Benedict II to give him the greetings of the community. coming from the east, from far away, and representing the fullness of the ecclesia, of the church, with gold and frankincense and myrrh.

[02:07]

Just the other day I happened to reach there and see there's an abbey in Germany, I must have, it's in Bavaria, It's probably a pal thing, yeah. The orthodox priest brings the incense, of course. The minister brings the mirror. And there is really something to it. There are several gifts, you know. true.

[03:22]

I mean, the honoring of Christ the King, that is always somewhere else. From the very beginning, the preoccupation, so to speak, of the Roman Catholic Church and the whole mission of Rome in the law and the rule. The East has much more of that of the Eastern Liturgy in a beautiful way. And then there are the Reformations. for our salvation, which we then would perceive in faith.

[04:40]

In every one of these three aspects, there really is a great truth to it. We can be happy to realize, of course, it is also evidence that the wholeness and the the three sacrifices and one can say the three aspects of the sacrifice devout the oneness of the church they really have a real meaning only in the unity and through the unity of all the faithful just incompatible with the idea of the church of the ecclesia one bride of that we see imitated and celebrated in today's mass, the lesson, as well as in the gospel, all these dromedars, you know, and all the various kind of people that come as on Pentecost, you know, to enter into

[06:01]

intolerable really for the Christian and he really goes into the depth of these relations between Christ and the dove, that is to say Christ and the church. If there is one church that will specialize in one approach and another church will specialize in another approach and another one in another. evidently against the whole meaning of the bride of Christ. So I think that we experience of course something very similar to that in our monastic life. And it is good give us that, because

[07:23]

It's the mirror, you know. The mystical dip, you know. But there it is, you know. And the important thing of course is that sends in the mirror the faith, the kingdom in Christ, the Pantocrator, as is so evident in our monastic life, the totality of it, which St. Benedict just reminds us this morning is also so beautiful and fitting. Heart and body, the two things go into it.

[08:50]

Perhaps then is the the incense, there is the prayer, there is the lecture, meditation, and therefore also the studies that goes into that, and the mirror, and that is the poverty, that is the monk as not a man but a worm, and a dumb beast, and a poor one of Christ monastery, these aspects, and every individual monk, these aspects must be united. Therefore also, every individual monk is called on to offer himself in these three ways. One cannot pick out one way and leave the other. They all have to be one. And then we really become monks, and then we really become

[09:52]

but it's the will of God for us that we don't lose contact in various departments, but that we all remain one actually in what we offer and in the spirit in which these gifts are to come back to that crib there in Niederalter in the refectory, if what is now divided and all that may be worn so that the worn Catholic Church really offers a home to all these various aspects of serving God.

[11:00]

broad enough to take in the whole of mankind. What a wonderful perspective that is, but also how much patience it takes, and how much humility it takes, and how much really deep faith it takes with the help of God to move And that the Holy Spirit is really looking at dogs. The Holy Spirit is working more than ever in this era.

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