… on entering

O Jesus, I pray that in entering into this house
I can enter into the immensity of Your love.
Bless this place of my earthly life.
Enrich it with Your presence.
And grant that Your divine life
may free me from the world.
May this house be a sacred place:
the place where Bridegroom meets the bride.
The place where through my body,
I enter into Your Passion.
Do not allow me to profane it
by a lack of silence or of solitude.
Grant that it may be the place
where you have led me to speak to my heart.
And, at the moment of my death,
may it be the door to paradise.

Based on A Carthusian Nun’s prayer on entering her cell

Carthusians have, in their cell, an entrance area. This area has an altar and a kneeler. I like that idea. So the above is a prayer upon entering the Anchorage upon return from a journey (ie when I leave the enclosure).


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