With the Ear of Your Heart

Give Us Wisdom...

O gracious and Holy Father,

give us wisdom to perceive You, diligence to seek You, 

patience to wait for You, eyes to behold You, 

a heart to meditate upon You, and a life to proclaim You.

St. Benedict

   
    Painting: 15th century painters, St. Benedict

But in Purity of Heart

'If we do not venture to approach men who are in power, except with humility and reverence, when we wish to ask a favor, how must we beseech the Lord God of all things with all humility and purity of devotion? And let us be assured that it is not in many words, but in the purity of heart and tears of compunction that we are heard.'

St. Benedict, founder of western monasticism.  Feast day July 11.

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Painting: From Monte Olivieto Magiorre, St. Benedict