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    "Prayer is a crucible(a severe test) in which
    our expectations and aspirations are exposed to
    the light of God's Word,
    immersed in dialogue with the One who is the Truth,and from which
    they emerge free from hidden lies and compromises with various forms of selfishness.
    Without the dimension of prayer,
    the human "I" ends by withdrawing into himself, and the conscience, which should be an echo of God's voice,
    risks being reduced to a mirror of the self,
    so that the inner conversation becomes a monologue, giving rise to self-justifications by the thousands.
    Therefore, prayer is a guarantee of openess to others: whoever frees himself for God, and
    his needs simultaneously opens himself
    to the other, to the brother or sister
    who knocks at the door of his heart and asks to be heard, asks for attention, forgiveness, at times correction,
    but always in fraternal charity.

    True prayer is never self-centered;
    it is always centered on the other.
    As such, it opens the person praying to the "ecstasy" of charity, to the capacity to go out of oneself to draw close to the other in humble and neighborly service.

    True prayer is the driving force of the world,
    since it keeps it open to God.
    For this reason, without prayer there is no hope but illusion.
    In fact, it is not God's presence that
    alienates man but his absence:
    without the true God, illusory hopes become an invitation to escape from reality.
    Speaking with God, dwelling in his presence,
    letting oneself illuminated and purified by his Word introduces, instead, into the heart of reality, into the very motor of becoming cosmic;
    it introduces us , so to speak,
    to the beating heart of the universe."

    ---- Pope Benedict XVI, 2008


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