Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from the solitary place into the midst of our ministry. Silence is solitude practiced in action.

I don't pray enough, but I pray more now. Every morning at six o'clock have a half hour of meditation before the Blessed Sacrament. I pray with others too.

It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.

I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.

Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.

Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern, and when its many activities are no longer seen and experienced as part of prayer itself, the community quickly degenerates into a club with a common cause but no common vocation.

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.