D.D. Here, we are prepared to Christmas, that is very near by two women who meeting. A woman is old, advanced in years, and became pregnant. The other, a virgin who has become a mother. Two impossible humans who belong on that "everything is possible to God" that Mary had heard in the encounter with the angel. Two women. Here, at the beginning of the incarnation, we are in the early stages, what strikes me is something perhaps a bit obvious, a everlasting truth that we can not avoid. You see, the beginning of everything is always a woman or some women. We all come by them The male is like it was relegated to a somewhat hidden. This is not to oppose the male to the female, which is a complex matter, but only to say that the female seems to have a greater admittance to understand the mystery of life, which is always the mystery of salvation and basically is always the mystery of love too It's as if the woman, the female, had a higher gear. And here Mary is carrying Jesus in her womb, she brings life. TheY are now only one thing: Jesus and Mary. Like us when we begin a relationship with Jesus by listening his Word. It happens now and in the Holy Communion: you and me, Lord. You and Me are just one. I wonder if sometimes we do this prayer. Mary and Jesus one, just like us now. We and Jesus are one. Now Mary comes from Elizabeth. What does she do? She does what we always do: a greeting. One of the most usual gesture, natural and simple in this world. Mary Elizabeth comes in and greets. This simple thing makes extraordinary things .Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and the child inside herself "leapt for joy”.Elizabeth says that John the Baptist in Elizabeth's womb "leaped for joy inside of me." Mary couldn't even imagine that. Instead, through this greeting, simple thing, life, salvation, love, move from Jesus to Mary, from Mary to Elizabeth,from Elizabeth to John the Baptist in her womb, and these things do not stop. It's aN inexhaustible. waterfall And all this goes through bodies, through human relations, through the smallest things of every day, goes through minimal gestures of our everyday life such as greetings, smiles, sometimes only hints of hand. The small courtesies that enrich our lives and the lives of others. Sometimes my impression, I do not know yours, it is to have imprisoned God within the sacred. Have imprisoned God within so many arguments, in many mental constructs. Sometimes my impression is that we have placed God in several cages of things that should be done or not. And even faith has becomes more and more complicated as a goal that could never be reached. We have caged God in ritualism, gestures, vestments. We have imprisoned God. Instead, look up God goes through these very simple things: a greeting. Greetings from a body, a greeting from a face. A greeting that starts from nothing, we can say. In fact so many times for us a greeting is less than anything. Bodies that greet transmitting the Holy Spirit. Do you realize that? 'And we do scaffolding rituals . For who? for me? Who needs it, God ? . Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and the baby inside her "leaps for joy”.
In the second reading, taken from the Letter to the Hebrews, the author presents Jesus in dialogue with his Father God. We have heard it: "Father, you have not desired sacrifice, nor offerings, nor burnt offerings," the things that humans use to pacify God. You did not want, Father, any rituals, but you gave me a body. And with this body, "I come, O Lord, to do what pleases you." All this affects us. You have prepared a body as a temple of your presence. Then everything can be mediation of a life, of salvation, of a love that goes from us to others, and does not stop. What an act of faith we must do upon these things, brothers and sisters. But do we believe? I do not know, when greeting a person, what is happening in this person. But I know, because Christmas teaches me, that something always happens. And then after the greeting, there are words, there are minimal gestures of familiarity. Minimal gestures, concrete, by which the Holy Spirit uses to get into the personal story and in history in general, creating new possibilities, new openings because the Spirit can move from one heart to another, from one life to another . These great things. We started with a greeting of Mary to Elizabeth, and this greeting sparked the mayhem. A greeting. Beware of our buildings rituals, liturgical, of God. Beware of our scaffolding. We have them all, sometimes they are even necessary, but here, in this Christmas, God passes through the simplest things in our daily lives. Beware! Then, we apply to ourselves the words that we heard in the first reading. "And you, Bethlehem, so small between all the villages, from you shall come for me the one who will bring the peace" .How can we apply these words of the prophet Micah to us? . It's possible: you Christian and you Christian, so small and insignificant among all the others, from you will come for me and for everyone the one who will bring the peace. Then Christmas, you understand, gets strong sense, and gets a strong sense the wishes we want to make now. Of course, we want to be just like that, all we want to be, more or less, that small Bethlehem where Jesus was born. And he passes through life, salvation, love goes to all. And this is Christmas. And this's our Christmas.
D.D. Here, we are prepared to Christmas, that is very near by two women who meeting. A woman is old, advanced in years, and became pregnant. The other, a virgin who has become a mother. Two impossible humans who belong on that "everything is possible to God" that Mary had heard in the encounter with the angel. Two women. Here, at the beginning of the incarnation, we are in the early stages, what strikes me is something perhaps a bit obvious, a everlasting truth that we can not avoid.
RispondiEliminaYou see, the beginning of everything is always a woman or some women. We all come by them
The male is like it was relegated to a somewhat hidden. This is not to oppose the male to the female, which is a complex matter, but only to say that the female seems to have a greater admittance to understand the mystery of life, which is always the mystery of salvation and basically is always the mystery of love too It's as if the woman, the female, had a higher gear.
And here Mary is carrying Jesus in her womb, she brings life. TheY are now only one thing: Jesus and Mary. Like us when we begin a relationship with Jesus by listening his Word.
It happens now and in the Holy Communion: you and me, Lord. You and Me are just one.
I wonder if sometimes we do this prayer. Mary and Jesus one, just like us now. We and Jesus are one.
Now Mary comes from Elizabeth. What does she do? She does what we always do: a greeting. One of the most usual gesture, natural and simple in this world. Mary Elizabeth comes in and greets. This simple thing makes extraordinary things .Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and the child inside herself "leapt for joy”.Elizabeth says that John the Baptist in Elizabeth's womb "leaped for joy inside of me."
Mary couldn't even imagine that. Instead, through this greeting, simple thing, life, salvation, love, move from Jesus to Mary, from Mary to Elizabeth,from Elizabeth to John the Baptist in her womb, and these things do not stop. It's aN inexhaustible. waterfall
And all this goes through bodies, through human relations, through the smallest things of every day, goes through minimal gestures of our everyday life such as greetings, smiles, sometimes only hints of hand. The small courtesies that enrich our lives and the lives of others.
Sometimes my impression, I do not know yours, it is to have imprisoned God within the sacred. Have imprisoned God within so many arguments, in many mental constructs.
Sometimes my impression is that we have placed God in several cages of things that should be done or not. And even faith has becomes more and more complicated as a goal that could never be reached. We have caged God in ritualism, gestures, vestments. We have imprisoned God.
Instead, look up God goes through these very simple things: a greeting.
Greetings from a body, a greeting from a face. A greeting that starts from nothing, we can say. In fact so many times for us a greeting is
less than anything.
Bodies that greet transmitting the Holy Spirit. Do you realize that? 'And we do scaffolding rituals . For who? for me? Who needs it, God ?
. Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and the baby inside her "leaps for joy”.
In the second reading, taken from the Letter to the Hebrews, the author presents Jesus in dialogue with his Father God. We have heard it: "Father, you have not desired sacrifice, nor offerings, nor burnt offerings," the things that humans use to pacify God. You did not want, Father, any rituals, but you gave me a body. And with this body, "I come, O Lord, to do what pleases you." All this affects us. You have prepared a body as a temple of your presence. Then everything can be mediation of a life, of salvation, of a love that goes from us to others, and does not stop.
RispondiEliminaWhat an act of faith we must do upon these things, brothers and sisters. But do we believe?
I do not know, when greeting a person, what is happening in this person. But I know, because Christmas teaches me, that something always happens. And then after the greeting, there are words, there are minimal gestures of familiarity. Minimal gestures, concrete, by which the Holy Spirit uses to get into the personal story and in history in general, creating new possibilities, new openings because the Spirit can move from one heart to another, from one life to another .
These great things. We started with a greeting of Mary to Elizabeth, and this greeting sparked the mayhem. A greeting. Beware of our buildings rituals, liturgical, of God. Beware of our scaffolding. We have them all, sometimes they are even necessary, but here, in this Christmas, God passes through the simplest things in our daily lives. Beware!
Then, we apply to ourselves the words that we heard in the first reading. "And you, Bethlehem, so small between all the villages, from you shall come for me the one who will bring the peace" .How can we apply these words of the prophet Micah to us? . It's possible: you Christian and you Christian, so small and insignificant among all the others, from you will come for me and for everyone the one who will bring the peace.
Then Christmas, you understand, gets strong sense, and gets a strong sense the wishes we want to make now. Of course, we want to be just like that, all we want to be, more or less, that small Bethlehem where Jesus was born. And he passes through life, salvation, love goes to all. And this is Christmas. And this's our Christmas.