Sacred word

Maranatha means Come Lord, Come Lord Jesus, but because it is not in our own language, precisely because it is not in our own language, it doesn’t stimulate
our thought or imagination. Remember, meditation is not what you think. We are laying aside our thoughts. This is another approach to prayer than the one that we were usually taught at the mental level of prayer. So you have to get used to this. You will feel at times, “I don’t know if this is really prayer; this doesn’t feel like prayer; I’m not speaking to God; I’m not asking God for things…”. But those are other ways of prayer, at other times; this is a contemplative way of prayer. So, it is helpful, I’m not saying it is essential, but it is helpful to take a word that is not in your own language.

Meditating as a Christian by Laurence Freeman OSB