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Theses on prayer from #MaryMagdalene, the #ApostolorumApostola. A thread.
Getting up early helps
Stay still, stay where you are inside. Don't get up and do something else either physically or interiorly at the first thought of doing so, even when others have run away
Even when all you have inside seems like emptiness, look into it
Whatever question or concern or hurt happens to be on your heart, address it simply to whatever presence seems to be there, whether you recognize the presence or not, whether it seems like anything or not
Know that when you recognize the presence of God, this is how we, in our limited perception, experience God recognizing and calling to us. This is a sort of optical illusion of the interior vision that happens because of our being limited to time and space
Accept without discouragement that the experience of God in prayer feels fleeting. God is not a 'thing' that can be possessed like created things. Indeed, prayer is the 1st & best school of chastity & gospel poverty because the object of our desire cannot be grasped or possessed
Further, even if it seems as if God flees from us in prayer, he is not fleeing in order to be rid of us, but as a way of drawing us, seducing us even, deeper into the mystery, that we may begin again with an even more profound gaze into the empty tomb
The fruit of prayer is witness to and announcement of the Resurrection, that the world may know that the new creation has begun to arrive
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