Jesus is pierced by a lance the priest is pierced by an arrow
written by Lee Hae-wook, translated by Noel Mackey
Catholic Publishing House·2022-06-05
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Introduction “The dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to communion with God. The invitation to converse with God is addressed to man as soon he comes into being. For if man exists it is because God has created him through love, and through love continues to hold him in existence. He cannot live fully according to truth unless he freely acknowledges that love and entrusts himself to his creator. Many however of our contemporaries either do not at all perceive, or else explicitly reject, this intimate and vital bond of man to God.” [The Pastoral Charter on the Church in the Modern World] {Joy and Hope, article 19} More than two thousand years have passed since Jesus was born in this world. During that time people have believed, loved and attempted to follow in his footsteps. Is living a life of faith where we believe in, love and follow Jesus that difficult? Does a life of faith mean that only the people who have left everything behind and turned away from the world can fully understand and follow this way? That’s not right is the correct answer to that question. The way to believe in, love and follow Jesus is really easy therefore everyone is capable of believing, loving and following him. We have only felt that the way was difficult because there has been no one that properly taught us the way. Most of those that taught us made the way appear to be difficult. Again even those that taught us the way failed to teach us the complete way and only taught us pieces of the way. Furthermore we had not reached the Lord’s time. In fact the way to follow Jesus is not difficult and very interesting. Anyone that has a mind to love God can follow that way. Everyone including those with little education, manual laborers, those as poor as church mice, the highly educated, the highly skilled, the extremely rich, laity, priests and religious, if they have the heart to love God can follow that way. However what is crystal clear is that everyone has to become like a “little child” [See Luke 10:21] Unless one becomes like a little child before God one will not be able to follow this way. This way is “a life of surrender”. A Holy Life [spirituality] of Surrender is the beginning and the end of a life of faith in God. If like Abraham in Old Testament times and Mary in New Testament times and like Jesus who in obedience to God the Father came into this world to form a New Covenant we live lives of Holy Abandonment all of us can easily live interesting lives of faith. “Faith is fifirst of all a personal adherence of man to God. At the same time, and inseparably, it is a free assent to the whole truth that God has revealed. A personal adherence to God and assent to his truth, Christian faith diffffers from our faith in any human person. It is right and just to entrust ourselves wholly to God and to believe absolutely what he says. It will be futile or false to place such faith in a creature.” [Article 150 of the Catholic Church’s Catechism] The life [Spirituality] is the life of a free person. Just as water rides freely on a flowing stream, and wind rides on the blowing wind, one who on priest or the sister or a prayer I would offer as a spiritual gift. But it is not that at all. Speaking straight-forwardly prayer of aspiration is a short prayer that is repeated unceasingly. I have thought about the question posed by Jesus and Paul the Apostle of how can I be awake and pray all the time. One answer is to memorize a piece of scripture and repeat it unceasingly as a short prayer. Another is the Jesus prayer that originated in the Orthodox Church as a prayer of aspiration of abandonment. The holy prayer of aspiration of abandonment is like this. 1. It is confessing that the God I believe in created everything including me and that he is almighty, merciful, holy God that rules the world. I confess that this God is “my Father”. 2. As God is my Father I do not seek anything else except that He treats with me as He pleases…
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Contents Introduction 5 Preliminary Remarks 9 Part 1 The Spirituality of Holy Abandonment 01 The starting point of having faith in God …… 19 02 Need to live following the will of God …… 24 03 How to live according to the will of God …… 27 04 We all can and must become saints …… 30 05 What does abandonment mean? …… 35 06 Korean and English meanings of abandonment …… 38 07 It is amazing. I did not know this before but thought it was this …… 41 08 The first step in following the will of God is holy abandonment …… 44 09 Who is the model of holy abandonment? …… 49 10 The soul that surrenders everything to God [1] …… 52 ; Has no fear of or worry about the future 11 The soul that surrenders everything to God [2] …… 54 ; Does not make future plans 12 The soul that has entrusted everything to God [3] …… 57 ; God arms with wisdom 13 The soul that entrusts everything to God [4] …… 62 ; Loses all avarice for money and possessions 14 The soul that entrusts everything to God [5] …… 66 ; Stops committing sin 15 Why we cannot entrust ourselves to God [1] …… 69 ; It is because we do not know the spirituality of abandonment 16 Why we cannot entrust ourselves to God [2] …… 74 ; It is because we follow our values 17 If we are to entrust ourselves to God [1] …… 80 ; We need to love God genuinely 18 If we are to entrust ourselves to God [2] …… 83 ; How can we love God passionately? 19 If we are to entrust ourselves to God [3] …… 90 ; A number of practical things are necessary 20 If we are to entrust ourselves to God [4] …… 95 ; We need to greatly love the Lord’s Prayer 21 If we are to entrust ourselves to God [5] …… 99 ; We need to love singing hymns 22 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me …… 103 ; My yoke is easy and my burden light 23 You said you wanted to live a life entrusted to God …… 108 Part 2 The secret and truth of abandonment 01 We are God’s umbilical cord …… 117 02 The parrot gave a bodily cry the bush warbler sang with its whole body …… 122 03 Following God’s will is the only grand road to God …… 126 04 Do you really believe God? …… 129 05 We need to think seriously about sin during Lent …… 134 06 The danger of a miserable faith …… 137 07 You must make 3,000 bows before meeting the monk Sung Cheol …… 143 08 God’s staff is a holy intention …… 149 09 The mantra “open, sesame” and aspiration prayer …… 154 10 Entrusting everything to God is just the beginning …… 162 11 The skin is tough …… 166 12 The power of self-surrender …… 170 13 Commentary on abandonment …… 173 14 Heaven, happiness and abandonment are all choices …… 177 15 Fly like a butterfly and sting like a bee …… 180 ; Let us live like Jesus and like Mary. Let us entrust our lives to God 16 The sacred hearts of Our Lady and Jesus are one …… 184 17 If someone were to ask me …… 188 18 Why is the spirituality of holy abandonment the superior spirituality? …… 193 19 Everything that once existed never disappears completely. It merely changes its appearance momentarily …… 203 20 Contemplation and action are united in the spirituality of abandonment …… 211 21 We can achieve abandonment without hitting rock bottom …… 214 22 Jesus is the perfect model of abandonment …… 220 23 The secret and truth of holy abandonment …… 226 Part 3 The fabulous spirituality of abandonment 01 Connections …… 233 02 Time is money …… 239 03 Everyone can do that? …… 243 04 Is abandonment a deprivation? …… 246 05 The last resort …… 249 06 What is free will? …… 253 07 What’s your name proud one? …… 258 08 What does the devil and everyone know that I don’t? …… 264 09 A person with a mission never dies …… 270 10 Let us not become contemplatives …… 277 11 Following whose footsteps? …… 283 12 God’s ginseng diggers …… 285 13 Maybe it is 25 years ago today …… 288 14 Are you too busy with living today? …… 292 15 What is the opposite of the verb “to do”? …… 298 16 It is not a matter of thinking …… 302 17 This morning the Lord showed you a different image …… 306 18 Am I disillusioned? …… 311 19 One is plenty in my whole…
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