However, at the same time, prayer is a journey, I would say [a] flight of stairs: we must learn more and more what it is that we can pray for and what we cannot pray for because it is an expression of our selfishness. I cannot pray for things that are harmful for others, I cannot pray for things that help my egoism, my pride. Thus prayer, in God’s eyes, becomes a process of purification of our thoughts, of our desires. As the Lord says in the Parable of the Vine, we must be pruned, purified, every day; living with Christ, in Christ, abiding in Christ, is a process of purification, and it is
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