WHAT DO I SEEK?
Such a powerful sharing by Rev Fr Donald Haggerty, and so much to savour, to contemplate and to grow into... The Truly Exalted Way When I did not seek him with self-love, he gave himself to me without being sought” (Jacques Maritain). A place hidden in the heart of God awaits contemplatives as they renounce any desire for status or privilege with God and leave that ambition smoldering in ashes. This renunciation has a significant consequence in the inner realms of silent prayer. The effect is to hide the soul more easily from itself . We lose interest in self and have no need to gain anything for ourselves in prayer. —> Without a desire to seek anything for self or to advance in some manner in our own estimation, a poverty takes hold in us and becomes an ordinary place for prayer …. We learn then more often to discard at the doorstep of prayer all traces of desire for an acquisition of any kind in prayer. —> The desir...