The Beginning of the homily
José María Pemán seeks to
creatively imitate him in his poem “Homage to Ramon Llull” (1950), which we
will follow in this sermon on the occasion of the Mass of Perpetual Vows of the
Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matara, here in the USA. On one hand,
Pemán emphasizes in “Meeting in Majorca” the qualities of Lull as “the most
captivating giant”, and as “mad, mystic, rational.”On the other
hand, Pemán praises his implacable logic and his openness to all branches of
knowledge, “he was the man of the total assimilations of all things in the unity
of Truth.” He also argues that Llull understood “all the unity of
the world, later to leave it, to touch it and embrace it,” like the saints
in Heaven. (OS, I, pp. 150-151). In addition, he utilizes the Spansih
mystics who came after Llull as sources. “Homage to Ramón Llull”
respects Llull’s epigrammatic planning, but limits himself to 57 propositions
of which we will see only a few. Like Llull, Pemán introduces the Friend and
the Beloved (both words capitalized by Pemán) as the protagonists of this dialogue
of love. The Friend is each baptized person—particularly each person
consecrated with vows because of their special consecration—who should seek
union with the Beloved, who is Jesus Christ.
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