🌿🌷☘️ Meditation is a prayerful reflection that begins above all in the Word of God in the Bible. Meditation engages thought, imagination, emotion and desire in order to deepen our faith, convert our heart and fortify our will to follow Christ. It is a first step toward the union of love with our Lord. Further reading: CCC 2705-2708, 2723 Contemplative prayer is a simple gaze upon God in silence and love ~ Eucharistic Adoration - gaze upon the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar,