If solitary prayer can be arduous, the beauty of prayer with others is an incomparable support to the inner life. Through simple words, hymns, songs, it communicates a discreet and silent joy. Brother Roger of Taiz October 29 Jesus, love of all loving, in the plowed-up earth of our lives you come to place the trusting of faith. A small seed at first, faith can become within us one of the most unmistakable Gospel realities. It sustains the inexhaustible goodness of a human heart.
True prayer is something more than desire.
If it met no response, no answer, it would soon be weeded out of the race. Prayer has stood the test of experience. In fact, the very desire to pray is in itself prophetic of a heavenly Friend. So this native need of the soul rose out of the divine origin of the soul, and it has steadily verified itself as a safe guide to reality. The vast possibilities of science and technology are able to alleviate sufferings, and to put an end to famines, in the human family as it grows to unprecedented proportions.