PRAYER LIFE (Prayer, devotion, devoted to God/Christ)
- From now on, I want to live in an attentive and watchful manner, listening for my God. My Teacher, who is at the same time my Lord and my God, doesn’t need places in which I speak to me. He can equally teach me during a half hour of prayer as during long moments of thought in the course of my activities. I will remain ready to listen so that my Teacher can find His pupil attentive at any hour. (p. 18)
- I want to live totally devoted to my God. I have resolved to delve into them every day, since God is so big that no one can completely know Him. I have also resolve to continue purifying my emotions each day so that Christ’s life might be my life, my sole source of nourishment, and the will of my Father…This would be truly living, since Christ is life and in Him I must established mine. (p. 18)
- During this morning’s prayer, I felt called to a very personal understanding of Christ and I remembered his words, “I chose you”. Then I wondered why I should merit such a choice. I considered the nothingness from which God took me, I added to this nothingness the sins that I committed and my present states of fickleness and all of my fears…Yet in spite of all this, god watches over me as if I were the apple of his eyes…I can do anything through Him who comforts me. (p. 19)
- My Lord and my God, from afar I can see you and what magnificence in You do I discover! O Single Truth, you are the being that encompasses all holiness, glory, and justice! I will search for You with a tireless yearning” I want to join with You and live Your life! (p. 25)
- I went on a retreat and I can say that it went well. The Lord expects me to surrender myself to a life of continual prayer, full of living faith, with complete abandonment, and altruistic love. I understand continuous prayer to be a centering of all of my life in god in order to spend my life in His service. (p. 33)
- I continue to pray with ease and relaxed pleasure. With just a short prayer, I can quickly feel trust and submission unto the Lord. (p. 34)
- My inner life is going well. Throughout the day, I enjoy what morning prayers have provided me… (p. 34)
- During these two past month, I’ve continued with my prayer of trust…This prayer is very helpful for me and allows me go hold on to the sentiment that I am nothing, and that nothing is owed this nothingness. (p.35)
- I continue with the same spiritual dry spell, but it is not only that. I don’t know if my prayer really is prayer… (p. 38)
- Today the retreat ended. The Kingdom of Christ has been everything for me during these days of prayer… (p. 45)
- Only two things remain unchanged: the appeal that prayer has for me because it lets me relate intimately with Christ, and the love and dedication that I have for everyone. (p. 55)
- We will enter retreat on the 30th. Perhaps God will inspire me to something new. For now, he insistently remains asking for continuous prayer… (p. 56)
- I pray at five o’clock in the morning… (p. 60)
- During my prayers, I cannot think about any other thing that to see me poor in front of God… I pray, I trust, and I dare to ask for everything because I hope for everything… (p. 60)
- It is finding life in God, to discover Him as you would light in the shadows, counsel in doubt…It is a life of prayer that is completely full. (p. 62)
- I have asked Him to teach me by means of simple prayer something that I am drawn to so much. (p. 62)
- I prayed first thing in the morning as the Lord has taught me…This prayer deifies me and I feel its influence all day long. I can contemplate, but I can go no deeper. I’m convinced that the Lord doesn’t want me to leave this prayer of faith. (p. 64)
- I pray my way in solitude and I feel full the Spirit of God…The prayer of faith increasingly appeals to me. And I’m convinced that life is precious because I can pray with a living faith and because I can make it “a gift” for others. (p. 64)
- Strenuous prayer. (p. 65)
- I want a life of prayer, desirous of glorifying the Father. How splendid are the paths of God, and what infinite varieties I’m discovering. (p. 75)
- The Kingdom of God and all of my tasks at hand are the subjects of my prayer. (p. 77)
- I’ve written to Luisa Beristain so that, as the good Carmelite that she is, an abundance of prayer could be recited on the19th, 20th and 21st of this month. (p. 75)
- The Lord is persistently asking me for prayer, penance and continuous exercise of solitary and strong love. (p. 80)
- I feel his presence during the day and a great desire to be faithful, but when I go to prayer and it all sounds like “Babel”. (p. 85)
- At least for now, Leonor in Argentina and me in Berriz, we will be missionaries through (p. 88)
- During prayer, I’m filled with the desire to glorify the Father. I’m filled with apostolic spirit and of love for the Church. I deal with all of these things with God during prayer. (p. 95)
- We pray a lot for the situation to improve and so that they may continue to work in peace. (p. 101)
- It’s not enough that we be pious, self-sacrificing, and women of prayer… (p. 114)
- I’ve asked Leonor to pray a lot for me because the Lord has put difficult matter in my hands that require prudence, a lot of spirit, and bravery. (p. 151)
- Love and prayer can accomplish everything. (p. 154)
- I’ve asked (Mother Nieves) to help me. I’ve asked that she pray to the Holy Spirit on my behalf because I need a lot of his guidance and grace. (p. 156)
- My life of continuous prayer has been enhanced having gone through these great nations where the Adveniat regnum tuum does not fall from one’s lips…but the most important thing for me for any mission is to let God do his work and to trust greatly in prayer. (p. 165)
- For some time now, everything has been like an invitation to live in God. To seek the way of tranquil (p. 223)
- I gave a presentation to the community titled “Prayer and Contemplation” …Before anything else, I wanted to dispel the belief that some have that those who are not inclined to prayer or inner life are the one who are most fit for the life of a missionary…. I am one of those who firmly believe that in order for someone to be a true missionary, she must be ingrained with a deep fondness to payer. It must be a prayer that is lofty, long, profound, and close to contemplation. It must be a prayer in which she can enter into the mysteries of the divine to discover the secrets of redemption…That’s why, when someone who claims to have a missionary vocation is nominated for the novitiate and I hear that she may good for the missions because she is not drawn to prayer, or the Divine Office, or solitude – I’m surprised by such a mistaken, false, and damaging concept. I do not want these types of vocations, at least not for our Institute. Our state of prayer and contemplation should be such that… (p. 251 and ff).