“In a context like this, in which silence is banished and lost, waiting is not easy, because it requires an attitude of healthy passivity, the courage to slow down, to not let ourselves be overwhelmed by activities, to leave space in our lives. interior to the action of God, as Christian mysticism teaches,” he continued.
In that sense, Pope Francis encouraged care that “the spirit of the world does not enter into our religious communities, into the life of the Church and into the path of each of us, otherwise we will not bear fruit.”
Prayer and fidelity
The Pontiff also highlighted that “Christian life and the apostolic mission need waiting, matured in prayer and daily fidelity, to free us from the myth of efficiency, the obsession with productivity and, above all, the pretension of locking God in our categories, because He always comes in an unpredictable way, in times that are not ours and in ways that are not what we expect.”