Lenten Friday: On Prayer

"Someone who sets out on a life of prayer should aim in the first place at fidelity.  What matters is not whether our mental prayer is beautiful, whether it works, or whether it is enriched by deep thoughts and feelings, but whether it is persevering and faithful.  Our first concern, if I may put in that way, should be faithfulness in praying not the quality of our prayer.  The quality will come from fidelity.  Time spent faithfully every day in mental prayer that is poor, arid, distracted and relatively short is worth more, and will be infinitely more fruitful for our progress, than long ardent spells of mental prayer, from time to time, when circumstances make it easy."

~Rev. Jacques Philippe, Time for God