In covid time: how do we live Jesus?

How long will this delicate period last and how will our lives change? In part perhaps they have already changed, We live in fear. We are uncertain about the future of things. We have rediscovered the importance of small things and important aspects of ourselves. Right now
we have the opportunity to live a much more intense life of prayer in our daily life. We now have the opportunity to rediscover the importance of prayer for the care of our soul.

New ways are being born, new virtual and digital places in which to share one's moments, pray together, approach the word and, even the church and our priests are not shirking from this.
The fundamental aspect in all this is attention to the Word. Many of us are in the habit of reading the Word at certain times of the day, when the rest of our commitments allow. But if each of us
he does not deepen the Word every day, and the Church remains behind.
The source Word of prayer If we do not frequent the Word, if we do not read it, we live it, the risk is to remain immature in faith and
that is, not having the possibility of becoming mature Christians.

Indeed, the Word is the source of birth of our faith, thanks to which our prayers reach the Lord. There we find comfort, hope. Thanks to the Word we can reflect on the relationship we have
with others, and on the direction our life is taking.

Prayer needs references with which to orient oneself, in individual prayers and in our hearts, but it also needs spontaneity so that our heart is all outstretched to him. "Lord, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty and continue to come here to draw water",
the Samaritan woman asked Jesus with great desire. After the Lord said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst for ever. Rather,
the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water that gushes for eternal life ”.

Prayer helps us to rediscover the small gestures of closeness and concreteness towards the people who are closest to us, so living the days will not be lost. The Italian Church has proclaimed a Choral Prayer for Italy to raise our invocations to the Lord and to ask that this dramatic moment in which a virus has decided to end
to impose law on our lives and our freedom, a virus that has tragically deprived many brothers of their lives. Let us also pray for them, with the Eternal Rest, so that "perpetual light may shine in them".
The light of the infinite love of Jesus Christ