There is a use of hearing that is not true listening, but its opposite: listening in secret. In fact, an omnipresent temptation which, in the era of the social web, seems to have increased, is that of listening and spying, instrumentalizing others for our benefit. Catechesis on social communications, with Fr. Marcel Ranivomanalina.
So says Pope Francis, the first listening to rediscover when looking for real communication is listening to oneself, to our most real needs, those inscribed in the depths of each person. And we can only start from listening to what makes us unique in creation: the desire to be in relationship with others and with the Other. Catechesis on social communications, with Fr. Marcel Ranivomanalina.
The real seat of listening is the heart. King Solomon, although very young, proved wise because he asked the Lord to grant him "a listening heart". And Saint Augustine invites us to listen with the heart (corde audire), to receive the words not externally in our ears, but spiritually in our hearts: Do not have your heart in your ears, but your ears in your heart. Catechesis on social communications, with Fr. Marcel Ranivomanalina.
We all have ears, but often even the one with perfect hearing cannot listen to the other. There is in fact an inner deafness, worse than physical deafness. Listening, in fact, does not only concern the sense of hearing, but the whole person. Catechesis on social communications, with Fr. Marcel Ranivomanalina.
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