“Your life will be like Jesus’ life: among the crowd”.
“You will know two extremes: the sinners and the saints”.
“Your spiritual Father will be the Holy Spirit. Look at the Virgin: she has directly asked God for light. She has not gone to a priest. Look at Christ: His spiritual Father has been the Father”.
“Your idol is the fear to be singular”.
“Joyful poverty, not protesting”.
“You react to the abuses of the Spirit’s Gifts by putting the Holy Spirit in the first place. For fear of the abuse you must not suffocate the Gift”.
“A child only in the spirit. The Hallelujah only in the spirit”.
“First you will Prima evangelize, like Jesus, then, at the end of your life, the stigmata as for Jesus”.
“Evangelization is fruitful only if accompanied by the mark of poverty and prayer”.
“You must not renounce your culture, but postpone the love for it to the love for God and your brothers”.
“Predica Verbum gratis”.
“Jesus was not a religious. He was not a Non era un Jesuit. You are the Jesus”.
“men will be against you. They will not understand you, not because they cannot, but because to understand you means to change what they do not want to”.
“You will not be understood by religious authority, like Jesus”.
“Like Paul, you will contest Peter”.
“You have to testify poverty but mainly the prayer”.
“You will be consoled only by God”.
“St. Francesco, who was not an intellectual, attracted among his first friends some intellectuals”.
“You are God’s mountaineer. You have to reach the top and here stay in the cold, in the sun, in the wind, in stunning and frightening scenarios. And then come down”.
“Preach the Gospel to any creature, until the borders of the earth”.
1980. “You lack the courage of Truth. Your “thorn in the flesh“ is the trouble of being at the centre of attention”.
“You will be exposed to the pride for the Gifts of God. But I have prayed and will pray so that humiliation will give you the right place, I have prayed and will pray so that you can be humiliated”.
“Has my poverty to be only inward?”. Answer: “so inward that it has to become exterior”.
Regarding the saints. “the others go to the rays, I go to the Sun (Eucharist)”.
To You, Lord, I entrust my infernal so that You could love them in Yourself.
Who, on the earth, is looking only for God?
“I see you more essential. You do not look for the souls anymore, the souls look for you”.
Regarding the novice’s prayer: “Lord, make me the most Marian, the most charismatic, the most humiliated of all the men”. “God inspires us and gives us desires that repel human nature. Then He makes them come true. Before the fulfillment we are tempted to go back, but we cannot because we ourselves have asked for it. God behaved in this way at least with me”.
“be springing water. Go and burn everything that is not divine”.
Tuesday 2nd July 2002 – 3,00a.m.
Piano delle rose – Vallata
Red Lanterns
Over the gulf of dead
Green for the moon
Friday 19th July 2002 – 10,00p.m.
Piano delle rose – Vallata
It is naked
The July moon.
You heart
Do not blush
13th January 2003 -8,00p.m.
gardens of waves
half-moving jewel
the heart
20th February 2002 – 2,00a.m.
promenade of Bari
Moon lotus
In the green tears of the Earth.
January 2002
Lilies of stars
In the fog of the heart.
Tuesday 16th December 2003 – 11,25p.m.
Cinema Carella – Carbonara (Bari)
You sink
Into the green
lily
of fire.
Martina Franca, 13th April 2003 – 8,00p.m.
Hypercritical Moon
Over the languid square.
Sunday, 27th April 2003 – 2,00p.m.
Piazza Garibaldi – Bari
Sensual.
You lean
From the heart
towards
the abyss.
13th November 2003 -1,00p.m.
in my home kitchen
Caravans of angels
On the “sampietrini” of the stars.
Ratzinger is pathologically lacking of spontaneity.
Despite the most generous empathy, you cannot suffer others’ sufferings, die others’ death. Maybe a mother can. Surely God.
Master, when there is not the Joy of faith anymore, what will there be in its place and help? Answer: Faith.
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