Meditation or mental prayer may be defined as
the silent application and elevation of our heart and mind to God to offer Him
praise and homage, and to promote His glory by our advancement in virtue…”True
prayer,” says St. Gregory, “is not in the sound of the voice, but in the desire
of the heart; not our words but our desire to give power to our cries in God’s
hearing.” In mental prayer, along with
the elevation of the heart must go the elevation of the mind and these must
produce acts of the will if mental prayer is to be fruitful. Father Charles Hugo Doyle
