Train yourself to continue praying, whenever you want to end it

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III





Train yourself to continue praying, whenever you want to end it...
It is a sign of success in praying that you feel you cannot live without it or leave it; it is as if you are communicating direct with God, saying, “Stay with me, my Lord.” And you say with the Shulamite in the Book of Songs, “I held Him and would not let Him go” (Song 3:4).. You will even feel the sweetness of each petition or word and you would not like to leave it. Or, as one of the fathers said about the prayers of the saints, “Because of the sweetness of the word in their mouth, they were unable to leave it for another word...”...”