D.D. We are always in Nazareth, like last Sunday. Jesus has read Isaiah and has commented. "The Lord has sent me to bring glad message to the poors, to proclaim the release to captives." And then he says. "Today this text is being fulfilled that you listen”. Jesus declares his identity. It concerns of entering his humanity and opening our hearts to God who in Jesus speaks. It's Love God who speaks. You see, as long as that word doesn't disturb the personal rest to which we placing hold so much, everything can go well. But just this word intends to enter into the darkness of our hearts and it places clearness in that small or large mess in that many times we all are , well, when all this happens, all can become complicated and the word of God can also become unacceptable. We have heard in the second reading (1 Cor. 13), the famous hymn to charity of Paul. To understand this hymn, one of the great theologians of the last century said: it's suffices to replace the word 'love' with the word 'JESUS'. Do not you confuse charity with simple alms, with those great or small things that we can do. Do not you confuse charity with some vague feeling that sometimes we can find.The charity is Jesus. God is love, and Jesus incarnates God. He is the only-begotten Son. And it is really Jesus who speaks in Nazareth. Paul for a moment does nothing but to report what Jesus has suggested to his heart. We hear again these words: "Though I speack languages both human and angelic, if I speak without love, I am no more than a gong booming or a cymbal clashing." Out of metaphor” If I was also able to speak language the of angels." If only I would be able when I talk to charm people and make them dream. They are the great storyteller..Well, if I don't have Jesus, if i do not have in my heart His Gospel, if I do not have in the most different ways his love for God and his serving the other, I am like a great showman dressed in nothing. The king is naked. We turn the TV on, we read a newspaper. If I speak the languages of men and of angels, but I wouldn't have the charity, I am simply as a booming gong, like a clamouring cymbal.Naked barker . Again. "If only I have the gift of prophecy." We remove the word prophecy from the exclusively religious aim . Who is a prophet? Not the one who tells the future, we leave this to the simples, we leave it in horoscopes. Those who believe. I don't disput of these things. The prophet is one who says in our today a real word, able to give hope for the future. Biblical prophets have all been like this way. Today all seem to offer hope to illuminate the future. You turn on the television, you read the papers, you meet the prophets. And if only I had all mysteries of the knowledge, all science of this world, well,, if I am without in my heart the values of the Gospel, if I am without mercy, care to the poor , Paul lapidary, he says: "I am nothing." Let's you tell this to someone. Still, "If only I should give away to the poor all that I possess, and even give up my body" BE careful "to have honour," for mirror in my glory, look how good I was, well, if I doesn't have love, the lack of interest that JESUS creates in me to the service of others, "Nothing will be usefull to me whatever “ Nothing. There's something for me, there is something for everyone. These if, if, if, that nail us. And these words can be understood as unbearable.
The Nazarenes. "But who do you think you are?" We've known you since childhood, "You are the son of Joseph." Your mother and your relatives live here . We know them all. If you really want TO convince us, look, the miracles that you did in Capernaum, let's you do them even here..Then we will see if we shall give to you credit or not. Since Jesus doesn't make miracles to convince hearts, then there is only one thing to do: Let's us erase him ! His countrymen try to do it and then they will do with others. "But he passing straigth through the midst of them, He walked his way" towards Jerusalem. Friends, the Gospel is risky . We are here to convince ourselves. It is not a peaceful discourse, we all run some risks. Sometimes it will be the indifference, even at our home. Other times it will the derision. All this to accompany the one who speaks and searchs to live Jesus. Sometimes the reaction is violent . I cite two examples by random, but there would be easily thousands. The Bishop Romero in San Salvador, was killed while celebrating Mass simply because he wanted to defend the poor by death squads. You can not afford it and we erase you. If not today, it is tomorrow. And they shoot him while he is celebrating the Mass. Don Puglisi in Palermo was killed simply because he wanted to save the children from the Mafia ... Then there are all the men, women of good will, of all backgrounds, even of different religions, who wish to live myths, strong, real , risking everything on their own, and not a few times they risk their live.To live as mild as strong, as alive, risking their own. Tonight we ask it for all of us. Even if we will never receive the applause . But the applause, I think, are quite incompatible with the life of faith, of hope and charity. The applause, if we receive them, we will receive them in heaven.
RispondiEliminaD.D. We are always in Nazareth, like last Sunday. Jesus has read Isaiah and has commented. "The Lord has sent me to bring glad message to the poors, to proclaim the release to captives." And then he says. "Today this text is being fulfilled that you listen”. Jesus declares his identity.
It concerns of entering his humanity and opening our hearts to God who in Jesus speaks. It's Love God who speaks.
You see, as long as that word doesn't disturb the personal rest to which we placing hold so much, everything can go well. But just this word intends to enter into the darkness of our hearts and it places clearness in that small or large mess in that many times we all are , well, when all this happens, all can become complicated and the word of God can also become unacceptable.
We have heard in the second reading (1 Cor. 13), the famous hymn to charity of Paul. To understand this hymn, one of the great theologians of the last century said: it's suffices to replace the word 'love' with the word 'JESUS'.
Do not you confuse charity with simple alms, with those great or small things that we can do. Do not you confuse charity with some vague feeling that sometimes we can find.The charity is Jesus. God is love, and Jesus incarnates God. He is the only-begotten Son.
And it is really Jesus who speaks in Nazareth. Paul for a moment does nothing but to report what Jesus has suggested to his heart.
We hear again these words: "Though I speack languages both human and angelic, if I speak without love, I am no more than a gong booming or a cymbal clashing."
Out of metaphor”
If I was also able to speak language the of angels." If only I would be able when I talk to charm people and make them dream. They are the great storyteller..Well, if I don't have Jesus, if i do not have in my heart His Gospel, if I do not have in the most different ways his love for God and his serving the other, I am like a great showman dressed in nothing. The king is naked. We turn the TV on, we read a newspaper. If I speak the languages of men and of angels, but I wouldn't have the charity, I am simply as a booming gong, like a clamouring cymbal.Naked barker .
Again. "If only I have the gift of prophecy." We remove the word prophecy from the exclusively religious aim . Who is a prophet? Not the one who tells the future, we leave this to the simples, we leave it in horoscopes. Those who believe. I don't disput of these things.
The prophet is one who says in our today a real word, able to give hope for the future. Biblical prophets have all been like this way.
Today all seem to offer hope to illuminate the future. You turn on the television, you read the papers, you meet the prophets.
And if only I had all mysteries of the knowledge, all science of this world, well,, if I am without in my heart the values of the Gospel, if I am without mercy, care to the poor , Paul lapidary, he says: "I am nothing." Let's you tell this to someone.
Still, "If only I should give away to the poor all that I possess, and even give up my body" BE careful "to have honour," for mirror in my glory, look how good I was, well, if I doesn't have love, the lack of interest that JESUS creates in me to the service of others, "Nothing will be usefull to me whatever “
Nothing.
There's something for me, there is something for everyone. These if, if, if, that nail us. And these words can be understood as unbearable.
The Nazarenes. "But who do you think you are?" We've known you since childhood, "You are the son of Joseph." Your mother and your relatives live here . We know them all. If you really want TO convince us, look, the miracles that you did in Capernaum, let's you do them even here..Then we will see if we shall give to you credit or not. Since Jesus doesn't make miracles to convince hearts, then there is only one thing to do: Let's us erase him ! His countrymen try to do it and then they will do with others.
RispondiElimina"But he passing straigth through the midst of them, He walked his way" towards Jerusalem. Friends, the Gospel is risky . We are here to convince ourselves. It is not a peaceful discourse, we all run some risks. Sometimes it will be the indifference, even at our home. Other times it will the derision. All this to accompany the one who speaks and searchs to live Jesus. Sometimes the reaction is violent .
I cite two examples by random, but there would be easily thousands. The Bishop Romero in San Salvador, was killed while celebrating Mass simply because he wanted to defend the poor by death squads. You can not afford it and we erase you. If not today, it is tomorrow. And they shoot him while he is celebrating the Mass.
Don Puglisi in Palermo was killed simply because he wanted to save the children from the Mafia ... Then there are all the men, women of good will, of all backgrounds, even of different religions, who wish to live myths, strong, real , risking everything on their own, and not a few times they risk their live.To live as mild as strong, as alive, risking their own. Tonight we ask it for all of us. Even if we will never receive the applause .
But the applause, I think, are quite incompatible with the life of faith, of hope and charity.
The applause, if we receive them, we will receive them in heaven.