Marco Iazzolino

In these hours of isolation, time seems to be dilating. Families, communities travel in a limbo that struggles to define itself. Everyone inside, no one outside, and the clock appear not doing its job. The endless lines at the supermarket are as slow as the gaze that measures the safety distance between one customer and another. The hands that regulate the daily run leave for the first time the “meter” the priority.

Everything is so “lost” in a tic and tac that from time to time, it is “woken up” by the whirlwind of emotions of a forced cohabitation that is sometimes not easy. 1000 are the minutes that make our life a place of fatigue and smile every day. 1000 minutes (the average awaking time excluding sleep) every day is a great opportunity that is regenerated every day. Let’s try to live with intensity and awareness at least 100 of these (only 10%!). Pray, read, cook, meditate, do physical activity, …100 minutes at least per day when we can feel our breath become an opportunity for full and intense life. They are not many, but in the next few days, they will become an excellent “gym” for the Easter of life that awaits us.

The prodigal son of today’s Gospel begins to live when he rethinks the time of terrible toil (squandered the patrimony becomes the shepherd of pigs), in time of salvation (he returns to his father without expectations). It is up to us to transform at least 100 minutes a day to the time of Corona Virus, in time of salvation and life! Courage