Popes focus on upcoming Contemplative Life of Prayer

[MarieT]

ah the contemplative life....

its amazing....
have studied the works of St John of the Cross and St Terese of Avila
the deep inner peace sounds appealing

His Holiness Benedict XVI has asked all the faithful to accompany him with their prayers as he commends the Petrine ministry into the Lord’s hands, and to await with trust the arrival of the new Pope. In a particularly urgent way this appeal is addressed to those chosen members of the Church who are contemplatives. The Holy Father is certain that you, in your monasteries and convents throughout the world, will provide the precious resource of that prayerful faith which down the centuries has accompanied and sustained the Church along her pilgrim path.

Card. Bertone: Prayers of religious fundamental in Conclave

long live Pope Benedict XVI

[KarlB]

right... somehow the modern world has forgotten that the Church's lifeblood has always been contemplative prayers.. specifically of its ascetic monastic communities, nourishing its organs. It kept the Church and the candle burning in the Dark Ages.. and it is needed now more than ever.