What do the Saints mean when they say "live an interior and hidden life in God"

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What do the Saints mean when they say live a “life that is entirely interior and hidden in God.”

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“May the Mother of Jesus, and our Mother, obtain for us from her Son the grace to live a life according to the heart of God, a life that is entirely interior and hidden in Him.” -St. Padre Pio

Can you please elaborate on what they mean, thanks!
 
It means be humble. Don’t brag about your faith, don’t be self-righteous, don’t do good deeds for your own benefit or so as to appear noble (food kitchens exist to feed people who don’t have enough to eat - they do NOT exist to give well-off people new perspectives about their own lives).
 
“It is our job as Christians to turn to God a hundred times a day,” St. Francis de Sales. he also says that any devotion that is contrary to our way of life is false devotion.

Vita Consecrata advises religious to build the ‘cloister of the heart’, where they may keep adoration of Our Lord going during the day. Your soul keeps vigil at the feet of God while you’re going about your Daily Duty, whatever that may be.

It takes some doing. Consistent prayer, like the Morning Offering; the Rosary (especially); lectio divina; the Liturgy of the Hours; the Angelus; Examination of Conscience; Divine Mercy at 3pm; Mass & the Sacraments; Offering of the Pure Heartbeats of Sleep; and the proper use of Sacramentals provide an external structure that should provide for the development of the interior life, if it’s done right.

This will lead to a horror for sin and recognition of God’s Divine Rights, including that over your soul. The Trinity, who already dwells within us, will be recognized by the soul. They will have ‘come to abide’ with you.

Look up some monastic websites, and see how the religious live. That will help you to visualize your own ‘cloister of the heart.’

HTH

Blessings,
Cloisters
 
Matthew 6:6 But thou when thou shalt pray, enter into thy chamber, and having shut the door, pray to thy Father in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret will repay thee.

Psalm 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

CCC 2710 The choice of the time and duration of the prayer arises from a determined will, revealing the secrets of the heart. One does not undertake contemplative prayer only when one has the time: one makes time for the Lord, with the firm determination not to give up, no matter what trials and dryness one may encounter. One cannot always meditate, but one can always enter into inner prayer, independently of the conditions of health, work, or emotional state. The heart is the place of this quest and encounter, in poverty and in faith.

2711 Entering into contemplative prayer is like entering into the Eucharistic liturgy: we “gather up” the heart, recollect our whole being under the prompting of the Holy Spirit, abide in the dwelling place of the Lord which we are, awaken our faith in order to enter into the presence of him who awaits us. We let our masks fall and turn our hearts back to the Lord who loves us, so as to hand ourselves over to him as an offering to be purified and transformed.

2713 Contemplative prayer is the simplest expression of the mystery of prayer. It is a gift, a grace; it can be accepted only in humility and poverty. …

Peace
 
I think it means us living in God and Him living in us. Recollection, union with Him, prayer, based on humility and love.
 
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