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St. Therese Teachings on Prayer

8/29/2015

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Prayer is, for me, an outburst from the heart; it is a simple glance darted upwards to Heaven; it is a cry of gratitude and of love in the midst of trial as in the midst of joy! In a word, it is something exalted, supernatural, which dilates the soul and unites it to God. Sometimes when I find myself, spiritually, in dryness so great that I cannot produce a single good thought, I recite very slowly the Our Father and a Hail Mary; these prayers alone console me, they suffice, and they nourish my soul.

As I grew older I loved the good God more and more, and very frequently did I offer Him my heart, using the words my mother had taught me. I strove in all my actions to please Jesus and was most watchful never to offend Him.

Great is the power of prayer - a queen, as one might say, having free access always to the King, and able to obtain whatever she asks. In order to be heard, it is not necessary to read from a book a beautiful form of prayer adapted to the circumstances; if it were so, how greatly to be pitied should I be!

Archimedes said: "Give me a lever and a fulcrum, and I will raise the world." What he was unable to obtain because his request had but a material end and was not addressed to God, the Saints have obtained in full measure. For fulcrum, the Almighty has given them Himself, Himself alone! And for lever, prayer, which enkindles the fire of love; and thus it is that they have uplifted the world, thus it is that saints still militant uplift it, and will uplift it till the end of time.

Her prayer was continual though she was habitually plunged in aridity. One day a novice entered her cell paused, struck by the celestial expression of her countenance. She was sewing with alacrity yet seemed lost in profound contemplation.

"Of what are you thinking?" asked the young Sister. "I am meditating on the Our Father," she replied. "It is so sweet to call the good God our Father." And tears shone in her eyes.

Passages were taken from the Story of a Soul.

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suzana
1/18/2017 09:51:28 am

Kad te ljubav zove. slijedi je,
Premda su joj putovi tvrdi i strmi.
A kad vas krila njena ponesu, predajte joj se,
Premda vas mač skriven u njezinim perima može raniti.

A kad vam govori, vjerujte joj.
Premda njezin glas može razdrmati vaše snove kao što sjeverac pustoši perivoj.

Jer, kao što vas ljubav kruni, tako će vas i razapeti. Jer, koliko vam pomaže da rastete, toliko vas i potkresava.

Kao što se uspinje na vašu visinu i draga (miluje, napomena G:S:) vam najnježnije grane što dršću na suncu,
Tako će vam sići u korijenje i protresti ih dok prijanjaju uza zemlju.
Poput snopova žita ona vas u se skuplja.
Ona vas mlati da bi vas razgolotila.
Ona vas sije da bi vas lupine vaše oslobodila.
Ona vas melje dok ne pobijelite.
Ona vas mijesi dok gipki ne budete,
A onda vas meće na svoj sveti oganj, da postanete sveti kruh za Božji sveti pir.

Sve će vam ovo ljubav učiniti kako biste doznali tajne svojega srca i da biste po tome znanju postali komadić srca samoga Života.

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