Wednesday 9th September 2009

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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