Once, when I was a boy or a little more, I remember that I happened by chance in his hands, a small poster of what I vaguely remember being a religious community. Among the different phrases there was one that struck me in particular and said, prayer is our strength. I was led to give some credito a quello che si diceva e perciò mi meravigliai della forza che si attribuiva alla preghiera: lo vedevo come una specie di formula magica, attraverso la quale Dio ti dava la forza, un po' come il robot del cartone animato Goldrake quando diceva: “Lanciami i componenti!”. Una formula magica, una cosa meccanica! Col tempo ho seguito poi un cammino di fede e ho capito 1) la verità di quella affermazione 2) la preghiera NON E' una formula magica!
La preghiera non è una formula magica, la preghiera è cercare il contatto della nostra anima con Dio! Certamente ci sono i tempi e i modi della preghiera! Le preghiere recitate aiutano a stabilire il contatto dell'anima con Dio ma la preghiera non è vincolata solo alle preghiere recitate e non è solo un colloquio con Dio ma un modo di essere! Poi c'è la gestualità della preghiera! I gesti sono importanti, non si può dire: siccome Dio sa tutto, allora non c'è bisogno che io faccia i gesti: i gesti servono a noi, ad esprimere noi stessi! Tutto il corpo deve pregare, perché appunto la preghiera è un modo di essere! La preghiera non è una recita, perché se io vado a dare da mangiare a un povero, vado a dare da bere a un assetato, quella è la migliore preghiera che c'è! Allora, in questo caso, c'è l'intimo dell'animo che ama Dio e c'è il nostro corpo che fa il gesto concreto di recarsi dal povero, di servirgli il piatto and pay him a drink!
This morning I heard a phrase from a song on the radio saying: "The book in one hand and the bomb in the other." I've been thinking about what can push an individual to seek the armed struggle and I gave the answer for him in the armed struggle there is strength! The only force that, according to him, can bend the course of events! Apart from the fact that it is a destructive force. That is, does not build anything, but destroys and creates conditions for destroying things are so different! But the real strength lies where? The obvious answer is that I read as a child, prayer is our strength! Have to laugh now thinking of certain anti-clerical, which will surely will think, yes, yes, please also the Madonna and saints and masters it will benefit even more! But to know what is our real strength you need to know what is our true nature! Our true nature is divine spiritual beings created (and not uncreated, but divine!) By God! So our strength can not listen to it come our true nature! So our strength is prayer and prayer is the soul of our constant contact with God! Contact with the divine takes place starting from the knowledge of our soul and our destiny! What do throw bombs, then I know if I have to make in the courts forever? Creates awareness of our soul the conditions so good that must be done in us and for us, so it is force! The force is not separate from consciousness us! You know, even in those who do not believe that a conscious act, I think of those social and political commitment for the good of humanity, is the creative force! An act is already aware of prayer! One who acts honestly seeking the truth and the common good, already praying, because it acts according to his own nature, as the poet says: "you were not made to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge"! (Inf. XXVI, 119). Each
therefore advisable to the extent that favors the more or less of its nature as a spiritual being! We were told by Christ, "not to waste too many words in prayer, for your Father already knows what you need! This is to invite us to trust in the Father already knows! But we were not exempted from praying, or rather told us to ask, to knock, seek, and will be given, there will be open, and we'll find! He told us to do so insistently, even when it seems that God does not want to hear your reasons! Told us the parable of the widow and the unjust judge and told us with the story of the woman who followed Christ continues in its demand and the principle Jesus he would not be satisfied, but then to phrase of the woman said, "Woman, your faith is great" and gave her her wish!
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