#method of prayer

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Quote of the day, 19 March: Antoine-Marie Leduc, ocd

Quote of the day, 19 March: Our growth in silent prayer leads us from “thinking much” to “loving much,” as St. Teresa of Avila says. Thus, the next stage of prayer “means focusing a loving gaze on Jesus,” writes Antoine-Marie Leduc, OCD

To recollect ourselves, therefore, means focusing a loving gaze on Jesus, and looking to him in order to learn how to love: “Believe me, you should remain with so good a friend as long as you can. If you grow accustomed to having Him present at your side, and He sees that you do so with love and that you go about striving to please Him, you will not be able—as they say—to get away from Him; He…

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Quote of the day, 5 March: Antoine-Marie Leduc, ocd

Quote of the day, 12 March: The right method for prayer is “one that will allow us not to miss the moment when the Lord passes by,” writes Antoine-Marie Leduc, ocd; our focus is to “welcome what is happening deep within.”

In the Carmelite tradition, St. Teresa of Avila compares our efforts to achieve prayerful recollection to watering a garden. In chapter 11 of her autobiography (The Book of Her Life), she tells us that there are four ways of watering one’s garden that illustrate the different degrees of recollection in prayer. First, you have to take the water from the well and water the plants yourself; then,…

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