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 Mystical Death
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The Mysticism of the Passion
in St. Paul of the Cross

by Martin Bialas, CP

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Mystical Death Part 17

"Fifteen ...I will always remain in the background in religious matters, as if I were no good and of no account, never interfering and thus bearing my own nothingness.  I will never give my own opinion but will leave everything to him who must do it, because in this way I must bear my own nothingness. I will esteem myself as nothing.  I will know and understand only this: not to know and understand anything, but only to desire, to know, and to understand the life of Jesus, humble, despised, and unknown.  This is the way, the truth, and the life.  Holy humility, I want to die in this way!  Oh, holy death!..." Continue...

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