"The person who has lost his vocation, who has given up piety, began by giving up prayer. More violent temptations assailed him; the enemy attacked him with renewed fury; and because he had cast away his weapons, he was vanquished. Consider this well, for it is of the greatest importance. That is why the Church earnestly admonishes us to take care not to neglect our prayers and urges us to pray as often as we can. Prayer is our guide, our spiritual life. Without it we should only blunder painfully at every step.
Do you feel the need of praying? Do you go to prayer, to adoration, as you would to a table? Then it is well with you! Do you try harder to do better, to overcome your faults? That is a good sign. It proves you feel within you the strength to labor.
But if you grow weary of adoration and are glad when the time comes to leave the church, oh, then you are ill and greatly to be pitied!
It is said that constant enjoyment of good food will make the most delicious things pall to us at last and cause disgust and nausea.
In the service of God, at the table of the King of kings, we must be on our guard against that. We must not let our taste be dulled by habit. Let us always find some new sentiment to fix our thoughts, to touch and enkindle our heart, and move us to prayer. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice! We must always have this hunger, even arouse it, and take care not to lose our spiritual taste. For, I repeat, God cannot save us unless He makes us pray.
Let us then keep watch over our prayers!
(St. Peter Julian Eymard from Holy Communion)
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