Spirituality of Presence

Our life took the Lord’s path when we began to pray and the first thing we learned was that we didn’t know how to pray. From that point on we yearned with all our heart, with all our will, with all our strength, to learn to pray, and we received the goodness of the Lord.
To pray is to give time back to God, to wish for Him to dwell in our heart, to think and desire what is pleasing to Him.
Prayer doesn’t occur only during specific, personal or community moments, but does focus on making us walk in the presence of the Lord. And so prayer creates life and life becomes a never-ending prayer. We, like so many spiritual beings in the community, become the bearers of an invisible but real word of God for today’s distracted people who are yet so troubled.
This had to be Mary’s role, alongside her Son, among his people, and is why Mary is so important to us. On one hand, the model of presence in the world from which we derive inspiration and, on the other, the go-between in the Community’s difficult and important prayers. Every special prayer passes through her.