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Life of prayer : Union with God in action (n°20)

Poor Martha, She is often shown as the « active » sister complaining about « a visionary and a dreamer ». The Lord praises (…)

Life of prayer : Warfare and Prayer (n°19)

After having evoked distractions in prayer and periods of drought, we cannot keep silent about the Ennemy’s action, for whom the ractice of orison (…)

Life of prayer : Barrenness and its reasons (n°18)

In spiritual life, and particularly in orison, we can experience periods of barrenness. Prayer becomes heavy and boring, we don’t feel anything, thoughts go (…)

Life of prayer : Spiritual reading (n°17)

In former bulletins, we have spoken about the vital importance of Lectio divina. We are dealing here with another subject, that of spiritual reading. (…)

Life of prayer : Orison an act of Hope (n°16)

In the bulletin « He is here ! » n° 11, we recalled that, for our prayer to be true, to put us in (…)

Life of prayer : Silence and Word (n°15)

In the beginning In the beginning is the Word: God speaks and it is. The Word creates, organises what was formless wasteland, the word (…)

Life of prayer : Inner life (n°14)

« Behold, the Kingdom of God is within you » (Luke 17,21) and St Paul « You are the temple of God » (2 (…)

Life of prayer : Prayer of the Heart (n°13)

Prayer of the heart, or « ceaseless prayer » derives from St Paul’s invitation to the Thessalonians Christians: « Pray constantly! » (1 Thes (…)

Life of prayer : Oraison everyday (n°12)

Keeping in touch « Go in the peace of Christ », Mass has ended, but one can understand: « From now, live in your (…)

Life of prayer : Orison, an act of faith (n°11)

In the foreword of the « Ascent of Carmel », St John of the Cross writes: « There are some souls who think they (…)