Celtic culture gives this name to some special people. “Anam” means ‘soul’ in Gaelic; “Cara” means ‘friendship.’

In the Celtic world, the anam cara were spiritual friends; they were people on whom all trusted; people to whom every interior secret, every thing that people had in their bodies, mind and soul could be revealed. Celts thought that every person was eternally linked to their aman cara. This union of friendship was so big that nobody or nothing could break it off, not even death. «Because love is stronger than death.»[1]

We all need an anam cara, a spiritual friend in our lives. We need somebody who understands us exactly as we are, with no masks or tattoos. A friendship that emerges from genuine love. The anam cara is a gift of God. Pedro met these qualities. Those who attended his talks, feel that.

The anam cara also exists in the East, where they are called guru. For oriental people, the guru is a divinely illuminated teacher, who has exceeded the limitations of the human being, and is prepared to guide others along the spiritual path. According to their thoughts, when a pious person is ready to search for God, He sends him a guru. Thus, the pious person is guided by God, who uses the guru as an instrument to instruct said person. The guru is a channel used by God to find the way that leads to salvation. The presence of the guru is not only physical; there is also synchronization and harmonization of the hearts of the teacher and the pious person.

For Christians, the great anam cara is Jesus; he is our friend, our brother. We have been born in brotherhood with Jesus through the genuine friendship of the Anam Cara (with capital letters): God. Nobody loves as God does, because He is Love, He is pure friendship. But it becomes apparent in men who reflect the spirit of Christ. The great anam cara is Jesus; the great guru, the great spiritual teacher, from whom we all learn. He is the teacher born in the East, whose doctrine has specially spread to the West.

Gumersindo Meiriño

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Many people get bothered when God is close, because he makes them think about their ways of life. They do not like it because it makes them remember the dark parts of their ways. And they do not want to change; they do not want to be touched.

This happened to hypocrites and Pharisees who considered Jesus an enemy. This is what Jesus teaches now. You cannot be a person who only carries out the law and pretends to be a good person so that people say: “What a good man! How law abiding! How generous!” Jesus sees inside your heart and unmasks double-faced people. He does it for two reasons. Firstly, to help them because when he unmasks them he is living them a second chance. And secondly, in order not to let them deceive innocent people.

Nevertheless, many of them did not accept the word of God and did not bear him. They tried, by all means, to get rid of him. This also happens nowadays; many people have an appearance, show a kind face, but they are exactly the opposite. They are like actors who do not live their own lives; they live a pretended life they have invented, in which they are no more protagonists of a film. This is far from reality. The word of Jesus places you in your real life, and when you accept reality you see what you are, with no slyness or tricks; so Jesus helps you to start over.

This happens now and also happened two thousand years ago. Genuine people approached him despite the fact that they had sinned. His previous behavior and his way of life did not care. Thanks to Jesus they were reborn. They did not disown his presence; they invited him and shared with him instead. Zaqueo, who was a tax collector and a robber, admitted it before Jesus. He received Jesus in his house and his life changed radically. Mathew, another tax collector who kept other people’s money, invited him to eat and then became an apostle…

It is like the light of the sun. When entering a half-lighted room, we may say: «How clean this room is!» But when we open the windows and light enters, we see dirtiness, spider webs. In the presence of God, the sun shines. The darkness disappears. But if somebody wants to hide the dark part of his life get away from the light of God because nothing can be hidden from him.

In the Gospel, Jesus cured a man that was possessed by many demons, and then he sent the demons to a herd of swine. The evangelist says: «So people pleaded so that he moved away from them because they feared.» The inhabitants did not rejoice in Jesus’ miracle. They did not feel touched or happy when seeing his neighbor cured from the curse. They only cared about their economic loss, the loss of the herd of swine. On the contrary, the man from whom the demons had come out begged to remain with him (…) The man went off and proclaimed throughout the whole town what Jesus had done for him.»[1]

Demons and double-faced people cannot bear the Word of God. Many hypocrites read the Gospel to hide their malice. «They have eyes, but they do not see, ears, but they do not hear.» They have no root.

Gumersindo Meiriño

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Josecito visits me every day, at least some minutes to say hello. Now he is one year old and he walks. As all children, he frequently falls down; but it is wonderful to see how he stands up. It takes him some minutes. We always observe him because it seems that he will not be able to do it; however, little by little and with a bit of suspense, he stands upright, after a number of strange poses. His grandparents cheer him and say:  «Very well, very well!»

As well as adults observe the progresses of the children, their falls, their “foolishness,” Father God observes us. He sees our struggle to walk straight, our falls, and our first steps.

In order to understand the Gospel, it is necessary that we become children again. The child has nothing; he is empty. He is born “clean,” and he learns everything he receives. He needs to be taught even the more basic things. If nobody taught him to speak, he would never learn; if nobody taught him to walk, he would never be able to do it.

Become a child again! Empty your worries and prejudices. Forget that you can read and write, remain empty, “clean,” as new born babies because whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it.[1]

I invite you to throw away all the things you know about the Gospel, all your knowledge about Jesus’s life. Forget everything because you are a new born baby who is eager to learn; you are a baby who cannot walk or speak. Now open the Gospel with this attitude, as if it were the first time.

Nothing can be put into a full vessel. First you have to empty it and then you will be able to put something inside. As Jesus used to say: «Rather, new wine must be poured into fresh wineskins.»[2]

Saint Augustine of Hippo used to say:

To fill a vessel, it first has to be emptied. Shed the evil from you because you are going to be filled with the good. Suppose that God whishes to fill you with honey; if you are full of vinegar, where will you put the honey? The vessel must first be emptied, and then cleansed and freed from the vinegar. This requires hard work and is painful, but it is the only way to prepare it to receive something. And as we say honey, we could have said gold or wine; the fact is that we try to dignify the ineffable: God… enlarge our hearts so that he fills it when he comes.[3]

Now think what is there, inside your heart; examine what is in your mind, and recognize your acts. Throw everything away so that you can be filled with the Word of Jesus.

Reading the Gospel with new eyes means buying the collyrium that will help us to see. Look, observe, think, analyze and learn with that collyrium.

Leave your habits and prejudices away, because now you have the Gospel in your hands for the first time, and you are about to open your eyes to a new reality: the life of Jesus.

Exercise

Reflect: What do you think about along the day? Who is in your mind for more time? What objects do you love the most? How do you spend your time…?

Write it down in your workbook.

Read carefully a chapter of the Gospel each day, and write down the thoughts that come to your mind after reading.

Gumersindo Meiriño

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One day, a good man was introduced to me. He was intelligent and had great qualities. The person who introduced him told me: «He is a great man with a great problem: he lives in the túnel of the past, or in the clouds of what is about to come. Now, he needs to step on the present.»

I have met many people like that man: they seem to live anchored in the old year or dreaming about the new year. Remember the great celebrations to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new year in every part of the world! However, the old year is each night when we go to sleep and dream with the angels: it is the end of the world, of our conscience. At the same time, each sunrise is a new year that God offers us: we revive the conscience, we come back to life.

How many times do we dawn looking back? The things I have done, the things others have done to me, the things I could have done. All this is finished: «the past is over.» Each awakening is an opportunity. In our dreams, we recover enough energy to wake up again, as new born. We learn from the past the things we do not have to do again. We prepare the tomorrow living the present with more intensity.

Adolfo confessed: «I do not understand the meaning of this phrase: “No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the kingdom of God”[1] I asked it to many priests, but I did not like their answers.» Escalada replied: «I was seeing the photographs of my childhood and youth. I recalled my relationship with people, whom I believed my friends. I could not see myself reflected in that world, in those past years. So, I started to tear the photographs of my childhood. I only kept some of them.»

Chose the present! “Here and now” are the happiest moments of your existence. If you want to recall something, look in your mind for the positive things. In the Old Testament, a town was asked to recall the acts of the Lord. Recall what makes you walk, not what paralyzes you!

I suggest a prayer called “Memorare.”[2] It was written by Claraval and it is prayed in order to ask the Mother of God to remember us, to recall the gifts she always distributes among her children.

Gumersindo Meiriño

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From darkness to light

Meiriño Gumersindo

Self-help book with practical lessons to overcome the dark parts that cloud the human heart, written by a doctor of theology, with much experience.

Stepping out of the car felt like a call within a corner that came from his right. Without knowing why he went to a place full of plants and flowers. Highlighted some purple lilies. Amid the flowers discovered as a light shining. He moved closer to distinguish where it came from this wonderful brightness and realized that there was a small hermitage.

(…)

Each morning the son of God wake up, breathe air and thanks to his Father. Watch the Sun, nature, everything belongs because he is the son of God and thanks.

It’s free. You have no ties, is king, master of himself.

The son of God you can not buy anything.

Priceless. Pp 26-27

27.10.2010 The book was released yesterday in Follas Novas / / This is the story of a Franciscan Gudiña
SANTIAGO EDITORIAL

Meiriño and Father Isorna with the founder of Follas Novas, Rafael Silva, FOTO: A. Hernández

Isorna the well-known father and writer and doctor of theology Gumersindo Meirin presented yesterday at the bookstore Follas Novas de Santiago a joint work, De Santo entrepreneur. In its pages tells the story of Sebastian de Aparicio, a Franciscan born in Gudiña was emigrant, farmer, rancher, businessman and, finally, holy.

And Sebastian de Aparicio was beatified in 1789 by his missionary work. The story says that thanks to him we owe the first wagons were pulled by animals in Mexico and in the book Holy of entrepreneurs that created lines of transport and distribution of goods with them. Moreover, he insisted on “Adapting Galician carts Puebla, the Mexican city to which he emigrated, and” so the plows were manufactured as of or rivers and as Frieir “reads in this 111-page book put out to light by the Editorial From East to West. One of the authors, Gumersindo Marino, was ordained and served as such in other countries such as Ecuador and Argentina. He also worked three years attending the sick spirit of the University Clinic of Navarra, a professor and is currently professor married a missionary and writer.

Isorna father was born in Cordeiro (Valga) and is an institution in Santiago. It is a Franciscan for 60 years, among many other activities, a member of the Real Academia de la Lengua Gallega.

El Correo Gallego

I remember having moved to live in a new house, far from my land. I have been received affectionately. People showed me my room, and then I moved through the different places. There was a porch next to the house. I took several walks admiring the rich vegetation. In a strayed corner, a plant had grown. It was big and had some beautiful rosaceous violet flowers.

At lunch, I was asked about my first impressions. I commented on how nice this plant was. One of the diners answered that he had been there for thirty years, and he did not remember having seen that plant. I tried to describe him where it was, what color the flowers were… but he could not distinguish which flowers had captured my attention.

When we finished lunch, we went for a walk around the porch to see the mysterious plant.

— Oh! Yes, it was grown there, but it’s common in these soils. I have not even realized that it was there— the host said. He had walked past it a hundred times, but he had never seen it.

This is what you and I do when we take the Gospel with that easy and arrogant attitude: «Well, I know what it says. I’ve heard about Jesus’s life; there’s nothing new to learn. I’m going to read another book to learn something different and new.»

That friend continued seeing more things. Then, he noted there were many birds, butterflies, and much smell of flowers in the porch… They had always been there, but he had never realized. He had got used to it; and his eyes were blurred by the black carpet of his routine.

Cleaning your glance is an essential condition to understand the Word of God. Otherwise, you would not be able to see what God has prepared for you. Purify your eyes with the collyrium of faith. Humbly ask Jesus what the blind that approached him in the Gospel asked: «Lord, make him see».

To empty the content

Josecito visits me every day, at least some minutes to say hello. Now he is one year old and he walks. As all children, he frequently falls down; but it is wonderful to see how he stands up. It takes him some minutes. We always observe him because it seems that he will not be able to do it; however, little by little and with a bit of suspense, he stands upright, after a number of strange poses. His grandparents cheer him and say:  «Very well, very well!»

As well as adults observe the progresses of the children, their falls, their “foolishness,” Father God observes us. He sees our struggle to walk straight, our falls, and our first steps.

In order to understand the Gospel, it is necessary that we become children again. The child has nothing; he is empty. He is born “clean,” and he learns everything he receives. He needs to be taught even the more basic things. If nobody taught him to speak, he would never learn; if nobody taught him to walk, he would never be able to do it.

Become a child again! Empty your worries and prejudices. Forget that you can read and write, remain empty, “clean,” as new born babies because whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it.[1]

I invite you to throw away all the things you know about the Gospel, all your knowledge about Jesus’s life. Forget everything because you are a new born baby who is eager to learn; you are a baby who cannot walk or speak. Now open the Gospel with this attitude, as if it were the first time.

Nothing can be put into a full vessel. First you have to empty it and then you will be able to put something inside. As Jesus used to say: «Rather, new wine must be poured into fresh wineskins.»[2]

Saint Augustine of Hippo used to say:

To fill a vessel, it first has to be emptied. Shed the evil from you because you are going to be filled with the good. Suppose that God whishes to fill you with honey; if you are full of vinegar, where will you put the honey? The vessel must first be emptied, and then cleansed and freed from the vinegar. This requires hard work and is painful, but it is the only way to prepare it to receive something. And as we say honey, we could have said gold or wine; the fact is that we try to dignify the ineffable: God… enlarge our hearts so that he fills it when he comes.[3]

Now think what is there, inside your heart; examine what is in your mind, and recognize your acts. Throw everything away so that you can be filled with the Word of Jesus.

Reading the Gospel with new eyes means buying the collyrium that will help us to see. Look, observe, think, analyze and learn with that collyrium.

Leave your habits and prejudices away, because now you have the Gospel in your hands for the first time, and you are about to open your eyes to a new reality: the life of Jesus.

Exercise

Reflect: What do you think about along the day? Who is in your mind for more time? What objects do you love the most? How do you spend your time…?

Write it down in your workbook.

Read carefully a chapter of the Gospel each day, and write down the thoughts that come to your mind after reading.

[1] Cf. Lk 18, 16.

[2] Lk 5, 38.

[3] SAINT AUGUSTINE, Treaty on the first letter of Saint John, n.4..

Taken from the book: G. MEIRIÑO, Reading the Gospel with new eyes, Corrientes, 2009, pp. 25-31

Christic Reiki

Meiriño Gumersindo – Benetti Maria

A doctor of theology, who has exercised his priesthood for many years in several countries, with a Zen master, an expert on Eastern spirituality write a unique book on spiritual healing, Reiki Christic.

On the back cover explains some of what is intended by the Christic Reiki book:

I n western film imitating a gunman trying to hide a missionary.And he told the locals “God’s ways are endless.” Her partner corrected, “the ways of God are infinite.”

Although religions are great avenues to God, each has plenty of inputs and outputs that can help us find him. Furthermore, each person has their own way to reach God. There are no roads tailored, there is no uniform prefabricated with different sizes. Everyone has to find yours.

With the aim Reiki Christic a new road that is not done we have to keep building with our footsteps.

Gumersindo Meiriño

This is the full text of the doctoral thesis on morality, defended at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Navarra, Fernández Meiriño Gumersindo.

No attempt I had not proposed by the Magisterium, to define the external criteria of a generous and responsible parenthood, not to know what new technology that will be allowed and what’s banned, if not see what are the principles that underpin the Magisterium of the Church. For that is important to place the problems in their true dimension, since, in the two issues listed involved anthropological, philosophical, theological, etc., Affecting the line Christian praxis and doctrinal development. p. 4

He left the priesthood in love with her and together they devoted to the exploration of health and their relationship with God

“Faith in God and adequate intelligence to help us see who we are”

:: Gumersindo Meiriño and Mary Benetti Guest presented in his book “Reiki Christic.” Work that develops applied to religious experience or spiritual energy disorders of the human body

Posadas. The book Christic Reiki written by Gumersindo Meiriño, Mary Benetti and introduced by José Luis Inciarte, which pasó76 days lost and alone in the snow, was one of the sixteen survivors who beat to death in the Andes in 1972 was presented Sunday at the Posadas Plaza Shopping.
The work of three parts, runs through a theological explanation of Reiki, guideline, Jesus Christ and the origin of the therapy. In the second part can be found the scientific explanation from physics and philosophy, anatomy, energy centers, the quantum field and psychological Reiki. Meanwhile, in the final section the methodology can be found, which suggests ways to reach the goal of health, always without pretending to be a substitute for any medicine, but a complement and an aid for the recovery of the patient and institution, signs and symbols, reiki, from the Bible, from the holistic, or its implementation from food.
“Faith in God, with the support of the intelligence used properly help us see who we are, where we came from and where we go. It is read to know the will of the higher self in our lives, “said Meiriño.
“When our Creator gave us everything you need to manage in the earth, and tells us all is within us, and we have only to dive into ourselves to find the answers, is at the time when the Christic Reiki can intervene with their techniques and instructions that come from the Eastern religious and mystical tradition that shows the New Testament when Jesus invited to seek their own spiritual healing of others through prayer, meditation and love. It takes the message issued by the body, body to mind to inform you of the existence of an imbalance of vital energy, what Christians call the spirit, “he said.

Meiriño Gumersindo, and Maria Benetti, met three years ago in Corrientes, where she was attending usually for missions, retreats and to organize courses reiki and Gumersindo exercised the priesthood in the Catholic Church. Both were united by the care of people with special needs: spiritual. Both knew from the pastoral experience that if the soul is sick affects the physical health of people and vice versa, a healthy mind helps the healing of physical and mental diseases. Such was the degree of complementarity which managed to build habits that Gumersindo left and got married. We do not know if love was stronger or Gumersindo took this decision on the conviction that his mission would be more productive away from the Church as an institution, or both simultaneously.

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Meiriño
Gumersindo Meriño. Former priest. Doctor of Divinity, was born in Osera province of Ourense, Spain. He studied philosophy and theology at the Theological Institute Divine Master. He received his doctorate in theology at the University of Navarra.He taught in secondary schools and seminars Spanish Ecclesiastical Studies.

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Mary Benetti
Born in Pergamino, Buenos Aires. Trainer on discernment retreats. Director in transcendental meditation and reflection with Jesuit education. Coordinator for Religious Pluralism. Gneosología trainer, Christian Philosophy and Metaphysics.  Jesuit doctrine Specialist Reiki Master Christ Self.

Source: El Territorio, Tuesday June 26, 2007