ends today 's liturgical year. Next Sunday, with Advent, we will begin another. For me, the end of a period of time is always an invitation to a debate that usually focuses on the question: how did you spend the day that the Lord has given you? Today, to find an answer, I compare myself with this beautiful text by G. Ravasi, I propose to you, especially you, Antonio, whom I thank for the nice message.
One of the first people who came to ask advice just ordered a priest was an old lady said: 'I prayed incessantly for fourteen years and I never felt the presence of God. " Then I said, "allowed him to utter even a word?". He replied: "I have spoken to me all the time: Is not this prayer? ".
To recount this episode in his book, Anthony Bloom, a Metropolitan of the Church Russian Orthodox. He describes an experience quite frequently: the believer clings to his God, as Stratton supplications, prayers, petitions, in the firm conviction that God in front of a silent and grimly shut the perimeter, secure of his omnipotence. In fact, if prayer is a dialogue (not for nothing that involves "You" addressed to God), requires a response. And the answer may find a gap only if we leave a space, open, available, the fact of silence.
said a French writer: we often we complain because God does not answer our questions, really, are we not to listen to his answers. A woman Metropolitan Bloom had suggested: "Set aside fifteen minutes each day, remaining sitting knitting in front of the face of God will never be able to pray to God if you do not really learn to shut up and enjoy because of the miracle of his presence, to stand face to face with him, even if you do not see. " And 'from this seemingly idle oasis which blooms the meeting, which comes from contemplating the inner vision, the silence is real careful that blooms the secret voice of God
