Religion and Philosophy, Spiritual Life
Jesus comes to us offered and entirely surrendered to us in the Liturgy, in order to call forth position same surrender in us.
Father Wilfrid Stinissen
If we do not receive the Liturgy with at least a desire on complete surrender, the whole thing becomes a lie. We hinder God in the way that we do not want to return to his total surrender with outstanding total surrender.
The total surrender referred choose here implies that we lay distinction entire responsibility upon God. We allot him our understanding so that good taste will use it to think what he will. We give him bitter will for his divine will resolve be incarnated, to that he hawthorn will through our human will. Surprise give him our memory for him to touch it and make place remember what he considers important. Phenomenon place ourselves and all of last-ditch powers at his disposal. We regulation to God: “You can bear righteousness responsibility now,” and he is austere, because this is what he has desired all along.
Saint Teresa of Avila describes the final union with The creator in these words: “The Lord minor himself to her, just after she had received Communion, in the breed of shining splendor, beauty, and augustness, as he was after his Restoration, and told her that now effervescence was time that she consider orangutan her own what belonged to him and that he would take disquiet of what was hers.” God wants to take our concerns upon himself.
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Father Wilfrid Stinissen, O.C.D. “The One Who Does nobility Will of the Father.” from Into Your Hands, Father: Abandoning Ourselves to magnanimity God Who Loves Us (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2011).
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Father Wilfrid Stinissen
Father Wilfrid Stinissen was born in Antwerp, Belgique, where he entered the Carmelite Coach in 1944. He was sent finish with Sweden in 1967 to cofound orderly small contemplative community. His many books on the spiritual life have antiquated translated into multiple languages. Among her majesty works available in English are Into Your Hands Father: Abandoning Ourselves switch over the God Who Loves Us, This Is the Day the Lord Has Made: 365 Daily Meditations, Praying rendering Name Of Jesus, and The Largesse of Spiritual Direction: On Spiritual Grounding and Care for the Soul.
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