Who's the place for a rose when it's out of the heart to be sitting out of the doorstep today? We do it after this communion, first of all, as we have just suffered Jerusalem warnings, and stand on it on high, and see the glory that comes to you from the Lord. Now, in faith, During this celebration we have wisdom that Christ will be the instrumentality of the newly ordained Christians. And now we stand on high, one with him in his glory, telling us songs of glory through that sacrifice which we have just celebrated.

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And so I think We are continually ready to listen to a word which has no other meaning but to explain what we have done, what has happened yesterday and today. Tell us again that the essence of the priesthood is the instruments through which the heavenly power surrounds his thousands of people. Now, my dear Son of Christ, and all of his dear parents and relatives, and my dear brethren, we realize that this beautiful hour is the fruit of the perfect day How beautiful it was, yes, to let the heart expand that wall and that gallery, that doorway, which the sun shed over these gifts.

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It's pretty extraordinary feeling in this way that we experience gifts. There was the representative of that son of justice. Of that son and king of the father's world. Who gives us. And he was standing there in the struggle. And we were around him. After. Where the son of justice gets the relics of charity. They will become children. we become a song, and how deeply we experience the warmth of that truth. In meeting and working together and celebrating together with our beloved brother Christ, Father Paul, to see his heavens, to see his heavens, to see his wings,

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To let one heart be open to all that abundance of grace and goodness and love that the heavenly Father gives us through his kind faith, this tongue, the Word of God made flesh, our God Jesus Christ and his representative, the bishop. so they rejoice also we as community. We, where God in his wonderful providence had in a beautiful, wonderful way, in a very special way, revered for the celebration of this wonderful feast, yes, through the dead that have been passed and begin to grow, of the one on our breath, a member of our family.

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And one could feel the presence of that blessed soul here yesterday. And how beautiful it was when at the end of the day, we went out to that way, to that little hill of earth, of hunger. That was good. and to see there this star of flowers as it forms the glacier of that glory to which God fathers us as it forms through the abundance of charity that he pours out over us as a family through his goodness. And that, my dear friend, counts to very less. Our hearts overflow in gratitude. You know very well you are people who live in this world.

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You are very aware, as our dear Father Martin is too, that people have the strangest idea of what a priest is. They may say now, yes, so very in our times of a period in human history where people believed in magic wands. especially consecrated persons who have a secret science, who knew the formula, and that in this way would bring an imaginative salvation to the people. And then we have, in a reaction to that, in our more illuminated age, the idea that the priest, no one is the priest, really the essence of his work is to be a teacher who will intellectually do something like that.

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Or others who would think it more adequate to the needs of the time, because he's a priest as a part of social work, to alleviate the social evils of the very capitalist age. But the answer of the Church, we know it all, my dear friends, is that the priest is the one who offers sacrifice. But there, I must pray, we stop. And we don't really penetrate into the depth of that definition. We don't see it really and truly in the light of our Lord Jesus Christ, the high priest, who offered sacrifice for man, but this path of Christ was he himself.

[08:05]

And that means that his priestly dignity I am in the glow with that divine, eternal love with which he did not love himself, told us, for the glory of his heavenly Father. That is the essence of the priesthood. And sometimes when I was here, and I would walk, we all know that we are here, and especially with our dear Father Martin, we know that there is no danger of that kind. But still, one comes here at times where Jewish is about the power of the priest. The Jewish able to change the weight into the body of a noble and a wise and able with their world to take away things that are from the souls and what should make us proud.

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I fear that I won't doubt in the least this power, but I am truly understanding in the light of God's challenge. because what brings you, whom we approach in this mystery of the pistol, is the Father. It was brought to the attention by Cliff Franks that at this last event in the epistle these words The words of God meet today in Richmond about his son, the son of David, and about he is to Peter, of our Lord Jesus Christ, of our high priest. And it was deadlier in this Epistle, and I repeat it because you were perhaps not able to understand it at the moment. It was again from the second book of Samuel, from the seventh chapter, that chapter which was the last that our brother Christopher made to us when he was taken away and passed into Israel.

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And the third one, I will be your father, and you shall be my son. My dear friends, that is the form in which God ordains us. I will be your father, and you shall be my son. So the essence of the priesthood is not hollow, but it is beginning. It is the heart of the God. The mystery of the priesthood is the manifestation of the mystery of God's heart. And the priest has the key to the heart of man that gives the essence of his life. But how can we have that key? Just look at our Father Martin, how he stands before us.

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How he's dressed. He's dressed in an armor. And now what we see in Greek history. He has this picture. That picture is there that he made Lift up his arm and be better able to take his way through the world and under the dirt of the streets of this world as a working man. The habitus of the priest is not a splendor. If you don't want God to have the worldly habits and the goal of the person of God in glory, if you would do it, then you would get the nail on it. Then you would understand what the priesthood is. You see it very available. What is available? It's simply a handkerchief. It's that thing with which we wipe off our foreheads, the sweat of this, our earthly labor.

[12:40]

And it has a store. But when the bishop put the store upon it, he said, take the yoke. My yoke is sweet. So the story is the sign that the priest is like a working animal. Like one of those golden things. The ultimate golden things. In hard working, under the yoke. But again, my dear friends, you understand what the yoke is? The yoke is the rhythm down. What is the will of God? It's the will of our Heavenly Father. What is it? Our sanctification and sanctification of those who come in contact with us. And that is the essence of a priest. Then again you see the chasm, and that chasm, what is it? It is a protection against the rain, against the rain. It's the poor man's house that he has always with him.

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Maybe he has no house of his own. The only thing he has is that overhaul of the chasm, and that's what it really and truly is. So the priest is the worker in the service of that sacrificial dog with which and through which the God wants to summon his children unto him. That's what it is. And it is as stupid as you understand it that everything falls into a trap. Then you admire the wonderful voice of God. We celebrate this feast in this first mass on the feast of St. John in Bethlehem. They are the parents of the ancestors of our Lord Jesus Christ. We read in the Gospel a revolving vision of these ancestors.

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Not all are holy people, but there are weak people too. And they all are in that line which leads up to the incarnation of the world that became flesh in order to to really express the function. So the family was in that whole beautiful survey near the area of the garden. We remember today with gratitude and with joy Those who have given life to this priest, those who have accompanied, who have carried him of their own, who have raised him, Was a wonderful thing then to see them here together, and now the warning that was carried on their arms. Now he, as a representative of the Heavenly Father, takes faith upon his arms, gives them the bread of life.

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What a wonderful exchange. And what wonderful redemption, what a wonderful transfiguration. Nothing that is human is left out. But everything is taken into goodness. Mystery of the priesthood, what my dear fantasy calls, it is the mystery of God's meticulous, perfect, selfless love for no other reason. Everything also of Father Martin's life in the capital. You heard endless thoughts for endless epistles. I want to mention because these things are so beautiful, so wonderful God has given them to us that we may feed on. For there was a divine in them. To David, David was the shepherd.

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And God said to him, I called you from Jerusalem, from off away from the past, where you were serving the sheep as a shepherd. And I made you, and I learned that you are a king. My dear friends, that is today the same thing. Don't take this being respectful only and simply as a kind of sublime little idea. But know that it's a very real and a very serious and a wonderful idea that a woman who lay her body is ordained by God as king to take care of the living flock of his chosen son of the water source, that he was prepared for doing this by taking care of these little animals, of these sheep, starting therefore in a very low, in a very humble way, taking care of animals.

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You have to be humble in order to do this. You have to really bow down And in this way the king was prepared, being the shepherd of the man, a little who were the lambs, unable to take care of themselves, but able to listen to the voice of the one who was able to take care of them. And that is also what happens in this way. What a wonderful preparation it is. And how beautiful it is to see and look at these things in the dark of God's light. Then he will adopt somebody who had determined and had taken as his vocation to serve men in their thoughts. And you know very well from your own experience, either active or absent, to go down there, what a tremendous effort it is, courage of real charity, of real consideration, of constant readiness, of readiness to sacrifice your own conduct and your personal wishes to the inner subjects of the sick,

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You cannot love yourself and be a good doctor. You have to have at your heart the sufferings of other people. And then in the day of material, I would say, practice. And that is just a wonderful thing because, my dear friends, we can also be wrapped up in the beauties of the divine charity and of contemplation and of all the marvelous and sublime things of the supernatural. and maybe not be ignorant to make the little steps, but in the eventual way, which after God, God has prepared for us, to be the last and the lowest one on that ladder in which he summons his sons to glory. So that is the good thing. And that is, I think, what we rejoice about this morning in a very special way.

[20:49]

It's the fact that we know that our Drummer Martin has learned in that hard school of the human body to, God bless him, to take into his heart The sickness, finally, the mystery of what may be the reason of others. And that is then the preparation, just as David started with the sheep, so he started with the human body. But they will look from the human body, why is this to the soul? What do I say? I should say, why is this to the heart? That is a wonderful and beautiful thing, and we give thanks to God's glory, to God's goodness, for just this very act. And to that, my dear friends, also then fix the pattern of the gospel diaries. For that is divine, and let us not forget it, that Father Roger is a monk.

[21:56]

And that he is in our longing, and his determination, with the grace of God, is to live his peace divine, truly as a monk. Is there any contradiction? Some people would say, by marvelous manner, wonderful appearance, and then locked up in a monastery. That is, a superficial approach to things does belong into the beauty of this hour at all. It's just the feeling that the one after the night is just it. The one who learns in all humility the obedience which the Lord Jesus Christ himself learned as the apostle to the Hebrews, that is the beautiful key. He learned. He learned it himself.

[22:58]

He learned it on the cross. And through that humility of the cross, through that obedience, Christ was exalted. They wanted to be a priest monk with them. The aim is to go The perfect inner harmony, that is the essence of contemplation. The two temples of the earthly life and the heavenly life, those two temples meet completely, coincide in the end. That is the meaning of the monastic contemplative life. and there is the meaning of the mountain's priesthood. It is just as our Lord Jesus Christ did not see the same daughters before he gave his sin, had brought the concrete sacrifice of his own life, and said on the cross, Now everything has been brought to the God who wanted it.

[24:09]

So also here, the priesthood of the mind is not only a subliminal power, but it is a critical trait which penetrates and transforms the entire being. And I would emphasize in this case, too, that the monastic mind is and does not stop at the body. But then it takes into the priesthood of the mountain, just as his body. Therefore, his body has to be mortified. Mortification, in their own absolute sense, is an integral part of the priesthood of the mountain. That is, as it were, the beginning. But then the end, my dear friends, the end of the monastic priesthood is then the complete identity with Christ as the Prince of life, who in His glory offers the gift of eternal thanksgiving to His power.

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who stands before his Father and as the epistle to the King who says in such a beautiful way, Here I and all the children God has given. That is the crown of Christ. And that is also the crown, the inner secret of the monastic priest. Here I and all the children God has given. There he is, not only in the power of a second character, with his entire heart, but his body, even as a member of his family, there he stands before the throne of glory. And still, for a great distance, where is that reality? That is the reality here. And in this place, in this chapel, this altar, that is the throne of glory.

[26:28]

Jesus is there all around. And here this altar, he has not, as an intellectual teacher or intellectual leader, given his own wisdom to us. But the gospel. Or still, the direct findings of the biology was part. My doctrine is not my doctrine, but the doctrine of the born who says. And then is decided for Father Martin's in my attention. And that is why the contemplative guidance fits into that, and is a very central part of it, because what is contemplation? But the entering of our mind into that doctrine, which is not ours, but which is our negative partner's, worked in our heavenly partner's heart. But more than that, the contemplation is where full dignity is, entire gravity in the celebration of the Holy Sacrament.

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And there, He enters completely into the Father's being. And then we see Him. We are all one. The one who sacrifices and the one who wants to abstain. He stands there in the place of Jesus Christ, the Word of God made man, the one who stands. And here are we, human beings, the ones who are standing. But thank God. the work of God became flesh, and he took upon himself up saints, and he offered the regulatory sacrifice, and there was then this cause and realization of our sanctification of our holy union with the Father. That is the way in which the Father supports His Father to glory. And that is what the mountain priest does. He offers the Holy Sacrifice in that fullness, and therefore supports His Father to glory.

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So, my dear friends, I would ask you, And this beautiful moment that we have just lived through, in which we have experienced, in which we request to our dear Father Martin, the moment will come. It is already here. It has been here just before when we received Holy Communion. But the moment will come that is quite near, that blessed moment in which he himself stands before his heavenly Father and only says, Here I am still to die.

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