Prayer
and Compassion
Many people tend to associate prayer with
separation from others, but real prayer brings us closer to our fellow human
beings. Prayer is the first and indispensable discipline of compassion
precisely because prayer is also the first expression of human solidarity. Why
is this so? Because the Spirit who prays in us is the Spirit by whom all human
beings are brought together in unity and community…. In the intimacy of prayer,
God is revealed to us as the One who loves all the members of the human family
just as personally and uniquely as God loves us. Therefore, a growing intimacy
with God deepens our sense of responsibility for others.
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