who have sensed that a life in the service of their Church will discover that through prayer they will be able to discern what the Spirit is saying to them. Surprisingly, many people who have experienced and know God agree that a regular prayer life is helpful in stabilizing their living with others. We share in God through Christ, and in this book of quotations from the Bible you will find an introduction to Christ’s message of the indwelling Trinity. By regular prayer, an introduction to the contemplation of the just judgment of creation itself in the making of the world, man, and our lives is appreciated. Within that indwelling Christ is the with you. Discovering in contemplation the Triune God, through Christ, is that being with others in worship, along with the very gift of recollection. In the daily practice of prayer one may enjoy the recalling of the community in Christ. “’No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.’ (Meister Eckhart, quoted from his writings.)” John 1:18 This is the living food that is available in prayer, and through the attendance of Church where the sacraments are offered. This coming to know Christ with the adoration that is a joy is a developed discipline. It is through the food of the will that we are able to do what it is that Christ asks of his, for it is “the will of him who sent me” that we are seeking through the attention we give to Christ. The Kingdom of God does come to us in the daily ministration of a few minutes of prayer each day; and the completion of this work may take many months to start to attend to the harvest. You will be able to tell when you look around you and see that the days are ripe for the harvest for this is what paying attention to Christ in the spirit will bring on a daily basis. This common experience of an ecstasy in the Triune God through this reception is a ripening of the spirit. We are told in John 4 that “The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.” How may we enter into the gates of the mansions, and the worlds that are available to us in the Spirit, and in service to others? How may we as lay people support and live in our Church lives as Christians, entering into the manifold daily welcoming that is the offering of the spirit? We can and do practice this with the Grace of God. This Grace is something that is an entry point to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a narrow way to Heaven that is a beginning for the willing participant in prayer. By considering Christ as the spiritual community of our lives, we join with others in a labor, and as John tells us directly“...you have entered into their labor.” During Christ’s rest, for he is an enlightened man, inspired, and instilled with God’s blessing as God in man; even then he is at work bringing us into his fold. When he visited with the Samaritan woman and told her of the living water he brought, the result was that other Samaritans began to come to him to ask him to stay with them. This willingness to faith, which is a hope in things unseen, and a belief in going forward in the Spirit, is a gateway for us to begin to recognize that the in- dwelling reality of God’s gift is available to us through the poetic recognition of our own silence. We may find the still point of our experience in the world, and in our (CAPTION) Icon of St. Benedict. “If we wish to dwell in the tent of this kingdom, we will never arrive unless we run there by doing good deeds. But let us ask the Lord with the Prophet: ‘Who will dwell in your tent, O Lord; who will find rest upon your holy mountain?’ (Ps 14[15]:1. After this question, brothers, let us listen well to what the Lord says in reply, for he shows us the way to his tent.” Prologue, The Rule of St. Benedict.