Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the Gift of God Himself. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer. It is not necessary to always be meditating, nor to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how nice this would be. What matters is being with Him, living in Him, in His will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially the poor, this is a twenty-four hour prayer.
Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
Silence will teach us a lot. It will teach us to speak with Christ and to speak joyfully to our brothers and sisters. From the room far back a gray-haired man Came forward and picked up the bow. And wiping the dust from the old violin And tightening the loosened strings He played a melody pure and sweet, Sweet as an angel sings. And he held it up with the bow.