Empty Vessel
When the time comes for us to place ourselves before God’s
divine goodness to communicate with him alone, which is prayer, simply the
presence of our spirit before his, and his before ours, forms prayer, whether
or not we have holy thoughts or feelings.
It is only necessary, in all simplicity and without any violent effort of
spirit, to hold ourselves before him.
As we pray, we must be like an empty vessel, vulnerable
before God so that he can distill his grace in us little by little as he
pleases, as content to remain in such emptiness as we would be to be filled to
the brim.
--St. Jane de Chantal,
whose feast we celebrate on August 12.
Quotation source: Ste. Jeanne-Françoise Frémyot de Chantal, Sa vie et ses oeuvres, Vol.2, Entretien
30, pp.324-325.
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