“O Padre, che chiami tutti gli uomini per la porta stretta della croce al banchetto pasquale della vita nuova, concedi a noi la forza del tuo Spirito, perché, unendoci al sacrificio del tuo Figlio, gustiamo il frutto della vera libertà e la gioia del tuo regno.”
“Rinfrancate inert hands and feeble knees and walk straight with your feet, because the foot has a limp that cripples, but rather to heal. "
" Here, there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be the past. "
Is 66:18 b-21; Sal 116/117; Heb 12,5-7.11-13; Luke 13.22-30
“Rinfrancate inert hands and feeble knees and walk straight with your feet, because the foot has a limp that cripples, but rather to heal. "
" Here, there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be the past. "
Is 66:18 b-21; Sal 116/117; Heb 12,5-7.11-13; Luke 13.22-30
The Gospel of this Sunday XXI returns to talk about hard to believe and to live according to faith: a fatigue that is a key to the value of faith and Christian life.
Some might resent, but it must be emphasized that faith is not all: for all, but not all. But the true faith of a few! When the Church has touched the lows of his witnesses - I think the years of persecution, which raged not only in the early centuries, but also in the Middle Ages, in the sixteenth century, straddling the world wars - (the Church) gave the best, and is reborn each time stronger and more motivated. Proof of the existence of God!
Enzo Bianchi, founder of the community of Bose, the spiritual master of the most profound and original today, often speak of the passion of the Church, understood as suffering passion, crucifixion and death. When a family dies for lack of religious vocations, when a mission ends, when the Church is compelled to silence, or even must Enzo Bianchi retire ... declares that these are moments of passion, which will certainly follow a new springtime of the Spirit.
Coming to the Gospel today, leaves me speechless - so to speak - the declaration of Jesus, that, having listened closely, he even ate with Him, does not guarantee entry into the Kingdom of Heaven. The question is what do we have of his teachings, what's left of dinner (the Eucharist) used every Sunday ...
I thought a lot about the relationship between the second reading and the Gospel: The author of Hebrews declares God rebukes the man as a father the son he loves; we have to endure the suffering that would be for our correction. It is a real training, apprenticeship to which we should not resist, and with humility, I would add, with gratitude, the end of all this suffering that comes from God is, is our peace, and (our) justice. So it is necessary to integrate the suffering in life: I'm not disorganized, but the organic system, that are part of nature.
Except that this teaching, related to the Gospel, this suggests that the crosses are from God, I say not that the truth is this, but the combination of the two texts, insinuating the temptation to think that. Series: "Not a leaf stirs that God forbid "principle canonized by TA, namely the book of Job, chapter 2, v.10:" If we accept good from God, why should we not accept evil? . After all, Job says, God is free to give, but also to remove, without regard for anyone. And since the will of God can not be wrong - God is not wrong and it's not volatile - at the same time, one needs to find a logic in the presence of evil, the most rational way to save the one hand, the sovereign freedom of God, and the other, the infinite love of Him, is to shift the blame of evil wickedness and sin of men. It is the infamous law of wages : goodness is rewarded by God in this life with the richness and blessing, and sin is punished (by God in this life) with misfortunes and curses.
Jesus radically contradicts this principle, when asked the disciples: "Why he was born blind, who sinned, this man or his parents? "(cf. Jn 9:2). The concept of pay is definitely in crisis, and with it the moral merits, in the transition between the Old and New Testaments. Already some two hundred years before Christ Wisdom Books more than raise a suspicion as to the reasonableness that principle, but are unable to explain why we can no longer think of the these terms. It is the Incarnation that sheds light on the mystery of the origin of evil. Light, the light of the Word, just to clarify that evil exists in nature is not of God, then there is the evil of men, much less this is from God
But the biggest mystery is that the evil seduces more good! There is no doubt that evil is evil, but it continues to perpetrate in order to obtain an advantage, supporting the principle of pleasure. Each
pleasure end in itself is fundamentally selfish, and selfishness manifests itself in various ways, it I quote only one, obvious, frequent, that everyone at least once in life, we have gone along, or just go past the other, to avoid queuing, perhaps using the emergency lane. Each of us would at least have a reason to avoid the endless queues at the counters, or on the highway ... But it does not take faith to understand that my freedom ends where another's begins the next. If everyone behaved like this ...
What is the narrow door of the gospel? Even the expression ' narrow gate' that defines the cross, imposes a strict and honest examination of conscience on the issue of recommendations : who, if able, he never took advantage, cast the first stone! I refer not only to work situations - contests, promotions ... - and I think the possibility of receiving a medical examination hall to avoid for months ... It's so widespread and despicable policy of small / large favors: "I'm You make me please Then somehow I sdebiterò, returning, or making you a present "this happens at all levels of society and in all environments, from simple family up to the highest corridors of power politics. So verge of rhetoric and moralism ... so I stopped.
be clear, however, that today's Gospel speaks of it explicitly: for the contemporaries of Jesus, having heard his voice, he feasted with him was certainly a privilege that someone would not hesitate to assert in the case of convenience. Well, Jesus warns against the temptation.
Even the official accession to the faith, the practice of religion is an unlimited license to enter into eternal life. Do you think if the Sunday Mass was sufficient to claim the Paradise! what are 45 minutes in comparison to a whole week? Have you ever counted how many hours are there in a week? if not mistaken is 168. And the amount is still the least important aspect of the question, faith is not measured by the clock hands - sebbene il fattore-tempo non sia del tutto irrilevante, ne parleremo dal prossimo autunno presso il Centro Culturale –.
Il vero lasciapassare per la vita eterna è la giustizia! Interessante, la versione precedente traduceva ‘ iniquità ’, termine ancora troppo generico; ora parliamo più precisamente di GIUSTIZIA: beh, un altro progresso nella comprensione delle verità Bibliche. Esiste una giustizia umana, dall’indubbio valore. Ma per noi che crediamo, la giustizia assume i contorni della misericordia; e in nome della misericordia di Dio, la misura della giustizia di Cristo è la sua vita. Per Lui, salire in croce e morirci fu un passo giusto; and if right, it was also necessary. " who is able to understand. "(Matt. 19:12).
"The earth is filled with heaven and every bush is burning God's
but only he who sees takes off his shoes and the others sit around and capture
blueberries ..."
Elizabeth B. Browning
but only he who sees takes off his shoes and the others sit around and capture
blueberries ..."
Elizabeth B. Browning
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