May: Prayer of the Heart

 

 

This month's Prayer of the Heart, in preparation for our General Chapter due to start in September this year, is taken from the opening phrase of the sample prayer given to us by St Angela in Chapter V of her Rule. It is:-

 

"Lord, light up the darkness of my heart."

 

Angela's writings reveal a fascination with light. In our Constitutions of 1969 we read:-

 

"The clear sunlit beauty and deep silence of the countryside found an echo in her soul and awoke in her a need for light and for the infinite; a need for God.When she speaks of obedience, truth, knowledge of God or the happiness of heaven, all alike are expressed in  terms of light."