Be “standing” to receive God, in patient “silence” to listen to His voice, “outgoing” to announce Him to other people. These are the three attitudes that sum up Christians’ life. This was explained by the Pope in his sermon at the Mass that he celebrated at St Marta today. “TO meet God, one must go back to the situation where man was at the time of creation: standing and walking”, Francis explained: “This is how God made us: as high as He is, in His image, and walking. ‘Go, go on! Till the land and make it grow; and multiply…’. ‘Go out!’. Go out and go to the Mount, and stop on the Mount in my presence. Elijah stood. “Standing, he went out”. So, get listening to God. But “how does the Lord come by? How can I meet the Lord and be sure it is Him?”, Francis asked himself, prompted by the readings: “So much noise, so much majesty, so much movement and the Lord was not there. ‘And after the fire came a gentle whisper’ or, as it is in the original passage, ‘a sound of sheer silence’. And the Lord was there. To meet the Lord, one must get into oneself and hear that ‘sound of sheer silence’, and there He talks to us”. Going out, finally, is a call to “be walking, not withdrawn, not into the selfishness of our own comfort”, but “brave” in “bringing the Lord’s message to other people”, in other words going on “a mission”. “We must always look for the Lord”, the Pope warned: “We all know what bad moments feel like: moments that bring us down, dark and faithless moments, moments in which we see no horizons, when we cannot rise up again. We all know what it feels like! But it is the Lord who comes, who feeds us with the bread and with His strength and tells us: ‘Stand up and go on! Walk!’. To meet the Lord, one must be like this: standing and walking. Then, wait for Him to talk to us: an open heart. And He will tell us: ‘It is Me’, and there faith gets strong. Is faith for me, to keep it? No, it isn’t! It is for going and giving it to other people, to anoint other people, for the mission”.