Prayer should be brief and pure, unless it happens to be lengthened by an impulse or inspiration of divine grace.
– Rule of Benedict
Quoted in sojomail.net 8/24/07
from Essential Monastic Wisdom by Hugh Feiss
Quoted in sojomail.net 8/24/07
from Essential Monastic Wisdom by Hugh Feiss
My one year old daughter surprised me last night by spontaneously hugging me and saying, “Daddy, I love you.” If only our love, our faith and our prayers could be as brief and as pure as my daughter’s. Though that too will change soon (not to soon) and “I love you” will be followed by, “Can I have the car?” Likewise our faith can get complicated, especially when we “go pro.” “Professional” and seasoned “amateur” believers are at a risk of loosing their brevity and purity of faith. It seems the more advanced, the more religious, the more trained and practiced we become the more complicated our faith gets. We read more critically, pray more skeptically and love more guardedly. Our once brief and meaningful expressions of faith become drawn out and routine. Let us be called back to simplicity keeping our expressions of love and faith: brief and pure.
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