S. FAUSTI - The passage of St. Luke presents us two news and the transparent parable of the love of the Father and of the Son that take care of men and They do not expect anything but he responds to their love. The two news a killing and an incident with many casualties. In the first case it is at stake, the freedom and the human malice, in the second the inevitability and the violence of creation. These two events draw in an exemplary way what most shakes the faith of the believer: Why does God allow abuses and violence, disasters and earthquakes? The history, with its injustices and nature with its senselessness seem rather dominated by the evil , or from the fate . In the first episode we are expecting that He judge between good and bad. In the second it is implicit the basic objection: wthat you can have confidence in the Father, if the innocents suffer? Jesus takes them as patterns that are difficult to discern to give the believer a reading key for historians and natural events (Ps 136). The evil that there is, both in humans and in things, is mysteriously linked to sin; but doesn't get away from of hand of the God in whose hand are the depths of the earth (Ps 95.4) and collects in a burst the sea-waters (Ps 33: 7). It is true that we all have sinned; but our evil is now the place of salvation: "where sin abounded, grace did more abound." (Rom 5:20).All events are therefore to be read, at a deeper level, in terms of destruction and of salvation.: they reveal the perdition from which the conversion to Lord saves us Knowing the "signs of time" means to see in the evil the Lord who comes to save us by calling us to conversion. The good discernment opens our eyes and it does change lives.Speaking of bad, we think to the poors which are dying of hunger , to children which are victims of violence, to the innocents which are systematically killed. In fact the evil is another one : what drives to starve, rape, kill.Our convertion is not considering the biological life as an absolute value - it is for this that they hoard and all the injustices build up.. The absolute value is fraternity and solidarity to interpersonal social level - indeed, global – today. . Already these is the eternal life that in death, is not subtracted to us. As our daily limits are places of love and communion with others, so our absolute limit is a place of communion with the Other, the Absolute, from Which we come and to Which we return. The radical conversion is to get out of the megalomania: to accept the life and the death as communion with God. To discern the signs of this present means reading every fact and event as a call to go to the hypocrisy to filial piety, from the reign of fear to that of freedom.
With the coming of the Messiah, the history has reached her end, and the time would have been stopping. Why instead is-it still going on? This is the problem which is addressed in the parable of the fig tree. But as the fig tree is sterile so the man doesn't decide himself to make fruits of conversion. By itself, with the coming of Jesus, the time of waiting would ended and the Judgment made. But God grants to man "one more year" and lavishes His Last and extreme care because he bear fruit and should not be cut. God does not enjoy for the ruins, but for the conversion. This is the only theological reason because even if the ax is already at the root, the tree is not yet cut. It is a further answer to the question of the Baptist before Jesus. Why, if He is the Messiah, it has not stopped the evil and the time has not fixed in eternity? 3 - Jesus responds by revealing the mysterious dialogue between justice - "cut it off" - and God's mercy: "leave, forgive again for this year" .It's the drama of the Father and of the Son in their mutual love which embraces the world. And that does not understand and does not respond to love. Time flows again to permise everyone to meet the tenderness of God! In fact, He wants "all men to be saved and reach full knowledge of the truth". The three years of Jesus' ministry are God's coming for judgment; but He, instead of judging, offers forgiveness. Each following year are the ' "one more year" which extends, to do with the announcement the same offer to future generations. This is the profound sense of history. It is the year of patience and mercy of God, a dilation of salvation and a deferral of judgment, yet always for one year, from then until now and until the end. God does not cut the fig tree, that is, man! He respects him because He loves him!. He pours to him out around all his work, because he can respond to his love.
S. FAUSTI - The passage of St. Luke presents us two news and the transparent parable of the love of the Father and of the Son that take care of men and They do not expect anything but he responds to their love.
RispondiEliminaThe two news a killing and an incident with many casualties. In the first case it is at stake, the freedom and the human malice, in the second the inevitability and the violence of creation.
These two events draw in an exemplary way what most shakes the faith of the believer: Why does God allow abuses and violence, disasters and earthquakes?
The history, with its injustices and nature with its senselessness seem rather dominated by the evil , or from the fate
. In the first episode we are expecting that He judge between good and bad. In the second it is implicit the basic objection: wthat you can have confidence in the Father, if the innocents suffer?
Jesus takes them as patterns that are difficult to discern to give the believer a reading key for historians and natural events (Ps 136).
The evil that there is, both in humans and in things, is mysteriously linked to sin; but doesn't get away from of hand of the God in whose hand are the depths of the earth (Ps 95.4) and collects in a burst the sea-waters (Ps 33: 7). It is true that we all have sinned; but our evil is now the place of salvation: "where sin abounded, grace did more abound."
(Rom 5:20).All events are therefore to be read, at a deeper level, in terms of destruction and of salvation.: they reveal the perdition from which the conversion to Lord saves us
Knowing the "signs of time" means to see in the evil the Lord who comes to save us by calling us to conversion. The good discernment opens our eyes and it does change lives.Speaking of bad, we think to the poors which are dying of hunger , to children which are victims of violence, to the innocents which are systematically killed.
In fact the evil is another one : what drives to starve, rape, kill.Our convertion is not considering the biological life as an absolute value - it is for this that they hoard and all the injustices build up..
The absolute value is fraternity and solidarity to interpersonal social level - indeed, global – today.
. Already these is the eternal life that in death, is not subtracted to us.
As our daily limits are places of love and communion with others, so our absolute limit is a place of communion with the Other, the Absolute, from Which we come and to Which we return. The radical conversion is to get out of the megalomania: to accept the life and the death as communion with God.
To discern the signs of this present means reading every fact and event as a call to go to the hypocrisy to filial piety, from the reign of fear to that of freedom.
With the coming of the Messiah, the history has reached her end, and the time would have been stopping. Why instead is-it still going on? This is the problem which is addressed in the parable of the fig tree.
RispondiEliminaBut as the fig tree is sterile so the man doesn't decide himself to make fruits of conversion.
By itself, with the coming of Jesus, the time of waiting would ended and the Judgment made. But God grants to man "one more year" and lavishes His Last and extreme care because he bear fruit and should not be cut. God does not enjoy for the ruins, but for the conversion.
This is the only theological reason because even if the ax is already at the root, the tree is not yet cut. It is a further answer to the question of the Baptist before Jesus. Why, if He is the Messiah, it has not stopped the evil and the time has not fixed in eternity?
3 - Jesus responds by revealing the mysterious dialogue between justice - "cut it off" - and God's mercy: "leave, forgive again for this year" .It's the drama of the Father and of the Son in their mutual love which embraces the world. And that does not understand and does not respond to love.
Time flows again to permise everyone to meet the tenderness of God! In fact, He wants "all men to be saved and reach full knowledge of the truth".
The three years of Jesus' ministry are God's coming for judgment; but He, instead of judging, offers forgiveness. Each following year are the ' "one more year" which extends, to do with the announcement the same offer to future generations.
This is the profound sense of history. It is the year of patience and mercy of God, a dilation of salvation and a deferral of judgment, yet always for one year, from then until now and until the end. God does not cut the fig tree, that is, man! He respects him because He loves him!. He pours to him out around all his work, because he can respond to his love.