The fruit of silence is prayer.
The fruit of prayer is faith.
The fruit of faith is love.
The fruit of love is service.
The fruit of service is peace.
Mother Theresa of Calcutta.
Monday, February 21, 2005
The fruit of love
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Pretty interesting that she says that faith results from prayer and not the other way around. I always thought of prayer as a way of expressing one's deepest faith. I wonder how she'd explain it...
I would perceive the role of prayer and faith as symbiotic. Each helps bring about the other.
I've known enough people from religious orders that Monks and Nuns don't approach prayer the way most people do in everyday life. Prayer is also a form of meditation.
There's a particular form of meditation known as the Ignatian method that I think has become pre-eminent in the prayer life of western world religious orders, as well as even ordinary laypeople. It involves reading a passage of scripture as prayer, and then attempting to mentally form the image of the place and time you are reading about, inserting yourself into the scene.
I would imagine it is this kind of prayer she may be speaking of in particular.
That's interesting... Do you know how it evolved? Was there a single founder?
Ignatius Loyala, the 16th century Jesuit founder, is usually credited with it.
I suppose that the closest analogue in Judaism would be mystics' meditation on Torah for hidden meaning. I don't imagine it has the visual component.
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