What is meditation? - It 's a serious reflection that the soul is the presence of God, above any religious truth, to get excited to affections, prayers and holy resolutions. To meditate you need reflection and love, the spirit enters the debate with the truth: the truth with love enters the heart and work there.
is one thing to know something, another to understand its consequences. Every Christian soul knows that he must be good, but if he follows a disordered life, for better or warm, does not live by the truth he knows. The soul who meditates, compare its actions with the duties of his state, his life with the ideal to aspire to, and goes out to the Lord with begging for help and strength to move forward on the path of virtue.
1. Before meditation you possibly choose a secluded and quiet, as most suitable for meditation.
Among the many places you prefer Church. We put the presence of God: there is nothing to hope from a meditation done without the feeling of divine presence. It then goes on to do an act of worship and humiliate you for our spiritual miseries. Invoke the Holy Spirit to enlighten us, because the Virgin SS.ma help us, and the Guardian Angel that takes us away from distractions. To facilitate this preparation will help the prayer printed below, and we recommend that you act with calmness and reflection, before beginning meditation.
2. During meditation: first, keep in mind that it is necessary to imagine living that you want to meditate. For example, you want to meditate on Mary in the Temple? We represent the holy girl in silence, with his reserved and modest demeanor, all gathered in God .. It is a moment about the reasons why they could induce the Virgin to follow the conduct and the deadlift of all creation-and his heart burning with love of God .. We exalt you can admire the virtues of her ... It enters into intimate conversation with the holy Child, by exposing our spiritual needs and asking for his help to be able to imitate. At these talks, and acts of admiration you also retain long; recurrence for better penetration.
In fact, sometimes we remain silent to contemplate the scene, like a dry land that appears to be imbued with heavenly dew. These movements form the substance of the heart meditation. As soon as they emerge, the soul will be abandoned entirely and, if necessary, prolong the time between day and will also grow.
The heart then, when it entered, it will eventually come to a decision. It is not necessary that the resolution is always in relation with the subject considered, but must be related to the particular needs of the soul, under the direction of their spiritual father.
3. After meditation: we thank the Lord of light received; protests of wanting to always love you, and in confirmation of what you present to him the facts and the intentions we pray to help us to practice them, then you leave with confidence to the intercession of Virgin. Also for this just follow the spirit with prayer of thanks to convenience, it is placed in the same booklet.
summary:
Before the meditation: to put God's presence by invoking special assistance to benefit from meditation.
During meditation :
a) diligently memory recalls the subject of meditation.
b) The intellect knows him deeply, considering the various circumstances of place, time, so and so.
c) The will, after the intellect has penetrated the truth known and to meditate, is excited to bring some resolution with that practice be carried out during the day.
After meditation : thank the Lord and the Blessed Virgin of light received, and confirm the resolution made.