I was deeply impressed by an essay by Richard of St. Victor - Mystical beginning of the second millennium - that a friend introduced me (and I will be back): I four degrees of violent charity, which describes the path of the mystic.
There I found a great affinity with spirituality that animates every diaconate, and especially what I ordered, where he embodies the true love of God
The first three degrees are classic. In the first instance the soul returns to itself, is visited assiduously groom and goes up to him. In second passes herself up to God, and be conducted in his home. In the third step in God, joins him and is shaped in the light of God
The fourth grade (but you can go beyond the third, more than the union with God, if there is nothing more than God?) the fourth degree, then, does not rise but falls ... is the deficiens Caritas, the love that it changes!
The experience of God, says Richard, gave his soul so ardent that it now behaves like a molten : "As the molten metal came down with the unstoppable rush anywhere opens a way, the soul is humble obedience to the total and gladly accepts the sacrifice of himself running towards God in a way that pleases Him. " soul so does their love and compassion of God for humanity, and forget himself and the joys of mystical union with God, all dedicated to the service of others. If the soul in the third degree, raised to God in all his passes in the fourth, "let the intimacy of God and falls below about herself," "pushed out of compassion": the soul "becomes a mother life ".
retraces the way of Christ who, despite being of God, emptied himself coming to meet man to give him his life. In Christ, continues Richard, "who must comply wants to tap into the upper echelon of charity, it is true that there is no greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. "
Getting to the highest degree of charity can mean being cursed, to be separated from Christ for the sake of others. "He who rises to this level of charity - Richard continues - draws such a virtue of love can say with absolute truth: I am made all things to all to make all safe. Even he would be accursed from Christ for the sake of others. It is madness of love, who can not keep the passion in the right measure. "
The true mystic is the man who became God, acts as God loves humanity, and runs toward humanity.
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