The "risk" that Christian run is to "reduce themselves to be one-dimension men". This is the warning made by the Pope, who dedicated the catechesis for today’s general audience to the figure of Isidore of Seville, a "great friend" of Pope Gregory the Great, a "great author", "the last of the Christian fathers", bishop of Seville from 599 until his death in 636.” “For Isidore, "those who try to reach the rest of contemplation need to train first during their active life", as he wrote in his writings, in which one of the basic lessons is to combine contemplation and action, active life and contemplative life: "The way in between, composed of both forms of life said the Pope, quoting him , normally turns out to be more useful to solve those tensions that are often aggravated by the choice of just one lifestyle and are instead better controlled by an alternation of the two forms". The model is Christ, who "offered us the example of active life when during the day he spent His time offering signs and miracles in town, but showed contemplative life when He retreated on to the mountain and spent the night there, engrossed in prayer". (continued)” ” ” “
