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".. detachment from the things of the earth is not enough. If the heart is neat and tidy, but empty, seven other spirits, more evil than the one which has been expelled, risk entering in ... If I don't have love, I am nothing, my prayer is nothing!"
".. prayer that asks for nothing, but is exclusively occupied with the person of the Lord, intent on receiving the communication he is making of himself in his Word .."
— May 07, 2025 02:34AM
".. prayer that asks for nothing, but is exclusively occupied with the person of the Lord, intent on receiving the communication he is making of himself in his Word .."
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What should we pray for
Workers in the harvest
"It is God who gives the increase, God alone"
"the Church relies on .. contemplative men and women ... as the soul of the activity of her apostles"
Don't worry about your life
"We do have needs, but the Father knows them much better than we ourselves do"
The Our Father as basis
"We must ask for the coming of the Kingdom, and that is what we must seek before all else."
— May 09, 2025 05:05AM
Workers in the harvest
"It is God who gives the increase, God alone"
"the Church relies on .. contemplative men and women ... as the soul of the activity of her apostles"
Don't worry about your life
"We do have needs, but the Father knows them much better than we ourselves do"
The Our Father as basis
"We must ask for the coming of the Kingdom, and that is what we must seek before all else."
Sebastian Fricke
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How should we pray
Confident & with perseverance
"Ask for everything, ask for the Spirit, seek God, knock at the door of the Kingdom."
Humble & with empty hands
"prayer must not be founded on our own 'righteousness', but solely on the merciful goodness of God"
Vigilant & without bargain
As the body of Christ, the new temple, self-interested traders and bargainers in our heart have to go and we need to persist.
— May 09, 2025 04:50AM
Confident & with perseverance
"Ask for everything, ask for the Spirit, seek God, knock at the door of the Kingdom."
Humble & with empty hands
"prayer must not be founded on our own 'righteousness', but solely on the merciful goodness of God"
Vigilant & without bargain
As the body of Christ, the new temple, self-interested traders and bargainers in our heart have to go and we need to persist.
Sebastian Fricke
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Jesus tells us about the Father and our behavior is ought to be a practical consequence out of that revelation.
He is good to the wicked (Lk 6:28,35)
The wicked judge listens to the widow, how much more will He listen (Lk 18.1-5)
The lazy friend will help, how much more will He help (Lk 11:5-8)
We, sinners, do good for our children, how much more will He give (Lk 11:11-13)
He awaits us with open arms. (Lk 15:11-32)
— May 07, 2025 02:49AM
He is good to the wicked (Lk 6:28,35)
The wicked judge listens to the widow, how much more will He listen (Lk 18.1-5)
The lazy friend will help, how much more will He help (Lk 11:5-8)
We, sinners, do good for our children, how much more will He give (Lk 11:11-13)
He awaits us with open arms. (Lk 15:11-32)
Sebastian Fricke
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"One day the Father looked upon us, and chose us to be his sons, His Spirit came down upon us, and made us aware of our deepest identity; he whispered a secret name, and a way to follow. He drew us into the desert, to intimacy with him, and to a purification of understanding of the coming of his Kingdom. We were confident in our human means; we had to learn the paradoxical ways of God, and poverty in the Spirit."
— May 06, 2025 11:57PM
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"Prayer is the heart-beat of life, here of Life itself, and so of our own life too. Let us be silent, and pray."
In the gospel of Luke, when Jesus prays, everything revolves around the Father.
"Jesus has shown us how to behave as sons; to live in absolute trust of the Father"
"Prayer expresses the deepest movement of the heart; the heart of Jesus is totally turned towards the Father in the unity of his Sonship."
— May 06, 2025 11:52PM
In the gospel of Luke, when Jesus prays, everything revolves around the Father.
"Jesus has shown us how to behave as sons; to live in absolute trust of the Father"
"Prayer expresses the deepest movement of the heart; the heart of Jesus is totally turned towards the Father in the unity of his Sonship."
Sebastian Fricke
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"For me, prayer is eternal. I can see myself praying eternally, singing the praise of God, with the thousands upon thousands holding their palms in their hands ... the holy people"
"Our being and our prayer will be the same thing. We are our 'weight' of prayer"
"We will all, at last, be Carthusians!"
— May 06, 2025 11:37PM
"Our being and our prayer will be the same thing. We are our 'weight' of prayer"
"We will all, at last, be Carthusians!"
Sebastian Fricke
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Starts with an invitation to reflect upon what prayer is to me, followed by the reflections of 7 novices and their novice master.
"Prayer is the ability to be transparent"
"Prayer is your mystery. You, Father. Your secret, Christ. The magic of Love. ... Prayer ,it's this nothing, or this something without which nothing makes sense."
"How to pray? I no longer know how to pray. Why light a candle in broad daylight?"
— May 06, 2025 10:58PM
"Prayer is the ability to be transparent"
"Prayer is your mystery. You, Father. Your secret, Christ. The magic of Love. ... Prayer ,it's this nothing, or this something without which nothing makes sense."
"How to pray? I no longer know how to pray. Why light a candle in broad daylight?"
