Practising the Presence of God with Brother Lawrence

This humble Carmelite lay brother became a light in the turmoil that gripped the Europe of his day. However it is not only his life and times that enrapture us, but his great attraction to God's love combined with his method of prayer. As he put it himself: the holiest, most ordinary, and most necessary practice in the spiritual life is that of the presence of God. It consists in taking delight in and becoming accustomed to his divine company.

Jennifer Moorcroft is a Third-Order Carmelite and belongs to a local Carmelite Spirituality Group. She is married, and lives in Stevenage, UK.