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How Prayer Brings Us to the Heart of Jesus Like an Arrow
St Teresa of Avila maintained that experiences cannot be our motivation in prayer and that they are not essential to the communication between God and the soul. What is necessary, is the recognition that the initiative in prayer is God’s. In prayer, God gives us an instrument of His Passion; the arrow that pierced Christ’s side and opened up the spiritual life of the Church.
What is Lent? What are the origins of Lent? Why do we fast during Lent?
Time and time again Israel’s prophets spoke about the need to go back into the desert where Moses had led Israel’s ancestors. Today, we too find it valuable to go back into the desert, so that as we take up battle against spiritual evils, we are armed with weapons of self-restraint.
What can Mary teach us about the Passion?
“Stabat mater dolorosa – The Sorrowful Mother was standing.” This is the first line of one of the most celebrated Catholic hymns sung by Catholics for over eight centuries when walking from one station of the Cross to the next. The Stabat Mater teaches us that every fallen child of Adam and Eve benefits from uniting sacrificially with Jesus and Mary. Meditate on the first three stanzas in this blog.
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