Even to give us, and again this Mass that we celebrate today as the conclusion of this happy week sums up the various considerations, the graces that we have received as monks again because the object of our meditations for us to be philosophy of the monk. And this philosophy of the monk that is expressed quite in the story of this man. Looking back at life and the mystery of time in which man lives, we say all that you have done to us, O Lord, you have done this, done it, in the fullness of your truth. Because we have sinned before you, we have not been obedient to your commandments.

[01:08]

But you give glory to your name and just do with us according to the multitude, the abundance of your mercies. That is one of these words which comprehend and express the mystery of human life. We also in the Epistle today finds the philosophy of the non-expressed such a beautiful and again comprehensive way as always the word of God speaks to us whenever it speaks the whole truth not as those who have no intentions and wisdom Let us live in this time as those who know, penetrate the true mystery of time, see the wisdom of God.

[02:12]

And what is the wisdom of God in our life? It is to do the will of God. But then again we ask ourselves, what is this will of God? Simply a letter thrown into stone presented to us on tablets, It is good. It is enlightened. It's the Holy Spirit that the Father wants to share with us in and through the Lord Jesus Christ. And the fullness of this Holy Spirit, the will of God living in our hearts, what does it do? It sings. It makes us sing. It songs and hymns and spiritual songs. We should sing songs to God in our heart. That is really what the monastic life is.

[03:13]

The man of peace, of God's peace, in whom he puts his trust, that is the man who is filled with the Holy Spirit. This fullness of the Holy Spirit he seeks. And his song is the expression of that ready heart, of which we sang in the Alleluia of this Mass. My heart is ready, O Lord. My heart is ready. I shall sing this song to you, to you, O Lord. So this is the philosophy of God. And how could it end in another way than listening to that triumphant voice of the Lord over life and death? Your song lives. Your song lives.

[04:15]

And my dear friends, that stands at the end of our life. This way is made up of many various encounters, meetings, blessed moments in which we see the face of the Lord, for which we are sick constantly, day after day. That blessed moment permeates the analytical fields in the moment of our death. Was it not one of the most beautiful moments in this retreat, maybe one of the most profound encounters with God, our Heavenly Father, who looks and longs for the man of his peace when they celebrated together the Mass for the grace of a blessed death. The grace of a blessed death.

[05:18]

would be heard, or it is, be heard and still the words are ringing in our ears. When we live, we live for Christ. And when we die, we die for Christ. Why? Because Christ is the Lord over life and over death. He died in a death which was completely the expression, fulfillment of the love that He carries in our hearts, that love unto the end. And He rose from this death, for else could there be the end of a death which God dictates is the resurrection. So he died for us and he rose for us. Therefore, when we love, live, or when we die, we live for him, we die.

[06:25]

He is the Lord of the living and of the dead. That is the complete answer from God, our Heavenly Father, to all, our entire life, the mystery of a human life. It comprehends, it is composed of life and of death. But if we live or if we die, we live and die for Christ. the Lord of the living and of the dead. Therefore, my dear friends, in our monastic life, we experience that and we read it. The monastic life is the art to live for Christ and to die for Christ. And the death for Christ, that is the seal of the life of Christ. That is the last kiss of peace that our soul receives.

[07:28]

Think that. Put that before your minds. Think of it. You are every one of us is a part of your soul. We live far in inside as a result of our sins, of our lack of trust, faith, and adherence to God. We live in exile. But in this exile we think of Jerusalem. Here are the waters of heaven. And singing we sing of Jerusalem as we do today in the ark. And that, that God of the heavenly Jerusalem, that calls us away from the world, that brings us to the monastery, that is the vision we have seen, a community which here on earth already anticipates the beauty of the heavenly Jerusalem, the vision of God's peace.

[08:39]

And so we are on our way home, And what a wonderful thought it is for us to think that there is the Heavenly Father waiting, waiting in this heavenly Jerusalem, looking out constantly. And for the way on which we come home, He knows we will come home. His grace is infinite. God draws us. He has sent His Son, and He is the Word, and He is the Way. In Him we are on the Way of God. And then when we come, then in the last moment, when the Way is all and the Course is finished, then we hear that voice, the man of my peace, for whom I have been waiting. May that be the end of our monastic life.

[09:44]

I have mentioned all the old monastic custom. When the monk comes to that point where all earthly power leaves him, when the soul refuses to work in a body that has been consumed, by the cares and the sufferings of this life, then the abbot comes as the representative of our heavenly Father. And he then holds the cross, lifts it up, and asks the mother, do you see what I show to you? And he says, yes, I see it, the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. And then he says, my dear friend, and you are afraid of judgment of that divine truth which will penetrate you at the moment of death and will separate the chaff from the wheat of your life, and you are afraid of it, as you should, then take this cross.

[11:02]

put it between the Father's sternness and your weakness. That is the case, my friends. That is the case in which, my dear friends, at this moment, in Holy Communion, the Heavenly Father kisses every one of us. He gives us the body and the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. That is the kiss. And this kiss, he says, you also live. Thank God. So let us live our life from death into life. Sitting at the waters of fire, we never forget Jerusalem. And we are waiting, longing for that encounter in which the Heavenly Father will embrace his pious and give him that kiss of peace, which is forgiveness of all our sins.

[12:13]

transformation into the fullness of the life of the Spirit, and in the end we sing for all eternity the spiritual song of the Alleluia as our answer in the Holy Spirit to the infinite love of the Father that has carried us through this valley of tears, the staff that has been with us, and now we are one of the community of saints. So let us, in all gratitude, thank our Heavenly Father that he has given us this home, this monastery, this heavenly Jerusalem, and let us be one to the other, the man of God's God's peace. subjecting each in timor and christi, subject to one another in the fear of Christ.

[13:26]

Choir singing. Thank you.

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