Since prayer is a conversation, it is not enough just to understand what we say; we must also be occupied with the one to whom we are speaking.

—Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D.

from his book, The Way of Prayer

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TEACH US TO PRAY

This acclaimed commentary on Saint Teresa of Avila’s classic work, Way of Perfection, discusses the various forms of Christian prayer, with an emphasis on Teresa’s meditation on the Our Father. Named a Doctor of the Church by Pope Paul VI in 1970, Teresa united not only prayer and the apostolate, but contemplation and the apostolate, for contemplation is a particular kind of prayer that tends toward the most sublime intimacy with our Lord.

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