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Prayer in our apostolic Life
71. Our love relationship with Christ, who is Master and Lord of our lives, needs to be deepened each day. Likewise, the effectiveness of our apostolic work calls for us to be intimately united with the God who sends us out on mission1.
In meditation, a personal encounter with the Lord2, we learn gradually to see life, people, and events with the eyes of faith. This inspires and strengthens us to continue the work to which Jesus has called us. In its turn, the apostolate leads us back to prayer, which now embraces the joys and sorrows, the anguish and hopes of those whom God has put on our path.
Knowing the tenderness of the Father, we persevere in meditation with faith and courage, despite the difficulties we may encounter there3. We give at least a half-hour each day to it and continue this meditation during the day by keeping our hearts alert to God's presence with us4.
71.1 It falls to each community to create the conditions that encourage its members to use well the time of meditation.
71.2 During the course of the day we take the opportunities that present themselves for recollection, preferably before the Blessed Sacrament,in order to rekindle our love for Christ and our intimacy with Him.
(Life 344-346; R 1837, II, 19; VIII, 1, 7)
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