Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Raniero Cantalamessa's latest (2005):

SOBER Intoxication of the SPIRIT:
Filled with the Fullness of God....

Page 16:

"As Cardinal Leo Josef Suenens once said in an interview about the renewal, when a light is turned on at night, there is always the risk of attracting flying insects.

"There are still many insects flying around the renewal.

"They can do great harm to the work of the Spirit, especially if they are not acting in good faith."

Page 23, on the subject of humility:

"Therefore, if being humble means having a low opinion of oneself and admitting wrongdoing, Jesus was not humble.

"Which of you, He could ask with confidence, convicts me of sin (John 8:46)?

"And yet this same Jesus could say with equal confidence, Learn from me: for I am gentle and humble in heart.

"Humility is not what we often think it is.

"We need to discover what it is in the Gospels."

Page 112, on the theme of "The Healing Power of the Spirit."

"If not being healed always indicates a lack of faith, then the saints are the people who had the least faith of anyone because some of them were sick all their lives.

"Doctors today calculate that when Saint Francis of Assisi died, he had about ten serious illnesses.

"Saint Paul himself prayed three times, that is, an infinite number of times, for the Lord to remove a certain thorn from his flesh, but what did the Lord answer?

And then Father Raniero quotes Our Lord's answer to Saint Paul's prayer:

"My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9).

"There are sick people who return from Lourdes not healed but happier than if they had been healed physically.

"When the Lord also heals physically, it is a visible sign to us that He can and wants to heal everyone spiritually."

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