Set aside a fixed time daily. Place yourself in God's presence and ask for his help. Take a scene from the Gospel or a truth of the faith, consider it slowly, and let it move the heart to affections — adoration, sorrow, thanksgiving, love — and to a practical resolution. Conclude with thanksgiving and a chosen 'spiritual bouquet' to carry through the day. St. Teresa of Ávila and St. Francis de Sales are sure guides in this prayer.

Contemplative prayer

Carmelite / Salesian