During this month of July, the activities of lots of us reduce their pace to the summer rhythm. We might want to do new things or on the contrary, take some time to rest and do nothing.

Jesus is conscious of our everyday tiredness and invites us to:

"Come away by yourselves to a lonely place, and rest a while" MC 6,31

The rest to which Jesus invites us is not still. On the contrary it is made of closeness with Him. It is made of listening. But in order to listen to Jesus we have to be silent.

"Silence edifies me because it allows me to come back to myself, it allows me to compare between the objectives that I set for my life on one hand and the reality that I live on the other in order to rectify what must be rectified. This silence edifies because it allows me to be attentive to the word that the Lord makes me hear on the circumstances of my life. It shows me the road of straightening and in which way to take it to prohibit me from forgetting the essential objectives or to be content with a first victory or be resigned after the first defeat."

Father Simon Zind

Extract of the book "Khadiman iradata Rabbi"

Let us seize this month of July to discover the profound call of the Lord. Let us take time to do nothing but to let the Lord work in us in a prolonged prayer and a renewed attention to the sacrament of the Eucharist.

Brothers and sisters,

The call of the month of July invites us to:

- Celebrate the Eucharist while praying the Holy Spirit to initiate in us our true mission toward our brothers.

- Take time to read, meditate and be nourished by some passages of the Gospel because our faith needs to be strengthened by the words of the Lord. If the Lord talks to us through the events of our everyday life, He also talks to us through the explicit declarations of Love that he addresses us in the Gospel.

Enjoy your holidays and good luck for those who still work.