OsullivanB

Monday, 30. March 2009, 10:48

KatyA

When prayer is difficult I find this story helpful (told by Bishop Arthur Roche in the foreword to A Turning to God by Cardinal Basil Hume:

"IndeedI recall how Cardinal Winning, during an informal gathering of bishops who were talking about prayer, asked Cardinal Hume how he as a former monk and now a bishop prayed. After a momentary awkwardness and a turning in his chair, came the reply, 'Oh, I'm such a flop'."

Also:

"[Cardinal Hume] once said, 'Trying to pray is prayer and it is a very good prayer. The will to try is also God's gift..'"