“Pray Always”
By Sister Cecelia The scriptural admonition to “Pray always” led me to the monastery so that I could learn how to pray always. After many years of even doubting that prayer was doing any of us any good, I have come to believe it does. How it does, takes a big leap of faith, which requires a huge change of heart and mind. Jesus warned his disciples against hardening their hearts. A hardened heart cannot grow or expand. The Pharisees were consistently blinded to the gifts Jesus was bringing because they tried to fit him into the strict rules of who they understood God to be. Getting a glimpse of the meaning of God’s unconditional love was the trigger to delve further into what I understood God to be. I knew, and know, that the Infinite God cannot be understood by our finite minds. Yet, God gave us many talents, and using our minds to understand life better is a challenge for all of us. If we divide our life into natural (profane) and supernatural (mystical), it is a little difficul