He did not take notes of some of his dreams anymore, because he considered them irrelevant. After some days or weeks they turned to be relevant.
In the Eden Adam and Eva are linked to each other not by the power of catholic sacrament but by the power of their feeling and natural attraction.
The wedding at Cana, despite Jesus participation, are not a catholic sacrament.
The real natural sacrament, that tie us to God, is death.
Great souls are the sequoias fed by the fog of the Ocean. By God that cops out.
Destroy me: suffering wears me out day and night. My God, you are terrible. I know this is for my growth. But everything in me screams against it.
A part of me wants to grovel and join the queue, like all the men.
He was tempted to invoke Satan in order to be freed by God.
Michel Pastoureau writes in his “Dictionary of the colors”: “Talking about red is almost a pleonasm. Red is the color par excellence”. Infinite its shades: purple, crimson, vermilion, amaranth, ponsò, scarlet, ruby, solferino, cardinal….
The Resurrection: the most extraordinary day of Jesus. The Ascension: the most touching day. The day of the meeting with His Bride, His Father.
Quotation by Fulvio Ferrario: “…all the book of the Acts of the Apostles is a triumph of the Spirit action. Community of Jerusalem, made by Jewish, pagans and the others, probably the majority, who contain both the first and the second, live in communion, without any church trying to impose its own model.
This is a difficult unit, because the Christian churches the New Testament talks about are very different one from the other, both for theology and organization. A Christian from Jerusalem, ended up in a cult in Corinth, would be amazed much more than a catholic today in a protestant cult. There is not, at that time, someone who says to be the great chief of the church. It is the Spirit to follow the service of unity”.
Mystic purgatory is terrible. Theological purgatory is terrible. It is necessary to become light. If not you cannot enter into the Light.
André Comte-Sponville writes that one thing is God, transcendent, another thing is religions and churches “…human, too much human and so accessible to knowledge and criticism”.
“…if Jesus is the man of Spirit, Spirit is the vicar of Christ in the church and the world…”: Fulvio Ferrario.
“Spirituality” a container-word, a bazaar-word. Why not “trust” in God? More specifically, “Faith”?
According to Luther the Scripture is the manger where Christ is. According to me golden straw, but straw. Straw, but a golden one.
Catholic church is for the 99% power, for 1% Spirit. The 1% will sign its end and its rebirth.
Faith in 1% distinguishes the true and false prophets, who reject the 99%.
The canonic Serravalle loved to say that to the priest gifted with a 5% of grace and a 10% of human abilities, he preferred the priest humanly gifted with a 5% but rich with a 10% of grace.
Instead of talking about “Natural law”, brumous word, it is necessary to talk about “Natural reason”.
Priests are paralyzed buy self-censorship in front of the bishops, the bishops in front of the pope, the pope in front of the system.
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