Wednesday 9th May 2001
Start of the 8 day retreat. Capitolo of Monopoli. Windy and bright day. First decrescent.
Abbà,
In this retreat
May I meet You.
I come next to You
With all my frailty.
Believing with all my heart
In Your promises
Knowing You are about to give me
The cup of grief and Glory,
That Glory I adore with all my heart.
Give me your Energy,
Your personal Spirit.
Nothing distract me from You
Neither history nor news
Neither affection nor success
Neither pain nor tiredness.
I only ask You Jesus,
That Jesus who is Spirit and Truth.
Be the incarnation of His Gospel
Becoming only one thing with You,
The way You are with Jesus.
Free me from depression and the depression of the old
Be young like You,
Mentally lively like your Angels.
Refresh me with the honey of Your rock.
Fill me with Your gifts for my brothers
And sisters, Your sons and daughters.
May I have the immense affection
Until the most amazing intimacy
Even in the awareness of the essential abyss.
Make me tell the world You are Spirit
And love to be beloved in Spirit and Truth.
Make me Your perfect worshipper
Burnt by Your nuptial ardor
Overcome by Your embrace.
May I see everything with Your eyes.
May I be contemplation and intercession
Made flesh.
May I intercede even for the nothing
So to be born in being and life again.
And by interceding and contemplating
May I be clear and intelligent
Witty and sharp.
May I be Your eyes
Your judgment
Your justice
Your salvation.
May I love by seeing
And see by loving, to be Yours.
Amen
It is not enough to make God’s will, but it is necessary that He fills up not only the will but also the intelligence, the imagination, the sensibility. Up to the most burning and far ecstasy. Eco of Galileo’s night ecstasies.
The total occupation of God goes through the human body, anticipating the glory of physical temples of the Spirit, in the land of the eschatological heart of God. Sharing the cosmic resurrection, result of the explosion of the glory of the Risen, big bang of Life.
Once his brother died, whose death he had oneirically understood, before his own. He interceded for him, despite his hate and envy, he could not understand.
By now the Carthusian was the almost daily terminal of angelic chant, almost always a Marian chant. What a comfort among the unimaginable troubles of his life. “Only God will console you”: told him with imperium M.Q., the solo of God.
His peace was “doing” God’s will, expressed inwardly and historically, intrinsically and ed extrinsically.
Christ wins through the victories of Satan. It is the maxi-law of history of facts and spirits (people).
There is no antinomy of principle between the Letter and the Spirit, between the Letter informed by the Spirit and the Spirit informing the Letter. And there is no contradiction between Scriptures and Tradition. The first is the result of Tradition, the second comes before and together and accomplishes the Scriptures, source of Tradition itself. The Tradition produces the Scriptures and it is produced by the Scriptures.
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