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Studies and Learning

They are no longer filled with and guided by the HOLY SPIRIT,
they are filled with and guided by years of theories from human
professors!
What is the bishop still actually hoping to achieve by invoking the HOLY
SPIRIT on the priest at the ordination? Is, then, the HOLY SPIRIT nothing
but a stand-in, to do what the professors might have missed? Or has
the HOLY SPIRIT gradually become so weak that He can no longer
bring about what He once could bring about with the Apostles and their
successors?

My priests, whom I instruct in the Spirit of GOD, will first receive training
of the heart and in mysticism. When the heart is ready for the dignity
(burden) of the priestly office, which may take one to three years, the
candidate will receive Holy Orders. And only now will I give him instruc-
tion for priests and the required knowledge. Only as a consecrated
Priest will he possess through the gift of the HOLY SPIRIT a heart of a
priest and the priestly feeling. Now his heart is able to grasp – in, with
and through the HOLY SPIRIT. That was also the case with the Apostles.
Not until the Descent of the HOLY SPIRIT did they understand.

GOD does not need priests of reason! GOD needs priests
of the heart!
Over and over again I am pleasantly surprised by the working of the
HOLY SPIRIT with my priests. Their conversations and sermons are
grammatically and rhetorically only rarely perfect, but the ef f ect
which they have in the hearts of the listeners is so great as can
hardly be experienced with other priests!
What more does GOD demand of the priest: that he hold a fancy
speech or sermon, or that his word have its effect and bear fruit?
Only seldom will one convert a sinner through acquired matter and
things spoken from the mind, but the word spoken from the priestly
heart will go to and into the heart. – What comes from the brain goes
into the brain. What comes from the heart goes into the heart. If the
heart is filled with the HOLY SPIRIT, the HOLY SPIRIT will be able to
work.

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