“Prayer is not only the mutual presence of God and the soul. It is also a relationship between them, a relationship of intimacy, exchange, activity, and life indeed, it is the highest kind of life there is, the life of love, divine love.”

-Canon Jacques Leclercq

For Reflection:

What characterizes my prayer life – is it a monologue rather than a dialogue; is it a stream of rote prayers with no thought or meditation involved, is it a “grocery list” of petitions or “I wants?” Or, is my prayer life a relationship of intimacy, exchange, and love between God and my soul? How can I work more fervently toward this latter description?

Page 15  Eternity is endless.  We had a beginning, but we shall have no end.  Unlike the beasts of the field, we will live forever in the eventual unending, unspeakable delight of sharing in the utter fullness of our triune God seen in direct vision (Eph 3:19; 1 Jn 3:2; Jn 17:3), or we shall be endlessly lost in the eternal disaster whose name is hell.  There are no long-term alternatives.