Summer 2014: the seminarians are on apostolate and on vacation; the brothers stay at the seminary; and a plea to your generous will to help the seminary pay for new windows. And: find God in the mesh of small daily realities.
It is necessary to suffer to be holy. Confronted with this high requirement, man must take care not to deprive himself of this suffering by denying and rejecting its value and merits.
The present time is precisely that in which these structures that protect and constitute man are collapsing. A slow process of decomposition of society is ongoing, reducing man – who is by nature a social being – to no more than one isolated individual, disabled, without any structure on which to rely, without any other resource that himself and, thus weakened, left at the mercy of anonymous powers.(...) God has already won. What can the demolishers of structures oppose against Him Who has Himself established them from all eternity?
The stone was rolled into place, closing the tomb, well-guarded by two soldiers, while the apostles went into hiding, incredulous and trembling. (...) Didn’t we ourselves take the road to Emmaus a little too hastily? Isn’t it time to return to Our Lady and learn from her, so that our choices are not determined any more by appearances, and that only the theological virtues lead our steps?
The Christ who incarnated Himself in Our Lady now wants to be incarnated in our lives. Like Saint Joseph and Our Lady we must walk along the roads of our earthly life, attentive to the presence of God, to His will. Our vocation is to remain amidst men, and yet as not being in it, because we are also led by a real but invisible Presence.
Subversion is the weapon of Revolution. It works to bring down authority and fatherhood by presenting it as the enemy that wishes us harm or leads to our defeat. Following Satan, the first revolutionary, the Revolution is ultimately a rejection of God, a rejection of our sonship of God. The Revolution uses subversive methods to reject the divine fatherhood and all other paternal relationships that derive from it. Tradition acknowledges and worships God as Father. Tradition, consequently, recognizes authority as this divine paternity that guides and protects man. When the authority ceases to be faithful to its task, it is up to the defenders of Tradition to remind authority of its role and to do so even publicly. This respects the nature of authority while rejecting the secretive, anonymous and cowardly methods of the subversive. Between subversion and Tradition the opposition is absolute and Tradition would disappear if it suddenly were to accept the principle of subversion and become suspicious of any form of authority.
At the end of a stressful day, the cries of the little child are unmistakable. He is exhausted. One of his parents approaches and picks him up. The child finds in his parent’s arms the repose that he was seeking in vain and the smile that lights up his face shows his happiness. His tiredness goes away. In the shadow of this guardian power, he can now fall asleep. He is at peace.