He no longer wrote down various dreams, because they were considered irrelevant there. After days or weeks the same proved to be significant.
In the Earthly Paradise Adam and Eve are mutually united not by the power of the Catholic sacrament but by that of the sentiment and of the natural attraction.
The wedding of Cana, despite Jesus’ participation, is not a Catholic sacrament.
The true natural sacrament that unites us to God is death.
The great souls are sequoias fed by the mist of the ocean. From the God who latita.
Destroy me: suffering overwhelms me day and night. My God, you’re terrible. I know it’s for my growth. But everything in me screams against it.
A part of me wants to crawl and queue, like all men.
He was tempted to invoke Satan to be liberated from God.
Michel Pastoureau writes in his “Dictionary of Colors”: “Speaking of red is almost a pleonasma. Red is the color par excellence “. Infinite its nuances: purple, crimson, vermilion, amaranth, ponsò, scarlet, ruby, solferino, cardinal ….
The Resurrection: the most extraordinary day of Jesus. Ascension: the most exciting day. The day of the meeting with His Bride, the Father.
Quotation by Fulvio Ferrario: “… the whole book of the Acts of the Apostles is a triumph of the action of the Spirit. The community of Jerusalem, made up of Jews, those made up of the pagans and the others, probably the majority, who have both first and second in their womb, live in communion, without any church pretending to impose its model.
Of course, it is a difficult unit, because the Christian churches of which the New Testament speaks to us are very different from each other, both as regards theology and the organization. A Christian from Jerusalem, who happened to be in a cult in Corinth, would be amazed more than a Catholic, today, would be amazed by a Protestant cult. There is, at that time, one who claims to be the great head of the church. It is the Spirit who exercises the service of unity “.
Mystic purgatory is terrible. Theological purgatory is terrible. It is necessary to become light. If we are not light, we do not enter the Light.
André Comte-Sponville writes that it is God, transcendent, other religions and churches “… human, too human and as such accessible to knowledge and criticism”.
“… if Jesus is the man of the Spirit, the Spirit is the vicar of Christ in the church and in the world …”: Fulvio Ferrario.
“Spirituality” container term, bazaar term. Why not “trust” in God? More strictly, “Faith”?
For Luther, Scripture is the manger where Christ lies. For me, straw of gold, but straw. Straw, but golden.
The Catholic Church is 99% power, 1% Spirit. 1% will mark its end and its rebirth.
Faith in 1% distinguishes the true from the false prophets, who disown 99%.
The canon Serravalle liked to say that the priest, with 5% grace and 10% human capacity, preferred the humanly gifted priest to 5% but a 10% gracious grantee.
Instead of talking about “Natural Law”, a misty term, it is necessary to speak of “Natural Reason”.
The priests are paralyzed by self-censure in front of the bishops, the bishops facing the pope, the pope in front of the system.
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