WHAT PRAYER DOES.
Prayer creates Christian character. Its constant practise soothes the rufflings of an irascible temper (writes Walter Elliott, in the Spiritual Life). It also overcomes the hard influence of a rude environment. St. Athanasius knew St. Anthony after he had been in the desert wilderness alone for thirty years, and he said that this long era of solitary prayer made the great hermit anything but a rude, sullen man; it endowed him rather ‘‘with a most obliging and sociable air.” Inward peace makes outward kindness. You behold the effects of prayerful habits in mingled gravity and gentleness of manner, the quick response of sympathy, the ready trustfulness of one’s fellowmen —these and other beautiful traits are seen in addition to the sublimer ones of love of God and charity to the poor. J
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New Zealand Tablet, 28 June 1917, Page 53
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135WHAT PRAYER DOES. New Zealand Tablet, 28 June 1917, Page 53
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