What Happens During Silent Prayer
6 min readAug 13, 2020
Brother Elias Marechal, OCSO is a Trappist monk of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia. He is the author of a luminous book on contemplative spirituality, Tears of An Innocent God: Conversations on Silence, Kindness and Prayer. If you don’t have it, do yourself a favor and get a copy.
The book is filled with many gems of wisdom and insight. Here is one example:
