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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father Luigi Gioia.

Good morning.

We are social beings: to live, think, grow we need to talk, play, gossip, argue with other people. Just as it is not good for a human being to be alone so it is harmful for us to be isolated, deprived of the irreplaceable stimulus we receive from voices, sounds and even noises.

And yet we might discover that another way of establishing deep connections with other people is sharing silence with them.

I lived for almost 30 years in various monasteries where silence was not perceived as a lack but embraced as a soothing space in which to become more mindful of oneself, of others, and of God.

In the monastery all was still but I did not feel lonely. This taught me to sustain silence long enough to familiarize myself with it.

When you embrace silence, the train of your thoughts slows down and you begin to think more clearly about your life, your choices, your expectations.

You start noticing things that had escaped your attention up to that moment, appreciate the nature surrounding you.

Then silence is no more absence but becomes a deeper way of being present to the world.

We really communicate only by learning how to be silent long enough to create a space where others feel listened to and can open up to us.

Silence then becomes one of the faces of love.

Let us pray.

Teach us the wisdom of meaningful silence, Lord, and the art of listening and waiting as ways of living, and of loving.

Amen.

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