II. Humble Vigilance of Heart

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

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The habitual difficulty in prayer is distraction. It can affect words and their
meaning in vocal prayer; it can concern, more profoundly, him to whom we are
praying, in vocal prayer (liturgical or personal), meditation, and
contemplative prayer. To set about hunting down distractions would be to fall
into their trap, when all that is necessary is to turn back to our heart: for a
distraction reveals to us what we are attached to, and this humble awareness
before the Lord should awaken our preferential love for him and lead us resolutely
to offer him our heart to be purified. Therein lies the battle, the choice of
which master to serve.¹⁶

PART FOUR: CHRISTIAN PRAYER