Initiation into Prayer
By Roberto Pasolini
This is the mystery of prayer: a rich variety of words,
expressions, postures, and silences through which we and God remain in a
dialogue of love—one grounded in mutual freedom. It is a dialogue as mysterious
to those who feel they’ve never experienced it as it is familiar to those who
have learned to enter it with the heart’s spontaneity.
The pages of this book aim to be a humble yet helpful
guide—an initiation into an art for which, perhaps today more than ever, we
feel a deep longing and renewed interest.
When understood and lived for what it truly is, prayer
becomes the ultimate freedom the human heart longs for.
To pause and take time to attune ourselves to the deeper
meaning of our lives is the freest and most necessary act we can make.
Prayer is the one thing we truly need—but it must remain a
completely free experience, untouched by obligation. It is the most beautiful
part of life: something no one can force upon us, and from which no one can
ever separate us.