Be Holy, Be Happy!
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Journeying with the Founder Day #309
Jesus does not give any explanation, He speaks
only of the mysterious presence of the Spirit—we know neither where He comes
from nor where He leads. We only know that He is a mysterious presence. He is
like the wind that you can hear without knowing where it comes from or where it
leads; because the Holy Spirit takes possession of our souls and our only duty
is to close our eyes in faith and allow the Holy Spirit to lead us, I would say
that we must carry out this great act of faith in the Holy Spirit in the
decisive moments of choice. (The New Man)
Monday, September 8, 2014
Journeying with the Founder Day #308
What can we ask from Mary? Everything, because we are in need of
many things and she, who is our Mother, understands us. Above all we are to ask
of her one thing: that she gives us the grace to enter into the mysterious
world of love, which we can only sense through experience. Let us ask the
Madonna, for ourselves and for the others, for those who are close and those
who are far, that we may enter into this mysterious world of love: the world of
Jesus, the world of Spirit, the world of the Eucharist. (Marvelous Things
Are Said of You.)
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Journeying with the Founder Day #307
Regarding the Church, I ask you to love much, to
pray even more, and to refrain from judging. Why? Because none of us can know
what the Holy Spirit is achieving. (The New Man)
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Journeying with the Founder Day #306
The Church is born from the Holy Spirit; the
Church is redeemed in a certain way by the blood of Christ. According to the
interpretation of the Fathers of the Church, from the Heart of Christ, pierced
by a lance, the foundational sacraments of the Church are born, that is, the
water of Baptism and the blood of the Eucharist. (The New Man)
Friday, September 5, 2014
Journeying with the Founder Day #305
How has this mystery of the conception of the
eternal, uncreated Word of God in the womb of Our Lady taken place? How did she
become Mother? What was the constant assistance of the Spirit throughout the
whole period in which the Madonna carried in her womb the eternal Word of God?
All this is not ours to know; before this mystery let us be content to kneel
down and to adore, without pretending to go beyond because they are the most
sacred, highest, and most delicate mysteries we find in our faith. And let us
not be ashamed to say that we do not understand the mystery, because if we knew
the mystery, it would not be a mystery. We only know that Christ was born of
the Blessed Mother by the work of the Holy Spirit. (The New Man)
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Journeying with the Founder Day #304
The Church is a new reality on pilgrimage that
can intone the psalm of Exodus; it is a Church that in some way suffers, it is
a Church that yearns toward, it is a Church in procession toward the final goal, toward the eschaton,
that will be reached only after time; it is a Church that is journeying toward
the Omega point that is Christ. (The New Man)
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Journeying with the Founder Day #303
The Servant of Yahweh, in washing the feet of
the Apostles, bent over to teach us service. Service is newness and is
characteristic of the Church and of the new man. (The New Man)
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Journeying with the Founder Day #302
We are born, we grow, and we work as new men in
the Church through the sacraments. The sacraments on one side build a new man
in us; on the other side they make us builders of new men. Therefore we are
faced with a double examination: how much have we let ourselves be built as new
men through the sacraments, and how much have we ourselves, through the
sacraments, been builders of new men, sowing newness around us? (The New Man)
Monday, September 1, 2014
Journeying with the Founder Day #301
The Church is the continuation of Christ; she is
the fullness of Christ. Christ is historically present through the Church and
therefore the Church continues Christ, the New Man; the Church is the
continuation of Christ in history, in time, and in space. (The New Man)
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Journeying with the Founder Day #300
We are born to a family, which is a social
reality—we live in a family. In general men form a physical or spiritual
family, and they live in a complex that is called society, which is a social
reality. Therefore, to speak only of the new life of the new man without also
speaking concretely of the new society is meaningless. We know that this new
society is the Church, and it is in the Church and through the Church that we
receive the message that the Father has sent us through His Christ, the New
Man, to us new men. (The New Man)
Journeying with the Founder Day #299
The Father, the Son, and the Spirit want maximum
love from us. We must respond to such infinite love with the maximum of our
possibilities, and this is what the twofold vocation to holiness and to
brotherhood encompasses. This is the new message, the new Covenant, the new
letter that the Father has sent to us to which we must be faithful. (The New Man)
Journeying with the Founder Day #298
Radicalism is absolute coherence, but absolute
coherence must be the expression of absolute love, which on our part is a
consequence of the infinite love of God for us. (The New Man)
Journeying with the Founder Day #297
If anyone wants to follow me, let him deny
himself, take up his cross daily and follow me (Lk 9:23). What is the underlying reason for this? It is the imitation
of Christ; it is a matter of following Christ, and therefore, we speak
of evangelical maximalism, the maximalism of love. It is, in fact, the
radicalism of Christ that shows us His maximum love for us, and our radicalism,
therefore, must show the Father, Christ, and the Spirit our love toward God. (The New Man)
Journeying with the Founder Day #296
We realize that it is not enough to exalt
oneself regarding the fact that we are new men, that we participate in divine
nature, that we are predestined from eternity to be saints and immaculate; instead
we must pledge ourselves because without a real commitment all this has no
value. (The New Man)
Journeying with the Founder Day #295
The love that renews is not purely human love
but the love that the Lord marks and qualifies with the words: As I have
loved you (John 13:34). This is the love that renews us because we become
new men, heirs of the new Covenant, singers of a new song. (The New Man)
Journeying with the Founder Day #294
Each one of us is an instrument of Christ; our
new life makes us become instruments of Christ. (The New Man)
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Journeying with the Founder Day #293
It is only by contemplating the man of faith
that the man without faith can come to understand what a man of faith
possesses. (The New Man)
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Journeying with the Founder Day #292
With the Eucharist we become body and blood with
Christ. (The New Man)
Friday, August 22, 2014
Journeying with the Founder Day #291
By God’s decree, man has been raised to a
participation in His divine life. Therefore, when we speak of our participation
in divine life, we are not being absurd, but we are simply repeating what the
Church teaches us and what we find in the Fathers of the Church. (The New Man)
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Journeying with the Founder Day #290
A wonderful process of self-understanding of the
revealed truths takes place in the Church, and this teaches us much. The Spirit
acts in the Church, giving to the Church—the people of God and the Hierarchy—a
gradual understanding, always more profound, of the content of Revelation. (The New Man)
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