In this way they take up a prayer posture that perhaps goes back to the remotest origins of humanity. It expresses the silent offering of one's life. There is nothing surprising about that. At every age, within us there is such an inner call to rely on him. Through the face of a human being, especially when tears and sufferings have made it more transparent, it becomes possible to glimpse a reflection of the face of Christ himself.
Prayer is a serene force at work in human beings.
It keeps them from growing unfeeling in the face of the turmoils experienced by whole sectors of humankind. From it are drawn vital energies of compassion. In the course of our Christian life we are enabled to pass from one beginning to another beginning. But this process burns out if it does not draw its energy from an underground and almost intangible communion, the invisible presence of the Holy Spirit. If solitary prayer can be arduous, the beauty of prayer with others is an incomparable support to the inner life.