That's a resolution. That is where we must look to God to accomplish in us what we of ourselves cannot do. And that is where prayer enters upon the scene. The Holy Father envisages the beginning of this third Christian millennium as a new springtime for the Church, a time of new fervor for us all, a time of deeper depths and higher heights of love, but none of that will happen unless we Christians learn to pray, pray more, pray better, pray without ceasing. It turns our attention away from ourselves and directs it to the Lord.
Prayer fills the mind with truth and gives hope to the heart.
Without a deep experience of prayer, growth in the moral life will be shallow. So far the words of the Holy Father. The responsibility of reversing the whole thrust of the 20 th century rests upon us all. The reversal of this thrust can only come about through the faith and the hope that lead to genuine charity. And that will never happen without our developing a life of deep prayer.