The invitatory psalms, every morning, invite us at the beginning of the day to worship the Lord. Isn’t it meaningful? Worship in Carmel, as for all baptized people, and basically every man, the “Magi” testify to it, is the first act and cry to God.

Worship, isn’t it totally gratuitous? Prayer is often thought of as intercession, and it is legitimate. Christ himself tells us: “ask, and you will get …”.

But worship, maybe we neglect it a little, or we reserve it to “those who have time”, contemplatives! The beautiful text of Pope Francis on this subject shows us the opposite, worship is not wasting time and it is more an attitude of the soul than a question of minutes or hours. Just as standing erect means human dignity, so man finds all of his full humanity in the act of worship. To worship the Lord is to recognize that he is God, to be amazed and to give thanks because HE IS and that He unceasingly gives life to everything created.

“Lord, you fill me with joy for EVERYTHING you do” (cf. Ps. 91) says the little flower. Worship God in His will, whatever it is. The old man is reluctant to do so. And yet! How can we worship God as our Father without accepting as a gift the words and events that He offers us to live? No doubt we really need to help each other in prayer to reach this deep consent of the Son of God, at Gethsemane: “Father, not what I want, but what You want”. Not only the little flower, but the big Thérèse of Avila does not teach us anything else.

To the Samaritan woman who questions him, Jesus replies: “… we love what we know, for salvation comes from the Jews. But the hour is coming – and it is now -when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth … “(Jn 4, 22-23)

Besides, Charles de Foucault had been so impressed by the prostration of the faithful of Islam before the one and transcendent God that from that moment date his return to Christ.

We all are called to be “worshipers as sought after by the Father” (Jn 4, 23).
Cannot worship, body and soul, constitute a place of encounter between Jews, Christians and Muslims?
If by prayer, according to St. Teresa of Jesus, we become “servants of love” (Life, 11, 1), will we not also be, by living a prayerful worship of the Triune God (cf. St. Elisabeth of the Trinity), servants of peace, unity, communion among all men?