contemplative prayer

Every time we gather together for a moment of prayer, and in particular contemplative prayer, we enter into a kind of combat: “a symbolic hand-to-hand combat not with an enemy, adversarial God, but with a Lord who blesses and who remains always mysterious, who seems unattainable. For this reason the sacred author uses the symbol of struggle, which implies strength of mind, perseverance, tenacity in order to achieve what is desired”  [2] . Contemplative prayer is “a gaze of faith, fixed on Jesus”  [3] ; a gaze that seeks him, and that does not stop doing so, that does not let him go until he blesses us, that is, until he illuminates, with the light of his gaze, “the eyes of our heart”  [4] .

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