The Superior of our Holy Source, the Monastery in Annecy, Mother Marie Therese, encourages us with the following thoughts:
In his first encyclical, Pope Benedict XVI writes: “The time has come to reaffirm the importance of worship over dominant activism and secularism ”.
Let us repeat what worship is:
The ecstasy of love, says Elisabeth of the Trinity. That’s what angels in heaven do.
It is to remain in the holiness of God and to stand before him, in silence, without saying anything.
It is a free gift from God, a call, a service, says St Benedict.
It is a movement of the whole being which lets itself be carried away by the holiness of God, says one
nun. He who worships does not seek to understand.
The value of a life is its weight of worship.
We are called by our vocations to worship God in spirit and in truth.
Saint Peter Julien Aymard, missionary of the Blessed Sacrament advises us:
“Keep in your heart the desire to go to worship. Go like a love audience:
the Lord invites me, waits for me, desires me.
Go to Our Lord as you are. Exhaust your own love fund.
Let a spiritual book accompany you to get you back on track when the mind goes astray
or when your senses doze off, that’s fine. But remember that Jesus prefers the poverty of
our hearts to the most sublime thoughts and affections borrowed from others. “
Unable to worship Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, invoke the help of your guardian angel.
He will be happy to do with you here below what he does with you in glory.
Unite your adorations with all the current adorations of the Church. To worship well you have to remember
that Jesus, present in the Eucharist, continues there all the mysteries and all the virtues of his life
Adoration, criterion of the mission! said Pope Saint John Paul He spoke of worship as a service
eminent for humanity. “By worship,” he wrote, “the Christian mysteriously contributes to the
radical transformation of the world. “