Pope Leo XIV on Prayer (Habit 1) and Meditation (Habit 6)

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📜 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐨 𝐗𝐈𝐕 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 (𝐇𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝟏) 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐇𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝟔)

"If you cultivate your heart through daily periods of silence, meditation, and prayer, you will learn the art of discernment."

🗓 24 June 2025

📍 Altar of the Confessio, Saint Peter’s Basilica

📖 Meditation of Pope Leo XIV – Jubilee of Seminarians (Vatican.va)

Theme: Formation of the heart, interior life, silence, prayer, meditation, and discernment

📖 Quotes from Pope Leo XIV

> “Your first job, then, is to work on your interior life. Keep in mind Saint Augustine’s constant invitation to return to the heart, because it is there that we will find God.”

> “Without an interior life, no real spiritual life is possible, because it is in the heart that God speaks to us. God speaks in the heart, and we have to learn how to hear his voice.”

> “In an age of ‘hyper-connectivity,’ it is harder and harder to experience silence and solitude. Yet unless we encounter God, we will never really be able to know ourselves.”

> “If you cultivate your heart through daily periods of silence, meditation, and prayer, you will learn the art of discernment.”

> “Avoid superficiality and hold the pieces of your life together through prayer and meditation.”

> “Ask yourself, what is my life experience teaching me? What does it tell me about the direction my life is taking? Where is the Lord leading me?”

> “If we follow the example of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we will surely learn to keep all those things in our heart and meditate on them.”

> “Crises, limitations and weakness… are occasions of grace, which can lead you to a deeper share in the paschal mystery.”