Jesus needs souls who listen to him in silence.
Saint Rafael Arnaiz

 

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Desire for God.

Our Lady of the Angels Monastery is a community of Trappist-Cistercian nuns. Our life is wholly ordered to contemplation. We journey together towards an ever closer personal union with Christ, through mutual care, a balanced life of prayer, work and study, according to our Cistercian tradition, in communion with the Church and in intercession for the world.

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What is the door that leads us to heaven? Not only when we die, but how can we live in such a way that heaven draws closer to us every day?

Christ is the door, and God’s mercy is revealed in him. But entering through this door means allowing ourselves to be drawn into God’s own way of loving. It means letting our minds and hearts expand through the graces and struggles of everyday life, so that we may gradually learn to love as God loves.

The Father is inviting us to the banquet. May we not remain outside, insisting that love must be on our own terms. Instead, may we enter through the narrow door of mercy and discover, already here on earth, the joy of heaven.