The World in Tune

We can read these prayers, as Père de Caussade taught us to do all our spiritual reading, slowly, savoring each phrase or sentence, following all the lines of thought it suggests, waiting till each line is exhausted before going on to the next. Or we can memorize them, to recall in the times when books are not available, in wakeful periods in the night, While waiting for a train, or as a means of centering down in Meeting when distractions scatter our thoughts. A phrase may accompany us thr...