More wisdom from Fr. Donald Haggerty

‘Give God permission’, Mother Teresa used to say, as she did to Cardinal John O’Connor, the former Archbishop of New York, in her first words to him on the day he was ordained a bishop by Pope Saint John Paul II at Saint Peter’s in Rome. If in prayer we pronounce a very direct and explicit ‘yes’ to God, we allow him to draw us closer to himself. But we may not find what we initially expect. He is likely to contradict what we anticipate.

—Fr. Donald Haggerty from The Contemplative Hunger