Another beautiful point that I purposely dwelt long enough during our discussions in the Brothers' Congress was the whole lacuna between practices of piety and prayer. I was in a way happy that before I could raise it up in the general assembly it featured in one of the group discussions and so I latched onto it.
The distinction is basically the whole crux of the problem. The divide is so real and wide but one can easily miss it or deny it altogether. The fact that we say our prayers does not mean that we pray! So how does one bridge this divide, I asked. Some of the answers that came up on the floor were the following:
The distinction is basically the whole crux of the problem. The divide is so real and wide but one can easily miss it or deny it altogether. The fact that we say our prayers does not mean that we pray! So how does one bridge this divide, I asked. Some of the answers that came up on the floor were the following:
- a sincere and personal experience of Jesus
- reflective silence (something slowly evaporating from our Salesian houses and customs)
- rechecking our success indicators by which we grade ourselves and others
- re-evaluating our value system
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