Saturday, 16 February 2013
Saturday after Ash Wednesday
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Subject: The Daily Gospel
From: DGO <noreply@evzo.org>
To: Donald....
Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013, 17:03
Subject: The Daily Gospel
Holy Gospel
of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 5:27-32.
Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the
customs post. He said to him, «Follow
me.»
And leaving
everything behind, he got up and followed him....
Commentary of the day
Saint Raphael Arnaiz Baron (1911-1938), a Spanish
Trappist monk
Spiritual writings, 15/12/1936 (trans. 'To know how to
wait', Mairin Mitchell)
"Leaving
everything behind, the man got up and followed him"
Above the monastery
some planes are cutting through the sky at tremendous speed. The noise of the
engines frightens the birds who take shelter in the cypresses of our cemetery.
In front of the convent and crossing the land is a tarred road along which
lorries and carloads of tourists, for whom the sight of the monastery has no
interest, run at all hours. One of the principal Spanish railways also runs
through the fields of the monastery... People tell you that all this is
freedom... But the man who reflects a little will see how deluded the world is
in the midst of what he calls freedom...
Where, then, is true
freedom? It is in the heart of one who loves nothing more than God. It is in
the heart of one who is attached neither to spirit nor to matter, but only to
God. It is in that soul which is not subject to the “I” of egoism, which soars
above its own thoughts, feelings, suffering and enjoyment. Freedom resides in
the soul whose one reason for existence is God, whose life is God and nothing
else but God.
The human spirit is
small, impoverished, subject to a thousand changes of mood, ups and downs,
depressions, disillusionments, etc., and the body to so much weakness. Freedom,
then, is in God, and the soul which truly, in soaring above everything, makes
her abode in him, can say that she enjoys freedom to the extent that is
possible for one still in the world to do so.
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