If you put the elements of Jesus’s teaching on prayer together, we have interiority, we have silence, we have equanimity, not worrying about things, laying aside our anxieties, we have single-pointedness, attention, and we have being in the present moment. Put those into a blender and what do you get? Contemplation. Jesus is a master, a teacher of contemplation before being a moralist, before being a rule-maker. He only has one rule which is to love one another. And he is a contemplative master of prayer, a spiritual teacher, speaking about the heart of the human condition. And the question we have always to ask ourselves: Are we as church following in his footsteps? To what degree are we reflecting that and teaching that?
Teacher of contemplation
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