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Dermot Mansfield SJ takes this phrase from the "Breastplate of St Patrick" to highlight a way of getting very close to Jesus and God's everlasting love.
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Dermot Mansfield SJ advocates "listening to the voice of God" twice every day so that we can really be in touch with his presence within and around me. The five stages of an "examen" of our consciousness can help to ensure this.
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We pray out of need, says Dermot Mansfield SJ; for our own needs, for those we know, for situations we know that need healing. TS Eliot said the world is like a huge hospital. We are needy people, requiring God's blessing and healing always.
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Dermot Mansfield SJ explores some of the ways our heart can be really awakened so that we can enter into it in prayer: using traditional prayers I grew up with, quietening myself down so I can hear the deeper voice, spontaneously responding to situations that arise in my life, the Scripture readings or responsorial psalm at Mass. For the person of faith, any and all of these can be a springboard to prayer.
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There are probably as many different ways of praying as there are people. Dermot Mansfield SJ adopts the wise Benedictine saying "Pray as you can, not as you can't" and goes on to suggest a few ways people may find helpful.
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