Giuseppe Forlai
LIKE A LITTLE CREATURE
Solitude, Silence, Listening, and Christian Life
Afterword by Fr. Fabio Rosini

In modern Christian formation the experience of listening in solitude has been confined to a few moments of retreat or “desert”. In a certain sense, the logic of the “group” and of community life prevails. However, without a personal adherence to Christ, matured in the silence of our own heart, words such as fraternity, solidarity, and acceptance risk being empty and little practiced. The time has come to enter with Jesus into the desert and in silence, with only the Holy Scriptures under our arm and right faith in our heart, to deepen our personal convictions. Using the words of St. Romuald, great hermit and son of the rule of St. Benedict, it is a question of emptying ourselves and sitting down before God, content only with His grace “like a little creature”. Fr. Giuseppe Forlai (Rome, 1972) is a priest of the diocese of Rome. He is currently spiritual director of the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary and teaches at the “Claretianum” Institute of Theology of Consecrated Life. Among his main publications with Edizioni San Paolo: Certissima Luce. Il cristiano e la vita eterna (2012); Il mondo rovesciato. I consigli evangelici nella vita quotidiana (2013); Madre degli Apostoli (2014); Spudorata castità. Cos’è. Come si vive. Cosa ci guarisce (2016), La preghiera di Gesù (2019); La compagnia dello Spirito (2020).

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