What do you seek when it lies in the name of the Lord? In Christ, this is the first performance of the witch of character that you have duty and in front of the entire community. Of course, I know that you are self-conscious about it all, but it is so important that right here at the beginning of your monastic life that you fully understand what you are doing right at this moment and there was that frustration of the flow and then what do you seek and your answer was mercy now that you see is the beginning that's the principle that is the of your whole monastic life, and that's the sum total of what you are doing and why you are here at this place.

[01:10]

You see, if you would, as young man, if you would go to a, let us say, to an agency or something, and you wanted a good job, the first rule what you would have to do is to show yourself, you know, in some way that that makes a favorable, I would say even a little, makes an impression on the people who are there. They want to see that you are capable and that you are promising. And in the terms of the world, you can do that only by now a certain, you know, a certain affirmation, a certain attitude which shows that you are knowing what you are doing and so on. In other words, you have to be smart. But yeah, you don't have to be smart.

[02:11]

Do you see the difference? If you come to an agency, you wouldn't cast yourself on the floor and say, mercy. They would throw you out. That's not the type of people they want. That's the whole difference. Why? Because they have to. They have to. If you have to, what do you sell? You sell your energy, your capabilities, that you have to contribute. But here in the monastery, you don't come, you know, with that feeling. Now it becomes the future monastery. Now listen. You couldn't say that mercy. So therefore mercy, that is a completely different beginning.

[03:13]

That's the beginning in which you realize that you are in the depth of your heart. That you, what you want is to live. God longed for you. And you can't do that only really and truly if you are convinced that you need him. In that famous agency, you know, where you want a job, you have to give the people the feeling that they are, that you can contribute something, you see, that they need. But here in this context of the monastery, that's why we say the monastery is not the world. It's a difference. It's a radical difference. And that difference comes in this way here. We are not building here the Tower of Babel. We are waiting for the heavenly Jerusalem to descend. And the only way which we can help, and you can help the heavenly Jerusalem to descend,

[04:17]

I mean, that bride of the Lamb, you must understand all this. It's only to say, mercy. That means that's what we are waiting for in our party. We all heard today that beautiful gospel of the Annunciation of Our Lady. When the angel came and said, Hail Mary. Full of grace. The Lord is with you. Completely surprised. There was something that she or the Versailles had never thought of. Because she was the poor one. She was the open hand of mankind. She was the humble one. We sat in this morning so beautifully at the communion verse. Communion or a section of communion. We sat in our neighborhood. Because we pretend as he has the mighty ones he puts down from their throne.

[05:25]

And the poor ones he lifts up. And that is what Mary experienced. And that was for Mary at the beginning of her whole, the way she served God. You come here to serve God. You don't come here to establish your own kingdom. You want to serve You want to give yourself. That means you want to be recreated by God's mercy. You don't want that word to make a contribution. You want to be recreated. And that is, of course, the basic thing is humility. And that humility, you show in this gesture that you cast yourself on all the floor. That is humility. You are like dust. But that dust is for God and the hands of God's love.

[06:26]

That is the most precious thing. Because there can be formed. There can be the water and the spirit can form into a living image of God. That is what you want to become. That is the meaning of your love. knocking at the door at the entrance of the locks. Therefore, what you do here is crying for mercy. First of all, you have to think right away that this crying mercy does not necessarily and only suppose on your part complete corruption. You see, our lady, this gospel practically, their own signal to the age of this being confounded in a thing that's a cry for mercy. But it comes out of the chosen God-loved soul.

[07:28]

It is the reflection of God's love for her that simply makes everything in every new act of God's way the country now. This to me is the great surprise rising out of the abyss of her and that's for you too at this moment when you will see that and you put on the tunic for the first time what is your reaction? reaction is and this tunic, tunic God's grace really signals you out and that you should Deep, you know, will evolve in your heart, you know, deeply. Take it in in gratitude because that's the source for the glorification of God. You come to the monastery to glorify God.

[08:29]

You can't glorify God if you consider yourself the God. You can glorify God only if you enter into the spirit of men, into the spirit of the creatures. that we realize that we are not made by opposite. We are, we are the result, we are the fruit of God's created grace, and then you can give thanks, only then. But you know, giving thanks is our way to joy. Everybody who lives the monastic life, at the celebration of the Holy Eucharist this morning, we realize To give that is our greatest joy. That is our happiness. Because then we are really children. Children of God. Images of God. That is our happiness. So that is the first thing, what you do here today, asking for mercy.

[09:33]

That is that establishes your true relation to God. And that makes you service of God. That makes you able to join the choir In which you give thanks. And you do that, of course, together with your great. And that is the second thing that rose out of this your cry for mercy. It's for the first time that we do it this year, that we waited, you know, until some candidates were together forming a group. And that we then wanted to start a new year, as it were, because this year for us And if you're calling here, it's also for the communities, like the beginning of a new year. And we feel that. We rejoice in your presence here. We feel encouragement by that. But we wouldn't feel that encouragement if you came here and say, now here, I want to have a good job here. I want to make a career. Then it would come up trembling, sir.

[10:35]

It won't brush up. They won't make it clear. That's Charlie. So therefore, but if you come here, you know, and you ask for mercy, and all the hearts of those that sit around here, you know, in your bread, they just are gone. They receive you. They say, there you are, wouldn't you? Bread. If you would come here, you know, with other intentions, then everybody would immediately consider you as a competitor. No, we keep it down, you know. The people grow small. But if you come in this and ask mercy, so in other words, this word, you know, that she said, opens to you the gates to become a sound. saying that you get out of your isolation, the splendid isolation of a gifted man.

[11:40]

Get out of it. And there you are received and you are considered as children, not just children, not, you know, kind of childish, isn't it? But that is a fulfillment, you know, of the human, let us say, what God wants man to be, a child. He's a child. And so, That is the thing that I want to tell you today, too, that this word, mercy, this cry, mercy, is the key to community life. Without that, you know, if you would rise your high force, you know, your arrogance, you would have all the doors around you locked, closed, you wouldn't come in. But if you say, mercy, There we are. And therefore, that is, you can see that too, not only in your own individual realm, you see, that for example, if you come here, four of you, and you say, what mercy, you see, then you are among yourselves immediately, you are moved.

[12:55]

And I wish you would realize that. And I think you do it. You realize that here you are together. And you are not only nice young people or something like that, you know, but you are something. You are souls. You belong together in the depth of your heart. You should feel that. You should in that way really rejoice in your being together and you being a group as we do. You will be a group that there That's a great, you know, new dimension also for our joy. The individual, interiorly and kind of automatically counts less than the group. The group, there is something new, that is togetherness. And this togetherness, that is the real mark of the Holy Spirit. And that is why Mary, the humble handmaid of the Lord, was then the mother of the church.

[13:56]

a new dimension, openly. And that is so important for you. You see the Holy Father coming to New York and there visiting the United Nations. At least you are actually, I can't say, under the spell of this great and significant event. What does he do? He says, I come from the smallest, smallest, smallest state of the earth. What I have is 200 acres. And here I am. And therefore, thank God for this poverty, you know, because then, you see, I don't call him as an interested person. I call him as a disinterested person. And as a disinterested person, I can tell you something that the interested persons cannot tell you why not. If the United Nations were only a bunch of competing powers, it wouldn't demand anything.

[15:02]

But there comes the Pope out of a different dimension, out of the dimension of mercy, the dimension of polity, the dimension of service. And he is, of course, able to tell him something. In the conflict of power politics, they are every day they are forgetting. Yet there is, of course, also you should realize that you are trying for mercy as the kind of essence of your monastic life. Not only makes you members of a group among yourself, not only makes you truly members and brothers in this community, but they also make you the brethren, the brothers of man. There is a complete and absolute universality in this one word of mercy. That cannot be replaced by any other word. Any other word is a word of segregation and isolation.

[16:07]

But the word mercy, that is a word which then opens to you the universality of man. Just as the only father said when he put his foot here In this country, he said, there we are, we come from Rome. Now, what does that mean, coming from Rome? That means from a city which made it its purpose, you know, to serve the universality of mankind in a political field and fulfilled in the church in the successor of Peter, who for that matter too is the one who served the universality of mankind in the region of grace. So therefore, that you must also think that we at Mount Savior, you realize that, you don't want, you know, simply to be locked in and have nothing to do with the rest of the world. But out of this confession, you know, of this cry of mercy that comes the farthest, why identify the whole of man

[17:17]

And therefore, such a community has that power of radiation, has complete mission, here in function, here in this world. But that function is absolutely unique. And therefore, we receive, we receive every one. That's the root of what we call today ecumenism. So, you know, all these things you must realize is this little beginning that we do here, You must repeat that any single day. When you get up, you know, the first thing is, interiorly, spiritually, cast yourselves down before God. Here we are, mercy, wine for your mercy. And that means that you open the gates of your heart for God's love for you. And that is your strength. And not only your strength, that is, first of all, that is your joy. And in that way, you become a light.

[18:18]

And in that way, others may rejoice in your presence. So take that all to heart. Keep that. And I'm sure that if you stick to this motto of mercy, you will be children of God and living in a perfect joy that only the Father's love for his children can give to us men. so they are true. Great and mercy and peace be to you, Lord of God.

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