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Pentecost; Solemn Profession of Brother Bruno

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The talk commemorates the fiftieth day after Easter, Pentecost, marking a time of profound spiritual renewal and community growth within the monastic Christian tradition. It reflects on the power of the Word of God as it manifests through the lonely death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, emphasizing the consequent unity and community brought about by the Holy Spirit. The significance of the monastic profession is highlighted, drawing parallels between personal commitment and the transformative experience of Easter and Pentecost. The talk culminates with the solemn profession of Brother Bruno, who embodies the continuity of Christ's resurrection, renewing his vows and dedicating his life to God in service and fraternity.

Referenced Works and Teachings:

  • The Resurrection and Pentecost in Christian Theology: Discusses the centrality of these events in the Christian faith, illustrating the transformative power of the Holy Spirit which initiates the unity of believers.

  • Hebrews 4:12, Biblical Reference: Cites the Word of God as a "two-edged sword," highlighting its penetrative and discerning power, which is central to understanding the depth of personal and communal spiritual experiences.

  • Monastic Vows and Profession: Explores the religious significance of monastic vows as an embodiment of personal death and resurrection in Christ, signifying perpetual commitment to spiritual life and service.

  • The Community of Mount Sabae's Foundation: Marks the fifteenth anniversary of the community’s inception, underscoring the miraculous growth and spiritual maturation of its members through communal life formed by shared experiences in faith.

AI Suggested Title: Pentecost: A Journey of Spiritual Renewal

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A few days ago we celebrated the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. A lonely dead on the cross, on the chapter of the Lord of God. There it is, I speak in human words and human concepts. The world made flesh, experience and live. the life of the Word of God that is mighty, that penetrates like a two-edged sword and separates the sword in the body, penetrates into the marrow of our bones. It discerns our thought makes evidence that it is in the depth of our heart.

[01:08]

So it is in that death, that lonely blessed death, and the power of the blood was manifest in the resurrection. Today, on this fiftieth day, we are reading the fruits of this lonely death. It is as if heaven well opened. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It's family as a way. This day takes up our, their goal in our hearts. That is the meaning of this day. The birds that died on the cross. Now it appears again as warm flame. But then we found this train. This train is divided. It is shared.

[02:10]

It is said upon each one of those who were present. And the depth of loving understanding conquered the variety of languages. A new unity is established, a unity among others, which is not only for them, but is the unity of God with them. So, my dear brothers and sisters of Christ, Jerusalem is here, the Senegal is here, the Holy Spirit is here. We would not be here together. not knowing one another as far as the world is concerned, even though the Spirit has not gathered us together around this altar today. So I say again, and I say it is, I would say, the first time, dear brothers and sisters in Christ, and you listen to it as if you heard it for the first time.

[03:28]

Brothers, and sisters. I address myself today, first of all, to my brother's advice, the members of the community of Mount Saviour. Do you remember on this day of Pentecost? Fifteen years ago, this community came into being. For the first time, the Holy Spirit gathered us together and inspired us getting together The praises of the great deeds of God's mercy remains that the program of our life and of our mission here among men in these United States. I need to announce the wonderful deeds of God's infinite mercy and in that way to hear us as servants of the joy of the people, the Christian people of the United States.

[04:29]

to unite our hearts and to hinder the fire of the praises of God and the hearts of man the other. And he realized that we could not do this without letting the power of the Spirit first melt the ice of our own hearts and fuse us together into one community of life and of death. So that was 15 years ago. At St. John's down there still stands. There's that little room. We have one thing that was our pride and our joy, and that was the complete great set of vestments. Big dogmatic, and truly for the deaconess of Achan, which has looked for the priest of the menace. And it's, uh, now the whole, um, quite, less, uh, less, uh, less, uh, addiction to that loss, as it were, the, the center, on the, at that time, the external center, maybe even what is very true, when it comes to that, or firstly, no one's, uh, very much, very small.

[05:56]

Everywhere, we had this room down there. There was, I don't know, a table. We had found this table in a barn. It was a pile of, really, to serve as an altar. We put some bricks up there. Nobody saw it. And there we celebrated. It was also our table for the refactor. We wanted it. About which it began there. So it was later time that we were born in Jerusalem and still it where we started our life. And since then God has been killed. The flame that was killed there still burns. Now we are gathered together here as a large camp. We think about it how it grew, and it remained from that.

[07:00]

As every monastic family doesn't grow, the natural way grows, the supernatural way. It grows in some way the same way which the church grows it, on a red one seed that draws into the ground, and then dies, and then this boot cannot, comes out, and on it. and that is our goal is that each member that joins this community, everyone individually enters into his own Easter, into his own Passover, into the lonely dead and the resurrection of our God in his monastic profession. And that is the one experience that these 15 years have been teaching us, that a Christian community and a community in the Holy Spirit is possible only through members that live together, doesn't it?

[08:06]

As if they are out and in their own death and their own personal resurrection from day to day. That makes us grow and remains in beauty of the clenaster community. And now today, on this 15th anniversary of our first Pentecost, we have great joy that one of our brothers, Father Bruno, will enter, which is not going to be before us all. Hence, in the context of this holy sacrifice, he will enter into this death and resurrection. He will join the community of the Tory procession, but he will have, in his hands, the child. And this child takes the official, the public declaration that he, on this day, puts his life entirely into the hands of God.

[09:11]

And that he promises stability and the renewal of his God. and obedience here on the water and in the, in this family of God's sake. So that is the way of joy. And we should enter into him because he, in a very special way of this Pentecost, he represents Christ. He leads us around. His profession is as if Easter would come right into this very celebration of Pentecost in this special way. In the chart of his profession, he gives himself. And I would look at this point. He experiences in himself the power of the Word of God, that Word which is powerful than a two-edged sword

[10:18]

and also in him as in his own heart, and when he penetrates to the division of body and soul into the marrow of his bone, into the very center of his existence, he disturbs his thought and reveals the last depth of the intention of his heart. In this spirit, he sings before all of us, and rejoins him in his song. Receive me, your Lord, and call it into you, your Lord. That's it. That is the presence, the efficient, efficacious presence of the world in this act in which he dies with and with God. And it drives us again.

[11:21]

At the moment that the tax comes, we all greet one another in that new life, which the lonely death of Christ gave to us. We tell one another, please say, peace be with you. As Christ said it today in the gospel, my peace I leave with you. At that moment, Father Bruno comes and receives the peace of peace, then I take down the wood that he had on before, as an external symbol of his death with Christ. And he enters into the community of the dwell, and he takes part in the communion being. So dear Father Bruno, I know the power of the world, I live in Word of God. It's basically that you have a good memory for the same things of the Bible.

[12:29]

I'm absolutely sure that you will keep the memory of this morning in your heart for the rest of your life. And then I address myself to the brothers and sisters that are here today with relatives for the girls, mother, family, the relatives and the families of the ones there. And I say to you again, dear brothers and sisters, because you yourself, you have taken part in Christ, death and reflection. They all have been confirmed. have been introduced in the richness of the community of the church and you realize it here and I ask you please realize it in all enough freedom and enjoy don't look at this confession with the eyes of the world of people that have never tasted

[13:45]

the power of the blood of God, have never tasted neither the dead nor the power of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, and would perhaps complain, poor God, and now Mother Church gulps it down. And we don't see it anymore. It isn't as bad as all. And you know it. You went out, you're back.

[14:48]

You have been confirmed every Sunday, maybe every day. You listen at Holy Mass and receive the message of the death of the Lord who is announced in the sacrifice of the Lord. And you will see the fruits of this death in Holy Communion, the night. All these things you experience. But you go still, I will say, in your own circle of your own fetishness. You look forward to the day of marriage. You look forward to the day when a child is born to you. All these things are your things. And all these things belong to the fullness of life. But there is this difference.

[15:51]

And that you must see. And I will say not for them. And at this moment in which, while the pure of the spirits, faces of light, and the spirits, that only light of the moment, there is I would say nothing anymore between this day and the day of his death. It's very frightening thought. I would say it's a consoling thought. Because this death which he dies here, in which he gives himself in the chart of his profession and in his bow, This death is a death in the power of God's word. Therefore, it gives him life. It certainly penetrates.

[16:54]

It's a sharp sword. It penetrates into the depth of the heart. But what is in the depth of the human heart? And it places the saving word of God. It is simply this, the miserably normal, your mercy, your mercy receives. So it is our death as a better idea of waking up into the life, into the day of the Father's infinite life for us. That is really at the bottom of our existence. involves that death has been died fully. And that resurrection has taken place. And our faith, stronger than the world, and stronger than death, has conquered, and placed as the Christ at the right hand of the Father in heaven.

[18:01]

Then we are happy that there is nothing between this day our death. Because this, our death, the end of our life, is the continuation of the death that we die all at this moment, this happy day. The angels will come and they will carry us where into the bosom of the farm for what purpose that they may sing in eternal joy that songs of triumph and of promise. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Indeed, I am sure that as you think about it, you realize that there is anything for the broomstick that could resist day and death. There is nothing as it is. And in that way, today, already

[19:06]

he enters into heaven with his cross, endless pumpkin, invoking himself to a guy which for his soul purpose as to glorify God in all things and to sing the glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. So I'm sure My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, you will join us with great joy at this moment. And you will experience in Brother Wilco's outbreak and consecration. You promise for yourself that you will join him also when he leaves the healing by his heavenly Father into eternity.

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