Having listened by reading and meditation, you can now speak in prayer. Silence can also be a response, as much for the one who prays, carried out of himself, as for Him who knows all. To contemplate is to take silent delight in the Temple which is the Risen Christ. To contemplate is to encounter the Word, beyond words. To contemplate is to live in the Risen One, rooted in the now of this earth, reaching out to the beyond of the heavens.
Contemplation is vision.
The contemplative sees the resurrection in the cross, life in death, the Risen One in the Crucified. Contemplation is the thirst caused by the seeming absence or the satiety of mutual presence. The contemplative is at a loss for words, simply because he knows. Collatio is contribution or provision, confrontation or dialogue. Action refers, before all, to the conversion of one's heart, behaving as a disciple and under the discipline of the Truth revealed for our salvation.