By Fr. Wayne Sattler, Catholic Exchange - St. Teresa of Avila would advise her sisters that “a prayer in which a person is not aware of whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of whom, I do not call prayer however much the lips move” (Interior Castle 1.1.7). She goes on to observe how “anyone in the habit of speaking before God’s majesty as though he were speaking to a slave, without being careful to see how he is speaking, but saying whatever comes to his head and whatever he has learned from saying at other times, in my opinion is not praying.”