The genesis of our personal holiness attains a most critical threshold with the beginning of contemplation wherein the very nature of our personal encounter with God is transformed. Our loving receptivity, having passed through the growth process of being "first the shoot, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear" (Mk 4:27 28), is now ready for harvest. Instead of God communing with us principally through the mediation of images, objects, emotions as he had previously done in discursive meditation, he now communicates himself directly to the soul in contemplation. God's transforming and consuming love thus becomes ever more operative in this immediate encounter. This more interiorized phase of transformation is accompanied by a radical intensification directly by God himself of the soul's own loving receptivity towards him as he is in himself. This affects not only prayer, but attains every aspect of life.
Nemeck & Coombs
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