, arranged in such a way that the whole
How We Are to Be Disposed and What We Are to Say When We Desire Anything CHRIST: My son, say this on every occasion: Lord,
By means of prayer, the soul is enabled to lift itself near to God and thus live a spiritual life – that of Christian perfection.
“Jacinta did not rest until she brought her own family to a daily recitation of the rosary in common.” -Cardinal Humberto Medeiros The fruits of
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