Pope Benedict XVI's words -  (12/7/06)

    "..A fundamental task of pastoral care is to teach people how to pray and how to learn to do so personally, better and better."

Schools of prayer

 "Many seek meditation elsewhere because they think that they will not be able to find a spiritual dimension in Christianity," Benedict XVI observed. "We must show them once again not only that this spiritual dimension exists but that it is the source of all things.

  To this end, we must increase the number of these schools of prayer, for praying together, where it is possible to learn personal prayer in all its dimensions: as silent listening to God, as a listening that penetrates his Word, penetrates his silence, sounds the depths of his action in history and in one's own person; and to understand his language in one's life and then to learn to respond in prayer with the great prayers of the Psalms of the Old Testament and prayers of the New."                   

A Reflection on some of the treasures of our Catholic Faith, as seen through the head, hands, and heart of St Paul of the Cross,  and others.
           by  Father Joseph Mills

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