PART TWO - Chapter IV
HOPE - Hope
I. Hope is the fruit of faith
"through our Lord Jesus Christ ... we also obtained through the grace of access to this grace in which we stand and we rejoice in hope of the glory of Christ" (St. Paul, Rom 5, 2).
II. the content of hope is the glory of God, the recognition of God, faith tells us, claim to understand and hope that is for the glory of God that the whole world is moving, the whole world riconoscaDio, that God is made recognized by all
"the purpose of this motion so you get up in the morning and it's a small thing - think of your bed, this little bed which comes out like a mouse, think of the rising sun, from which Latvian immense! - Anything that moves, faith makes us understand and claim to understand it is for the glory of God Faith gives us hope to see that everything moves, it moves to the glory of God "
III. The first to see this is not understand it
"an earthquake will happen in California ... ... California will plummet to half that at sea to understand that this is much more to see, so much so that understanding it can begin to put the piers in sea, that is to begin to prepare for "
IV. the hope is the second factor is descriptive of a new personality, and secondly because it is derived from the first, the faith: without faith there is hope, with faith there can be hope
1. Certainty about the future
I. Hope
A. is to recognize a certainty for the future that comes from faith, from recognizing a certain presence
B. comes from memory: the consciousness of a presence that begins in the past and has come up to you
"... sure to make you a present of a certain future. To be certain of the future, then certainly you must be a pre- future, something that precedes the future. hope as a certainty what the future is based on the entire Christian past ... so you can not do without the memory of Christ's Presence as somewhat interested, marvel, brag, proud, be happy with everything that has happened in the past two thousand years ... "
C. was born in a way that we do not see but we know on the basis of faith in God nothing is impossible!
" I understand ... your difficulty: the certainty of the future ... does not rely on this as a stone on another stone ... ... born in another way that we look, we can not see. The certainty of my faith is born of yesterday, the day before yesterday, from San Gregorio Magno fifteen hundred years ago, founded by St. Irenaeus eighteen hundred years ago, founded by St. Polycarp nineteen hundred years ago, founded by St. John, born St. Andrew, comes from Simon Peter. How does it come and come so far? We can not see it, we know But! Why in God nothing is impossible. "
D. reason, conscious of the reality according to the totality of its factors, it shows that I have the faith, even if you do not understand how it happens, even if you do not understand you're forced to admit that there 'is a phenomenon called faith
"I have faith, I believe. You know I think ... But you can not Saer as in my faith, I can not know either. And you, that you have faith (I hope), not even you can not know how to do it. Indeed, it will be one of the most beautiful ideas of your life, if it is thoughtful, what happened to me and so many others do not? And you'll be touched by the fact that God has chosen you, you have a favorite on many others ... in fact, from a viewpoint very trivial ... you care! God damn you, because if it gives you faith, I'll give you that implementing it, communicate to the other, that is makes you an instrument of his mission.
II. In summary, the most important words are
A. faith, recognize with certainty the presence
B. the word certainty regarding the future
C. the link between the first and second
III. The hope comes from a great grace (Peguy, the portico of the mystery of the second virtue): certainty of faith, which is the seed of the certainty of hope
A. faith, the certainty of a present, a meaning in this, over time, giving rise to a secure future
"There is a period seems uncertain, because it is not yet outlined the figure of the future: you know the tamarisk plant, pull off a seed, plant them in the ground ... who knows what will come from there? Who knows what form will it have? To understand the form that will, you have to wait some time. "
B. the great grace of faith, the certainty of meaning, a reassurance that this is engaged in a strange seed that blooms the hope of the day that never dies" ( hymn of praise on Thursday, Book of Hours, pp. 140-141)
"Man lives in the present and imagine the future by projecting the present into the future and this, or this fun, make it vague, or the wrong, it becomes a monster ... But the Christian life what does it do? It makes you live the present with such attention to all things of the mind that with attention to the sea in front of you, you see a dot on the last horizon, and not a ship that goes, is a ship that is. It 's the fate that is coming to you, and it is a great day ... like Christopher Columbus was a great day that when he began to see a small strip of land "already have a
I. Hope is the certainty of possession already, why not tell you this from you, you receive it, "is a great grace"
"possession, so close relationship with your deep person already has, that you are given a another, you do not conquer "
A. Peter, John and Andrew were based on the hope of Jesus, a presence, they had to feel that they belong to the man so they could establish their own hope for the future (John, ch. VI)
B. relatives of Jesus (Mark, ch. III), however, did not recognize anything in him, were not in unity with him, so they could not rest any prospect for the future on him
Sure the completion
I. Christian hope is certainty, a certainty that the future rests on the certainty that something this (a big man because he has to support any future)
"He who began this good work in you will bring it to completion in days of Christ " (St. Paul, Lett. Philippians 1:6) ... Be sure that he completes what he has given me, means being sure of my happiness, to be sure of my destiny, to be sure of my task, be sure the purpose of life is a deep breath ... because [the hope ] you gave it to him, it is obvious that you gave it to him because you've got yourself and not the date you six, and even if it is he who brings it to fulfillment, as you can almost sleep in peace, in peace "
two. Dynamics of hope
I. The desire
faith comes in recognition of exceptional Presence
II. the experience of an exceptional presence makes spring in the human heart a desire that concerns the future: that the basic needs of the heart are met
"... a pass, he stopped to talk to them, they say: 'Wonderful man' ... the experience of an exceptional presence makes spring .. . that man there remains a desire, a desire that man put in place after the house, put in place after the house, put in place the wife mad, get better over the child ... "
III. certainty of completion your wish will come only if a trust, and indulges in the Presence that faith has indicated
"The demands of the heart say that the object of the heart is in the future there is, because man is destined to be happy, just, true ... but the certainty that this happen can not be supported from our hearts. ... The certainty can only come from the Presence recognizes that faith. This alone can stand the reason for a secure future ... ... The heart of man is pushed in the direction towards the future needs of those ideals can not be sure they happen, can not be sure of not falling for example ... How can this desire be sure? Be sure to the extent that realizes the power of the big security presence "The
certain to certain to
I. A.
can not come from the heart: the heart desires the performance but does not know
B. are certain demand response of the heart, that promised great Presence
II. It 'important to distinguish between dream and ideal
A. the needs of the heart claim to be satisfied
1. the heart, then, dream: imagine a form that will fulfill those needs
"... without faith, the certainty of happiness may not be reasonable, but acquires the form, a form that gives the heart itself, taking on the pretext some presence that is not yet the great Presence (man to woman, child for the mother, the money for those who love money, the political outcome to those in politics) and this is called a dream ... "
2. The hope is translated into dream
3. the dream of the heart can not support the reasons of legal certainty that needs to be answered
B. The hope is translated into an ideal
. when the heart of man recognizes the great Presence
2. understands that it is the large presence that may be the reason for the certainty that your wishes will be realized
3. So the big question Presence to implement the requirements of the heart, the desire for happiness
A question that invades all
I. The circumstances in which man lives are temptations to dream of the ideal or signs
A. dream when the man he pretends to give a shape to respond to the needs of the heart
B. signs of the ideal: when circumstances point to the mystery, in the presence of Christ in the form of response that the large presence chose
1. so given the circumstances the appeal is seen as something that refers to the attractiveness of the provisional final
2. desire is that Christ is, in the circumstances proves
3. and this question should invade all
II. Hope is the first characteristic of a self, a person who walks through time and highlights
A. if circumstances lead to disappointment
B. that reveal the great Presence, all things become so sign and ultimate object of his application
3. To possession of a good hard
Certainty and desire
I. The hope is the certainty in the future, motivated by the certainty of a present
II. The certainty of a good yet absent, what will happen in the future, then a waiting, a longing desire for a good hard
I. The hope is the desire for a good hard because it costs, calls for a penalty and a hard
The inevitable uncertainty
I. A premise between the certainty of faith and hope and a future certainty that there is a period of uncertainty may seem, in the sense that you can not imagine how this future will
"... uncertainty is not true, because otherwise would be more certainty ... the certainty of faith produces sure hope, but how the certainty of this hope is aroused in us as a disvagamento leaves, leaves as a trial, as a doubt, that is not the question, which is uncertain, because it is impossible to imagine, to outline how it will be nothing in this future "
II. We must not confuse imagination and fantasy with the certainty of reason
A. future is based on reason, depends on the certainty of faith
imagination
B. 1. help the right but not the consistency of reason
2. is an imaginative capacity that has a greater or less
III. It should not be we confuse the inability to imagine the future with the certainty of this future
"It can not be that difficult to imagine, to outline how this might be reason to doubt the future will become the future if ... is in the future ... we can not know how! But there is, depends on the certainty of faith. We are sure that there is, but we're not sure what to think, how to outline the shape of the future. But this is also an advantage, because you can vent in many ways, according to the temperament, according to the imagination. Like the first time I read of John and Andrew, you did not have imagined what I say deer, imagining how it was at that time. But if you were careful, later, you too have begun to think so and have begun to learn to think like that other parts of the gospel, for example, the sinful woman who kissed the feet of Jesus crying, curled up on the tree Zacchaeus we hear "Zacchaeus" He who passes by. "
a) A path that is hard
I. The journey, the fulfillment of fate is hard because it is a test in this sense is said to be difficult
b) The power of Jesus
I. The strength of this Jesus will never abandon us and is more powerful than any problems or fatigue
II. Jesus left us His Spirit: his ego, the energy of his self in to maintain its presence and thus helps us
A. tells us that life is not defined by the tests
B. makes us walk through the trials, building our lives
C. teaches us patience (the great word of path of hope)
1. Patience is the ability to bring all the circumstances with reasonable courage not to deny anything, do not forget anything, not to refuse anything
a. deny: deny what is obvious
b. forget: it is the circumvention of, set aside the thing that matters now
c. refuse: when you understand one thing, its importance or necessity, but it spit
"Patience is a lot more" Atlas "which leads the world. That was an image of stoic, a presumption, because the ' man does not lead the world if it pretends to take him to a certain extent the world crushes him ... in front of the weight of things - think about death, it all ends - the man of all times what did you think? Two things: forget and in the meantime let's enjoy ... or rather, if they were serious men ... the Stoic formula: take things on his shoulders, magnanimity ... But the man who takes the world on his shoulders and takes a step crushes the world, can not bear such a burden alone "
c) Fidelity of belonging
I. Fatigue of hope is to remain in Christ, faithful all'appartenza
II. Loyalty in membership is expressed by the question: is begging to Christ this
III. The enemies of this fidelity are nell'appartenza
A. discontinuity (a day on a down day)
B. C.
fatigue pain
d) Asking forgiveness
I. The most acute of this effort is forgiveness, the question of forgiveness, sure to be forgiven
"recovery from the mistake, not because we fail to remedy, but because, by asking Christ present with his Spirit, begging from He lost, what is wrong as if we were to disappear and become a force within us, desire to please him "
II. Forgiveness, the secret mystery of hope (Peguy), is the rebirth
"Baptism is the rebirth of this principle, a principle that works for one hundred years if a bell one hundred years, 103 to 103 years if a bell, which operates 1299 times if one has sins and that by 1299 when 10,003 times one has 10,003 sins "
The opposite of patience
I. There is impatience: impatience is a lack of patience
II. It 's the indifference: it is to follow the path of hope, no hope
" follow ... with the crooked nose, his head twisted ... and who is not stay there ... no glitter, no creative energy, with no sweetness, no project that is hopeless! "The testimony
I. A.
testimony is a bit of death for Christ
B. actually called mission: to go away is
C. Acceptance of the Mystery of God
Hope - Assembly
The human heart is a promise
I. The human heart is a promise to fulfill the need of happiness that is
II. The promise of God to the Jewish people began with Abraham
III. The hope of Abraham was reasonable because
A. corresponded to his heart
B. was made by God and God can not deceive
IV. Life is given to us reasonable hope that comes from God
A. so often is the lament of Abraham to be renewed but it is unfair
B. is unfair
1. because it denies the fact that you were done with the heart as the need for happiness
2. and this is because it comes from God who made you
V. So far this is the experience of all men
A. there is positive response to the heart
B. but in the consciousness of privacy takes precedence doubt "Who knows?"
C. Finally, there is no answer to the problem of evil
D. there is the consciousness of a supreme being, a being unique, but the absence of an answer to prayer, was used to idols, to the subsidiary at the level of everyday life
E. the way you think the relationship is conceived as the result of the last dependence, the ultimate fate
F. in the most enlightened minds comes the need of revelation: the Mystery of God is to be known
VI. God, when it came, it was recognized
A. who has been "child" attitude with which God has done: this is the morality
B. by those who have given up their images on the expectation that God has raised Christ in my heart and renewed
"Only those who recognize this attitude in his presence ... Even the apostles were hoping something else ... but ... There was an attachment to Jesus that was more acute in these images which had remained faithful. So much so that when Jesus rose for the first time he met them, they say: "Master, then, now make the kingdom to Israel? "... repeat the mentality of all. And he calmly replied:" Not so! The time of these events knows that only the Father. "And their children are so close to Jesus who leave fall, they are not attached to the claim that he answer their questions as well as images, but are more deeply attached than they were attached to their opinions, with a greater simplicity.
C. The prevalence of one's imagination is really the great temptation against faith in Jesus, then against obedience to God
D. Two alternative
1. abandonment and confidence in Christ that lead to a life of joy
a. b. tenderness: a sensitivity to the joy the other, aiming to wish the joy of the other
2.'s attachment to its image in the path of the fate that leads to complaint
"... the lament that clutters the heart and ear of those who feel, makes heavy the lives of all those around us ... life is whining ... knows neither joy, nor do they reflect the joy that a flower of joy "
The link between faith and hope
I. The man wants and moves to the desire for happiness, because his nature is a thirst for total satisfaction, truth, happiness, justice (the needs of the heart)
II. The man is self-conscious, it is conscious of himself, so knows the main things that make up the nature
"... even a dog, come feeding time ... have a desire to move something, but not of happiness ... L 'man desires, moves ... because its nature is total satisfaction of thirst ... For the dog that just follow their instincts, for man can not speak of instinct, we must speak of knowledge or awareness. The man is aware that it's done "for something "..." A.
nature makes you thirsty to know the total satisfaction of the needs of the heart
" the term of the security natural is the word "Who knows?" (Who knows, who knows what will be, what will be )..."
B. Faith is the consciousness of a presence, powerful nature that will clarify the purpose of life and make sure you reach for what you are fact
III. Hope "pulls" the faith in the sense that sets in motion the desire, is "thrilled", he walk towards destiny
"... the notice itself, the reflection of being introduced to the enchanted garden. Faith makes you sure of the destiny for which you did and you know he does, he begins to let you know, then you will move, then it is faith that brings hope ... Hope is like a fire that pulls the faith, takes knowledge. Faith can be tiring; hope makes it less painful, takes the faith ..
A. faith
1. is a measure of the seriousness
2.
down the road hope
B. 1. is a measure of taste and charm
2. is expressed in the quiver, makes alive the curiosity of faith
"I remember with when my dad for the first time I went to the sea, I was nine years after Pergolesi street at the traffic light was there that beat their feet because I wanted to see the train that was on top. Hope is like the boy who stamped his feet, quivering ... "
I. Hope is linked to a presence, something this
" ... would be a contradiction in itself: the expectation of some what is to come is related to a present! A climb up the mountain for the child is related to a presence: that of dad driving ... "
II. Relies on a presence that you have, a presence that belongs to you and to which you belong
" Where a member to another is always the reverse, the other belongs to him, otherwise it is a terrible lie "
III. presence is that Jesus reveals to you what they're made and gives you the strength to come, to fulfill your destiny
" ... presence, something of this: so do with the pen with which you write, has to do with his nose that look, you've got to do with sleep, got to do, got to do: look at anything or touch anything, beside the point. If Christ has nothing to do with what we touch and what they look, do not you knock, it is not true that you watch. It is true that has nothing to do, which is not true that you look at, touch, love, is not true ... your humanity lacks the human in our doubt there is Crits missing, but it is our humanity missing "
IV. The first moral virtue of those who follow Christ is the simplicity, or rather the sincerity, because the sincerity and simplicity that passes through freedom. Simple can be a character, sincerity and virtue
clear words and abstract
I. There is no contradiction: light and abstract can be together
II. One thing is clear, or you do not understand or take the excuse to say it is not clear when in fact you would be clear
A. In the second case we must do the thing
B. the third is up to you: If it is clear, the abstract only if you feel you do not care
"The more one is a friend and neighbor, the more things in very clear he did not understand, are abstract because they do not allow them to c'entrino with you. If you do not dare that has to do with you one thing clear that known people related to you, the one clear thing slips away quickly, you is not nothing, at best you say to the contrary, you tell a lie on it, because you are not interested. For example, if you have a brother who plays football and the football you're here, and you six love with basketball when your brother comes to football ... you do not care the slightest, you are perfectly indifferent. While the announcement that the basketball court in Philadelphia has lost to the Boston basketball, you glow you see now ... "
III. The abstract is the elusive when you first you have discarded the interest, if you're not interested in the life lived and felt, if you have decided to first become interested in other
IV. In this case it is necessary that you secure the abstract word you hear, you repeat it, saying: "Tell me this word," you have to fix that word in every way, "What to do with the ineressi I live now?". Then you may at some point, begin to understand, to feel
dreams and ideals
I. The dream is the reality of the images you like, the form in which you bend
"... in front of an object, you have a repulsion or attraction ... this is your dream, the reality as you bend, in the form in which you bend that interesting to you, instead that interest you to reality as is ".
II. The ideal is the ultimate desire of the heart, that man seeks to achieve trusting the great Presence, which recognizes only possible with the help of the great Living Presence
this carefully
I. When he looks at things with truth, idealism, then everything becomes a sign of his destiny, and so does not escape the reality nothing
"If fate is Presence, living relationship with this Presence all things become a sign of it. Mark it as the dot on the horizon is a sign of fate that is coming. If you live a relationship with the presence of Jesus, all things become God's sign ... embodied what it means? Destination without presence. "
Hope and vocation
I. A.
vocation is the presence of fate calling you B.
claim hope, hope requires
II. The hope is that destiny is fulfilled: He who began this good work in you will bring it to completion "(St. Paul, Phil., I, 6)
III. the most serious problem is that the word is unclear and abstract, the remedy is to look at her face continually look
"Looking at it also means asking Mario:" Mario, explain this thing. Rispiegami this thing here. But for you what is this thing here? Why is this thing real? The more ... you fix this thing, how much more do these questions, the more clarity comincai to coincide with the density of something present, and with the suggestiveness of something heard "
Enemies of hope: discontinuity, fatigue and pain
I. Enemies of hope are
A. discontinuity, non-linearity in maintaining the right attitude: it is a mistake, a weakness of character
B. fatigue, which is the testing of the character C.
pain: it is' most acute difficulty, if he has no hope of response
conquers all "... the face of pain a curse. As the mother of the adolescent that led to the cemetery, Jesus met in those areas just outside the village of Nain, and shouting in her grief. For her pain was now opposed to hope ... "Women do not cry." How do you say to a mother who follows the coffin of her son, the only son, died, "Do not cry," beginning thus bringing it to take account of himself? You will be after that event is perceived as strange; will be suspended for a moment her cries and in that Jesus raises the son "
II. Discontinuity, fatigue and pain are the enemy of hope because they try to prevent the loyalty hope
The most acute difficulty to remain in membership is forgiveness
I. Forgiveness is the thing more difficult to accept because it means cutting the roots of the presumption, the claim that we have to ourselves and we realize our lives
II. We are not able and therefore always wrong
"... all the things we do not stand, are not right: the relationships with people, with things to themselves are never right and not fail to make place "
III. But there is a force that embraces us even if we are bad, our agitation is calm and recognize Him to whom belong
"So, at this point, a yield. As a child she got crazy and my mother instead of spanking, embraces: what is shaken a bit 'in her arms, but after a while' crying "
IV. Forgiveness is the strongest temptation of humiliation for the man claiming to be master of himself, the duty to be forgiven is the opposite of most terrible, so it is the most difficult task
V. Being forgiven means understanding that truly belongs to another and this is more that makes us what we have to be that touch of it gives strength to continue his journey
factors of personality, faith and hope
I. The first factor is the personality of the faith, because it makes you know that in order to be standing and walking should be the presence of an Other
"reason does not take all the energy of his strength fails, do not enough to make even just a gesture, said Brand in Ibsen's "
II. The second factor is the hope of incorporation because the personality is to go toward something else that is in the future and the clarity and strength to move toward the future is given by another
The role of freedom
I. The freedom is to accept or reject the hope: the help of another that gives the ability to face the future with clarity and force, winning the temptations of pain, fatigue, or evidence of instability
II. the most elementary form of acceptance and more decisive is the question
"The request to participate in a gesture that helps, Therefore, the application begins full freedom. If one is there to help me get out of the car, I can say no, I groped out alone, I reluctantly have to accept the hand that supports me, but I want the hand that holds me, agree to ask: is here is the question that arises freedom in its fullness "
" Bright "," right "and" abstract "
I. Light means that the discussion is logical, keeps.
" ... I am posting respond to words, phrases, logical connections to the speech made by the Adult Group is proposing. This is the analysis, is quite abstract, clear, very clear, "I have no objection," but Abstract
II. Just to say that the speech is relevant to life, helps, supports life, I recognize that I need to live
"we must reach the concept of right, that my destiny is life without a dog's life and a life that ends up rotting in "
III. Abstract means that I recognize that it takes a right thing for my life, which is necessary but I do not understand it yet, do not feel it yet, do not see it yet
IV. To make the "right" concrete rather than abstract should make the effort to establish relations, relations of life: we need a company
"In the report, slowly, the right ... it begins to become concrete. Love as free and as tenderness you learn from a person living as free love and tenderness, I do not learn theoretically. The life you learn in practice, not theory ... E 'in the relationships that will be set "
The hope of the world and our hope
I. The hope of the world, natural and instinctive, is
A. hope that tomorrow will be different from now, from what today's hard, you change something
B. is fragmented, fragmenting lives
II. our hope is that I tomorrow have the strength to embrace what is happening that "happens again" thanks to another already present, I can make constructive
Question and Answer Man of God
I. God, to be known, he had to take a step and say, "Behold, I am here" and it was a unique case in history
"The pygmies who are the greatest expression of human ... who call themselves men more pensive. No one has been answered, no response ... "
II. The question of who does not know Christ is useful because Christ is the answer to any question of humanity
"Leopardi ... ... called to Beauty to make themselves visible and to be loved. It was a question, the question of what that had already happened eighteen hundred years before, and did not know "
III. God responds in a precise way: it is called Christ. God can be known only if it reveals
"This is analogous true for us. A person you do not know if it turns out, if you do not say. A great psychologist or a great student of human nature, a great penetrator conscience can understand many things because, without realizing it, the more revealing, but must disclose the other, otherwise it is not clear if it reveals "
IV. Pygmies do not know Christ in their own way, sought to know God, or rather asks that God would help them
V. God always answers but with a design that is his: it can not coincide with the dynamics of our thought
"The need for happiness , a requirement of justice, the need to love, that have pictures? They are open corners and on ... all love, all truth, all justice is not enough. Arriving there, arrived at the top of the hill - say Thomas Mann in Joseph and his brethren, who came up the hill, you see another hill ... and on and on, indefinitely ... It 's a good comparison, the life translates this comparison in place ... It 's why the von Speyr says ... that God always makes things happen in such a way as to create an oversight: you get health, makes you ... and distemper then you say, "God was with me malicious." No, because you were asking your health? He asked the health to give glory to God .. well, to achieve this, God understands that should give the distemper ... "
I. Morality Morality is continuing in the position where God originally created you, and this is grace
II. education is needed to keep this original location
"If education does not make a child's original insistence on the attitudes that created, for example, the sincerity, for example dependence on, for example on wonder ... if not these original features are highlighted, this time as the evaporates, which takes away their light ... And so all grow up without education and lose their original perceptions, have the courage to say: "But for me this is not a virtue, not I feel '"
III. what has been given to mankind as Grace is given as freedom, so the man can accept or reject or accept to respond to it or not
"One is that the road is bound to have the courage and sincerity to say," I was wrong, "and say," Lord, I was wrong "burn the mistake, because it's taking over now the truth, is taking over the truth to the wrong "
Fatigue
I. The heart has been given as a requirement for happiness
II. Therefore we think that we should find cheap
III. but God died on the cross to get to show everyone must cost, must involve a sacrifice
IV. this, however, is understandable, it becomes reasonable only if it passes the experience
"So even the tribulation of the temptations, trials affection, purity of fatigue, fatigue of consistency, justice, are all experiences through which man is led by God to be Christ, to be more accomplished "
The arduous and simplicity
I. difficult not opposed to simple: simply indicate how you tackle the difficult
... if you look at the hard simplicity without, say, "But if, though, perhaps, who knows," which are all words most sordid and satanic enemy's perception of the truth. Even if you were in front of a beautiful face, if not love, are all reasons to say 'here, but, however, has the bullet here, has the black dot there, has the yellow dot there, his nose slightly to the left, slightly to the right, and so on. ""
II. The Christian patience and magnanimity stoic
A. Christian patience is close to that as stoic must suffer, ie B withstand
but differs from the Stoic magnanimity because it is different because it is humble security under another
"" Of everything I can in with him because he is my strength, "says St. Paul. This is a phrase that takes away any excuse that we can bring against the road and is the response that removes any pretense of desolation and despair in the face of any error. Why save the road and save on error "
III. All the effort we are doing is to make us feel the simplicity of the original relationship between God and man
" When Christ looked at Mary Magdalene with a furtive glance down the street, was a simple thing: it was a recall with a simplicity to simplicity in which the purity prevailed, ridominava, contrary to his history, but contrary to his present possibility "
HOPE - Hope
I. Hope is the fruit of faith
"through our Lord Jesus Christ ... we also obtained through the grace of access to this grace in which we stand and we rejoice in hope of the glory of Christ" (St. Paul, Rom 5, 2).
II. the content of hope is the glory of God, the recognition of God, faith tells us, claim to understand and hope that is for the glory of God that the whole world is moving, the whole world riconoscaDio, that God is made recognized by all
"the purpose of this motion so you get up in the morning and it's a small thing - think of your bed, this little bed which comes out like a mouse, think of the rising sun, from which Latvian immense! - Anything that moves, faith makes us understand and claim to understand it is for the glory of God Faith gives us hope to see that everything moves, it moves to the glory of God "
III. The first to see this is not understand it
"an earthquake will happen in California ... ... California will plummet to half that at sea to understand that this is much more to see, so much so that understanding it can begin to put the piers in sea, that is to begin to prepare for "
IV. the hope is the second factor is descriptive of a new personality, and secondly because it is derived from the first, the faith: without faith there is hope, with faith there can be hope
1. Certainty about the future
I. Hope
A. is to recognize a certainty for the future that comes from faith, from recognizing a certain presence
B. comes from memory: the consciousness of a presence that begins in the past and has come up to you
"... sure to make you a present of a certain future. To be certain of the future, then certainly you must be a pre- future, something that precedes the future. hope as a certainty what the future is based on the entire Christian past ... so you can not do without the memory of Christ's Presence as somewhat interested, marvel, brag, proud, be happy with everything that has happened in the past two thousand years ... "
C. was born in a way that we do not see but we know on the basis of faith in God nothing is impossible!
" I understand ... your difficulty: the certainty of the future ... does not rely on this as a stone on another stone ... ... born in another way that we look, we can not see. The certainty of my faith is born of yesterday, the day before yesterday, from San Gregorio Magno fifteen hundred years ago, founded by St. Irenaeus eighteen hundred years ago, founded by St. Polycarp nineteen hundred years ago, founded by St. John, born St. Andrew, comes from Simon Peter. How does it come and come so far? We can not see it, we know But! Why in God nothing is impossible. "
D. reason, conscious of the reality according to the totality of its factors, it shows that I have the faith, even if you do not understand how it happens, even if you do not understand you're forced to admit that there 'is a phenomenon called faith
"I have faith, I believe. You know I think ... But you can not Saer as in my faith, I can not know either. And you, that you have faith (I hope), not even you can not know how to do it. Indeed, it will be one of the most beautiful ideas of your life, if it is thoughtful, what happened to me and so many others do not? And you'll be touched by the fact that God has chosen you, you have a favorite on many others ... in fact, from a viewpoint very trivial ... you care! God damn you, because if it gives you faith, I'll give you that implementing it, communicate to the other, that is makes you an instrument of his mission.
II. In summary, the most important words are
A. faith, recognize with certainty the presence
B. the word certainty regarding the future
C. the link between the first and second
III. The hope comes from a great grace (Peguy, the portico of the mystery of the second virtue): certainty of faith, which is the seed of the certainty of hope
A. faith, the certainty of a present, a meaning in this, over time, giving rise to a secure future
"There is a period seems uncertain, because it is not yet outlined the figure of the future: you know the tamarisk plant, pull off a seed, plant them in the ground ... who knows what will come from there? Who knows what form will it have? To understand the form that will, you have to wait some time. "
B. the great grace of faith, the certainty of meaning, a reassurance that this is engaged in a strange seed that blooms the hope of the day that never dies" ( hymn of praise on Thursday, Book of Hours, pp. 140-141)
"Man lives in the present and imagine the future by projecting the present into the future and this, or this fun, make it vague, or the wrong, it becomes a monster ... But the Christian life what does it do? It makes you live the present with such attention to all things of the mind that with attention to the sea in front of you, you see a dot on the last horizon, and not a ship that goes, is a ship that is. It 's the fate that is coming to you, and it is a great day ... like Christopher Columbus was a great day that when he began to see a small strip of land "already have a
I. Hope is the certainty of possession already, why not tell you this from you, you receive it, "is a great grace"
"possession, so close relationship with your deep person already has, that you are given a another, you do not conquer "
A. Peter, John and Andrew were based on the hope of Jesus, a presence, they had to feel that they belong to the man so they could establish their own hope for the future (John, ch. VI)
B. relatives of Jesus (Mark, ch. III), however, did not recognize anything in him, were not in unity with him, so they could not rest any prospect for the future on him
Sure the completion
I. Christian hope is certainty, a certainty that the future rests on the certainty that something this (a big man because he has to support any future)
"He who began this good work in you will bring it to completion in days of Christ " (St. Paul, Lett. Philippians 1:6) ... Be sure that he completes what he has given me, means being sure of my happiness, to be sure of my destiny, to be sure of my task, be sure the purpose of life is a deep breath ... because [the hope ] you gave it to him, it is obvious that you gave it to him because you've got yourself and not the date you six, and even if it is he who brings it to fulfillment, as you can almost sleep in peace, in peace "
two. Dynamics of hope
I. The desire
faith comes in recognition of exceptional Presence
II. the experience of an exceptional presence makes spring in the human heart a desire that concerns the future: that the basic needs of the heart are met
"... a pass, he stopped to talk to them, they say: 'Wonderful man' ... the experience of an exceptional presence makes spring .. . that man there remains a desire, a desire that man put in place after the house, put in place after the house, put in place the wife mad, get better over the child ... "
III. certainty of completion your wish will come only if a trust, and indulges in the Presence that faith has indicated
"The demands of the heart say that the object of the heart is in the future there is, because man is destined to be happy, just, true ... but the certainty that this happen can not be supported from our hearts. ... The certainty can only come from the Presence recognizes that faith. This alone can stand the reason for a secure future ... ... The heart of man is pushed in the direction towards the future needs of those ideals can not be sure they happen, can not be sure of not falling for example ... How can this desire be sure? Be sure to the extent that realizes the power of the big security presence "The
certain to certain to
I. A.
can not come from the heart: the heart desires the performance but does not know
B. are certain demand response of the heart, that promised great Presence
II. It 'important to distinguish between dream and ideal
A. the needs of the heart claim to be satisfied
1. the heart, then, dream: imagine a form that will fulfill those needs
"... without faith, the certainty of happiness may not be reasonable, but acquires the form, a form that gives the heart itself, taking on the pretext some presence that is not yet the great Presence (man to woman, child for the mother, the money for those who love money, the political outcome to those in politics) and this is called a dream ... "
2. The hope is translated into dream
3. the dream of the heart can not support the reasons of legal certainty that needs to be answered
B. The hope is translated into an ideal
. when the heart of man recognizes the great Presence
2. understands that it is the large presence that may be the reason for the certainty that your wishes will be realized
3. So the big question Presence to implement the requirements of the heart, the desire for happiness
A question that invades all
I. The circumstances in which man lives are temptations to dream of the ideal or signs
A. dream when the man he pretends to give a shape to respond to the needs of the heart
B. signs of the ideal: when circumstances point to the mystery, in the presence of Christ in the form of response that the large presence chose
1. so given the circumstances the appeal is seen as something that refers to the attractiveness of the provisional final
2. desire is that Christ is, in the circumstances proves
3. and this question should invade all
II. Hope is the first characteristic of a self, a person who walks through time and highlights
A. if circumstances lead to disappointment
B. that reveal the great Presence, all things become so sign and ultimate object of his application
3. To possession of a good hard
Certainty and desire
I. The hope is the certainty in the future, motivated by the certainty of a present
II. The certainty of a good yet absent, what will happen in the future, then a waiting, a longing desire for a good hard
I. The hope is the desire for a good hard because it costs, calls for a penalty and a hard
The inevitable uncertainty
I. A premise between the certainty of faith and hope and a future certainty that there is a period of uncertainty may seem, in the sense that you can not imagine how this future will
"... uncertainty is not true, because otherwise would be more certainty ... the certainty of faith produces sure hope, but how the certainty of this hope is aroused in us as a disvagamento leaves, leaves as a trial, as a doubt, that is not the question, which is uncertain, because it is impossible to imagine, to outline how it will be nothing in this future "
II. We must not confuse imagination and fantasy with the certainty of reason
A. future is based on reason, depends on the certainty of faith
imagination
B. 1. help the right but not the consistency of reason
2. is an imaginative capacity that has a greater or less
III. It should not be we confuse the inability to imagine the future with the certainty of this future
"It can not be that difficult to imagine, to outline how this might be reason to doubt the future will become the future if ... is in the future ... we can not know how! But there is, depends on the certainty of faith. We are sure that there is, but we're not sure what to think, how to outline the shape of the future. But this is also an advantage, because you can vent in many ways, according to the temperament, according to the imagination. Like the first time I read of John and Andrew, you did not have imagined what I say deer, imagining how it was at that time. But if you were careful, later, you too have begun to think so and have begun to learn to think like that other parts of the gospel, for example, the sinful woman who kissed the feet of Jesus crying, curled up on the tree Zacchaeus we hear "Zacchaeus" He who passes by. "
a) A path that is hard
I. The journey, the fulfillment of fate is hard because it is a test in this sense is said to be difficult
b) The power of Jesus
I. The strength of this Jesus will never abandon us and is more powerful than any problems or fatigue
II. Jesus left us His Spirit: his ego, the energy of his self in to maintain its presence and thus helps us
A. tells us that life is not defined by the tests
B. makes us walk through the trials, building our lives
C. teaches us patience (the great word of path of hope)
1. Patience is the ability to bring all the circumstances with reasonable courage not to deny anything, do not forget anything, not to refuse anything
a. deny: deny what is obvious
b. forget: it is the circumvention of, set aside the thing that matters now
c. refuse: when you understand one thing, its importance or necessity, but it spit
"Patience is a lot more" Atlas "which leads the world. That was an image of stoic, a presumption, because the ' man does not lead the world if it pretends to take him to a certain extent the world crushes him ... in front of the weight of things - think about death, it all ends - the man of all times what did you think? Two things: forget and in the meantime let's enjoy ... or rather, if they were serious men ... the Stoic formula: take things on his shoulders, magnanimity ... But the man who takes the world on his shoulders and takes a step crushes the world, can not bear such a burden alone "
c) Fidelity of belonging
I. Fatigue of hope is to remain in Christ, faithful all'appartenza
II. Loyalty in membership is expressed by the question: is begging to Christ this
III. The enemies of this fidelity are nell'appartenza
A. discontinuity (a day on a down day)
B. C.
fatigue pain
d) Asking forgiveness
I. The most acute of this effort is forgiveness, the question of forgiveness, sure to be forgiven
"recovery from the mistake, not because we fail to remedy, but because, by asking Christ present with his Spirit, begging from He lost, what is wrong as if we were to disappear and become a force within us, desire to please him "
II. Forgiveness, the secret mystery of hope (Peguy), is the rebirth
"Baptism is the rebirth of this principle, a principle that works for one hundred years if a bell one hundred years, 103 to 103 years if a bell, which operates 1299 times if one has sins and that by 1299 when 10,003 times one has 10,003 sins "
The opposite of patience
I. There is impatience: impatience is a lack of patience
II. It 's the indifference: it is to follow the path of hope, no hope
" follow ... with the crooked nose, his head twisted ... and who is not stay there ... no glitter, no creative energy, with no sweetness, no project that is hopeless! "The testimony
I. A.
testimony is a bit of death for Christ
B. actually called mission: to go away is
C. Acceptance of the Mystery of God
Hope - Assembly
The human heart is a promise
I. The human heart is a promise to fulfill the need of happiness that is
II. The promise of God to the Jewish people began with Abraham
III. The hope of Abraham was reasonable because
A. corresponded to his heart
B. was made by God and God can not deceive
IV. Life is given to us reasonable hope that comes from God
A. so often is the lament of Abraham to be renewed but it is unfair
B. is unfair
1. because it denies the fact that you were done with the heart as the need for happiness
2. and this is because it comes from God who made you
V. So far this is the experience of all men
A. there is positive response to the heart
B. but in the consciousness of privacy takes precedence doubt "Who knows?"
C. Finally, there is no answer to the problem of evil
D. there is the consciousness of a supreme being, a being unique, but the absence of an answer to prayer, was used to idols, to the subsidiary at the level of everyday life
E. the way you think the relationship is conceived as the result of the last dependence, the ultimate fate
F. in the most enlightened minds comes the need of revelation: the Mystery of God is to be known
VI. God, when it came, it was recognized
A. who has been "child" attitude with which God has done: this is the morality
B. by those who have given up their images on the expectation that God has raised Christ in my heart and renewed
"Only those who recognize this attitude in his presence ... Even the apostles were hoping something else ... but ... There was an attachment to Jesus that was more acute in these images which had remained faithful. So much so that when Jesus rose for the first time he met them, they say: "Master, then, now make the kingdom to Israel? "... repeat the mentality of all. And he calmly replied:" Not so! The time of these events knows that only the Father. "And their children are so close to Jesus who leave fall, they are not attached to the claim that he answer their questions as well as images, but are more deeply attached than they were attached to their opinions, with a greater simplicity.
C. The prevalence of one's imagination is really the great temptation against faith in Jesus, then against obedience to God
D. Two alternative
1. abandonment and confidence in Christ that lead to a life of joy
a. b. tenderness: a sensitivity to the joy the other, aiming to wish the joy of the other
2.'s attachment to its image in the path of the fate that leads to complaint
"... the lament that clutters the heart and ear of those who feel, makes heavy the lives of all those around us ... life is whining ... knows neither joy, nor do they reflect the joy that a flower of joy "
The link between faith and hope
I. The man wants and moves to the desire for happiness, because his nature is a thirst for total satisfaction, truth, happiness, justice (the needs of the heart)
II. The man is self-conscious, it is conscious of himself, so knows the main things that make up the nature
"... even a dog, come feeding time ... have a desire to move something, but not of happiness ... L 'man desires, moves ... because its nature is total satisfaction of thirst ... For the dog that just follow their instincts, for man can not speak of instinct, we must speak of knowledge or awareness. The man is aware that it's done "for something "..." A.
nature makes you thirsty to know the total satisfaction of the needs of the heart
" the term of the security natural is the word "Who knows?" (Who knows, who knows what will be, what will be )..."
B. Faith is the consciousness of a presence, powerful nature that will clarify the purpose of life and make sure you reach for what you are fact
III. Hope "pulls" the faith in the sense that sets in motion the desire, is "thrilled", he walk towards destiny
"... the notice itself, the reflection of being introduced to the enchanted garden. Faith makes you sure of the destiny for which you did and you know he does, he begins to let you know, then you will move, then it is faith that brings hope ... Hope is like a fire that pulls the faith, takes knowledge. Faith can be tiring; hope makes it less painful, takes the faith ..
A. faith
1. is a measure of the seriousness
2.
down the road hope
B. 1. is a measure of taste and charm
2. is expressed in the quiver, makes alive the curiosity of faith
"I remember with when my dad for the first time I went to the sea, I was nine years after Pergolesi street at the traffic light was there that beat their feet because I wanted to see the train that was on top. Hope is like the boy who stamped his feet, quivering ... "
I. Hope is linked to a presence, something this
" ... would be a contradiction in itself: the expectation of some what is to come is related to a present! A climb up the mountain for the child is related to a presence: that of dad driving ... "
II. Relies on a presence that you have, a presence that belongs to you and to which you belong
" Where a member to another is always the reverse, the other belongs to him, otherwise it is a terrible lie "
III. presence is that Jesus reveals to you what they're made and gives you the strength to come, to fulfill your destiny
" ... presence, something of this: so do with the pen with which you write, has to do with his nose that look, you've got to do with sleep, got to do, got to do: look at anything or touch anything, beside the point. If Christ has nothing to do with what we touch and what they look, do not you knock, it is not true that you watch. It is true that has nothing to do, which is not true that you look at, touch, love, is not true ... your humanity lacks the human in our doubt there is Crits missing, but it is our humanity missing "
IV. The first moral virtue of those who follow Christ is the simplicity, or rather the sincerity, because the sincerity and simplicity that passes through freedom. Simple can be a character, sincerity and virtue
clear words and abstract
I. There is no contradiction: light and abstract can be together
II. One thing is clear, or you do not understand or take the excuse to say it is not clear when in fact you would be clear
A. In the second case we must do the thing
B. the third is up to you: If it is clear, the abstract only if you feel you do not care
"The more one is a friend and neighbor, the more things in very clear he did not understand, are abstract because they do not allow them to c'entrino with you. If you do not dare that has to do with you one thing clear that known people related to you, the one clear thing slips away quickly, you is not nothing, at best you say to the contrary, you tell a lie on it, because you are not interested. For example, if you have a brother who plays football and the football you're here, and you six love with basketball when your brother comes to football ... you do not care the slightest, you are perfectly indifferent. While the announcement that the basketball court in Philadelphia has lost to the Boston basketball, you glow you see now ... "
III. The abstract is the elusive when you first you have discarded the interest, if you're not interested in the life lived and felt, if you have decided to first become interested in other
IV. In this case it is necessary that you secure the abstract word you hear, you repeat it, saying: "Tell me this word," you have to fix that word in every way, "What to do with the ineressi I live now?". Then you may at some point, begin to understand, to feel
dreams and ideals
I. The dream is the reality of the images you like, the form in which you bend
"... in front of an object, you have a repulsion or attraction ... this is your dream, the reality as you bend, in the form in which you bend that interesting to you, instead that interest you to reality as is ".
II. The ideal is the ultimate desire of the heart, that man seeks to achieve trusting the great Presence, which recognizes only possible with the help of the great Living Presence
this carefully
I. When he looks at things with truth, idealism, then everything becomes a sign of his destiny, and so does not escape the reality nothing
"If fate is Presence, living relationship with this Presence all things become a sign of it. Mark it as the dot on the horizon is a sign of fate that is coming. If you live a relationship with the presence of Jesus, all things become God's sign ... embodied what it means? Destination without presence. "
Hope and vocation
I. A.
vocation is the presence of fate calling you B.
claim hope, hope requires
II. The hope is that destiny is fulfilled: He who began this good work in you will bring it to completion "(St. Paul, Phil., I, 6)
III. the most serious problem is that the word is unclear and abstract, the remedy is to look at her face continually look
"Looking at it also means asking Mario:" Mario, explain this thing. Rispiegami this thing here. But for you what is this thing here? Why is this thing real? The more ... you fix this thing, how much more do these questions, the more clarity comincai to coincide with the density of something present, and with the suggestiveness of something heard "
Enemies of hope: discontinuity, fatigue and pain
I. Enemies of hope are
A. discontinuity, non-linearity in maintaining the right attitude: it is a mistake, a weakness of character
B. fatigue, which is the testing of the character C.
pain: it is' most acute difficulty, if he has no hope of response
conquers all "... the face of pain a curse. As the mother of the adolescent that led to the cemetery, Jesus met in those areas just outside the village of Nain, and shouting in her grief. For her pain was now opposed to hope ... "Women do not cry." How do you say to a mother who follows the coffin of her son, the only son, died, "Do not cry," beginning thus bringing it to take account of himself? You will be after that event is perceived as strange; will be suspended for a moment her cries and in that Jesus raises the son "
II. Discontinuity, fatigue and pain are the enemy of hope because they try to prevent the loyalty hope
The most acute difficulty to remain in membership is forgiveness
I. Forgiveness is the thing more difficult to accept because it means cutting the roots of the presumption, the claim that we have to ourselves and we realize our lives
II. We are not able and therefore always wrong
"... all the things we do not stand, are not right: the relationships with people, with things to themselves are never right and not fail to make place "
III. But there is a force that embraces us even if we are bad, our agitation is calm and recognize Him to whom belong
"So, at this point, a yield. As a child she got crazy and my mother instead of spanking, embraces: what is shaken a bit 'in her arms, but after a while' crying "
IV. Forgiveness is the strongest temptation of humiliation for the man claiming to be master of himself, the duty to be forgiven is the opposite of most terrible, so it is the most difficult task
V. Being forgiven means understanding that truly belongs to another and this is more that makes us what we have to be that touch of it gives strength to continue his journey
factors of personality, faith and hope
I. The first factor is the personality of the faith, because it makes you know that in order to be standing and walking should be the presence of an Other
"reason does not take all the energy of his strength fails, do not enough to make even just a gesture, said Brand in Ibsen's "
II. The second factor is the hope of incorporation because the personality is to go toward something else that is in the future and the clarity and strength to move toward the future is given by another
The role of freedom
I. The freedom is to accept or reject the hope: the help of another that gives the ability to face the future with clarity and force, winning the temptations of pain, fatigue, or evidence of instability
II. the most elementary form of acceptance and more decisive is the question
"The request to participate in a gesture that helps, Therefore, the application begins full freedom. If one is there to help me get out of the car, I can say no, I groped out alone, I reluctantly have to accept the hand that supports me, but I want the hand that holds me, agree to ask: is here is the question that arises freedom in its fullness "
" Bright "," right "and" abstract "
I. Light means that the discussion is logical, keeps.
" ... I am posting respond to words, phrases, logical connections to the speech made by the Adult Group is proposing. This is the analysis, is quite abstract, clear, very clear, "I have no objection," but Abstract
II. Just to say that the speech is relevant to life, helps, supports life, I recognize that I need to live
"we must reach the concept of right, that my destiny is life without a dog's life and a life that ends up rotting in "
III. Abstract means that I recognize that it takes a right thing for my life, which is necessary but I do not understand it yet, do not feel it yet, do not see it yet
IV. To make the "right" concrete rather than abstract should make the effort to establish relations, relations of life: we need a company
"In the report, slowly, the right ... it begins to become concrete. Love as free and as tenderness you learn from a person living as free love and tenderness, I do not learn theoretically. The life you learn in practice, not theory ... E 'in the relationships that will be set "
The hope of the world and our hope
I. The hope of the world, natural and instinctive, is
A. hope that tomorrow will be different from now, from what today's hard, you change something
B. is fragmented, fragmenting lives
II. our hope is that I tomorrow have the strength to embrace what is happening that "happens again" thanks to another already present, I can make constructive
Question and Answer Man of God
I. God, to be known, he had to take a step and say, "Behold, I am here" and it was a unique case in history
"The pygmies who are the greatest expression of human ... who call themselves men more pensive. No one has been answered, no response ... "
II. The question of who does not know Christ is useful because Christ is the answer to any question of humanity
"Leopardi ... ... called to Beauty to make themselves visible and to be loved. It was a question, the question of what that had already happened eighteen hundred years before, and did not know "
III. God responds in a precise way: it is called Christ. God can be known only if it reveals
"This is analogous true for us. A person you do not know if it turns out, if you do not say. A great psychologist or a great student of human nature, a great penetrator conscience can understand many things because, without realizing it, the more revealing, but must disclose the other, otherwise it is not clear if it reveals "
IV. Pygmies do not know Christ in their own way, sought to know God, or rather asks that God would help them
V. God always answers but with a design that is his: it can not coincide with the dynamics of our thought
"The need for happiness , a requirement of justice, the need to love, that have pictures? They are open corners and on ... all love, all truth, all justice is not enough. Arriving there, arrived at the top of the hill - say Thomas Mann in Joseph and his brethren, who came up the hill, you see another hill ... and on and on, indefinitely ... It 's a good comparison, the life translates this comparison in place ... It 's why the von Speyr says ... that God always makes things happen in such a way as to create an oversight: you get health, makes you ... and distemper then you say, "God was with me malicious." No, because you were asking your health? He asked the health to give glory to God .. well, to achieve this, God understands that should give the distemper ... "
I. Morality Morality is continuing in the position where God originally created you, and this is grace
II. education is needed to keep this original location
"If education does not make a child's original insistence on the attitudes that created, for example, the sincerity, for example dependence on, for example on wonder ... if not these original features are highlighted, this time as the evaporates, which takes away their light ... And so all grow up without education and lose their original perceptions, have the courage to say: "But for me this is not a virtue, not I feel '"
III. what has been given to mankind as Grace is given as freedom, so the man can accept or reject or accept to respond to it or not
"One is that the road is bound to have the courage and sincerity to say," I was wrong, "and say," Lord, I was wrong "burn the mistake, because it's taking over now the truth, is taking over the truth to the wrong "
Fatigue
I. The heart has been given as a requirement for happiness
II. Therefore we think that we should find cheap
III. but God died on the cross to get to show everyone must cost, must involve a sacrifice
IV. this, however, is understandable, it becomes reasonable only if it passes the experience
"So even the tribulation of the temptations, trials affection, purity of fatigue, fatigue of consistency, justice, are all experiences through which man is led by God to be Christ, to be more accomplished "
The arduous and simplicity
I. difficult not opposed to simple: simply indicate how you tackle the difficult
... if you look at the hard simplicity without, say, "But if, though, perhaps, who knows," which are all words most sordid and satanic enemy's perception of the truth. Even if you were in front of a beautiful face, if not love, are all reasons to say 'here, but, however, has the bullet here, has the black dot there, has the yellow dot there, his nose slightly to the left, slightly to the right, and so on. ""
II. The Christian patience and magnanimity stoic
A. Christian patience is close to that as stoic must suffer, ie B withstand
but differs from the Stoic magnanimity because it is different because it is humble security under another
"" Of everything I can in with him because he is my strength, "says St. Paul. This is a phrase that takes away any excuse that we can bring against the road and is the response that removes any pretense of desolation and despair in the face of any error. Why save the road and save on error "
III. All the effort we are doing is to make us feel the simplicity of the original relationship between God and man
" When Christ looked at Mary Magdalene with a furtive glance down the street, was a simple thing: it was a recall with a simplicity to simplicity in which the purity prevailed, ridominava, contrary to his history, but contrary to his present possibility "
