COMMENT:
The ‘Mellifluous’ St. Bernard, as in the
previous Reading, can be rather prolix.
What follows, a very much writing from Sr.
Ruth Burrows is accessible in attractive words,
- not having the book!
from MAGNIFICAT.com
MEDITATION OF THE DAY
SISTER RUTH BURROWS, O.CD.
How
the Seed Bears Fruit
I
am totally convinced that our God, the God we see in Jesus, is all-love,
all-compassion and, what is more, is all-gift; is always offering God's own
Self as our perfect fulfilment. I believe, through Jesus, that we were made for
this, and that it is divine Love's passion to bring it to perfect fulfilment in
us. So when I set myself to pray I am basing myself on this faith and refuse to
let it go. I just take it for granted that, because God is the God of Jesus,
all-love, who fulfils every promise, this work of love is going on, purifying
and gradually transforming me. What I actually experience on my conscious
level is quite unimportant. In fact I experience nothing except my poor, distracted
self.
From ‘Essence of Prayer’ 2006 by Sister Ruth Burrows is a Carmelite
nun at Quidenham in Norfolk, England.
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The Essence of Prayer:
Foreword by Sister Wendy Beckett
Continuum International Publishing Group, 1 Jul 2006 - Religion - 224
pages
Prayer is a word we take for granted but what do we mean by prayer?
Almost always when we talk about prayer we refer to something we DO. But
Burrows argues that our Christian knowledge assures us that prayer is
essentially what God DOES.
And what God is doing for us is giving us the Divine Self in love. This is the vision of a contemplative nun who contradicts the heresy of so much modern spiritual writing. The growing fascination in the contemplative and monastic life is evidence of the profound appeal of this approach.
For this there is a real hunger. Ultimately, we live for God and not for ourselves.
And what God is doing for us is giving us the Divine Self in love. This is the vision of a contemplative nun who contradicts the heresy of so much modern spiritual writing. The growing fascination in the contemplative and monastic life is evidence of the profound appeal of this approach.
For this there is a real hunger. Ultimately, we live for God and not for ourselves.
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