“There has never been a time when meditation was more needed and perhaps less practiced by Christian people. The reason for this is easily discovered. Western civilization has not developed along contemplative lines, and this modern age with its radio, television, cinema, and highly illustrated journalism is rapidly bringing about the atrophy of the thinking faculties. People do not want to take the time or to make the effort to think. Meditation is not, of course, a mere intellectual exercise, but as the very expression “mental prayer” indicates, there must be some mental effort. We cannot expect to rise straightway to the state of passive contemplation or rapt ecstasy. God has given us intellect and will after His own image and we can only work out our salvation in attaining to God’s likeness by the use of the best members we have. Meditation faithfully practiced, and persevered in becomes in time, we may say with all reverence, a springboard from which the soul leaps out into the realm of eternity.”
By the Reverend Mother Mary Theodora
This piece was originally published in 1940 . See more?
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