This weekend the prophet Isaiah will tell us: "Listen and your soul shall live." As I prepare for the Sunday Masses I keep thinking of these words and my mind goes back to Pope Benedict's Message to Young People when he was with us in 2010:
I ask you to look into your hearts, each day, to find the source of all true love. Jesus is always there. Quietly waiting for us to be still with him and to hear his voice. Deep within your heart, he is calling you to spend time with him in prayer, but this kind of prayer, real prayer, requires discipline.
It requires time for moments of silence every day. Often it means waiting for the Lord to speak.
Even amidst the business and stress of our daily lives we need to make space for silence, because it is in silence that we find God. And in silence that we discover our true self.
