St. Augustine, How May I Know this Light?
Question 009 What do I need to discover this Light? Love. He who knows the truth, knows what the light is; and he who knows it knows eternity. Love knows it. O Truth eternal and true love and beloved eternity, you are my God, for you I long night and day. from St. Augustine Answers 101 Questions on Prayer by Fr. Ermatinger. Charity is that which configures the human soul to perceive the divine [...]
St. Augustine, How Should I Know if I am with God in Prayer?
Question 008 What should I look for when I go into myself? Where God is there is peace… the Sabbath of the heart. For it listens to God, who promises great things. For it listens to God, who promises great things, and if it labors in the present, it expands in hope of the future, where the clouds of sadness are brightened; as the apostle says, “rejoice in hope (Rom. 12:12). And that very joy [...]
And I Will Give Them One Heart, and Put a New Spirit Within Them
Part IV in a Series by Pseudo-Ermatinger Women Picking Olives, Vangogh, 1889 The way to the Holy Mountain of the Divine Father is a path trod by prayer. If one ascends through prayer, they will find themselves ascending through the cloud of unknowing that veils the summit from prying eyes (cfr. Job 28:12-28; Isa 45:3; 1 Cor 2:9). There beyond they will see the Holy Temple of the Lord, which has been sung about by [...]
St. Augustine, What if I Don’t Feel Like Praying?
Question 007 What if I don’t feel drawn to prayer? Are you not drawn? Pray, then, that you might be drawn to him. It is urgent to overcome sentimentalism in our relationship with God. There is no sea so deep as the thoughts of God, who makes evil men to flourish and the good to suffer…it is upon that deep, in that profundity that every unbelieving soul is wrecked. Do you want to cross over [...]