Pray, Lord Jesus, and pray for me. What I will be, what [...] I will be, Deo [...] The second day of this Feast of the Immaculate Conception, this year, plays on with us in such a very special way.

[01:07]

This day of this day is also present to us. I rejoice, rejoice in you, Lord, and my soul exalts in God. Let him bring the testament he serves, because he has clothed him in the cloth of salvation. In the garment of justice he has clothed, because his bonds are not out of hand. and keep ourselves alive by beautiful, evil truths. And that of course is this morning's truth. Not only now, but even also in the beginning of our life. So, John, yesterday was born, but a group of men have come, and today is here with us, Lord, in the garden of justice.

[02:20]

And really I invite you to receive the bridegroom, because to receive Holy Communion, to participate in this Holy Feast today, that is certainly the wedding feast. So that in purity of divine life, there is the act of conscription in this year too. This world has the first fruit of our Lord's death on the cross. This first fruit of salvation, the first way of divine life, also is the next special way visible to us. So we rejoice with the one whose name is now John the Apostate of Simon, whom Jesus loved, taught so well to me, and trusted his mother, and his children.

[03:23]

So we pray, Lord Jesus, and let us also wish To this our child in God's womb, take the one who is, and glory unto you, for he is the joy of his life, also into his own heart he is his mother too. So be with us, rejoice in this wonderful feast that we celebrate. a thing which is not a thing of the past, but a thing of the present. God creates again and again, through His grace, not through the will of man, the perfect answer, perfect response. That is Mary's, the meaning of Mary's existence, to be, to be the perfect answer.

[04:30]

and that is also the meaning of the one who has received the word in the sacrament of faith in baptism and he is the perfect answer the perfect answer to the god who is the holy one Not perfect answer simply in a kind of aesthetic way, but the perfect answer in a way of being. And that is the answer to God's holiness. That holiness which is absolute justice, righteousness. And that holiness which is perfect love, for both perfect justice and perfect love in the absolute purity of holiness.

[05:33]

That really is the glory of God and that is also the essence of the answer that God creates. The Church is the bride which reflects that absolute holiness of God. That holiness that was first revealed has justice on our side. And let us not forget that the love of Christ does in no way take any dot away from the law. It is not a law which destroys justice. But it is a law which exalts and transforms justice, makes it full, gives it that fullness which we see in Our Lady, Grazia Maria, full of grace.

[06:40]

Our Lady is, certainly Thee, who must create justice. gives a pure and absolute answer to God's justice. But that answer is in no way an answer which, again, as we heard it also yesterday, what we heard of Cassian reading to us, an answer that again leads into vain glory. Really, the demands of the law and the essence of God's justice can only be answered in the perfect way in obedience. That is the perfect answer to God's justice. It's not the refining of any letter on sin, but it is the willingness to receive that word of God's justice, that two-edged word which penetrates into our whole being and which gives.

[07:54]

That death is obedience and that death is the complete answer to justice. And that is why we rejoice in Our Lady's conception today because There was the answer born which would say, Fiat, be done unto me the calling to your word. The word of Simon, who filled in the words that then he took, his abode in her, made her the seat of wisdom. So let us, my dear friends, celebrate this feast in great joy, and our prayers accompany our child John. Born anew in the fullness of the Holy Spirit, he arose with the Garden of Justice. May he never forget that this Garden of Justice is the absolute obedience to God's Word.

[09:00]

And out of that obedience then grows the freedom of love in which we then also come to the table and there receive the bread of life and celebrate our espouses like a bride adorned for her husband. These feasts that we celebrate, especially when they have a kind of personal relation to us, we also realize the relation and the obligation such a feast means for us as monastic community should not forget that Here a personal living and searching heart came. And this living and searching heart, thirsting for justice, thirsting for grace, thirsting for that heavenly love, came here and here somehow through thee.

[10:16]

incomprehensible grace of God which suddenly became clear to him. There he found it. What a tremendous responsibility is that for us. We know in how many ways we fail. We know in how many ways we are not the perfect answer to God's justice. But that still God transcending all the defectiveness of this instrument creates through us something that is absolutely far beyond. I wish that they also may happen to everyone who not only approaches the community from the outside but also especially lives in the community from day to day. And the celebration of a feast like this is the renewal of that first beginning in which we came here and in which it was shown to us, to God's grace, that here is the place, that here is the place where we are expected by God to give our perfect answer.

[11:43]

and that we cannot and should not ask common approach to this holy table and celebrate the nuptials, the espouses, without also being absolutely clear the fact that this law of obedience is a law which any grace deep into our heart. and which demands of us really the complete absolute surrender. So let us renewing on this and let us be grateful to God and let us sing together with Our Lady Immaculately Conceived and together with Our brother in Christ let us sing the Magnificat. My soul may magnify the Lord, my spirit exult in him who is my Savior.

[12:44]

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