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Editorial > Editorial Archive  Buenos Aires, Sunday, January 14, 2007
Enjoy having a restThere are those who use this resting period as a time to take up again strength or to more carefully carry out some activity which they cannot undertake in the rest of the year due to their duties, i.e. reading, praying a little more, spending time with their beloved ones... The sense we give to our rest often is some “at last I stop working”, and perhaps we can't enjoy the resting time as we ought to do because we may have not learnt the true sense of resting which consist of being able to love and enjoy that what we possess, that what we have made. May our rest help us enjoying more that what we have made, that what we possess, the people around us, either by going somewhere in order to admire Nature as given to us by God or staying at home speding more time in a different way with those with whom we live, which may be difficult to do all year around due to the pace of events by which we live.The beginning of this year 2007 is also the start of a time in which many people enjoy their vacations while others may not be able to do so, but we all somehow change the rate of our activities. This is the reason why I intend to reflect upon this time, a resting time for the vast majority. There are those who use this resting period as a time to take up again strength or to more carefully carry out some activity which they cannot undertake in the rest of the year due to their duties, i.e. reading, praying a little more, spending time with their beloved ones... In the book of Genesis at the beginning of the Bible, when telling us about the creation of the World and of Man, we are told that on the seventh day God rested. He created the World in six days, and on the seventh He rested. I wonder how this “resting of God” may have been, in what it may have consisted. Many times we look forward to our yearly vacation, or maybe that day on which we don't need to get up like on other days in order to go to work, being able to “rest”. Of course we also see many people who already have arrived at this stage and who can't live in a permanent rest, a kind of “perpetual siesta”. I therefore wonder what resting means. Perhaps the wish of resting once and for all of our work is related to the fact that many times we must carry out tasks which we don't like but we must do, which don't fulfill us, which in short we do not “love”. Thus I think that God's resting after creating the World, which He created by His immense and infinite love, may have been a time of “enjoying” what He had made, a moment of ongoing and fully “loving” that what He had carried out. The sense we give to our rest often is some “at last I stop working”, and perhaps we can't enjoy the resting time as we ought to do because we may have not learnt the true sense of resting which consist of being able to love and enjoy that what we possess, that what we have made. When we say that God rested on the seventh day we mean no other thing that He went on loving and admiring the World He had created, which He enjoyed, that is, He went on loving. When talking about our definitive rest, the one we call “eternal rest”, what will it be like? Stop doing anything? No, we will forever be with God, the LOVE, and we will live forever in and by this Love. It comes to my mind that at that time we will love much more than here. Thus, may our rest help us enjoying more that what we have made, that what we possess, the people around us, either by going somewhere in order to admire Nature as given to us by God or staying at home speding more time in a different way with those with whom we live, which may be difficult to do all year around due to the pace of events by which we live.
Father Oscar Pezzarini together with Fr. Leonardo Abregú makes us reflect on Saturdays from 8 to 12 AM (GMT-03:00)with "VENTANA A LA VIDA", the Don Orione radio program he conducts on FM PROVIDENCIA, 90.3 MHz together with some residents of the Claypole Cottolengo (Raúl Romero, María Laura Andrada, Alberto Zoroch, Américo Torres), with the production of Roberto Beluzzo and Ignacio Cavalli as technical operator. You can also listen to FM PROVIDENCIA by clicking here.
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