- E senti o espírito inundado por um mistério de luz que é Deus e N´Ele vi e ouvi -A ponta da lança como chama que se desprende, toca o eixo da terra, – Ela estremece: montanhas, cidades, vilas e aldeias com os seus moradores são sepultados. - O mar, os rios e as nuvens saem dos seus limites, transbordam, inundam e arrastam consigo num redemoinho, moradias e gente em número que não se pode contar , é a purificação do mundo pelo pecado em que se mergulha. - O ódio, a ambição provocam a guerra destruidora! - Depois senti no palpitar acelerado do coração e no meu espírito o eco duma voz suave que dizia: – No tempo, uma só Fé, um só Batismo, uma só Igreja, Santa, Católica, Apostólica: - Na eternidade, o Céu! (escreve a irmã Lúcia a 3 de janeiro de 1944, em "O Meu Caminho," I, p. 158 – 160 – Carmelo de Coimbra)
sábado, 7 de outubro de 2017
THE EUCHARIST IN SAINT PAUL OF THE CROSS Rev. Divo Barsotti
THE EUCHARIST IN SAINT PAUL OF THE CROSS
Rev. Divo Barsotti
INTRODUCTION
It is very important to study the process of development of a doctrine which often also tells
us of the process involved in a person’s sanctity. And so it is in St. Paul of the Cross. Was there
really a process? It is exactly this which is seen in the life of every saint: the initial grace already
contains in germ the development of future sanctity. The Diary of St. Paul of the Cross remains
the basic document for every study of paulacrucian spirituality. In any case, it is evident that the
extraordinary testimony of forty days, while, on the one hand, very rich for a theological analysis
in pointing out reasons, on the other, it could induce one who doesn’t know the Letters and
treatise on Mystical Death to err in his conclusions. One could in fact insist on certain reasons
which the Saint borrows from his preferred authors and which fall along the way, or at least are
not as evident as they seem to be in the Diary. Other reasons, on the contrary, which are explicit
and insistently emphasized in the Diary, are not as explicit in his subsequent writings, but
nevertheless have not lost for St. Paul of the Cross their fundamental importance and could
easily be presumed.read...