Henry Miller: “…men can be middle-aged, bold, fat, shapeless, cross-eyes, scoliotic, bilious, distempered, asthmatic, arthritic – but women have to be young! They have to be young and fresh and hard and made to endure, like the new buildings, the new lifts, the new cars, the steel knives and forks that never got damaged…” (letter-tale of 1935).
Our intelligence has become malicious. For this reason it does not feel the Reign, for this it does not feel the Spirit.
With regard to the Spirit and spirits, intelligence has to be innocent, of that innocence that is fruit of the heart innocence. At the cost of inner cilice.
Many men, apparently vital brilliant charismatic, are literally eaten by the demon of sex, night and day. A go-between curiosity can make a life sheer hell.
The Lord more and more adapted him to an increasing stigmatic state.
He got over melancholia and offered to the Most Beloved One his spring walks of a time, roborant and invigorating. He contemplated Jesus nailed over the cross, immobile of the immobility of the Truth, lively of the life of Love.
It was more and more clear to him that Jesus wanted him as His world Icon as a crucifies prophet. In His own image in the mission and in the cross-shape result.
He felt the angels were listed not in medieval hierarchies but in evangelical fraternity.
Canonization mustn’t be proved by evangelical ambiguity of miracles but by the strongly evangelical qualities of the candidate.
The Canon Law has more to do with the Roman Law than with the Gospel. Catholic church has to sink its juridical character and Hellenism in the Jordan, the river of Jesus personal Pentecost.
Certain dreams are like evangelical parabolas. They have to be considered in their most significant elements without getting lost in the forest of mere nothing. I refer to the special dreams produced by the Unconscious. In particular to the dreams sent by the Heaven and the Powers above.
Only a weakened and sock body can bear the inner violence of the stigmata, that are not purely hieroglyphical. See for instance s.Francesco, see s.Pio, see the carthusian.
The existence and the immaterial quality of the angelic world are for the believers a great personal antidote to the spreading eroticism .
Erik Borgman: “…Christianity is a New Testament always new: it will never make any Old Testament obsolete, reducing it to a mere heritage of the past, but it will always read the past in the light of that future, that is foretold by the revelations of God’s presence in the present”.
A nail meets less opposition in a crumbly wall. The same for the stigmata in a weak body.
A mad able to think: this is the man of the Spirit.
Jesus, who emerges from the Jordan, in the terrible light of the Dove, is a simple and simplified man, radical, determined to the Kingdom; He is a much reasonable man sublime absurd. He is Love.
The real believer believes in Him because he is seduced and overcome by Him. His miracles are His feces.
The real canonized has to have the same personality as Christ: mind heart style mental freedom open mindedness geniality of love and works.
Christ is the genius of God.
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