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MEDITATING AND LIVING

Jesus Christ had come to transform everything. He had come to take men out of the orbit of the flesh and place them in the orbit of the Spirit. With his arrival, all consanguinity ties would expire, and the borders of the spirit would be established, within which God would be the father of all of us and all of us would be brothers to one another (Mt 23,8).

We do not function in a world structured based on psychological parameters, intelligence coefficients or personality capabilities. Rather, it is a strange world, whose main characteristics are the lack of normality, probabilities or laws of proportion.Everything here is unexpected. Our God is so amazing; all of a sudden He sprouts wells of water in the desert, light from darkness and creates life from nothing.

Wake up. On this blessed day everything begins and everything is recreated. We have a new opportunity, there is a radiant dawn, with a golden sun that illuminates every corner of the earth. Darkness gives way to Light.

We have reached the great moment in which the Poor One touched the bottom of nothingness. Silence and solitude reached maximum depth and, because of that, the availability of the Poor One to the Father and the brethren will be supreme, transforming him on the cross into the Great Servant, the Servant of God par excellence.

When we try to enter into communication with the Lord, the first thing that we have to do is to give life to the presence of the Lord, after controlling and centering the faculties.

Psalm 63 This is the underlying tone of some Psalms. Specifically, it is the general experience of Psalm 63 Impetuously, the psalmist enters. He jumps to the fore with vehement force: “God, you are my God, I pine for you; my heart thirsts for you, my body longs for you, like a land parched, dreary and waterless.”

John’s baptism had a penitential character. It was a bath of water signifying the purification of sins. Therefore, John preached on the bank of the river, and those who frequented the site confessed their sins.”(Mt 3: 6) Mark tells us that the baptism of John was a sign of conversion, a rite for the “forgiveness of sins.”

Brother Leo accompanied Brother Francis to the grotto. Francis spent the entire day in the cavern reflecting on the poverty in Bethlehem, the mystery of Christmas, the universal reconciliation between the body and the spirit, the marriage of heaven and earth. He longed to see the Infant, who is the link between heaven and earth, with his own eyes.

The scene of the Annunciation is beating with an intense intimacy. In order to know what happened there, we have to plunge into pensive waters in order to understand more, by contemplative intuition rather than by intellection, the essential meaning and quiet demeanor of the mind of Mary. What was she feeling? How did she see herself at that moment? Our Lady!

Man is a slave to himself and his possessions. The slavery consists in idolatry or self-worship. His problem consists of getting rid of the me-god and replacing him with the true God. There is only one problem: to empty ourselves of selfishness, to extinguish the flame of the ego, the I, and to patiently let go of the thousand and one things to which we cling.

The shapes of the hills and even the stars disappeared. A flood tide of honey and tenderness rose and rose, and with its immense waves, began to cover everything: valleys, rocks, hills…everything was submerged until at last, only Love remained. Oh my beloved Dad, a thousand times blessed! And I was lost in that floodtide, I let myself be swept away by the waves and then knew nothing more…”