Before ending the second week of Advent, let us briefly review the essential points of the meditations from the last few days, which will serve as a guide for deepening our interior life. They are as follows:
- Meditation on the Word of God
- Praying the meditated Holy Rosary
- Prayer from the heart
- Participation in worthy Eucharistic celebrations, together with the reception of Holy Communion
- Approaching contemplation, with its respective preparatory dispositions (seeking silence, overcoming disordered attachments to the things of this world and to people…)
Returning to this last point, it should be noted that most people are not called to a total abandonment of the world, as is the case in contemplative monasteries. They live in the world and, according to their duties of state, have obligations that keep them in contact with passing things. Those who fulfill their duties of state are in no way separated from God, even if they do not spend as much time in silence or are unable to withdraw constantly.