Augustine suggestions about John 21: “Simon of John, do you love me?… Pasture my lambs”.
“Those who pasture the lambs of Christ in order to make them their own property, had better convince that they love themselves, not Christ; they’d better convince to be guided by a desire of glory, of power, money, and not by charity, which only wants to obey, help and please God. Against those ones the word of God controls, always repeated. What do these words mean, indeed: “Do you love me? Pasture my lambs?” As if, with those words the Lord said: “If you love me, do not think of pasturing the lambs for your own interest; pasture my lambs because they are mine, not if they were yours; and while you pasture them look for my glory, not yours; try to establish my reign, not yours; take care of my interest, not yours”. Those faults and some similar faults are born from the same source, that is from the love for oneself. This is the risk, those who pasture the lambs of God must be on guard”.
Gianni Vattimo, in the tv programme “L’Infedele” on LA7: “Pope and priests have broken my balls”. Wednesday 18th April.
The labour pains announce the birth. The stigmatic suffering, becoming more frequent, announce the phenomenal flourishing of the stigmata.
The angels called him back to a rigorous and loving pureness. In order to preserve the freshness and the joy of faith.
Lord, preserve me from the impure fog.
Inside it was music. A part from the prophetic harshness ad modum actus, in that moment
Mary is grace.
Giorgio Gozzelino, Salesian theologian: “The maternal intercession of Mary simply represents the reflection of the only intercession of Jesus in her… She has the looks of the mysterium lunae, the bright reflex of Christ, and becomes the eminent co-operator of His work”.
The man is the image of God, but in becoming. From dull to bright, in love, in the mystic fusion, in the blessing meeting. From a grain of wheat to a shining spike.
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