Louisa's writings! as "the Sun of my Eternal Will rises... light crammed with love... belonging to the creature who with her act in my Will, made the Sun rise... the full Afternoon of our Eternal Sun formed within the creature."

COMMENT:
Bible, Patristic, Mystic.

Dear William,

Thank you taking a great pleasure and contribute the gentle response.

  yours, Donald

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: William ...
To: Donald    
Sent: Monday, 22 June 2015, 14:30
Subject: Re: Samson=sun, Jesus SUN of Righteousness... Dawn

Dear Father Donald,

Thank you for sharing this with me... as the parallel SUN connection was given you, it will have been one of those moments of SUNRISE, the day being asked please to delay!

How many untold depths am I to further discover in Louisa's writings! as "the Sun of my Eternal Will rises... light crammed with love... belonging to the creature who with her act in my Will, made the Sun rise... the full Afternoon of our Eternal Sun formed within the creature."

Pondering upon Louisa's writings into the night, the very Presence of Our Lord in the Divine Will given to her caught my breath this morning (Office of Readings) in Psalm 72...

23 Yet I was always in your presence; you were holding me by my right hand. You will guide me by your counsel and so you will lead me to glory. What else have I in heaven but you? Apart from you I want nothing on earth. My body and my heart faint for joy;God is my possession for ever. To be near God is my happiness.

It is as if a personal relationship with Our Lord in His Divine Will  has only just been revealed to me - at the bedside of Louisa...

I confess to being somewhat bewildered by the purity and intensity of her writing, deeply drawn by her spiritual transparency.

Thank you Father, most truly.

With my love in Our Lord Jesus,

William

Samson (sun), Lord Jesus is truly the Sun of Righteousness 

the Prophet thus names the Lord Jesus: The sun of righteousness shall rise over you, and there will be healing in its wings. The Lord Jesus is truly the Sun of Righteousness, for he enlightens the minds of all believers with heavenly light. 

A Word In Season for the Liturgy of the Hours
Sunday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time Year I

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE JUDGES

(The birth of Samson is announced: Judges 13:1-25)

And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children. And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and have no children; but you shall conceive and bear a son. Therefore beware, and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for lo, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from birth; and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines.” ...

...And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson; and the boy grew, and the LORD blessed him. And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshta-ol.

  

A READING FROM THE COMMENTARY ON JUDGES BY RABANUS MAURUS

Let me summarise briefly everything that is said about Samson. Samson, who in his day was a Nazirite of the Lord, is allegorically a type of Christ; first, because his birth was foretold by an angel; secondly, because he was called a Nazirite and delivered Israel from its foes; and, finally, because he overthrew their Temple, causing many thousands of people who had mocked him to perish.

As the birth of Samson was foretold by an angel, so the Lord’s bodily birth was foretold by the Prophets, as well as by the angel who said to Mary: Hail, Mary, full of grace; you have conceived in your womb and will bear a son, and you shall call him ‘Emmanuel’, for he shall save his people from their sins.

The name ‘Samson’ means ‘sun’. But our Redeemer too is called ‘sun’; listen to how the Prophet thus names the Lord Jesus: The sun of righteousness shall rise over you, and there will be healing in its wings. The Lord Jesus is truly the Sun of Righteousness, for he enlightens the minds of all believers with heavenly light. He is the true Nazirite and Holy one of God, and it is only by analogy with him that this other man was called a Nazirite.

When Samson was travelling to the wedding he encountered a roaring lion. As he travelled to a foreign people in quest of a wife, a lion came out to meet him and he killed it. Who should we see foreshadowed by Samson if not Christ who, when about to gather the Church from among the Gentiles, said: Rejoice, for I have overcome the world.

What does it mean that Samson took honey from the mouth of ­the slain lion except that, as we ourselves see, the nations of the earthly kingdom who formerly raged against Christ have lost their ­savagery and, moved by the sweetness of the Gospel preaching make their votive offerings? Also significant is what we see in ­Samson’s own person: he killed few in his lifetime, but countless ­were the enemies he slew when he died by destroying the Temple. So too the Lord in his lifetime rescued few from the arrogance of unbelief, but he rescued many when the temple of his body was ­destroyed; and those Gentiles who were arrogant and whom he bore with in his lifetime, he laid low by his death.

Rabanus Maurus, Commentary on Judges, 2.20 (PL 108:1198); Word in Season V.

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"Catholic Divine Will " ... in thirty-six volumes by Luisa Piccarreta

December 14, 1937

Just as human nature has its day, the Divine Will forms Its own day in the depth of the soul of the creature who lives in It. Miracles that happen in the Divine Will.

I felt immersed in the Divine Volition. It seemed that, as I was doing my acts in the FIAT within Its waves of light, that light would become larger and would centralize itself more within me; and I felt a growing need to love It and to breathe It - more than my own life. Without It, I felt out of breath, without warmth and without heartbeat; but as I came back to do my acts in the Divine Volition, I felt the breathing, the warmth and the Divine heartbeat coming back, to delight my poor existence. Therefore, it is a need for me - a need of life - to live in the Divine Will. 

Then, my sweet Jesus, coming back to visit my little soul, all goodness told me: “My blessed daughter, just as nature has its day in human life, during which all the actions of life are performed, in the same way my Divine Will forms Its Day in the depth of the creature who lives in my Will. 

As the creature begins to form her acts in It, calling It to her as her own Life, she starts her day, forming a most shining Dawn in the depth of her soul. This Dawn gathers its Power, renewing in the creature the Power of the Father, the Wisdom of the Son, the Virtue and Love of the Holy Spirit. So she starts her Day together with the Most Holy Trinity, Which descends in the most tiny acts and hiding places of the creature in order to live together with her, and to do whatever she does. This Dawn puts to flight the darkness of the soul, so that all becomes light for her, placing Itself as a vigil sentry, so that all her acts may receive the Light of the Divine Will. 

 This Dawn is the first rest of God within the room of the soul - it is the beginning of the Eternal Day in which the Life of the Supreme Being starts together with the creature. My Will does not move - It is not able, nor does It know how to do without the Adorable Trinity. At the most, It goes forward - being the actor, but always pulling with It, in an irresistible way, the Adorable Trinity, forming the divine chamber in which the Divine Persons can enjoy their beloved creature. Wherever It reigns, my Will has the Power to centralize everything - even our Divine Life.  

How beautiful is the beginning of the Day of one who lives in our FIAT. It is the enchantment of the all Heaven. If the Celestial Court were subject to envy, It would envy the one who is so fortunate as to possess, within her soul - while still living in time - the beginning of the eternal Day - the precious Day in which God begins to live His Life together with the creature.

Now, as soon as she begins the second act in the Divine Volition, the Sun of my Eternal Will rises. The fullness of Its light is such as to invest the whole of earth, visiting all hearts and bringing the ‘good morning’ of light and new joys to all the Celestial Court. This light is crammed with love, adoration, thanksgiving, gratitude, glory and benediction - but who do these belong to?: to the creature who, with her act in my Will, made the Sun rise which shines over all, so that all may find the one who loved God for them - the one who adored Him, thanked Him, blessed Him and glorified Him. Everyone finds the thing which he was supposed to do for God. She compensates for everyone. One act in my Will must enclose everything. It has the power and the capacity to make up for everyone and to do good to all; otherwise It could not be called ‘act, done in my Will.’ These acts are full of unheard-of prodigies, worthy of our Creative Work.   

Now, as she turns to her third act in our Will, the full Afternoon of our Eternal Sun is formed within the creature. Do you know what she gives Us with this full Afternoon? She prepares a banquet for Us. And do you know what she gives Us for food? The Love We have given to her - our divine qualities. Everything carries the mark of our beauty and of our chaste and pure perfumes. We like it so much that we eat our fill; and even if something may be missing for our status, since the creature is in our Will, she is the owner of all our goods; she takes from our treasure whatever is needed, and prepares for Us the most beautiful banquet, worthy of our Supreme Majesty. And We invite all the Angels and the Saints to sit at this celestial banquet, so that they may take and eat with Us, of the Love which We received from the creature who lives in our Will. Now, after we’ve banqueted together, the other acts that she does in our Will serve - some to form for Us celestial melodies, some loving chants, some the most beautiful scenes; some others repeat our Works, which are always in action. In sum, she keeps Us always busy. And when she has given course to all her actions in our Will, we give her rest, resting together with her. After the rest, we begin the work, starting another day, and so forth.

Many times, this loyal daughter of ours - since true loyalty consists in living in our Divine Will - seeing that her brothers and sisters are about to be struck by the deserved chastisements for their sins, doesn’t close her day, but prays and suffers to beseech graces for their souls as well as for their bodies. The life of one who lives in my Divine Will is new joy and glory for Heaven, and help and graces for the earth.”

Fiat!

  http://catholicdivinewill.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/divine-will-volume-thirty-five_26.html  

August 9, 1937

Prodigies of love in the Divine Volition. How the Divine Will redoubles Its love, in order to be loved with Its own love. How the Queen will form the new Hierarchy in her inheritance.   (Luisa Piccarreta) 

St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher - Martyrs for Truth

 

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These great Saints were willing to be executed rather than compromise the truth. Father Ed Broom, OMV, preaches the homily on June 22, 2012 at St. Peter Chanel Church in Hawaiian Gardens, California.

Father Ed Broom, OMV is a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary founded by the Venerable Pio Bruno Lanteri. This community is dedicated to Mary, preaching God's Mercy, Loyalty to the Magisterium, and the promotion of spirituality among the laity especially by the use of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.

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22nd June - Saint John Fisher and Saint Thomas More

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Monday, June 22, 2015 1:11 am.

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Both saints held high office in England but submitted to martyrdom rather than accept Henry VIII's claim to be head of the Church. St John Fisher was a learned teacher and chancellor at Cambridge university and a friend of the humanist Erasmus. He became Bishop of Rochester in 1504 at the age of 35. When asked to accept the King as head of the Church he said he could not. "I do not condemn any other men's consciences," he said. "Their consciences must save them and mine must save me." He was tried and executed for treason on June 17 1535. He was 66. St Thomas More was the Lord Chancellor. A younger man than St John Fisher, he had a large family and household to support and said he did not wish to die. "I am not so holy that I dare rush upon death," he said. But he could not accept the King as supreme head of the Church or condone his divorce. Rather than make a public pronouncement he resigned from his post and hoped to retire quietly. But the King would not accept his silence. St Thomas was arrested, imprisoned at the Tower of London for 15 months and then declared guilty of treason and condemned to death. He was executed nine days after St John Fisher. He was 57. From the scaffold he said: "I die the King's good servant, but God's first."

Twelfth Sunday of the Year (B) Gospel - Mark 4: 35-41. Welcome Pope Encyclical

Pope Francis

Encyclical.

  Laudate Si 


Praise Be To You

COMMENT: ...'Pope Francis in his wonderful encyclical Laudato Si pulls together all the problems confronting life on our little blue planet    '.

cf. ICN

The night prayer of the Church Recognizes the connection entre sleep and death.Our night prayers are Meant to Be Both a preparation for dropping off to sleep and for death, When We will-have to let go of everything.

Sunday Reflection with Fr Robin Gibbons - 21st June 2015

12th Sunday of the Year The sights and sounds of boats in harbours is something that fills my imagination and has been a life-long interest. I love Cornwall and its coastline so many of my images come from there, but any harbour is a magical place. The sea is obviously in my blood, but I know that beautiful as it might be, like all water places it has to be respected and feared as well. Jesus loves the waters too, some of the greatest images of him are settings by the sea and of course, many of his first followers were fisher-folk. In Mark's Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus is on board a ship, sleeping through a tempestuous gale whilst everybody else on board is frightened for their lives. When wakened he rebukes them for their lack of faith, but to settle them shows just who he is, the Holy One who was there at creation and who loves and sustains it still, and for them calms the great elements! That image of Jesus, the Word made flesh , the word spoken at creation who named and shaped life is there in his command to the wind and sea, 'Quiet now! Be calm!'. This is the Lord of life, part of the Trinity who guides and shapes us still, for as Paul puts it 'in Christ, there is a new creation'. This is echoed in the passage from Job 3 about the origins of the seas, I love God's response to Job at the heart of the tempest, reminding him that 'I wrapped it in a robe of mist and made black clouds its swaddling bands'. It is God, not human beings, who really marks the boundaries of nature, who continues on the work of creation. Yet we are in a time of great difficulty with life and nature and our planet. We seem to have forgotten how to love it and use its resources well. Pope Francis in his wonderful encyclical Laudato si pulls together all the problems confronting life on our little blue planet and in Gods name asks all of us to do something. For the moment this is our home and we must care for it. Like the psalmist on the waters we ask God to lead us to the haven we desire and to thank the Lord for the wonders he does for all life on earth! Fr Robin Gibbons is an Eastern Rite Chaplain for the Melkite Greek Catholics in Great Britain. ++++++ Top 10 Things You Need to Know about Pope Francis' Laudato Si'   America Media 2,376   10,672   Published on 18 Jun 2015 Pope Francis' highly-anticipated environmental encyclical has arrived and Fr. James Martin, S.J., presents the ten things you need to know about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_lqFTYLc_4

Bishop Kallistos Ware on the Divine Liturgy part 1

Saturday Mass of Mary     

The Reading about our Lady by Kallistos Ware was moving at our Night Office. It was clear, deep and spiritual.

 COMMENT: 
Years ago we enjoyed Retreat talks at our Abbey.
Even the style of mysticism, think the vocabulary of Our Lady; Heavenly , Celestial Queen, "the love of the Celestial Queen is Unsurpassable", (Luisa Piccarreta). 

Published on 21 Aug 2012

April, 2011 – Metropolitan Kallistos Ware on the Divine Liturgy (first lecture) … presented to clergy from the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlanta at the Diakonia Center in South Carolina. Please enjoy and there will be more to come.

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Saturday, 20 June 2015

Mary Month Calendar June

Saturday Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary

This morning we had the Saturday Mass of Mary, I was reminded of the mid-week memorials of Our Lady of Walsingham and OL of Ransom. In fact, on every day of the year there are memorials, dedications, shrines, named of Our Lady. For the Saturday Mass of BVM, it is usually put among the Commons at the back of the Missal.

Even more appropriate is the Collection of Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Volume 1 Sacramentary and Volune II Lectionary.

With such an abundance of Marian memorials we celebrate this Saturday Mass in the spirit and help of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Saturday Vigil READING ABOUT OUR LADY

by Bishop Kallistos Ware.

In her recognition and acceptance of' her vocation, in her attitude of' receptivity, Mary stands before us supremely as the one who listens obediently in faith. Faith is the essence of Mary's response at the Annunciation, and faith presupposes listening. When we think of her obedience, it is important to give the word"obedience” its true and literal sense; both in Latin and in Greek it signifies 'to hear'. 'Let it be done to me according to your word', Mary replies to the angel. The Mother of God listens to God's word. The Gospel reading appointed for most feasts in her honour includes Christ's reply to the woman in the crowd:'Blessed rather are those who hear the word, of God and keep it.' This answer from a superficial point of view might seem to belittle the Holy Virgin, in reality indicates what is her true glory. She is blessed not merely by the physical fact of her child-bearing, but also and more fundamentally by the spiritual depth of her inner faith and attentiveness to God's word. Had she not first learnt to hear the word off God in her heart, she could never have born the Word Incarnate in her body.

Repeatedly the Gospels insist upon this characteristic of Mary as the one who listens. After the adoration of the shepherds, it is said that ‘Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart' Similar words after her discovery of the twelve-year-old Jesus in the Temple: 'his Mother kept all these things in her heart'. The importance of listening is evident in Mary's own words to the servants at the marriage feast at Cana of Galilee: 'Do whatever he tells, you; listen, wait on God’. Once more the relevance - of Mary's example in our present age is easily apparent. Ours is an era in which words' can be multiplied with extraordinary facility - on the radio and television, on tape recorders, photocopiers, and word processors - but we have forgotten the art of" listening.

The Mother of' God, the one who listens, by her own example can help us to rediscover the lost dimension of inner space. Byzantine spirituality sees in her the model hesychast, a living icon of what it means to practise hesychia, stillness of heart. The words of the Psalmist - 'Be still, and know I God' apply exactly to her.

Mary Links Calendar http://www.marylinks.org/Mary-Calendar.htm#JUNE JUNE

St Romuald Mass Friday 19th June 2015

Monastic Office of Vigils         



      Dom Donald's Blog: St Romuald Mass Thursday 11th Week Ord Time: Night Office Saints,   http://www.monasterodicamaldoli.it/   St Romuald       June 19. Portrait St. Romuald (FaceBook) Chris...



For the Memorial of Saint Romuald:

SECOND READING

From the life of Saint Romuald by Saint Peter Damian, bishop
(Cap.31 et 69: PL 144, 982-983, 1005-1006)

Denying oneself and following Christ

Romuald lived in the vicinity of the city of Parenzo for three years.  In the first year he built a monastery and appointed an abbot with monks. For the next two years he remained there in seclusion. In that setting, divine holiness transported him to such a summit of perfection that, breathed upon by the Holy Spirit, he foresaw many future events and comprehended with the rays of his intelligence hidden mysteries of the Old and New Testaments.

Frequently he was seized by so great a contemplation of divinity that he would be reduced to tears with the boiling, indescribable heat of divine love. In this condition he would cry out: Beloved Jesus, beloved, sweet honey, indescribable longing, delight of the saints, sweetness of the angels, and other things of this kind.  We are unable to express the ecstasy of these utterances, dictated by the Holy Spirit.

Wherever the holy man might arrange to live, he would follow the same pattern. First he would build an oratory with an altar in a cell; then he would shut himself in and forbid access.

Finally, after he had lived in many places, perceiving that his end was near, he returned to the monastery he had built in the valley of Castro. While he awaited with certainty his approaching death, he ordered a cell to be constructed there with an oratory in which he might isolate himself and preserve in silence until death.

Accordingly the hermitage was built, since he had made up his mind that he would die there. His body began to grow more and more oppressed by afflictions and was already failing, not so much from weakness as from the exhaustion of great age. One day he began to feel the loss of his physical strength under all the harassment of increasingly violent afflictions.  As the sun was beginning to set, he instructed two monks who were standing by to go out and close the door of the cell behind them; they were to come back to him at daybreak to celebrate matins. They were so concerned about his end that they went out reluctantly and did not rest immediately. On the contrary, since they were worried that their master might die, they lay hidden near the cell and watched this precious treasure. For some time they continued to listen attentively until they heard neither movement nor sound. Rightly guessing what had happened, they pushed open the door, rushed in quickly, lit a candle and found the holy man lying on his back, his blessed soul snatched up into heaven.  As he lay there, he seemed like a neglected heavenly pearl that was soon to be given a place of honor in the treasury of the King of kings.

RESPONSORY
Deuteronomy 2:7; 8:5

The Lord has blessed you in all that you have done;
he has watched over your progress
as you journeyed through the vast desert.
– The Lord your God has been with you;
no need of yours has been forgotten.

As a father teaches his son,
so the Lord your God was disciplining you.
– The Lord your God has been with you;
no need of yours has been forgotten.

CONCLUDING PRAYER

Let us pray.

Father,
through Saint Romuald
you renewed the life of solitude and prayer in your Church.
By our self-denial as we follow Christ
bring us the joy of heaven.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
– Amen.

Monastic Life - Wednesday Chapte Br. Philip

 

     

Br. Philip. Wednesday Talk

Monastic Life                                   Chapter Talk – 17 June 2015

The Beginning – the Word

Jesus Christ did not directly found the monastic life, but He did have its origins in His preaching, for this included those elements which later became characteristic of the way of life of monks.  Did Jesus not tell us that “we must leave all to follow Him”?  That we must “sell our possessions and give to the poor” and that we must “renounce marriage” for the sake of the Kingdom”?  Did not Jesus surround Himself with men and women disciples who shared His everyday life and His care for the coming of the Kingdom and especially His mysterious dialogue with the Father?

Jesus appeared to his contemporaries as equal to those great men of the Old Testament who had been suddenly uprooted from their ordinary lives by the power of the word of God, so that they might be more completely dedicated to God’s service.  Men such as Abraham, Moses and the prophets.

From the beginning of sacred history the word of God has never ceased to work in this way.  It calls each one, inviting him in a special way to Him and dedicating him to a particular service.  The word of God recreates a man from the depths of his being – if necessary even changing his name.  In this way, through the call of one individual, the life of a whole people can be profoundly changed and they can be led to God.

At the beginning of every Christian life is the word of the Lord.  It comes in many ways, but it always calls accepted values and standards into question and stirs the soul of the believer to its depths.  St Anthony the Great, the father of monks owed his vocation to a word of the Gospel, heard by chance during a celebration of the Eucharist one day; “If you wish to go the whole way, go sell your possessions and give to the poor, and then you will have riches in Heaven; come follow Me.  Anthony did not know where this would lead him.  But the word of Jesus suddenly coming alive in his heart was call enough.  On the strength of it, he committed his whole life.

Likewise, two centuries later, St Benedict who was to become the Patriarch of the monks of the West, did not know any other way than that of the Gospel.  St Benedict knew that his Rule would not supplant the Gospel.  On the contrary, when he wrote the final chapter he recalled that the Rule is only a sort of humbly beginning, a kind of manual of introduction to what he calls “the heights of perfection, the loftier summits of teaching and virtue” which the disciple will find in every page of the scriptures.  The word of God is the sole rule of life and it alone is more than adequate.  Any religious rule has meaning only to the extent that it can make the demands of the word of God specifically.  It must apply the Gospels to the concrete circumstances of a particular age and culture.  St Benedict knew nothing of the world wide destiny of his Rule.  He was content to prepare his monks to hear the word of the Gospel and to follow Christ.

_____ cf. Andre Louf  

Community Monthly Memorial of the Dead

Night Office Reading. 

Thursday 18/06/2015 

 

Community Monthly Memorial of the Dead

..."the Church and Our Anticipated Victory over Death," 

Mass Intro: Today we celebrate the Monthly Mass for our dead;

Our brothers and sisters in the Order among our relatives and friends and benefactors have all gone before us. We pray for them and that we may in our turn and that we may in our turn join them in the joy of heaven.

OFFICE OF THE DEAD - 9

A Reading;
about the Church and Our Anticipated Victory over Death,
from a Book 13y Fro-Alexander Schmemann *..

THE liturgy of Christian death does not begin when a man has come to the inescapable end and his corpse lies in church for the last rites while we stand around, the sad yet resigned witnesses of the dignified removal of a man from the world of the living. It begins every day as the Church ascending in to heaven, "puts aside all earthly care"; it begins every feast day; it begins especially in the joy of Easter. The whole life of the Church is in a way the sacrament of our death, because all of it is the proclamation of the Lord's death the confession of his resurrection.  

The Church is the entrance into the risen life of Christ, communion in life eternal, "joy and peace in the Holy Spirit." And it is the expectation of the "day without evening" of the Kingdom; not of any "other world," but of the fulfilment of all things and all life in Christ. In him death itself has become an act of life, for he has filled it with himself, with his love and light, In him "all things are yours; whether the world" or life, or death, or things present , or things to come; all are yours; and you are Christ's; and Christ is God’s" (1 Cor 3 21-23). And if I make this new life mine, mine this hunger and thirst of the Kingdom, mine this expectation of Christ, mine the certitude that Christ is Life, my very death will be an act of communion with Life, For neither Life nor death can separate us from the love of Christ. I do not know when and how the fulfilment will cameo I do not know when all things will be consummated in Christ. I know nothing about the "whens" and "hows." But I know that in Christ this great Passage , the Pascha of the world has begun , that the light of the “world to come" comes to us in the joy and peace of the Holy Spirit , for Christ is risen and Life reigns.

________________________* Sacraments and Orthodoxy, New York 1965, 130-133