The Lord our God is one Lord, and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this, you must love your neighbour as yourself.
Holiness calls us to be equally present whether we are in a chapel or in the shopping centre, a retreat centre or in a classroom, in a seminary or in a parish. God seeks to be present in every aspect of our human lives. Therefore, our prayers are called to immerse us into the heart of God and into the heart of the human condition. We can encounter God equally spending time when we are praying and in having a conversation with a friend; we can be able to spend time interceding for those in need and being present to the needs of those in our workplace. God is at the heart of all creation and seeks to draw everyone into a relationship with God’s desire in the course of our daily lives.
Each person is called to become friends with God and those we meet each day. This friendship shows how important it is to be in a constant relationship which allows our prayer to become incarnate. Our prayer is not just a one on one time with God but at its essence calls us into a profound communion with the desire for each human person. God seeks us out so that we may seek out God. This is a profound giving of our whole self to discover what we are called to become.
This means that our prayer transforms our own square metre in which we are called to live. We are called to discover how God is present to us unfolding in our presence. This is not just following our hearts but allowing them to grow in understanding and to giving our best in whatever area we find ourselves each day. God allows us to discover how we may be open to the Holy Spirit in the midst of what seems ordinary and every day. This everyday mysticism seeks to draw a unity between our prayer and our lives. We are not called to pray in isolation but we are called to be people who pray at all times with the way we relate to God and the way we relate to each other.
To love him with all your heart,
To love him with all your understanding
To love him with all your strength
To love our neighbour as yourself
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