The church makes sense only if it is not ecclesiocentric.
Church is a brotherhood of free people, only bond by free faith in Jesus Christ and His message.
Idealists, provided with feelings, eventually critics: authentic anthropology.
The positive present and future of the world (a very scarce future) is called ecologic new-humanism, even from the architecture and town planning point of view.
Beauty must be good and goodness must be beautiful.
“the position of missionary”: the one of Wojtyla on the church and the world.
When he prayed, he loved to lie on the floor.
Lord, let me be Your will.
From moon to moon
On snow crystals
By stars burnt.
Moon dew
On the alps of the heart.
In his dream his dead spiritual father from Rivoli, happy like a baby, tells him: “This is the time when from the Sky sufferings fall down on the righteous for the world”.
“Intra-psychical” bilocation. He found himself almost physically (he cold not say otherwise) inside a guy.
The Lord was freeing him from the envy of normality. His heart was becoming more and more body-event, body-message, body-word, prophetic body. Fiat.
God knows Satan more than Satan knows itself.
Faith is more important than praying.
The Holy Spirit is Gift. Those who receive it become Gifts.
The Lord was giving him bilocation when he was not psychologically intrigued by it anymore, when he was free.
He was called not only for the stigmata but also for integral Passion: physical sufferings, psychical, spiritual. But always deep inside the Love.
Church will not triumph, but it will be crucified (in its desire of power). The same destiny of Its Master and Lord. Triumph concerns only the One who is about to come.
His destiny of eschatological Gift to church and human kind was going to be accomplished. His life was becoming icon of supernaturalness and transcendence. People would be overwhelmed by it.
Jesus was not guided by someone else’s prophecies, that is by others’ Spirit, but by His Spirit. So the Carthusian, by the Spirit of Christ itself.
Lord, I want to want to believe.
Principles are not guidelines to carry out, but directions to follow.
Lord, even my bones adore You.
Full moon.
Roundish
Pupil the heart.
“Our mother wanted us to be priests: my brother pretended to be dead and disappeared, and I let her down as well for the love of a woman”. Says the philosopher Pierre Hadot, one of the greatest experts of ancient philosophy.
His (Wojtyla’s) life and his death were the theatre of a theatrical person. He played sincerely.
Theatre, suggestion, delirium, miracles, canonization.
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