Interior life (Dr Canals) english

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INTERIOR LIFE Dr Canals, Salvador. Saint Thomas have seen already, in his excellent mind that all goods of nature are as smoke if compared to the minor of sobrenatural goods, and he expressed such concept, in metaphisic form, when he said “only one good of grace is greater than all good of the whole nature”. A contemporary writter, imbued by the enormous size of this feeling, has expressed the same concept in psicologic form: “God, our Lord –has said– looks more after a heart, in which can reign, than from the natural regime of the whole physic univers and the government of the all the empires of the world”. Then, today I want talk of this kingdon of God, where the Lord finds his delights; about this kingdom of God which is within us, than is so admirable as unknown. The heart of men is like a cradle where Jesus is born again; and by this, in all the heats wanting to receive him , the same Jesus, even though with different ways, grows in age, in knowledge and in grace. Jesus is not equal in every one, but, according the capacities of who receives him, He is manifested different in the life of men, he can be as a child or as an adolescent in full development, or as a mature man. To reign, be born and grow in the heart and in the life of the Christian is the desire of Christ, which wants with this way to do in each christian–in you, in me– alter Christus, an other Christ. In this vocatio to the grace, in this invitation of Jesus, every one would have to answer repeating the words of the Precursor:” it suits that He would grow and me decrease”. This transformatio in Jesucrist, this union with God, which is a fruit of interior life, embrace the whole of the entire life and makes we feel and savour the consolating and tranquillizer reality of the parabole of the grape and the vine shoots. “I am the grape and you the vine shoots: If some one keeps in Me, and I in him, he will give a lot of fruit;because without Me you can do nothing”.


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