D. CHRUPCALA "EVERYONE WILL SEE THE SALVATION OF GOD" Luke incorporated into the account of the public appareance of John Baptist his call to repentance .But unlike Matthew, according to whom John's message was directed to the Pharisees and Sadducees that is to say to Israel 's religious leadership, in the third gospel the interlocutors of John were the "crowds", inclusive of the people and the leaders of Israel. It is therefore noticeable that for Luke the eschatological preaching of the Baptist had a comprensive nature and its audience was not restricted to a particular group of Jews but included ideally all the people of Israel , who become the receivers of the announcement of the Messiah 's precursor and later of the mission of Christ.
D.D. This God's word is interesting and actual more than ever. We are able now to ask a question: the people in the times of Jesus to whom was it looking? From who it was interested and, more than a few times, of whom it was worried? The people at the times of Jesus was worried to Tiberius Cesar, the emperor.He could decide anything, he was holding in his hand the power. He was looking with worry at Pilate, his lieutenant. To Erodes and to his worthy partners: Phillip and Lisania, that governed the country. And there were Ann and Caifa that garrisoned the temple in Jerusalem that had become the great bank of the middle East. All rotated somehow around these characters that the Gospel listed. There it went to the middle the calm, the peace, the job.
There it went to the middle the life in his concrete development. The history seemed to be here all and there was not to be happy. My dear friends, isn't that so even now? What is that people is looking at around us? To whom do we look in these times? To Europe, that is more than ever uncertain. To Italy, that is more than ever confused. To the consumptions that decrease. To the spread that keeps on climbing. To an employment that so many times can not be found. And then there are our works and our personal tests that nobody looks if not us. We must admit it, in these times, who more who less, we are all lost. it's useless to pretend. The prophets, a long time before Jesus, they spoke of a dense fog that covered the nations. And then that's the invitation to look on another side of the history, not to escape, not to alienate us, but to stay in this history of us with hope.
The prophet Baruc, that we don't know when he was living, remembers Jerusalem mowed to the ground and therefore he also has present his times with all the broken hopes. Baruc is not afraid, he is not afraid to say those words that we have heard in the first reading: "Jerusalem, take off your dress of sorrow and distress, put on the beauty of God's glory for evermore, wrap the cloak of God's saving justice around you, put the diadem of the Eternal One's glory on your head." But in which kind of world are you living, Baruch? But the invitation remains, in these times in which we are living, "you depose the dresses of the mourning and the affliction, dressed again of the shine of the glory that comes forever you from God". Paul tells it in a more concise way. "You dress again of Christ" because this is the glory that comes forever to you from God.
Nobody can remove from us this suit. Nobody! Neither Tiberio Caesar, neither Pilate, neither Erodes and his partners, neither Ann, neither Caifa. Nobody can remove from us this suit that is Christ Jesus. However you can understand that the true hope, the hope first and last, it doesn't come neither from Tiberius Caesar, neither from Pilate , neither from Erodes, neither from Ann, neither from Caifa, it comes from another part and from another place. The Gospel is very clear on the subject. While the history walks in the hands of the powerful persons here listed, and also with our contemporaries, we don't reveal names, Luca says": The Word of God came on John Baptist in the desert." You see that this expression is quite strong.
The Word of God falls on John, the Word of God was on John the Word of God happened on John And John Baptist of the shine of the glory of God dresses again forever, also when he will be beheaded by the power, John invested by the Word of God becomes a humble and strong voice of hope and truth. He shouts in the desert. There is no other place to speak and to heard. Luckly we can withdraw for a little hour in this beautiful theological desert. We are in the desert.
And we feel fine there. We should withdrawn in our own intimacy and, together and not, to hear what in a different place is not possible to be heard or perceived.
John Baptist, invested by the Word of God, becomes a voice that speaks and he says simple things :It's necessary to welcome the visit of God." And I also tell it to you, Tiberius Caesar, also to you Pilate, also to you, Erodes, and also to you Lisania, Phillip, Ann and Caifa. I tell it strong and I tell it to everybody. It's necessary to welcome the visit of God and therefore, John says, the canyons, the valleys, the depressions of our discouragements, they must be fills from the promises of the desire of God. And then the mountains and the hills of our haughtiness, of our pride, they must have lowered because God doesn't walk by these roads. Here is the hope that helps us to live, that once more reaches each of us now. The Word of God that we have heard, that I have tried to comment in my way, as I knew and as I was able, it has come on us, it tumbled on us, it has happened on us. Do you understand? Right now.
This Word of God dresses us again of the glory that comes forever from God. It dresses us again of Jesus. We in this confused history, we uncertain, we lost, we can become a voice of hope for us and for all those that we meet. We need such Christians. Then, we have heard it in the second reading, Paul says. " I pray that your charity grows in knowledge and in full discernment more and more because can distinguish what it is better, and to be entire and faultless for the day of Christ." Meanwhile, let we thank in this Eucharist because the Lord will dress us again of hope, even if we don't have all the money to buy anything we want, even if we all have called to a time of great sobriety...Once more Jesus with his power dresses us again, and we can give hope to us first, then to those that we meet since tonight.
D. CHRUPCALA "EVERYONE WILL SEE THE SALVATION OF GOD"
RispondiEliminaLuke incorporated into the account of the public appareance of John Baptist his call to repentance .But unlike Matthew, according to whom John's message was directed to the Pharisees and Sadducees that is to say to Israel 's religious leadership, in the third gospel the interlocutors of John were the "crowds", inclusive of the people and the leaders of Israel. It is therefore noticeable that for Luke the eschatological preaching of the Baptist had a comprensive nature and its audience was not restricted to a particular group of Jews but included ideally all the people of Israel , who become the receivers of the announcement of the Messiah 's precursor and later of the mission of Christ.
D.D. This God's word is interesting and actual more than ever.
RispondiEliminaWe are able now to ask a question: the people in the times of Jesus to whom was it looking?
From who it was interested and, more than a few times, of whom it was worried? The people at the times of Jesus was worried to Tiberius Cesar, the emperor.He could decide anything, he was holding in his hand the power. He was looking with worry at Pilate, his lieutenant. To Erodes and to his worthy partners: Phillip and Lisania, that governed the country. And there were Ann and Caifa that garrisoned the temple in Jerusalem that had become the great bank of the middle East. All rotated somehow around these characters that the Gospel listed. There it went to the middle the calm, the peace, the job.
There it went to the middle the life in his concrete development. The history seemed to be here all and there was not to be happy. My dear friends, isn't that so even now? What is that people is looking at around us? To whom do we look in these times? To Europe, that is more than ever uncertain. To Italy, that is more than ever confused. To the consumptions that decrease. To the spread that keeps on climbing. To an employment that so many times can not be found. And then there are our works and our personal tests that nobody looks if not us. We must admit it, in these times, who more who less, we are all lost. it's useless to pretend. The prophets, a long time before Jesus, they spoke of a dense fog that covered the nations. And then that's the invitation to look on another side of the history, not to escape, not to alienate us, but to stay in this history of us with hope.
The prophet Baruc, that we don't know when he was living, remembers Jerusalem mowed to the ground and therefore he also has present his times with all the broken hopes. Baruc is not afraid, he is not afraid to say those words that we have heard in the first reading: "Jerusalem, take off your dress of sorrow and distress, put on the beauty of God's glory for evermore, wrap the cloak of God's saving justice around you, put the diadem of the Eternal One's glory on your head."
But in which kind of world are you living, Baruch? But the invitation remains, in these times in which we are living, "you depose the dresses of the mourning and the affliction, dressed again of the shine of the glory that comes forever you from God".
Paul tells it in a more concise way. "You dress again of Christ" because this is the glory that comes forever to you from God.
RispondiEliminaNobody can remove from us this suit. Nobody! Neither Tiberio Caesar, neither Pilate, neither Erodes and his partners, neither Ann, neither Caifa. Nobody can remove from us this suit that is Christ Jesus. However you can understand that the true hope, the hope first and last, it doesn't come neither from Tiberius Caesar, neither from Pilate , neither from Erodes, neither from Ann, neither from Caifa, it comes from another part and from another place. The Gospel is very clear on the subject.
While the history walks in the hands of the powerful persons here listed, and also with our contemporaries, we don't reveal names, Luca says": The Word of God came on John Baptist in the desert." You see that this expression is quite strong.
The Word of God falls on John, the Word of God was on John the Word of God happened on John And John Baptist of the shine of the glory of God dresses again forever, also when he will be beheaded by the power, John invested by the Word of God becomes a humble and strong voice of hope and truth. He shouts in the desert. There is no other place to speak and to heard. Luckly we can withdraw for a little hour in this beautiful theological desert. We are in the desert.
And we feel fine there. We should withdrawn in our own intimacy and, together and not, to hear what in a different place is not possible to be heard or perceived.
John Baptist, invested by the Word of God, becomes a voice that speaks and he says simple things :It's necessary to welcome the visit of God." And I also tell it to you, Tiberius Caesar, also to you Pilate, also to you, Erodes, and also to you Lisania, Phillip, Ann and Caifa. I tell it strong and I tell it to everybody. It's necessary to welcome the visit of God and therefore, John says, the canyons, the valleys, the depressions of our discouragements, they must be fills from the promises of the desire of God. And then the mountains and the hills of our haughtiness, of our pride, they must have lowered because God doesn't walk by these roads. Here is the hope that helps us to live, that once more reaches each of us now. The Word of God that we have heard, that I have tried to comment in my way, as I knew and as I was able, it has come on us, it tumbled on us, it has happened on us. Do you understand? Right now.
This Word of God dresses us again of the glory that comes forever from God. It dresses us again of Jesus. We in this confused history, we uncertain, we lost, we can become a voice of hope for us and for all those that we meet. We need such Christians. Then, we have heard it in the second reading, Paul says. " I pray that your charity grows in knowledge and in full discernment more and more because can distinguish what it is better, and to be entire and faultless for the day of Christ." Meanwhile, let we thank in this Eucharist because the Lord will dress us again of hope, even if we don't have all the money to buy anything we want, even if we all have called to a time of great sobriety...Once more Jesus with his power dresses us again, and we can give hope to us first, then to those that we meet since tonight.