John 2:23-25: The Interior Life
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
This reflection is adapted from thoughts written on February 23, 2009; and it reminds us that Christ is The Life we seek to live. It calls us to find our lives in Christ through prayer.
Saints and scholars have written much about the life of the soul. We have been told through Scripture, and through the Creator’s revelation to us, what we can expect when we enter into honest and authentic relationship with Christ. The Holy Spirit settles into the temple nest that we prepare to abide with us with her compassionate healing. The Creator guides us to the potential molded with us at our inception.
What more can we say about our interior life? How do we connect with Christ to better life the life that is our hope? What can we do to improve this life, to bring ourselves to fruition so that our inner life might blossom in our exterior life of thanksgiving and joy, even in the face of misery?
Today’s Meditation in MAGNIFICAT is from Philoxenus, a fifth/sixth century Syriac writer and theologian. It is about prayer and how we come to God through prayer.
One should be secretly swallowed up in the spirit in God, and one should clothe oneself in God at the time of prayer both outwardly and inwardly, set on fire with ardent love for him, and entirely engulfed in all of him, entirely commingled in all of him, with the movements of one’s thoughts suffused with wondrous recollection of God, while the soul has gone out in love to seek him whom she loves, just as David said, “My soul has gone out to you”.
The soul goes out in wondrous recollection of God.
God enters into the soul.
The interior life becomes a dialog with God in which all worries, woes and fears can be opened in trust.
The interior blooms.
This blossoming becomes evident through the exterior.
Our actions demonstrate our wondrous recollection of God.
This afternoon, let us raise our voices together in a communal prayer so that we might illuminate the world with our wondrous recollection of God.
Cameron, Peter John. “Meditation of the Day.” MAGNIFICAT. 23.2 (2009). Print.
Images from: https://www.desiringgod.org/topics/prayer and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Theodorus_Philoxenus_Sotericus_A_01a.JPG
For more information on Theodorus Philoxenus Sotericus, visit https://www.britannica.com/biography/Philoxenus-of-Mabbug
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