[Sundaycommunity] HIS COMMENT ON HIS PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE

[Brian Shaughnessy]

Truth is not revealed to a priest engrossed in rites, but absent with his
spirit.  It is instead revealed to a simple believer.

The priest, always in contact with Divinity, devoted to what concerns God
and to everything which is above the flesh, should have realized at once
who was the Child being offered that morning in the Temple.

The Spirit of God inspires and speaks where it sees the "good will" to
deserve such effusion.  With a life devoted, as far as possible, entirely
to God.

There is less difference between night and day than there is between
practices and prayer.  The latter is *communion of the spirit *with God,
from which you emerge with fresh strength and a decision to belong more and
more to God.

If men only knew what a perfect Friend the Holy Spirit is, and invoked
Him!  How much more they would know of what is necessary to know!

Simeon waited all his long life before "seeing the Light".

Anna a prophetess.

Why do you not ask God with faith?  A real overbearing faith.  A faith
before which the rigour of God, indignant at your many faults, may turn
into a smile and He may grant you His forgiveness, which is relief, and His
blessing will be a rainbow in this world submerged in a deluge of blood
which you wanted yourselves.

How many times have you said to yourselves and to God:  "If we are spared
*this* time, if You save us, we shall never make wars again, never again",
and after, you have always made more terrifying ones?  How many times, o
false men, who have no respect either for God or for your own word?

And yet God would help you once again, only if the large mass of the
faithful would invoke Him with faith and ardent love.
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aptYLJC,Twbd,ttM

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