To know Christ through prayer, adoration, in the consciousness of sin

To truly know Jesus, we need to pray, adore, and acknowledge that we are sinners. Knowing the catechism is not enough to understand the depth of the mystery of Christ. In today’s first reading, St. Paul prays for the Ephesians. The apostle of the Gentiles asks them from the Holy Spirit for the grace to be strong, strengthened, so that Christ truly dwells in their hearts. This is the middle. Paul plunges into the vast sea that is the person of Christ. But how can we know Christ. How can we understand the love of Christ that transcends all knowledge?

Christ is present in the gospel, reading the gospel we know Christ. And we all do it, or at least listen to the gospel when we go to Mass. As for the study of the catechism: the catechism teaches us who Christ is. But that is not enough. To be able to understand the breadth, length, height, and depth of Jesus Christ, we must first enter the context of prayer, as Paul does, on his knees: ‘Father, send down the Spirit to know Jesus Christ.’

Prayer is needed to truly know Christ.  However, Paul not only prays, he adores this mystery, which transcends all knowledge, and in the context of adoration he asks for this grace of the Lord. We do not know the Lord without this habit of adoring, worshiping in silence, adoring. I think, if I’m not mistaken, this prayer of adoration is less known to us, it is the one we do less. Wasting time – I dare say – before the Lord, before the mystery of Jesus Christ. He is there in silence, in the silence of adoration. He is the Lord and I adore him.

In order to know Christ, it is necessary to have knowledge of ourselves, that is, to be accustomed to accusing ourselves as sinners, to confessing that we are sinners. You cannot adore without indicting yourself. In order to enter this sea without a bottom, without the shores, which is the mystery of Jesus Christ, the following things are necessary: ​​Prayer, ‘Father, send me [the Holy] Spirit to lead me to the knowledge of Jesus.’ Second, adoring secrets, enter into secrets, adoring. And third, to accuse myself: ‘I am a man with unclean lips’. May the Lord also give us this grace that Paul asks for the Ephesians, to know this grace and to obtain Christ.