The Living Spirit and the Liturgical Calendar

21 January 2026, The Tablet

Augustine always sees the spiritual journey not as a going out, to find God outside, but as a journey inwards. “He bade me shut the door of our secret chamber and pray in secret,” he writes. “That is, in the soundless secret places of our hearts. For we pray to him in the silence of our hearts.”

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