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The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life (1881)

door Fr. Charles Arminjon

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In the late nineteenth century, Father Charles Arminjon, a priest from the mountains of southeastern France, assembled his flock in the town cathedral to preach a series of conferences to help them turn their thoughts away from this life's mean material affairs-and toward the next life's glorious spiritual reward. His wise and uncompromising words deepened in them the spirit of recollection that all Christians must have: the abiding conviction that heavenly aims, not temporal enthusiasms, must guide everything we think, say, and do. When Father Arminjon's conferences were later published in a book, many others were able to reap the same benefit-including fourteen-year-old Therese Martin, then on the cusp of entering the Carmelite convent in Lisieux. Reading it, she says, "plunged my soul into a happiness not of this earth." Young Therese, filled with a sense of "what God reserves for those who love him, and seeing that the eternal rewards had no proportion to the light sacrifices of life," copied out numerous passages and memorized them, "repeating unceasingly the words of love burning in my heart." Let The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life fill you with the same burning words of love, with the same ardent desire to know God above all created things that St. Therese gained from them.… (meer)
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"We have no other purpose than to turn souls away from the limited concerns of time, and raise them up to the thought and desire of the good to come".

Não tenho dúvidas de que, à época de sua publicação - meados do século XIX -, o livro do Pe. Arminjon deve ter provocado um grande rebuliço àquelas almas mais sensíveis, despertando-as de sua letargia espiritual. A própria Sta. Terezinha de Lisieux, a florzinha de Jesus, recebeu grande influxo de graças celestiais por conta da leitura da brochura do Pe. Arminjon.

E hoje? De posse de um livro que fala dos "novíssimos" - as últimas coisas que acontecem ao homem: morte, juízo, céu, inferno -, como as pessoas reagem? Despertam de seu sono profundo? De sua estupidez rotineira? Acho muito difícil. O mundo moderno, o mundo da alta tecnologia, do metacapitalismo, dos relacionamentos virtuais, do show business, etc. é concebido especialmente para desviar a atenção, para fazer com que não atentemos para o que realmente importa - a única coisa que importa. Wolfgang Smith, em algum artigo cujo título não me recordo, fala do "demônio da distração" - sim, ele tem toda razão. O demônio da distração é o mais presente, o mais atuante, nos dias que correm, pois basta conviver com as pessoas em torno que se percebe, sem maiores dificuldades, que elas prestam atenção à tudo, menos ao fundamental. Estão, como dizer?, distraídas da realidade concreta, bruta, da vida.

Pe. Arminjon não conheceu o nosso tempo; tempo este que realizou o dito de Heráclito: os homens, quando despertos, estão todos no mesmo mundo; quando dormem, cada qual vai para o seu próprio. É o que ocorre em nossa época: estamos todos dormindo, vivendo cada qual em seu mundo de sonhos.

No entanto, a despeito disso, a realidade continua aí. Os homens vivem em seus mundos de sonhos por sua própria conta e risco. Em algum momento, mais cedo ou mais tarde, o preço por essa distração será cobrado. E será caro. ( )
  Fernandosfjr | Aug 11, 2016 |
Great book. This is the book that rocked St. Terese of Lisieux. Chapters 7 and 9 are worth the price of the book. This is a marvelous book. The translator did a great job of translating the original French into English that is very readable. I loved this book and learned a lot. ( )
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In the late nineteenth century, Father Charles Arminjon, a priest from the mountains of southeastern France, assembled his flock in the town cathedral to preach a series of conferences to help them turn their thoughts away from this life's mean material affairs-and toward the next life's glorious spiritual reward. His wise and uncompromising words deepened in them the spirit of recollection that all Christians must have: the abiding conviction that heavenly aims, not temporal enthusiasms, must guide everything we think, say, and do. When Father Arminjon's conferences were later published in a book, many others were able to reap the same benefit-including fourteen-year-old Therese Martin, then on the cusp of entering the Carmelite convent in Lisieux. Reading it, she says, "plunged my soul into a happiness not of this earth." Young Therese, filled with a sense of "what God reserves for those who love him, and seeing that the eternal rewards had no proportion to the light sacrifices of life," copied out numerous passages and memorized them, "repeating unceasingly the words of love burning in my heart." Let The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life fill you with the same burning words of love, with the same ardent desire to know God above all created things that St. Therese gained from them.

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