Sunday, December 14, 2008

Cover Letter To Tommy Hilfiger

From" sermon by Saint Augustine, bishop From

John is the voice of Christ the Word
John is the voice. But the Lord says: "In the beginning was the Word" (Jn 1, 1). John is the voice that goes, Christ is the eternal Word who was in the beginning. If the item
remove the word, what remains? Where there is no intelligible sense, what remains is just a vague sound. Without affecting the voice but the word heard, but it does not build the heart. Let
about what is the process that occurs in the sphere of communication of thought. When I think of what I have to say, now flourishes in the heart of the word. Wanting to talk to you, how I do try to get you in that word, that is within me. The sound and do so through the voice, I speak to you. The sound of your voice carries the intellectual content of the speech and after we revealed its meaning vanishes. But the word went from sound to you is now in your heart, without moving away from mine.
Do not you think, then, that the sound itself that was the bearer of the word you say, "He must increase but I must decrease"? (Jn 3, 30). The sound of the voice was heard at the service of intelligence, and then left almost saying, "This my joy is fulfilled" (John 3, 29). We hold firmly to the word, we do not lose the word conceived in the heart.
Want to see how the voice changes and the divinity of the Word remains? Where is now the baptism of John? Gave him and then he left. But the baptism of Jesus continue to be managed. We all believe in Christ, hope of salvation in Christ: This would mean the entry.
And since it is difficult to distinguish the word from the voice, the same John was regarded as the Christ. The voice was believed the word, but the voice was recognized that to avoid damage to the Word. "I am not, he said, the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet." He was told: "But you then who are you?" I have said, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord "(cf. Jn 1: 20-21). "Voice of those who cry in the wilderness, whose voice breaks the silence."
"Prepare the way" means: I rang to introduce him in my heart, but he does not deign to come to where I want to introduce it, if he did not prepare the way.
Which means: Prepare the way, if not, ask how it should be? Which means: Prepare the way, if you do not: be humble of heart? Take example from the Baptist who, mistaken for the Messiah, says he's not one others believe it is. It looks good from exploiting the mistakes of others for the sake of his personal success. Yet if he said that the Christ would be easily believed, because it was believed that even before she spoke. Do not say it, just recognizing what it was. Pointed out the appropriate differences. Remained humble. He saw just where to find salvation. Including not to be feared that a lamp be switched off by the wind of pride.

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