Tuesday, April 28 : Saint Teresa of Calcutta

You will think praying is difficult if you don’t know how to go about it. We all have to help ourselves pray: first of all by having recourse to silence since we can’t place ourselves in God’s presence if we don’t practise silence, interior as well as exterior. Becoming silent within isn’t easy but the effort is indispensable. It is only in silence that we will find new strength and real union. God’s strength will become our own so that we can do everything as it has to be done, and it will be the same regarding the union of our thoughts with his thoughts, our prayers with his prayers, our actions with his actions, our life with his life. Union is the fruit of prayer, humility and love. God speaks in the silence of the heart. If you place yourself before God in silence and prayer, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you know your nothingness and emptiness that God can fill you with himself. The great souls of prayer are souls of great silence. Silence causes us to see everything differently. We need silence if we are to touch the souls of others. The important thing is not what we say but what God says – what he says to us and what he says through us. In a silence like this he will listen to us; in silence like this he will speak to our souls and we will understand his voice.
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