Worth Revisiting - Praying Before The Tabernacle

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Here is my contribution:

Monday Musings - Praying Before the Tabernacle

(Originally published on January 14, 2017)

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"I think there was a certain Bishop Curtis who said that when he prayed before the tabernacle he liked to picture himself as a faithful and devoted dog lying at his master’s feet. Both are glad to have each other; both are silent. It is a rather unusual way of looking at the matter but it strikes home. Prayer is not in words only. It is also in tears and sighs and heartaches."


(From The Way to God by Father Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S.)

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