Monday, March 25, 2019

Wisdom from Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D.

A person who does not cultivate mortification will not be a man of prayer; if a person, a community, or a congregation loses the spirit of mortification, it loses the foundation of prayer. How necessary it is, then, to foster the habit of denying our whims for natural satisfaction and comfort. Without insistence on the practice of mortification, our natural appetite for satisfaction awakens and makes its demands.

—Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D.

from The Way of Prayer: A Commentary on Saint Teresa's Way of Perfection

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