June 7th
St Chantal on Prayer
Mental Prayer

In order to put yourself in the presence of God you will picture Him as filling the entire universe, and you will see Him in every place, like the air which we know penetrates everywhere.  Sometimes, we may gaze upon God all about us, surrounding us on every hand, while we ourselves are in Him like a fish in the sea, or like the birds lost in the air.  Or perhaps it may be necessary for us to withdraw into ourselves, into that inner chamber of our hearts, and there, with a calm and steady eye, to consider how the divine essence lives throughout our soul and fills our inner self, to think how the Father there contemplates Himself, and how Father and Son produce the Holy Spirit.

Another way is to gaze upon our Lord in the Holy Sacrament of the altar.  In order to do Him reverence there, it will be enough to recall what the faith teaches us, that this is God made man, and that this same Man is seated a the Father's right hand in eternity.  Finally, we must humble ourselves and acknowledge that we are unworthy to speak to God, saying like Abraham:  "I will speak to my Lord, I who am but dust and ashes."