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Why is God so hidden?

Church teaching

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In short: Everyone who prays feels it sometime: dryness, silence, nothing. The Church calls it a real stage of prayer, the moment to keep holding on. CCC 2731

The answer, in writing

Church teaching

Dryness in prayer happens when the heart has no taste for thoughts, memories or feelings, even spiritual ones. CCC 2731

It is “the moment of sheer faith clinging faithfully to Jesus in his agony and in his tomb.” CCC 2731

Our words

Mother Teresa felt God’s absence for decades and kept going. Silence isn’t absence. Keep showing up.

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  1. Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 2731 (official text on vatican.va).

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