Many people, in their struggles with family life, loneliness or work, are searching for a spirituality that will provide a living contact with God in their daily life. At times they may actually sense God's presence or have an inner awareness of a silent invitation to attentiveness. Is there a way into this inner world?
... we come to realize that it is not so much we who are inviting God into our prayer, but rather it is Jesus who is inviting us into God's prayer, into his own endless, loving conversation with the Father in the Spirit, a conversation filled with concern and compassion for us and for the whole of creation.
Entering Christ's Prayer by Eric Jensen, S.J.
How can we become people of prayer? In our longing for God, we may come to recognize in Sacred Scripture evidence of God’s longing to connect with us. While there are many ways into prayer through the word of God, the Gospel of Luke is especially helpful because it reveals something of Jesus’ own inner life of prayer. In this prayershop, we will experience how Jesus himself is the way − the way into prayer.
Kathie Budesky, IHM, MA, director of Visitation North, was an associate of the Ignatian Program in Spiritual Direction and Retreat Ministry at Guelph, Ontario in 2010.