Course XLVII - Teaching 2: Life in Prayer

Truly, you should feel quite happy for being able to pray at this privileged place.
It is prayer the essence in Ordination life; and while life of an ordained one is continuous prayer –since even being asleep he goes on praying in his dreams and good wishes– the prayer place itself is of an invaluable, whole value. How long do we have this chapel here and is already absolutely magnetized?
Her Sons have paid due homage to the Divine Mother, and from here she radiates all over the world; it is other prayer house radiated upon the souls.
You are well acquainted of those worldly beings that as things suit them, they can solve everything, and all is happiness, sometimes forget the prayer place, but where are they going when they feel sad and sorrowful? The church or temple, or a prayer place; and we the Ordained hold at home a prayer place devoted to meditate, and pray for consolation, relief and strength for souls in need that are absent. Moreover, prayer is all to us. If refer to a simple prayer, not to great prayers or inner states, but the a simple prayer when we request and look at our Divine Mother, at least an image, nothing but an image, and to tell her entirely what our soul feels, our needs, strivings, joys, displeasures, and our good and our little bad. For a soul, to request is ever consolation and foundation of inexhaustible peace.
Remember you Saint Therese’s words, “In consecrated souls, prayer is like sky rain, but sometimes this rain is not sent by God; so, the soul has to take water out of the well”.
Oh consecrated souls, return to simple prayer, from heart to heart. Particularly now when the absorption time is coming and the strenuous work is over, you can be more strictly devoted to Observance and Prayer, this year more than never before.
It is a good thing to start with this prayer spoken out, this is the prayer recited here in the chapel. Now I recall something. I hope that now, without worries, you won’t get drowsy, dear Daughters. Be aware, you are like little birds upon a tree, remaining quite erect but with your heads falling down now and then.
The Knight Great Master said that in relation to the matter of breaks he had been deceived and particularly saddened, not so much by the value of things but by the value of words. And he added, “Daughters, you should utter exact words: It is made or not. You should say yes or no”.
Then, the Knight Great Master gave to Misses certain instructions for holiday months and added he wished for them to take advantage of these months of peace. Clearly, the Divine Mother abides in your hearts; but I refer to that other living contact with the Divine Mother, achieved by reciting vocalized prayers. You should recite many psalms and, in short, imagine the Divine Mother calling us to vacation and telling, “Come, oh Daughters”: She attends, hands things over you, and you talk to your good Mother. In fact, She is a synthesis of motherhood, crown of the divine, strength of faith, hope for those who should come, and exemplar of our consecrated Ordination life; let us hide in her arms.
As our life is strict, it is a good thing to enjoy a little of expansion, feeling, pampering and hugs against Her Heavenly Heart.
She is eager to be with us alone; continuously she watches over our actions, inspires our words, and directs our movements.
She is eager to be with us in a living, human dependence contact, anxious to convey us treasures of her grace and heart.
Let us relive in her hands our promises of love; in short, anxiously She wishes us coming to Her. Surely our Divine Mother is not only as an incarnated being. As a being of love, She is particularly fond of the Ordained Daughters of the Second Cafh’s Order. She has told me it specially.
So, you should request Her everything you need, since you will be heard; tell Her about every little grief and longing, and tell Her about your sorrows and wishes, since we all have these, even holy wishes.
Tell Her about your hopes for next year, every work you wish to carry out, and all those children you want to benefit, and She will hear you.
Tell Her about your projects for Her kind smile or Her nodding, but we’ll be ever happy because She knows our aspirations: a College in Cordoba, a shelter for girls, the construction of a craft school, and She will hear with benevolence, like parents listen at fantasies of all their children.
Approach your hearts to Her Heavenly and Adorable Heart.