David Torkington
In the prayer that leads from meditation to contemplation, the deep human desire for love that has always been there is gradually transformed. It is set alight by reflecting and ruminating on love – God’s love. This love is made visible to us as we see it embodied in Jesus Christ, and as it is expressed in all that he said and did in his life, death and Resurrection. Gradually, as meditation deepens, the same Holy Spirit who gave birth to Jesus and inspired and animated all that he was and all that he did begins to suffuse and surcharge our weak human love. At first, sparks of love are generated that gradually become a single flame that reaches out to the love that burns in Christ, until the flashpoint comes when his love and our love become as one. This, the high point of meditation, is called Acquired Contemplation, the Prayer of Simple Regard, or Prayer of Simplicity. It is experienced in the mind, the heart, and the body, as our whole person is deeply enthralled by love.
For this whole process to take place in what St Angela of Foligno called the School of Divine Love, time must be found for meditation or nothing will happen. But if time is given regularly, then in time we will receive the love that I have been describing. It will so suffuse and surcharge our love that we will be able to behave more and more like Christ, not only enabling us to love God in and through him, but to love others too as Jesus loved others; now he is able to love them through us. That is what St Paul meant when he said, “I live now, not with my own life, but with the life of Christ who lives in me” (Galatians 2:20). » Read More
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