Katolička misao dana

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Ne pozabite, da v očeh Boga nič ni majhno. Naredite vse, kar počnete z ljubeznijo.

sv. Terezija Deteta Jezusa

http://karmelicanke.rkc.si/karmelski-svetniki/sv-terezija-deteta-jezusa-presvetega-oblicja/

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The future of the Church can and will issue from those whose roots are deep and who live from the pure fullness of the faith.
It will not issue from those who accommodate themselves merely to the passing momemt or from those who merely criticize others and assume that they themselves are infallible measuring rods nor will it issue from those who take the easier road, who sidestep the passion of faith, declaring false and obsolete tyrannous and legalistic, all that makes demands upon man, that hurts them and compels them to sacrifice themselves.
To put this more positively : The future of the Church, once again as always will be reshaped by saints, by men, that is, whose minds probe deeper than the slogans of the day, who see more than other see, because their lives embrace a wider reality.
Unsefishness, which makes men free, is attained only through the patience of small daily acts of self-denial. By this daily passion, which alone reveals to a man in how many ways he is enslaved by his own ego, by this daily passion and by it alone, a man's eyes are slowly opened......
 

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Plemenita velikodušnost je čudovita krepost, ki nas nagiba, da si želimo velikih stvari, da svoje življenje posvetimo podarjanju nečesa velikega temu svetu. Kajti biti ponižen ne pomeni skriti sposobnosti ali zakopati talentov. Sveti Duh se ne raduje našega uničenja in ne pričakuje, da se bomo odrekli svojim sanjam. Nasprotno, on sam nas vabi v avanturo, ki pomeni živeti velike stvari.

To se povsem jasno kaže v življenju svete Terzije Avilske, ki se je danes spominjamo. Od otroštva naprej je sanjala, da bo delala velike stvari za Kristusa. A v tistem času pred 500 leti, žene niso mogle izstopati ne v družbi ne v Cerkvi.

Terezijo je zelo spodbujalo branje življenjepisov svetnikov in viteških romanov. Zato je hotela nekega dne, ko je bila še majna deklica, s svojim bratom zbežati v poganske dežele, da bi tam dala življenje za Kristusa.

Lata 1535 je vstopila v samostan La Encarnacion v Avili. A rečemo lahko, da je dvajset let potem doživela veliko spreobrnjenje, najmočnejše dejanje Svetega Duha. V kratkem času je začutila Božji klic, naj obnovi življenje v karmelskih samostanih in jim vrne duha evangeljskega uboštva ter gorečnosti, kjer naj ne manjka veselja. Pri obnovi se ji je pridružil sveti Janez od Križa. Oba sta trpela posmehovanje in preganjanje, a nič ni moglo zaustaviti te odločne in gotove žene.

Njenemu zavestnemu delovanju se je pridružila najvišja mistična iskušnja, ki je ostala zapisana v njenih duhovnih spisih, zaradi katerih so jo razglasili za Cerkveno učiteljico. Ustanovila je veliko prenovljenih samostanov, kar je zanjo pomenilo veliko število potovanj, ki so načela njeno zdravje. Zaradi potovanj so ji zaničljivo rekli »nemirna in potepuška žena.«

Čeprav so jo predstavniki Cerkvenega vodstva preganjali, jih je potrpežljivo prenašala in je kot zadnje besede pred smrtjo izrekla: »Umiram kot hči Cerkve.« Sveti Duh, ki nas vabi, da živimo velike stvari, nas vodi tako, da jih živimo v ponižnosti in bratstvu, nikoli v nečimrnosti in razdoru.

Victor Manuel Fernandez – Los cinco minutos del Espiritu Santo

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Ne reci: ta človek me utruja. Misli si: ta človek me posvečuje..

Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer - Camino

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57 Suffering is a great grace; through suffering the soul becomes like the Savior; in suffering love becomes crystallized; the greater the suffering, the purer the love.

The diary of Sister Maria Faustina H. Kowalska

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3 Seeds of Contemplation

My chief care should not be to find pleasure or success, health or life or money or rest or even things like virtue and wisdom-still less their opposites, pain, failure, sickness, death. But in all that happens, my one desire and my one joy should be to know: "Here is the thing that God has willed for me. In this His love is found, and in accepting this I can give back His love to Him and give myself with it to Him. For in giving myself I shall find Him and He is life everlasting."

By consenting to His will with joy and doing it with gladness I have His love in my heart, because my will is now the same as His love and I am on the way to becoming what He is, Who is Love. And by accepting all things from Him I receive His joy into my soul, not because things are what they are but because God is Who He is, and His love has willed my joy in them all. How am I to know the will of God? Even where there is no other more explicit claim on my obedience, such as a legitimate command, the very nature of each situation usually bears written into itself some indication of God's will.

 

Thomas Merton - New Seeds of Contemplation

https://www.fisheaters.com/srpdf/xThomasMertonNewSeedsOfContemplation.pdf

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Prihodnost Cerkve more priti in bo tudi danes prišla le iz moči tistih, ki imajo globoke korenine in, ki žive iz čiste polnosti vere. Ne bo prišla od tistih, ki delajo le recepte. Ne bo prišla od tistih, ki se prilagajajo vsakokratnem trenutku. Ne bo prišla od tistih, ki le druge kritizirajo, a imajo samega sebe za nezmotljivo merilo. Tudi ne bo prišla od tistih, ki izbirajo le lagodnejšo pot. In ne od tistih, ki se izmikajo bolečini vere in razglašajo kot napačno in zastarelo, kot tiranijo in legalizem vse, kar postavlja človeku zahteve, kar mu zadaja bol in ga sili, naj se odpove napačni zaverovanosti vase.

Prihodnost Cerkve bodo tudi toktat, kakor vedno, na novo oblikovali svetniki. Ljudje torej, ki zaznajo kaj več kakor pa le fraze, ki so ravno moderne. Ljudje, ki morejo videti več kakor drugi zaradi tega, ker njihovo življenje obseže večje prostore….. Ostala bo Cerkev Jezusa Kristusa, Cerkev, ki veruje v Boga, ki je postal človek in nam obljublja življenje tudi onstran smrti…..

 

Papa Emeritus Joseph Ratzinger

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