By Most Rev. Leonardo Y. Medroso THE Season of Lent summons us Chr is tians to pause and pray. It is a time of grace to look deep into ourselves, examine the motivations that drive our life, our status with the community and the environment, and above all, our relationship with the Transcendent without whom human life becomes a tumble of mess and meaningless bits of unrelated events. As it is said, an unexamined life is an ex is tence not worth living. Deep prayer is based on reality. It is not an imagined relationship with God, nei the r is it a mere conversation with the Fa the r in Heaven clo the d in piet is tic burst of emotions and interesting words. Genuine prayer is reality. It aims to bring us down deep into the realization of the Samaritan woman in John’s Gospel who, having been unmasked of her immoral love life and accepted it as a matter of fact, immediately asked Jesus about the nature of a true worship that is acceptable to God...