Thursday 22nd May. 5,10 a.m. His right cheek was lightly touched with deep and alive affection. That was his ancient dead brother. He complained that his friends did not come up to his requests of help.
The prayer for the dead must be alive, constant, deeply felt. Unfortunately the dead’s familiar, deep in their grief, do not pray, letting a celebrating person pray in their place, with an official prayer, with no affection or warmth. Does a soulless official intercession have a redeeming power?
Official liturgy are far light years from the pathos and creativity of Jesus.
The prayer in the Gospel obtains because it is alive and vivacious.
The algid liturgies in Rome cannot find their way into today’s men. They are religious scenographies worth of the court of Byzantium.
Jerusalem
city of Fire and of the Fire
baptize us within your walls and your gardens
burn us with your prayer and your faith.
Vertical city
Axial city
mater dolorosa.
Everything in him was ecclesial interhuman cosmic. He was not baptized in the Fire, but in the Blaze.
Church has to be Pentecostal, rich of faith and signs, and at the same time e rich of dialogue. Even here dyad, dyad, dyad.
Pentecostal but not with God. A with God Pentecostalism is a cosmic and comic contradiction.
Sunday 21st January 1979 (To)
Meditation of M.Q.
To be…Silence
To be…Silence,
Is not easy,
Is not comfortable,
Is less lived
Because less understood and Loved.
To be…Silence,
is maceration of the “self”
is not to tell and smile
when you suffer in your body
I your heart and spirit.
It means to Love those who cause your sufferings,
Your humiliation, misunderstanding, calumny.
To be…Silence
Is proof
Of moral and spiritual strength,
Is a strong ability to Love.
When humiliation, misunderstanding
And the suspect hit…
Be Silence and Love.
When indifference
or insult of creatures hurt
be Silence and Love.
When sharp words
Critical sight, hard or lofty,
And the cold and aloof behavior
Hut your heart…
Be Silence Na Love.
When you see and feel you are ignored,
– they willingly ignore you –
and make you understand they can do without you
be Silence and Love.
When your behavior and your life
Is surrounded by suspect, control,
Jealousy … envy
Be Silence and Love
When your simplicity
Your uprightness and coherence
Is not understood but criticized
Be Silence and Love
When your will,
Supported by Love,
You work with serenity, in the stranglehold of continuous pains
And you see sly and…implied smiles around you
Be Silence and Love.
When your body surrenders
And your health force you in bed
A place of pains and tiredness
And you hear a whisper of not charitable comments,
Look at Christ Crucified…like Him and with Him
Be Silence and Love.
When your Faith, your Mercy is not understood,
Is not believed as sincere,
But as “fanaticism”, “exaltation”
Be Silence and Love.
To be Silence means to Love.
To be Silence is Love
Is ”to be the melody for the Heart of Trinity”
This is important,
This is worth:
To Please the Trinity
…live testifying
that your “Silence” is Love,
that your “nothing” is Joy,
that your “Community” is Accession,
that your ”life” is Christ…
Magnificat! Hallelujah!
NB the spirituality of silence of M.Q., ill, has top be understood in the light of her life, lived within a hospital religious community. It is mainly for every religious community life. Integral spirituality needs Silence and Word.
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