Talks 2us - Totus2us

Father Iain Matthew OCD: "For prayer to blossom, be free, be detached, don’t be self-indulgent, be loving, don't be an egotist, be humble, don't think you're the greatest thing in the world, you know, for prayer to blossom. St Teresa's message in life is 'Don't wait to get to your lives together, don't wait to be loving, detached and humble, before you start praying. Enter into that relationship now, and see where God takes you.' So, love of our brothers and sisters, this isn't people pleasing or being hostage to our likes and dislikes. But loving without self-seeking, and she notes that people who love like that 'Do you think that such people will not love anyone but God?' She says 'They will love people much more than others do, and with a love that is more genuine, more feeling, a love that really does the other person good, in short there really is love. .. Secondly, detachment. This means not so much a 'no' to what attracts us as a 'yes' to the centre of all our loves. Well, she says, you will say no if