And if you approach them under a certain aspect, then they begin to speak. Your word, O Lord, is sweeter than honey. That word, your word, O Lord, is sweeter than honey, can be understood only when I approach Holy Scripture under the aspect of the divine knowledge. Because that is the sweetness, the divine sweetness of God's life. Take, for example, an apportionment of that aspect, the synoptics. Look at the evangelists themselves. St. Matthew, the first of them. And in St. Matthew, chapter 9, verse 9, you read, And Jesus saw a man, Matthew by name, sitting at the customs counter.

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And he says unto him, follow. And he rose and followed him. See? St. Matthew sitting at the customs counter. He was a collector of taxes and always a certain percentage, good percentage, very good percentage, into the old pockets, you see. So there it is, you know, there you find on one side the customs counter, you know, on the other side the followings. That's that going from one realm of life, the psuche, into the floy. And that St. Matthew, then, you see, he writes the gospel. Under what other aspect would he write the gospel from this basic experience that he decided over his life, where he was called out from the arrows into the valley of the Son of God's love?

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Or take St. Mark. What is St. Mark? Interplace fidelis. as Christian tradition always has it, the faithful interpreter of St. Peter, the head of the church, St. Mark. Therefore, too, there is the living traditio, the tradition. St. Luke, good Dr. Luke, as St. Paul calls him, the doctor who is therefore so well aware of human misery and therefore has such a wonderful disposition to write and to see the mystery of the medical stimulus of God, of Christ in good position. And that is what he describes all the time, how he went healing every kind of sickness. And St.

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John, the disciple whom Jesus loved. In other words, he was nothing but by the love that Christ gave. Everything he was, was Christ's love for him. That is the reason why in the Gospel of St. John, the name of the author never occurs. But there is that sacred, beautiful anonymity, the disciple whom Jesus loved, that anonymity which is blessed anonymity, the anonymity of the Spirit, which the divine agape opposes upon us, upon everyone who believes. Because to believe means to enter into the anonymity. That is a blessing. imposed as it were by God's faculty, and therefore liberation from the individual genius.

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But at the same time, what a genius St. John was in the spiritual sense. So there is, in that way, an endless field for you. And maybe the next conference we still devote to that. Going through all these scriptures, for example, take the preparation of the copy of Christ. And just see for yourself, really, during these days, Advent is coming now. And there comes St. John the Baptist. And there comes the figure of Our Lady. And there is right away the question of these two great saints, the Old Testament and the New Testament, John the Baptist and our Lady. What position, what function do they have in our life as monks? Under the light of the divine agape, and in that light, you will see what they mean to us, both of us.

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So, therefore, let us start on that, you know, and trying to orientate our life, our gnostic life, in the light and in the power of the divine agape. Start in a practical way with your Lectio Divina. And then going through under the leadership and the guidance of that light, which is the Lamb that, as it is said in the Apocalypse so beautifully, was slain forever. From all old times. Slain up at death. Then you will also see What a blessedness and what a peace and what a beauty, what joy it is when we sing, then to my, the light of that beautiful revelation in the joy, in voluntat tua domine universa sui cosita.

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In your will, O Lord, all things are placed, and that will

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