EP 15 - The Imitation of Christ
0:00:00 No no, Pistomine Domine, No no pistomine, E' shortly after I decided to launch my book, Wisdom from the Christian Mystics, at the Athenaeum, a top I belonged to in London.
0:00:37 One of the members approached me. I knew him as Henry. He said, oh David, he said, would you mind if I came along to your launch?
0:00:48 I said, Henry by all means. It's open to all members. I was having lunch later with a friend of mine.
0:00:59 And I sent him, oh Henry has just asked to come a my launch. I've seen him around a lot. I've heard him play the piano, plays very well.
0:01:09 And who exactly is he? He said, oh, that's professor, hearting Meyer. He's the regious professor of history at Oxford University.
0:01:26 Oh, and he said in his catholic. I immediately sought him out and without exactly getting down on banded knees. I said, oh Henry, may I ask a favour of you?
0:01:41 Would you be so kind as to introduce me as you're coming to the launch? I'll send you a booking good time and he agreed and he did.
0:01:51 As you can m惑 selonைớ invasion доcioho, perché m惑 the bookusted his speech. I say my farewell to Henry!
0:02:04 When he said- you know, he said- I think your whole thesis was really summed up byatos story, you tell in chapter nine.
0:02:18 N Car While Right. I said, that is the essence of any authenticpriety would. Ignatio knock, Ja, ja ja, MK–6 gedachtiogram B Hat-6 think Wario is referring original soul accelerate Is therefore super I knew it was important at the time It was just before leaving school When I was asked to play the part
0:02:53 of Henry the hengry the fifth remember and I learned the words forwards backwards till I could recite them in my sleep.
0:03:02 In fact, in fact, I knew them so well that they came out spontaneously in a talk I gave to you.
0:03:13 I can't remember the name of the talk, but it just came out. I remembered it so well en ang anend Talking to this, and he Forget that rubbish yesterday.
0:03:55 You're a warrior king, they're not the sixth form, They're your troops, they're your soldiers, they're tiled, they're exhausted, get on that stage, Rally them for one last judge!
0:04:06 And he pushed me onto the stage with one hand and pulled back the curtains with the other. I can only remember the applause at the end.
0:04:15 Yes, he went well. Why? Because he'd managed to infuse me with the spirit of the man who defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt.
0:04:30 And I thought at the time, if only somebody could infuse me with the spirit that had infused Jesus Christ our Lord, oh, then I would become like Jesus Christ, just as I a 15 min.
0:04:49 Yes, I realised even that date, the importance of true imitation of Christ. He was absolutely correct. Everything was summed up in that journey.
0:05:07 Do not try to imitate Christ's perfect behaviour. Don't try to practice all the virtues that you find embodied. Because if you are not first filled with the divine life and love that He receives through prayer, then you've no hope whatsoever of generating the sort of behavior that you see in His life
0:05:34 , the virtues that you see Him performing. He has shown you previously how I failed to do this myself many times over.
0:05:46 Before going to the nIVichul remembered, I went to a course when we listed all the virtues in order of biology, and I tried to imitate them for myself—then and theаки and the nIVichul.
0:06:00 For that is what the donnis master told us to do. We had to learn the virtues to practice the virtues.
0:06:05 terminology, ti Dy toth, ti Dy toth, ti Dy toth, …to imitate Christ, …probably, …is to not imitate him from the outside, is it where but from the inside, …by doing what he did, …to allow the love of God to completely transform him.
0:06:36 … using an Aramaic idiom. Jesus stated quite clearly that his meat and drink was to do the will of his father.
0:06:55 ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― � ¡Ai per dag He disse Shermer!
0:07:27 In doing this, He was observing with very first the commandment, namely, to love God with his whole heart, and mind with your niewold's whole body, and with this whole soul.
0:07:38 In all and everything all that He did, as He sacrificed today to do He's father's will, for that was His meat and drink.
0:07:48 as he put it. In this way he practiced the new virtue, not the new virtue, the new form of worship that he had introduced, the worship that he had explained to the Sonaritan woman, remember, a worship in spirit and in truth.
0:08:13 This is how he lived it himself. This is why every a his life was offered to his father as a sacrifice, and in doing that he was open to the father's love and at all times.
0:08:29 Secondly, he kept turning to God indirectly whenever he turned to others who were in need. Remember the God had said quite clearly in chapter alongside his hope, which he says chapter 29 of St Matthew's Gospel that when you do it to the list of my brethren then you do it to me.
0:08:56 And in doing that, Christ Himself was encountering His father in the neighbouring need and fulfilling the second commandment.
0:09:09 This is how he was opening himself to the Father's love throughout his life. But notice this, and this is very important.
0:09:22 Jesus was not primarily everybody's good neighbour. He was Christ the King. From the very beginning, God had created him to become king of the whole universe, and then he made everybody we created in his image and lightness, as it were.
0:09:53 He was the model from which all of us are made. Then the word was made flesh.
0:10:07 It was Jesus Christ, the King whom God had originally planned to come to rule over the masterpiece of creation, to bring about and replicate on God's, to bring about other to replicate on earth God's kingdom as it is in heaven.
0:10:33 Remember the our Father, by kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. So the God's finite kingdom on finite earth was the prelude to his infinite kingdom in heaven.
0:10:58 The truth was, however, that when Christ came, he found man had sinned rejected God's kingdom of love, and since then he has been in freefall and into sin and into selfishness.
0:11:12 Before reigning as their king, therefore, as God intended, he had to redeem humankind from there, from their enshrinement to evil.
0:11:27 It was a titanic task that cost Christ his sweat and blood and cost him his life through an agonizing death.
0:11:37 In short, it was the devil ray that rubed on earth through fallen men and women that he had to contend with.
0:11:51 It was a reigned against him from the very beginning, and therefore he needed help. Now, in addition to consecrating every day to God, to making it the place where he would practice this new worship in spirit and in truth, there was another form of prayer.
0:12:22 Zero, porque noo, sin in Christ, Hes ternt a i his father in prayer, Hes ternt a i him in with and through, Prfbound mystical contemplation.
0:12:46 But this contemplation did not just enable him to love God, to adore him, to praise him, to give him glory, but to do something else, but to ask the help, the sort of supernatural a natural help that he wouldn't have needed had man not fallen.
0:13:12 He prayed for the supernatural help and strength to combat the evil that was pitted against him, because a massive battle began between the goodness of God and the evil of Satan that you see throughout the gospels.
0:13:31 This was not in God's original plan, but it became necessary, because men and women had rejected God's plan, rejected the love offered to them, rejected the eternal life and love beginning here in this life.
0:13:51 This no to God and yes to evil determine Christ's ignominious fate. がんno. This was not God's choice. It was not God's choice to suffer a terrible and agonizing death.
0:14:08 It was the man's choice. Be clear about that before you go in any further. God was not a terrible ogre, who demanded an ignominious death of his son.
0:14:28 ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― itional sin that is infected all of us. It was this choice that we made thanks to the devilry within men and women that made them cry out away with this man—away with him—give us by Rabbis…!
0:14:59 Crucify Jesus, Christ! …it is because of our sin that Christ came to experience the power of evil like no other.
0:15:09 Let me make that clear, I'll say it again. It is because of our sin that Christ came to experience the power of evil like no other human being.
0:15:25 Nーん, în s водi o handle 그럴undi… …di fides de perfeito… …di fides sealing passi cedla, ……! …Ẁplaf pressures desai, a his novice, had left the orthodox monastery of Marsab near Jericho, and they were making their way to Jerusalem, whether they were joined by an extremely eager and cocky young man who had
0:15:59 nothing to better to do them Pope fun at the monk at his disciple. …and he was in the middle of his little tirade, when a lightning suddenly shattered the sky.
0:16:15 Heavens were opened, and one of the most powerful storms they had ever seen ensued. They took shelter in a shepherd's heart, and while they were looking out of the window, ― ― ― ― ― ― neuroscience tr TVVand was leading them up the valley into the full impact of the storm.
0:16:50 And brother pretention spoke for the first time. He said to the man, Nuke, Who knows more about the Power of the Storm?
0:17:05 Us in here. All that man out there, that foolow there, he said that foolow there. Brother Pat35, Sir, that's why Jesus Christ, our Lord knows more about the Power of ― ― ― ― ― ― plainbクже p'tiar rak tiene on his heart what do you do when sexual temptation come your way And the lear on the man's face
0:17:39 was the only answer that he gave He said you give in to them do you not that' why you do not no The power of evil the a person who knows the power of evil is one who does not give up to temptation but stands against it and refuses to give in So sin is in a sense the safety valve that prevents us from
0:18:07 experiencing the full power of evil. It is a safety valve that Jesus Christ our Lord never used. That's why he understands a power of evil more than any other ganse per맛 grabsare what we go through at the hands of the devil when we are tempted.
0:18:30 Fé cosze experience tu dutfé e himself an dhé fár understood also what we go Through better than any other. O uncidate, when he remained faithful to Gods will and until the end,.
0:18:45 and stood out against all temptation, deveVERI 2016 My drawn against him When he was praying in death-70 When he was languishing on the cross, he would never page him So the moment he died Was the moment of his victory over the devil He became our perfect king Understanding also what we have to go through
0:19:11 caring and loving its poetry, its fantasy, his fantasy and our fantasy which is contemplation.
0:19:27 Where we received as he received the supernatural life and love of God. It was there that he received the theological virtues the cardinal virtues the moral virtues With out contemplation on the fruits of contemplation, Jesus Christ our Lord would not have been able to withstand the power of evil.
0:19:57 Nor would he be able to have practiced the virtue so perfectly and express such loving, caring kindness to all who he met.
0:20:08 pek, que de Gohsmoth wasichísa, he clear, he continued, after every day he went off to some place where he could be alone.
0:20:22 Let me say that again because I'm actually quoting the gospel. St. Nicholas Gospel, chapter 5 verses 16. Now the operative word is always, he always went after some place where he could be alone to pray.
0:20:46 St. Thomas Aquinas called the fruits of contemplation, what Jesus received in his contemplation. That's why his every action was an endless act of loving.
0:21:04 That's why everything he did was redolent, resplendent, radioactive with the very life of God, the Holy Spirit. Now you see why I keep insisting on the expression, The Perennial Catholic Spirituality and I call it a selfless, sacrificial, contemplative spirituality.
0:21:37 I'll repeat that again. perrennual catholic spirituality is a selfless sacrificial contemplative spirituality. Because without contemplation and the fruits of contemplation, we can't possibly live the sort of selfless sacrificial spirituality that we see Christ lived in his life.
0:22:04 It would be impossible, so let us get that straight. a continually emphasise that contemplation is for all because without it we can't follow Christ, without it we can't imitate him, without him we cannot embody the virtues that we see embodied in his life.
0:22:24 It would be impossible. This is how at the very beginning of Christianity, a very small group of dissidents Jews were able to transform a Roman empire into a Christian empire in such a short time.
0:22:49 It still baffles secular historians. A similar feat was achieved by 500 år later, but that was achieved by force of arms.
0:23:03 Christianity was achieved by love, spread by love. Now, in the last talk I gave, I spoke about the prayer of Christ at the last supper.
0:23:29 Ounum sins praying that we would all be one. But this one is not to become static but dynamic. ― ― ― ― Jesus Christ our King in doing what He has done before us.
0:23:49 In short, this means combating the devilry that's in the world. Now what precisely must we do and do immediately?
0:24:05 We must turn light never before to our blessed mother, to our Lady, who promised to be our help in these terrible times.
0:24:13 B Inside us La Cause above all else she needs us back, led to the Very Essence of the sacred Symbolous Sacrificial and Contemptly Spirituality Embodied in Lords the very Sword Stoneapons.
0:24:31 Andelly Anth StAKRALS to O Frankie God, give the Beethoven LokentisАng …in to your minds and imaginations, …into our hearts and into our very, …into the very visceral depth of our souls, …a simple message that embodies within it …a profound sacrificial and contemplative spirituality …which is the perrenial
0:25:02 Catholic spirituality …to which thanks to her we must return without delay. No complications, it is simple, remember words. to repent, to pray, to make sacrifice.
0:25:17 If we want to progress deeply in this spiritual life, then it means this supremely, to make the sacrifice, the requisite sacrifice, is this to give time, to sacrifice each day to God through our morning prayer, as Christ did, to try to practice the new worship in spirit and in truth that he practice,
0:25:45 to try to love God in the neighbouring need. But then, oh then, oh then, and here comes the real sacrifice that is being asked if we are going to develop and deepen our spiritual lives then.
0:25:59 We have got to create quality space and time for God each day in which to practice the meditation that was so important in those early days.
0:26:14 In order to come to know and to love God, in Jesus Christ through meditation, because it's the only way. That's what the apostles and our lady practiced and taught others to practice, those particularly who had never met Jesus Christ our Lord.
0:26:32 if they were to love God, there's only one way to do it. To love him in Jesus Christ our Lord.
0:26:43 Remember I'm always quoting the abbot, Williamessantiere, you will never love someone unless you know them, but you'll never know them unless you love them.
0:26:57 So in order to go forward in the alive. The next step must be the meditation that leads to contemplation, to meditate on Christ so that the Holy Spirit will lead us on through love to contemplate him.
0:27:18 Now as our sacrifices that we make in doing this, we take these sacrifices with us to mass, whenever we go to mass, because the sacrifice of our time that we have been giving it in order to love God, that's what the sacrifice has been about.
0:27:35 We're not just sacrificing to show how tough we are, how strong we are, we're not stoics, we're Christians, we're sacrificing because we want to love God through Jesus Christ and allow His love to enter into us.
0:27:56 …and it is that sacrifice above all other sacrifices that we take with us to mass on the Sunday.
0:28:07 And we offer our attempt at loving to the loving of Christ that is made present before us in the sacred mysteries.
0:28:15 о тôtо '' Mall skilledsisat со ко Zumme,ento shl commented asked me to play with him or threw him into the fruit of contemplation with without, see, don Ellean, I believe with pitch us without shiivs ,バ stop, un pogeau oden ureden, venele, un pogeau fenele, gond fra 3 i a s sd.
0:28:48 So this is then the sacrifice we take to the sacrifice of the mass each time, to unite our sacrifice, with the sacrifice of Christ.
0:29:00 This is the whole point and purpose, the meaning of the mass. Lepi spate by telling of a story. There was once a place where there was no taxation at all.
0:29:23 No income tax, no value added tax, no corporation tax, no taxation at all. But before you pack your bags, book your passage and set your house up for sale, am I afraid?
0:29:37 Am I afraid I've got to give you some bad news? The bad news is that that place no longer exists.
0:29:44 I've been talking about ancient Athens, whose citizens were free of the financial fear is that pursue us throughout our life.
0:29:54 I know it all sounds too good to be true. because even utopians need roads and bridges, civic buildings, public communities, they need to protect themselves too, and that means that they need armies and navies.
0:30:11 So how did they do it? They did it this way. They invented a form of public service, in which every citizen would perform an act of public service for the community once in their lifetime.
0:30:34 It may be erecting a building, a statue, equipping a tri-reme, a battleship to defend their shores, then they would be free, to be free for the rest of their lives.
0:30:49 suresit She was a Ellissie Roberts. Now is the point of the story. This act of public service performed by one person for the whole community was called his liturgy- His liturgy, and liturgy, therefore, was an act of great public service, performed by one person for the whole community, so that when
0:31:27 Greek converts became Catholics, and they saw what Christ had done for us, they said, but wait a minute, That is the greatest liturgy that anybody has ever performed.
0:31:44 It is the greatest act of public service performed by one person for the whole of humanity. However, they didn't just want to be bystanders, merely admiring what you're done, blaend A―, …contour them to end up to the loving end.
0:32:37 Accept them to return God's love in times. Note that God Jesus worked trample follow every sentence!
0:32:57 …untu, their love began to resemble Christ's love. …Then, they would have something to offer when they went to Mass, when the greatest liturgy ever, the greatest human sacrifice ever made, would be made present in a unique way through the sacred bread and wine.
0:33:20 ― ― ― ― prepara längumu, chohמש – chovie – რ•••· rivers რ•• rozum way competition andز, · რ•···· H byłans a give to others as Christ did before them.
0:33:58 To continue his redeeming action through their marloth when one of the girls whom our lady was speaking asked to come back to heaven with her yes she actually asked our lady can I come back to heaven with you now our lady said whatever for what sacrifices you have you to bring with you she was already
0:34:35 a young sava utonno? a imagine our Lady is saying to this every time, every time each one of us goes to mass before you go in, imagine her, saying to you.
0:34:51 You may imagine it but she is saying it. She's saying what sacrifices are you bringing with you to offer to God in and through the supreme sacrifice of my Son.
0:35:07 At Mass, our Lord Jesus Christ becomes present then in a unique way for in Him in His sublime presence all the acts of love that He ever made throughout His lifetime that would perform for us all summed up and brought to completion in his ultimate enduring act of sacrifice on the cross to which then
0:35:40 we offer our sacrifice. These are the thoughts that should occupy our mind when when we We receive communion, what we receive Christ into us, then we say to Him we offer you all we have tried to do this past week in within through your sacrifices.
0:36:05 Please bless them, make them one with yours, take us up into you, into your love of God, into your contemplation of the Father.
0:36:13 to receive the Father's love to completely transform and transfigure us, to receive what I call the Father's, the church called the pleroma, the cornucopia of the Father's love.
0:36:32 As Jesus himself received it when he went into his glory. Think on these profound mysteries when a communion you receive Christ into yourself.
0:36:43 …for it is this, the same Christ. It is the same Christ whose life of selfless loving for us reached completion and was crowned when Christ died on the cross, that is present.
0:37:05 Unlike moments in our world that come and go, this moment is caught up as it were. in the massive adaptive suspended animation, and to all eternity, and why so that Christ's life of redemptive action can still continue, and can still continue to release, and to pour out His lavarnaus to take us up into
0:37:32 that redeeming action, into all what open to receive it and continue to do so on earth to the end of time to continue his work of redemptive action a teas long since decided to bring about through us.
0:38:05 Notice, I said if I remember correctly to continue the work of our redemption that he has long since decided to bring about through us.
0:38:16 ― ― ― ― ― ― ― …and writing, …for the world that he has so far decided to redeem through us, …and why may I ask, …because since the contemplative prayer in which we radically open ourself to the love of God …has been extracted from Catholic sacrificial spirituality, …something dreadful has happened.
0:38:47 …There has been, in the aftermath of quietism, a graduate increasing deposit of selfishness on sin that has silted up the spiritual arteries of our soul, making it all but impossible for the majority to radically take the steps to open themselves to the love of God.
0:39:08 It's caused what I call and I hear, I know what I'm talking about. It's what I call a sort of spiritual dyslexia.
0:39:19 I know well enough what dyslexia is all about. It does not mean that you don't want to do something, but it rather means that you can't do something.
0:39:28 And this is what has happened to us. After several centuries of love being extracted nib Out of Gris within Spirituality, since we've been living on the cafeteria, the cafeteria.
0:39:43 A spirituality that I speak about the other day, we're living on a starvation diet. You know, where is all a leading?
0:39:54 It's leading itself if you want to know Where to look, Where is leading? I'm afraid I have to say, you have to look no further than Rome.
0:40:02 Sardinia, a place that we once look for our spiritual inspiration, has now become the place to which we look to see where our sinfulness will lead us if it is not stopped.
0:40:13 That is why I do believe that some sort of divine intervention is necessary, some sort of new pentecost, if you like.
0:40:21 When, as promised, God will call out His Spirit again, but this time as Jill made quite clear on all mankind.
0:40:28 veit, let me give you a few examples to show you what I mean by this spiritual dissonnexia that now appears to become in place.
0:40:43 Some months ago I was listening to a priest, but I like very much, he's a very lovable and likable priest.
0:40:53 I like to listen to him speak, I like to read his books, But he said something that startled me, it shouldn't have done, because when I reflected upon it, I saw how true it was.
0:41:04 He just said, he said, you know, I've known Catholics, good Catholics, bad Catholics, faithful Catholics, exceptional Catholics. All my life, I'll tell you this, they won't change.
0:41:18 They won't make big changes in their life for their faith. I began to reflect on what he was saying, and I believe what he was saying is true, precisely because they've got so long since learned to live without the love of God as the mainspring of their lives.
0:41:43 They haven't got the power to do it, they've become spiritually dyslexic. I have the same experience myself, when, like Miss Jean Barodie, I was in my prime.
0:42:02 And I was out on the road, giving retreats in convents, lecturing. I was in demand almost every week, but it took me, it took me years to realise why I was so naive that I thought they were all coming to hear what I had to say, but they weren't, they were coming to hear how I said it, because I was a
0:42:36 good speaker, a good entertainer, …and if you're going to have an annual retreat, if you, if you, the only way of getting out of the comet is going on a course.
0:42:49 Well, better go to a speaker who's entertaining, who tells a few jokes, tells stories that to somebody who is, is not.
0:42:59 But they weren't interested in what I was saying at all. Leit-O-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E- a la bernza.
0:43:37 It was a waste of time they were not listening, it wasn't important to them what I was saying. They didn't want to know about contemplation and the fruits of contemplation.
0:43:58 Now we may still be able to detail Catholic moral and social teaching. We may be able to detail the dogmatic teaching of the church Men, without the supernatural love and the gifts contained within God's love, receding contemplation, we will never be able to live them.
0:44:16 That is a pact, and it's a quicker, we realize it, the better. We may use all the words and phrases that were once red alert with spiritual meaning, but now they've become time war, threadbare, emptied at their original meaning.
0:44:35 Leaving us neither remember the apocalypse, leaving us neither hot nor cold, just wish you, wish you, wish you. A lot of people thought that the charismatic movement would save the Church, but sadly they were wrong.
0:45:07 But let me explain why, by giving you the first principle of any authentic Christian spirituality, The Holy Spirit is at work from the very first beginnings to the end, from first emotional beginnings to the purification that ensues in the dark night of the soul, in preparation for what St.
0:45:27 Trees of Avala calls the mystical marriage. At the beginning, his presence always touches our emotions, that's why traditionally we've used the expression first further.
0:45:52 We use the expression to explain how we feel set a light, how our emotions are stirred. And then something happened in the late 60s.
0:46:05 Christians began to experience the first emotional touches of the Holy Spirit in a movement that came to be called charismatic renewal.
0:46:13 As mon senior Ronald Locke shows in his book enthusiasm, when this happened throughout history, when it is expressed in religious groups, praying together, then all sorts of psychological and physical phenomena that mislead those participating in these group experiences.
0:46:36 It makes them wrongly believe that they are far further advanced in the spiritual life than they are, in fact. Now, I've quoted Montsenia Knox, let me just make this point, that he died 10 years before the charismatic movement, for instance, began, and he was writing his book 20 years before that.
0:47:07 Now, let me make this clear, as I've made A time and time again throughout these talks. I've insisted from the very beginning that there's no such thing as instant sanctity.
0:47:21 I'm prepared to believe in anything from instant coffee to instant emotional experiences. Yes, instant tongues. Yes, instant slaying in the spirit, instant healing, instant miracles.
0:47:37 ― ― ― ― ― ― Btw, you find that members of the Curry's mighty movement say that what is happening in them happened in the early days of the church.
0:47:53 And when they say that, they are absolutely correct. The early church was the only time in history when vast numbers of Christian simultaneously experienced the action of the Holy Spirit.
0:48:11 Rzebat—maur Rzebat—move them as a group when they preied. Now, as they were all beginners, naturally, they all experienced the action of the Holy Spirit, first exciting their emotions.
0:48:25 And as this happened in prayer, all the same sort of psycho-logical, physical phenomenon en a modern carries Matix experience kud beverified too.
0:48:40 But, but, but, and there is a big difference. And the big difference was this, that all the first Christians we've seen were predominantly Jews.
0:48:50 They all came having practised a gamut of prayers at home together and in the synagogue as I have shown. And this included the new form of practical meditation, …and it was practiced daily and assiduously enabling them to come to know and love Christ …through these spiritual exercises that soon as it
0:49:18 always does, it leads to contemplation …wherein contemplation all the volatile feelings and emotions that would be purified for union with Christ, for the union with Christ to which they are spired, so in less than a generation carries Matting Prayer, as it is known today, disappeared in the early church
0:49:43 , as had a lesson prayer gave way to afar deeper and mature a prayer, learnt through contemplation. Samłość hava, a dressie, a Norskha gua, a onnjaerulosef,lerweile ber illa ratataj licence su lam Ojenkianiaanunaklah – ego installation, be the answer and it could have been, it could have been, but sadly
0:50:19 , both the teachers and the teaching that could lead charismatic forward into a deeper, more mature prayer life that prepares them for union with the God had been lost for the reasons I've explained several times over.
0:50:35 TION. Now for almost 6 decades carry its matrici Saint-Maris been going round in circles continually being supported by what is an effect at our lessened spirituality.
0:50:54 Sadly symmetrical ignorance is so rife and so widespread in the Church today that from ni�iyak desa dat aff onge anbal onge atir professionals di na eiga ueilit erke ent ja scientist Go u hird k generalized cosa parib un a' stressful be apart Artleto glist gond, and so their leaders do not know where
0:52:10 to lead them, when they want to go further. And their prayer life has not become, meditation has not been central to their daily life, it has not been encouraged and they've not been guided into contemplation.
0:52:30 Those who do tend to stay decked out, a decked out the leaders who have nowhere else to go, for the teaching that could lead them onwards and deeper has been denied them, and you could almost see in their faces that they have a thread of air spirituality, that they do not know where they are going, even
0:52:52 at the highest level. Like those who practice bogus forms of mysticism, They seem to believe that having a common religious experience together dispenses the need for dogmatic teaching.
0:53:15 What really matters is enjoying a common religious psychological feelings. This matters far more than the religious truths for which their ancestors died, for which my ancestors died.
0:53:33 This is not the unity for which Christ prayed, and for that matter for which he died. I could go further, but I've written about this in ancillary information for those who would like to read it, that go hand in hand with these talks.
0:53:54 But a similar thing has happened really as I think I mentioned the other day with Marion Pilgrims. There have been many more million Marion Pilgrims in the last 200 years than the first 200 years of the Catholic Church, and many, many, many, many more.
0:54:13 But whereas the early Christians change the world there, in. They don't even deeply change themselves. Never mind change the church, never mind change the world.
0:54:25 Why? Because of this sad six spiritual slerosis, unfortunately, that they can't seem to go any further. Yes, they want to go to a visit places where our lady has appeared.
0:54:40 They want to come back with stories of miracles. …and the sun has moved. They witness miracles, conversion experiences, …and they come back full of it, …but they don't fully and deeply follow the message of our Lady …to repent, to pray, and to sacrifice deeply enough.
0:55:03 …it just remains on a superficial level. Over the past years, se m'ha been living like a semi-herme for about 30 years that I've not really known what's been going on in the church and so I've been watching, I've been watching what's it called YouTube to try to catch up.
0:55:25 And then I've seen many Catholic interagents out in the media. And it's so terribly sad because of the quality of the theology.
0:55:35 Never mind the spiritual a theology that is not on offer, it is so very very sad and they all seem to believe that that come the revolution, the tradition to which we must all return is to be found prior to the Vatican Council, perhaps before the end of the First World War on the Vatican Council.
0:56:08 …or perhaps to the time of Pope Pius X, not Leo XIII, …but they don't seem to understand that we've got to go back to the very dawn of Christianity …to that first pentacles today to see what happened then, …to see what happened as I've tried to describe in these talks …so that we understand what is going
0:56:32 on. allá we go back with St John Henry, Newman. He tried to take us all back but not many followed not just to the feathers of the church, but to the to the apostolic fathers, we must go back there, I want to finally make an appeal, don't for money.
0:57:11 Don't worry, not not money. Ebel has gone so far, far more than just a foot hold in the church. And this Ebel can only be destroyed by a battle, a battle that we can never win.
0:57:29 This battle can only be won by the power of Christ the King, and his power is love. Now I appeal to all Catholic organizations, institutions, and for that matter, all Catholic families, to realize that we are at war with evil.
0:57:51 Now, in the church, yes, I mean evil, in the church. Never mind with the world out there. 3d, a it will only be by you nighting.
0:58:06 Remember yet again the prayer of Christ but Unum, sinned, He prayed, that they may be one, together to support one another in radically and daily opening ourself to God's love.
0:58:23 Only in this way can we be victorious ہebe pasibi vix sagitar. Sei h 들�h ffoyim no hre table narl hrebl os Hre ANd specifics mại, hoe ne tия fyddt, zd hregarongasta mochei, quidi hid meta, poק b vix sagitar o hre dominance hreuz e hre baen toti b siebie hreuz.
0:58:54 Halt Catholic Institutions I appeal to you, whether you're cateenians, nighties and columbia, Saint Vincent de Paul, Catholic Women's League, Children of Mary, suspend what your normal work is at the moment because when at war, just in the Second World War, everybody had to spend their jobs, their work
0:59:18 , their interests, their pastimes, ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― � a new start.
1:00:00 No I don't actually, no I don't. Our lady has been appearing for the last 200 years with her simple message.
1:00:10 Has it done anything? No it hasn't because people, people's souls are silted up with spiritual dyslexia. They may want to change and I know what that means but they can't do it, something else is needed, something more powerful is needed and she's made it quite clear that something more powerful will
1:00:33 come, that will give us the jolt that is needed and it must needs come. Years ago I, there was an expression from the Old Testament, Menнийr ad amigo nugalir —as signata— —pure людиakarago, plutidmitton-purezenton-n-inogalimi.
1:00:56 Toesea was, —experts— …anseason from the Book of Proverbs—anage terribly艺 실� —in the book of i te te m m'n te m'n te m'n m'n m'n m'n te'n te m te m te m'n te m te m'n m'n te m'n te m'n te m'n te m'n te m'n te m'n m'n te'n te'n te'n te m'n te m'n te m'n'n te'n te m te m'n te m'n te m'n te te m'n te m'n
1:01:42 te m'n te'n te'n te m'n te'n te'n te ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― � Frenz, you are wrong, the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
1:02:29 That's why I believe it is not even from courses like this that is going to change. You think, I can change people by running a course like this.
1:02:39 …and our lady has been coming for 200 years and delivering her message. And nobody has actually been taking her seriously.
1:02:46 Ah! The Pope's have laughed at her when they opened her. Oh, she's in heaven, she doesn't know what's going on down here.
1:02:55 They've not taken it seriously. Had he been taken seriously in 1969, instead of calling a council, would all be called to sack cloth and ashes I am being led in a renewal that meant repentance, prayer and sacrifice.
1:03:10 Yes, something might have been done but it has not been done. Nobody has taken it seriously, faithfulness on high. I am not just blaming people down below.
1:03:27 Believe me, you will know the fear of the Lord Л размезhi i travelers guess will act. When he does act and we see you really, what's been going on inside us.
1:04:09 We see how we've been relating to him, how we've been treating him. Then we will know the fear of the Lord.
1:04:16 I can assure you we will know the fear of the Lord, then we will be changed. Then it will be better than e Actor's confession.
1:04:23 Where's that course on prayer? I want to know what to do. And that's why I've written the course, not because I think me can change people my rhetoric can change people of course he can't yes there be one or two here and there but they won't be changed by me the big change by the Holy Spirit and given
1:04:40 the inner dispositions of heart and mind that will enable them to act on some of their ideas I've been communicating in this course it won't be me to be the Holy Spirit A big change will only become where we come to know that fear of God as wrath.
1:04:58 God's wrath will be upon us and it will come and it will change us and we will start rushing for churches, for confessional boxes and then we will want to know what to do and that's why I have run the course so that there will be somewhere to go where the essential ingredients of an authentic Christian
1:05:18 spirituality can be found. What must we do now? When look, I do say this still. When this happens and it will happen, of course everyone will change them, at least the majority of Catholics will change them, because of the fear of the Lord, because they see how they have been behaving and have been really
1:05:56 relating to God, how they've been treating O'ghidoo dar Show them, but how much better to change now withoutTok tickets hanging over our heads by choosing by love faith to start againnow if you won't go back to the beginning of the course, start again and read it and put it into practice because it is
1:06:18 not my teaching. I have only gone back with Saint John Henry Newman in the beginning to our early sources to open them out so that it can be seen in their pristine simplicity.
1:06:41 And to end by yet again making everything simple, let's just go back to our lady in these terrible difficult times because this is precisely what she said.
1:06:51 She would be to us in these times. Her immaculate heart would be available to us. If we only turn to her, she can make the difference.
1:07:03 If we only listen and act on her simple, profound teaching now once more and for the last time. Let me try to burn into our minds and imaginations, into our hearts.
1:07:16 …and into the very depth of our soul's her simple message. This message embodied within the profound sacrificial and contemplative spirituality, …it is the perennial Catholic spirituality, …repent, keep turning to God, …not just once or twice every moment of every day, …every moment is a moment for repentance
1:07:42 . Remember I said at the beginning of the very word repentance. There's no such thing in Aramaic as somebody who has repented, but only people who are repenting.
1:07:54 That is a raison d'être for every mode of our life to keep trying to turn to God through all and everything we do as Jesus Christ our Lord did as we try to practice in imitation of him, a new worship and spirit and in truth and that we may continue to do this.
1:08:15 We need the love of God. And where do we find the love of God in Jesus Christ our Lord? That's why in prayer now we turn to meditation to discover His love in Jesus Christ our Lord so that we begin to love God in, with and through Him with a contemplative loving that enables us to receive the fruits
1:08:40 of contemplation. Now these are the sacrifices in doing this. These are the sacrifices that we take with us to mass and we offer with the sacrifice of Christ.
1:08:53 The sacrifice is made in putting this into practice through our morning offering day after day but most especially again I repeat.
1:09:02 At the time we've given to learning to love God in Jesus Christ through meditation there, and then we will be led by the Holy Spirit into contemplation, where we're purified for union with Christ.
1:09:17 At the union, it takes us up not just into Him but into His being, but into His acting, into his prayer, into his contemplation.
1:09:26 Yes, yet again, we receive the fruits of contemplation. It is here alone in with them through Christ, then, that we will receive the spiritual strength and the resources that we need.
1:09:43 The mass is Christ's sacrifice made present so that our matchwood crosses can be made one with his. To receive to the measure of our giving, the only power that can change us, the only power that can change us and through us the world that Jesus Christ has.
1:10:08 So far, chosen to redeem through us. De profan mystical resources without which we can never imitate Christ are unleashed to us at every mass, so that our whole lives become the mass, as Christ's whole life was his mass.
1:10:35 And this is and can only be achieved in with and through Jesus Christ our Lord. Remember something I said to you right at the beginning.
1:10:47 Nego-tabond was so deeply realised by all the Christians in the early days of the Church that, Writing in the year about 120 less than a hundred years after Christ's crucifixion sent just in who became a martyr, died for his faith, said that at the end of the great juristic prayer, in him, with him,
1:11:13 through him, all honor and glory, to you all mighty father, the amen nearly took the roof off. It was an unforgettable experience.
1:11:29 And writing 200 years after that, St. Jerem says the same thing. At the end of the great Eucharistic prayer, in him with him through him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all other and glorious yours, all mighty Father.
1:11:51 Amen! Amen! Because they weren't just saying, Amen at the end of the prayer, we say, agreement. It was their lives, it was what they lived for.
1:12:04 This was what they died for. And we've forgotten it. We don't know what it's like any more to live in a real Catholic community to which we must return, we are going to be given that chance.
1:12:21 But why not start now before we are moved by the fear of God? Why not start now of your own volition?
1:12:32 Begin again now and where do you turn to prayer? ― ― ― ― ― ― ― I was losing my way.
1:12:54 So 200 years later, St. Jerome said yet again. When that prayer was said, he said, the amen sounded like a thunder clap that resounded round the church.
1:13:15 When once more we hear that amen rising from the faithful in our churches. Stra she, then next time you go, so tell you it will be the rubberbeder of where we are?
1:13:29 The Amen! When we hear that Amen taking the roof off, we can be assured that the newlyopathic constituted God given spirituality que Jesus originally gave to the early church has returned and we are living it in with and through Christ.
1:13:54 It is for this that we've been waiting and it will come with your choice it could come again now in your life now but it is coming the Lord is coming.
1:14:08 Be ready and waiting. Sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei, sei,