«I would like, telling fairytales full of gold and shadows, to travel from town to town…». Sergio Corazzino, roman poet belonging to “crepuscolarismo”, dead at 21.
Gold: the perfect archetypal Dyad. Matter and light, physics and metaphysics, Christ.
Demons are body-less spirits in search of a body, even the animal one, to dwell and possess. They invade things, too.
Demons. An uncontrollable tendency to physics. Inhibited by God’s mercy. They would invade every mental and physical site.
Demons have a perfect memory.
The Word, Beloved and Beloving. Beloved by the Father and the Spirit, Beloving the Father and the Spirit.
Christ, Lamb of God, shared bread, man of the pains. Pain made man.
Christ, joy of the Father and the Spirit. Christ, archetypical gold.
«Jesus, he always took Him in his heart, Jesus on his lips, Jesus in his ears, Jesus in his eyes, Jesus in his hands, Jesus in all the parts of his body…better, finding himself travelling many times, and thinking or singing about Jesus, he forgot to be travelling and stopped to invite al the creatures to praise Jesus». This is what Francis’s first biographer, Tommaso da Celano, told about the saint.
«of the same mighty Son of God I cannot see any other corporal thing, in this world, but His most saint and blood»: again Francis (2 Test 10: FF 113).
Paul in Galati 6,17 writes about «stigmata», relating to the roman custom of stamping the seal of the owner on his slave’s skin. The slave was, in this way, “stigmatised” come as property of his owner, that became also his protector.
Francis’s stigmata mean Christ, His owner and protector.
Almighty and glorious God,
light the darkness
of my heart.
And give me straight faith,
certain hope
and perfect charity,
reason and knowledge,
Lord,
may I follow your holy
and true commandment.
Amen
«Praise before the Crucified» by Saint Francis
«…all praise be yours, my Lord,
through Sister Death,
from whose embrace no mortal
can escape: woe to those who
die in mortal sin;
happy those she finds doing
your will! The second death
can do them no harm.
Praise and bless my Lord
And give him thanks and serve him
With great humility».
from «The Canticle of the Creature» by Saint Francis
It is necessary to believe in men, against their own self low regard.
Wherever signs of Apocalypse and of the Apocalypse. But the Christian is optimistic against any hope.
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