Fr. Roman:
"So we have to make this experience to enter in
ourselves, to discover God within ourselves.
How? Well, how to say it to you, it's hard in America
because, here, you know, the young people want to live in noise. They make a
lot of noise because they don't feel good if it is not too much noise around.
It's like an escape, this so called 'music', I don't
know if it is music or not, it is some noise. But they like it because they are
afraid to stay by themselves, to be quiet one hour in one place and don't say
anything, stay there because God wants to talk to you. They are afraid to make
these experiences and they say, “let's make noise…”
Like a little girl in the camp, we have a religious
education camp, I always mention that there was a little girl there, teenage,
not so little, and she had two transistor radios, one here and one here because
there were two programs, I don't know, with the earphones, both of them full
blast and she was walking through the camp and somebody told her to shut them
off and she said, “Father, if I shut them off I’m getting crazy”.
Imagine what a dramatic situation, not to be able to
be just you and Jesus Christ. If you don't have anything to say to Him, He has
something to say to you.
First of all we have to be at least one or two hours
by ourselves there. Not only in prayer to say something, to ask, “give me that,
give me that God”. No, this is not the prayer. The prayer is to have that
feeling that God is within you. That is the definition of prayer. It's not as
much as you read, it is not much as many songs you say, prayer is when you feel
that God is within you.
We are a mystery, we don't know who we are. David
said, “What is man that Thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that Thou
dost visit him? For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast
crowned him with glory and honor.” [Ps 8:4-5]
What is the man? We don't know, we don't know why God
needed to create me or you and me. Because God is fullness, but He wanted to
have somebody to talk with.
We don't understand, God wants to talk with us all the
time. But we don't pay any attention to Him."
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