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00:00We said that you can even come to prayer angry and God will still love you.
00:05This reminds me of an experience I had.
00:10A while ago, two years in a row, several deaths occurred in my family, one after the other, due to illness.
00:19And suddenly, guess what? I go to the doctor and he tells me,
00:25Claudia, you have a very large nodule. I have a thyroid condition and they tell me it could probably be cancer.
00:35And so I went back, right? I left the appointment, I went home. And what did I do?
00:43So I turned to God. I started to pray. But don't think I went in calmly; I said to Him,
00:51Lord, wasn't the death of my father, my mother, my sister, my brother, and
00:58from my grandmother?
01:00Now you're bringing me sickness too. And look, I even blamed him.
01:05And I'm telling you this calmly now. The truth is, I was furious.
01:10Well, I ranted.
01:13Then suddenly, a calm came over me and I said, Lord, forgive me.
01:20I started praying the rosary and remained silent.
01:24And do you know what I experienced?
01:27I felt loved by the Lord, accompanied by Him, embraced.
01:34Experience a father who, in his love, saw a daughter who was simply letting off steam.
01:43I remember what a priest said on social media.
01:46Don't wait until you are at peace to pray.
01:50Enter into prayer just as you are, because you will surely leave it with peace.
01:57Brother or sister, we have to learn to dialogue.
02:02We need to learn to listen.
02:04We need to learn to be silent.
02:08You've probably noticed that it's difficult to be silent.
02:13This is because we live in an extremely noisy world today.
02:19All of this is causing you, and all of us, to lose communion with God.
02:24Suddenly something distracted you and you stopped praying.
02:29It's happened to me.
02:30To you?
02:32You and I are called to live in communion with God.
02:36But there are many who live isolated from grace, and the result is a meaningless life.
02:43Saint Paul says in the first letter to the Corinthians in chapter 13,
02:48If I don't have love, it's all for nothing.
02:51This means that if God does not work in your soul, it is useless for you to learn all the gospels.
03:00the different types of prayer.
03:03Because what is conveyed in prayer, brother, is the love of God.
03:09It becomes ingrained in your soul and makes you see the world with different eyes.
03:14It transforms you and then makes you transmit something different.
03:22Without that, we will be like a preacher who, when giving his sermon,
03:27It does not convey God, but only words.
03:31Continuing with the topic, we can realize with great sadness that
03:36that today man is in an atheistic, unbelieving, meaningless world, towards spiritual life.
03:45At this point it is necessary to stop and differentiate the spiritual from religiosity.
03:52There are very spiritual people who are not very religious.
03:56And there are very religious people who are not very spiritual.
04:01Ordinarily, a person who is very spiritual should be very religious.
04:06But that's not always the case.
04:08This is called angelism.
04:11These are the people who constantly say,
04:14My God, my God, hallelujah, making praises.
04:18But his religious life does not reflect that relationship.
04:22There are also people who are very religious, but not very spiritual.
04:28His relationship with God is poor.
04:31Because even if they go to church, they don't necessarily have a relationship with God.
04:36They don't listen when they speak the gospel.
04:39They don't experience it when it's consecrated.
04:42They do not receive inner nourishment when they take communion.
04:46There are even people who approach priests seeking magical prayers.
04:52Asking, "Which saint should I entrust myself to?"
04:55What candles should I use?
04:57Brothers, that's just religiosity.
05:00But Christianity was never like that.
05:04That's what we've turned it into.
05:06In a lot of religious practices, but without substance.
05:10Without a base.
05:12Now, I want you to go back and answer the following question.
05:17Who taught you to pray?
05:19The answer is probably your dad or your mom.
05:23They were the ones who taught you the Hail Mary, the Our Father, the Rosary.
05:30Repetitive sentences.
05:33Repeating things can become tedious.
05:36Talking to someone doesn't.
05:38Remember, prayers are not a bad thing.
05:40The mechanical way we do them, yes.
05:46Brothers, God is alive.
05:48And when you pray, you talk to Him.
05:50What we're looking for is for you to start learning a little more about how to talk to him.
05:57How to enter their world.
05:58That's why today we're talking about something different.
06:02From the experience of God.
06:05Not from the knowledge of God.
06:07Unless we think of knowledge as the Jews interpreted it.
06:13When they spoke of knowledge, they were speaking of intimacy.
06:17Therefore, if you do not enter into that intimacy, it may happen that when you go to mass, you experience emptiness.
06:26Or when you take communion, you also feel empty.
06:30When you pray the Rosary, you feel empty.
06:33And it is only intimacy that fills the relationship.
06:38She's completing it.
06:39Now, going back to the example of young people.
06:43They used to walk hand in hand.
06:47Then they kissed.
06:49The relationship is growing as a true relationship should.
06:54Then, the relationship takes on another dimension.
06:58That is the level of dimension of the prayer.
07:03Exemplified by those who experienced a beautiful courtship.
07:07A true courtship.
07:08Where they got to know each other.
07:13Where you really got to know the person.
07:16They fall in love with something that doesn't change.
07:19On the contrary, it becomes richer.
07:21Because it's about the soul.
07:23We know that the body deteriorates.
07:27The soul no.
07:28On the contrary, it keeps getting richer.
07:31Day by day, with those experiences.
07:34In which sometimes some add up and sometimes some subtract.
07:39So we need to look for those experiences that add up.
07:43So that the soul may be enriched.
07:46In the spiritual life, what truly opens us to that sum is prayer.
07:53I conclude this introduction to the workshop by telling you.
07:57If you want your life to have meaning.
08:00May your religious life, your human life, your marriage, take on a new perspective.
08:07This will happen as you get to know and relate to God.
08:12And this is knowledge that never ends.
08:17Because He is infinite.
08:19And His love is infinite.
08:21I'm sharing with you that when you meet him, you feel and know that you are loved.
08:26You feel that despite everything, things are going well around you.
08:32Well, what I'm telling you might not be enough, and I can't even begin to explain it.
08:38Because the truth is, you have no idea what God has in store for you.
08:44Of what God has for us.
08:48A very sad situation in our church is that we have people with a lot of theological and biblical knowledge.
08:57But few people have an experience of God.
09:01Because the experience of God can only be achieved through intimacy with Him.
09:07There is no other way.
09:09And if you don't have it, you're going to miss out on something wonderful in this world.
09:16Remember, this experience begins with prayer.
09:20To wrap things up, I invite you to see yourself reflected in the young man who approached Jesus and...
09:27asked,
09:28What did he need to inherit eternal life?
09:31Jesus answered him, keep the commandments.
09:34And when the young man said that he had already fulfilled them, Jesus pointed out the way to him.
09:39If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, give the money to the poor, and then come and follow me.
09:47In other words, to know the kingdom, to have the experience of God, requires your detachment.
09:58Detachment from what traps you, like nets.
10:01Basically, detachment from the average person.
10:05Detachment from your pleasure when it becomes an excuse to pray.
10:09Detachment from rest when you use it to postpone prayer.
10:14You know better than anyone what your attachments are.
10:19So give that time to the Lord.
10:22With this we conclude our introductory topic.
10:26Next, Father Ernesto will share with you the first exercise of this course.
10:32the decompression chamber.
10:34Brother, sister, may God continue to bless you.
10:44Brother, sister, may God complicate things for you.
10:45The little saint.
10:50Brother, sister, may God reunite you.
10:50Brother, sister, may God bless you.
10:51Love.