This is what I want, a poor Church for the poor.
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When we shut ourselves in any form of selfishness or self-complacency; when we allow ourselves to be seduced by worldly powers and by the things of this world, forgetting God and neighbour; when we place our hope in worldly vanities, in money, in success. Then the Word of God says to us: "Why do you seek the living among the dead?". Why are you searching there? That thing cannot give you life! Yes, perhaps it will cheer you up for a moment, for a day, for a week, for a month... and then?
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Transcendence remains because that light, all in everything, transcends the universe and the species it inhabits at this stage.
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At stake are the lives of many children who will be discriminated against in advance, and deprived of their human development given by a father and a mother and willed by God. At stake is the total rejection of God's law engraved in our hearts. Let us not be naive: this is not simply a political struggle, but it is an attempt to destroy God's plan. It is not just a bill (a mere instrument) but a "move" of the father of lies who seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.
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The Christian sees the Church as the Body of Christ, as the vessel that guards with absolute integrity the deposit of faith, as the faithful Spouse who communicates without addition or subtraction all that Christ entrusted. The Church as a fully "sanctified" reality and capable of receiving and of communicating, without error or defect, from its own poverty and even with its own sins, the full sanctity of God, is not a "complement" or an "institutional addition" to Jesus Christ, but a full participation of his Incarnation, of His Life, of His Passion, death and Resurrection. In defending its purity, its indefectibility, its sanctity as the bride, the Church is defending the "place" through which the gift of the life of God passes on to the world and the gift of the life of the world to God. This gift, the fullest expression of which is the Eucharist. Is not another gift among ourselves but the supreme gift of the most intimate life of the Trinity that poured forth for the life of the world and the life of the world assumed by the Son that is offered to the Father.
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The Lord created us in His image and likeness, and we are the image of the Lord, and He does good and all of us have this commandment at heart: do good and do not do evil. All of us. "But, Father, this is not Catholic! He cannot do good." Yes, he can. He must. Not can: must! Because he has this commandment within him. Instead, this "closing off" that imagines that those outside, everyone, cannot do good is a wall that leads to war and also to what some people throughout history have conceived of: killing in the name of God. That we can kill in the name of God. And that, simply, is blasphemy. To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
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When the conclave elected me Pope. Before I accepted I asked if I could spend a few minutes in the room next to the one with the balcony overlooking the square. My head was completely empty and I was seized by a great anxiety. To make it go way and relax I closed my eyes and made every thought disappear, even the thought of refusing to accept the position, as the liturgical procedure allows. I closed my eyes and I no longer had any anxiety or emotion. At a certain point I was filled with a great light. It lasted a moment, but to me it seemed very long. Then the light faded, I got up suddenly and walked into the room where the cardinals were waiting and the table on which was the act of acceptance. I signed it, the Cardinal Camerlengo countersigned it and then on the balcony there was the ' "Habemus Papam".
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God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us. Our species will end but the light of God will not end and at that point it will invade all souls and it will all be in everyone.
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[Mystics] have been fundamental [to the church]. A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Posted by: Maria Alessia Petilli
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Gratitude and thankfulness are a rare flower...
Written on tuesday october 15, 2013