The most wonderful and surprising aspect in the life of Saint Paul of the Cross is his extraordinary spirit of renunciation and absolute detachment of anything in the world; and this is so great that he establishes in the Christian world a congregation totally devoted to achieve this as similar mystical death as mystical death of souls offered in holocaust to redeem Humanity.
Renunciation disposes of established values and at a time creates new values.
If a being abandons entirely the world and dies to the world it is because he did not find in the world a solution of his inner problem before Humanity and the Universe, and because moral of men did not satisfy his soul and his inner life.
In Tibet there is an extraordinary mystique related to death and mystical death, and the Sons need to know it. In old days, the mystique of death was an ordinary thing.
Renunciation, as a permanent, living holocaust, is not only a unique good and mean of salvation for a soul that has assumed it, but also the unique mean to help the world and redeem Humanity.
A soul that renounces and devotes to God, through this renunciation becomes responsible for the spiritual progress of all souls in the world.
All beings have a mission and become responsible for its fulfillment, but the most extraordinary and highest responsibility is that of consecrated souls.
As they begin the spiritual path, many people have great desires and yearnings. They would wish to change the world, go out and preach by the streets and do something helpful to Humanity.
The habit of prayer is extremely difficult when usually our soul is troubled and our mind upset.
So, sometimes we feel that this exercise is in conflict with our attitudes and that we never will practice it properly, and this produces great disappointment and despondency.
The Divine Union cannot be achieved on Earth.
Its achievement is potential particular individually.
Substantial Union: The soul achieves the individual Union through Cafh’s means. This Union continues in him even after his return to the permanent ordinary state in a substantial form by participating with the Mystical Cafh’s Body in this state of permanent Union achieved by the soul of Cafh.
He commented his particular concern about the Ordained Sons in the world since up to recent times even he did not understand how to unite the vow of self-renunciation with an ever-constant effective action that determines this constant hell that is the world.
I shall deal with the so important problem of asceticism. The reading of books and practical experiences did not achieve other thing than to mix up theoretical, practical and personal knowledge that of course confuses the souls.