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It is enough that you come to me

Friday, 23 May 2014 16:45

My Heart is open to your prayers.
My Heart is ready, at every moment, to receive you, to welcome you,
to keep you close to Me in an an exchange of love.

It is not difficult to hold conversation with Me.
It is enough that you come to Me
with a humble faith,
with an expectant faith,
adoring Me,
and trusting in My love for you.

Be here for me as I am here for you.
Let your presence
be your response to My presence.
This is so simple.
Souls who find prayer difficult,
who struggle to pray,
and go away discouraged,
have only to come to Me
and to remain still in My presence.
The Holy Spirit will cause the prayer that I desire to well up inside them.
They will begin to pray
in spite of all their resistances to My grace,
their struggles and their discouragement.

This prayer is easy for those who,
believing that I want to hold conversation with souls,
come to Me and simply begin to pray.
I ask not for words, nor thoughts,nor constructions of the human intelligence.
I ask only for the submission of the heart
and, then, for the surrender of the heart
to My own Heart’s burning love.

(From In Sinu Iesu, The Journal of a Priest)

Vultus Christi

And, then, there is silence

Friday, 23 May 2014 18:56

There are souls for whom
a little reading in My presence
is a good and profitable thing,
a way of entering into silent communion
with the thoughts of My Heart.
Such souls should read
until they begin to feel a movement of the heart towards Me.

Let them follow that movement
as far as it takes themand, then, let them return to reading
until, at length, I draw them out of themselves
into a loving union with Me
that is all silence and peace.

It is normal to want to make use of words
but, in the end, words will not be enough
and, then, there is silence,
the silence of union and of love.

(From In Sinu Iesu, The Journal of a Priest