John Predmore, S.J., is a USA East Province Jesuit and was the pastor of Jordan's English language parish. He teaches art and directs BC High's adult spiritual formation programs. Formerly a retreat director in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ignatian Spirituality is given through guided meditations, weekend-, 8-day, and 30-day Retreats based on The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Ignatian Spirituality serves the contemporary world as people strive to develop a friendship with God.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Prayer: Teresa of Calcutta
I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of
the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence – we need to listen to
God because it is not what we say but what God says to us and through us that
matters.
This is indeed a great truth.
ReplyDeleteThis is what I want to teach everyone.
DeleteThat is what I want the RCIA folks to learn also - it is not in our words that God speaks to us but in the silence.
DeleteMany are afraid of the silence. They fear looking at themselves.
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