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Turning to the Lord in prayer implies a radical act of trust, in the awareness that one is entrusting oneself to God who is good, ‘merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness’. (Ps 103 [102]:8)
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General Audience
St. Peter's Square
5 October 2011
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Silence is the environmental condition most conducive to contemplation, to listening to God and to meditation. The very fact of enjoying silence and letting ourselves be “filled”, so to speak, with silence, disposes us to prayer.
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General Audience
Castel Gandolfo
10 August 2011
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Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness...Thanks be to God that this is so! In fact, this need tells us that we are not made for work alone, but also to think, to reflect or even simply to follow with our minds and our hearts a tale, a story in which to immerse ourselves, in a certain sense “to lose ourselves” to find ourselves subsequently enriched.
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General Audience
Castel Gandolfo
3 August 2011
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In prayer… human beings experience themselves as creatures in need of help, incapable of attaining the fulfillment of their existence or their hopes alone.
In the experience of prayer we orient our very souls to that Mystery from which we look for the fulfillment of our deepest desires and help to overcome the poverty of our lives. In looking to the Other, in directing ourselves 'beyond', is found the essence of prayer, the experience of a reality that goes beyond the apparent and the contingent.
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General Audience
St Peter's Square
11 May 2011
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St. Augustine compares meditation on the mysteries of God to the assimilation of food and uses a verb that recurs throughout the Christian tradition, “to ruminate”; that is, the mysteries of God should continually resonate within us so that they become familiar to us, guide our lives and nourish us, as does the food we need to sustain us.
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General Audience
Castel Gandolfo
17 August 2011
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What, then, is prayer?
It is a cry of love directed to God our Father, with the will to imitate Jesus our brother.
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Address to Young People
Cotonou, Benin
19 November 2011
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The experience of prayer is a challenge for all, a 'grace' that must be invoked; a gift of the One to whom we address ourselves.
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General Audience
St. Peter's Square
11 May 2011
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To pray, is not to step outside history and withdraw to our own private corner of happiness. When we pray properly we undergo a process of inner purification which opens us up to God and thus to our fellow human beings as well.
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Encyclical Letter
'Spe Salvi'
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