Thomas Griffin 12/14/24 (For National Catholic Register)
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St. John of the Cross (1542-1591) is a Doctor of the Church and a spiritual giant. His life commitment to prayer and writing about prayer will be forever cherished in the Catholic tradition.
Prayer is truly everything for the Christian. If we do not pray, then we do not spend time with and talk to God. Since prayer is so pivotal, let us turn to some of the most powerful and practically helpful advice of John of the Cross, whose feast day is Dec. 14, that can help fuel our spiritual growth.
We know that finding time to pray can be challenging. So scheduling time each day for an extended period of time to speak to God is critical. We can use this time to read Scripture or meditate on the cross.
This is where the true difficulty can arise, for once we turn to pray in silence, we may not feel anything or we don’t know what to do. John of the Cross says that this is natural but that we must keep going…
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Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and two sons. He has a masters degree in theology and is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.
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