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Prayer itself, if it lacks the community element, is much less effective than it could be.

— Basil of Caesarea

La preghiera stessa, se è priva dell'elemento comunità, è molto meno efficace di quanto potrebbe essere.

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Quoted in Enrico Pepe, Martiri e santi del calendario romano, Città Nuova Editrice, Roma, 2002.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

We thus become temples of God whenever earthly cares cease to interrupt the continuity of our memory of Him.

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