It is being redeemed.

To be redeemed is like being unchained, let out of a cage. Being
saved is like soaring to heaven, free, intense, and glorious.
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Prayer is not about somehow experiencing it emotionally and focusing on it, but to be identified with it and to mean it.
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Protestant-Catholic? What is that? Well, that’s a person who believes he’s weak, powerless and has no choice but to sin and rely on endless
God’s mercy and forgiveness. God’s Word does teach: “Whoever sins
is of the devil because the devil sins from the beginning. And the Son of God was manifested to destroy the devil’s works. Whoever is born of God does not sin, for  his seed remains in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God.” (1 Jn 3:8- 9) – but they go on, Scripture, not Scripture, making their noise… If anyone believes that “Christianity is nothing but a constant exercise in feeling that you have no sin, though you sin, that your sins are nevertheless transferred to Christ.” he has not understood the Gospel or the power of God. And if anyone teaches: “God does not save people who are not true sinners. And so you sin! You sin greatly! But believe in Christ …even more strongly… While we are in this world, we must sin,” is the devil and Satan, who has no sense of the things of God and denies Christ and the Gospel.
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He needs nothing who rides on the Wave of Being, who flows with being itself.
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A Christian is a man who often continues to live what he has lived – but in an entirely new, heavenly way. And so we can see in the garden of the Church holy gardeners, holy soldiers, or even holy bikers. “Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all die, but we shall all be transformed…” (1 Cor 15:51). Nothing requires to be abandoned or left behind (with perhaps a few exceptions). Everything can be transformed and transfigured into heavenly form – and be changed too! “Let everyone abide in that condition in which he has been called… only let each one live as the Lord has ordained, each as God has called him.” (1 Cor. 7:20, 17). We do not have to leave behind what
we have been living and choose some particular or unique way of life. What we are waiting for, however, is to transform what we have lived up to now from sinful and earthly into a heavenly and holy form, to become a sinful biker, a biker, and a saint.
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Indeed, the Christian relates neither to himself nor others but to Christ and Christ alone; in this respect, his life occurs only between him and Christ, “with eyes fixed on Jesus, the author, and finisher of faith.” (Heb. 12:2) And because the Lord is a Spirit hovering over the waters, which is strange about floating with Him, like Luis Lane with Superman?
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The stability of the Benedictines carries within it an extremely positive attitude and consciousness – what instead a gift, flowing from following God’s calling and in the definiteness of its form: I am where I am meant to be. It is as it ought to be.
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Truth and love. One for a reason, one for will. Without truth, love is blind and mostly does more harm than good. Without love, the choice is complex and often breaks rather than brings to life. Both are necessary; one without the other does not exist. Therefore, God is Truth. Therefore, God is Love. Because of this, it is Life; He is also the Way to it.
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Listening to our sermons… well. The church is a place of evangelism, not teaching. But still. Where is the fundamental teaching in the Church, then? As if
we’ve fallen from the Catholic depths into some Protestant chattiness…
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Indeed, there is only one cure for pride, selfishness, comparison, rivalry, vanity, inferiority, and everything – and that is to look at every moment only and only on Christ, to relate in every moment and only to Christ. Indeed, our life as Christians takes place exclusively between us and Christ. Everything else and everyone else is only through Christ, with Christ, and in Christ. Christ is thus not only the mediator between God and people, but he also becomes the mediator between us and other people, between us and the rest of the world, when we approach them exclusively through Christ.
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Moods are like water, like the mud in which we are stuck. But still, they are only feelings. One can emerge from them into light, air, and the brightness of reason and will. There we must learn to live, that is, to watch: not to drown in moods, but to live sensibly and soberly in reality, a life built on reason and will.
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As Scott Peck puts it, laying down arms in the community means forgiveness (a film, letting go) regarding others and vulnerability regarding oneself.
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It is comparing oneself to fame and judging to feel right. Competition for the sake of feeling important, status with power. This is the pattern of life in the world.
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Liturgy. Holy Communion. If we are looking for feelings, we close our eyes, don’t even sing, but concentrate on our inner, bodily chest somewhere. But if we receive Christ with our whole being, we can keep our eyes open, sing, and don’t need to look for anything. Communion with the Lord we experience much more deeply because “on the surface,” with our entire being, by what we are and what we are. Everything is completely natural, full of Christ, permeated in Christ.
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According to Scott Peck, conversion replaces the stages of chaos and emptiness in Christianity. Or conversely, confusion and emptiness are worldly and non-functional substitutes for Christian conversion.
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To be a pastor in a parish today often means not being a teacher in the first place but the evangelizer of his parish. In practice, this means, in a sense, to separate oneself from the parish – as it were, “in the world but not of the world.” Not to adapt, not to be swept away by it. To live and enjoy the Life of God fully in the midst of it, bearing witness to it by living, being, behaving, rather than in words, in great joy – and not to let any parish spoil that.