"The human heart is only at peace and rest when it finds an ultimate
good that it can posses with stability and joy. Really in the end—as much as
that can be friendship, it can be marriage and children, it can be meaningful work,
it can be the love of the search for the Truth, natural and supernatural—the
ultimate rest of the human heart is in God. No matter what the achievements of
the human race, it is never going to be free of its need for God, nor be able
to dominate the mystery of God. You can only approach him through a studious
wonder, through contemplation, through learning, through devotion, through
religion. St. Thomas gives us clues for how to live in this world while
thinking about the mystery of this world in light of God, unto God. That’s what
he calls wisdom: to think about all things in the light of God, and for God,
and as returning to God.
To be on a pilgrimage in this world, headed back toward God,
intellectually trying to think about things in light of God, and trying to find
joy through contemplating God in faith. This heals the heart because it gives
the heart a place of rest. Contemplation is something very powerful.
Eucharistic adoration is one of the ordinary forms of contemplation at work in
the Church that converts people all the time. It is such a profound contemplative
encounter with the presence of Christ! St. Thomas helps us become people who
have the habit of contemplation, who habitually seek to find God in silent
prayer".
Joseph White o.p.
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