"There is a saying, dubiously attributed to St. Francis de Sales but it sounds more like Venerable Fulton Sheen to me: 'Every one of us needs half an hour of prayer every day, except when we are busy -- then we need an hour.'
"It's a clever phrase -- and true, too. When parenthood and career kept
me at my busiest, I was somehow managing to spend more time in prayer at
my little oratory than ever before or since. I cannot explain how --
perhaps there is some strange metaphysical phenomenon of time touching
timelessness and becoming more flexible, shrinking or expanding as
needed, as we commingle our hearts, minds and spirits with the Triune
reality that is eternal."
In a recent commentary, writer Elizabeth Scalia reflected on the importance of being open to the slightest prompting to prayer and giving oneself over to that moment..
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