How to Draw Spiritual Profit From All Things

The great work of devotion consists in these exercises of spiritual retreat and brief, quick prayers. They can make up for what is lacking in all other kinds of prayer, but failure in them can scarcely be repaired by any other means. Without them repose is only idleness and labor vexation. Therefore, I beseech you to embrace them with all your heart, and never to set them aside. Prayer O Philathaea united with this divine sacrifice as an unspeakable power.