June 6th
St Chantal on Prayer
Mental Prayer

The fundamental state of mind for mental prayer is that purity of intention by which we are resolved that everything we do shall be for the glory of God alone.   The second condition is a complete self-resignation which may make us indifferent to anything that can happen to us.  The third is a complete giving up of our own opinions so that we labor only at that which God has given us for our labor.

When we begin mental prayer we must call home all the faculties of our soul and must tell ourselves:  "So  now you are going to appear before God and to deal with Him; everything else has got to be dropped."

Believe me, bring to your prayer the deepest peace of heart you can.  Shut yourselves within this little interior heaven without allowing yourselves to be distracted by the things of sense, and be certain that you will not fail to drink the water of the divine cistern.