Eucharistic Reflection - Be Children In The Arms Of Love

 
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"By our prayer we share the life of God. True prayer demands that we be more passive than active; it requires more silence than words, more adoration than study, more concentration than rushing about, more faith than reason. The highest state of prayer is to be children in the arms of Love: silent, loving, rejoicing."


Carlo Carrett

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