“Finally, in solitude the soul learns to pray, especially to engage in mental prayer; it learns to converse with God; not only to speak to God, but also to listen to God speaking within the soul. I will lead her into the solitude and I will speak to her heart (Hos. 2:14).
“Attuned in solitude to this loving grace of God, the soul joyously responds in the words of the Psalmist: I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me (Ps. 84,9). It seems that here at Santa Caterina also Annetta, in her quiet and long communings with God, learned what prayer is, especially what the prayer of quiet is. She used to retire into a coretto—a little secluded room alongside the oratory, with an opening towards the Blessed Sacrament—and there spend long periods of time communing with God. God and my Soul! were the brief words with which she gave expression to the delights of prayer that she then experienced at Santa Caterina.” (Kleber)