S. FAUSTI - "Do you love me?" These are the words of Jesus, who died and risen, to Peter. Everyone feels the words adressed to himself, as the purpose, or rather, the source of the whole Gospel. Jesus asks Peter if he loves Him "more" than the others to downsize his claim to be better than others. But not only this : the love has as spur the "most" And in fact it is always a competition ; but not with the others, but with oneself, to overcome selfishness, pride and fear. Love is always a "most" - if it isn't growing, it decreases - in humility and in dedication. It's our participation in the "magis, most" of the majesty of God's Love, in whose image we are created. Our heart is in fact driven by the insatiable desire for a most endless. What ends up is finite , but not perfect. This "more", the divine mark of man,it is his torturing destiny of happiness or of damnation: it marks the progress of its history if it is invested in the love, the right to regress if it is invested in selfishness. The affirmative answer of Peter is not based on his own safety to give his live for Jesus. It is based on what the Lord knows, He had predicted to him his defection, but also that he would have followed Him later. For the third time He has confirmed the trust to him. The latter response of Jesus sums up the other two: He says "feed" like the first time and "my sheep" as the second. Peter, with and as the beautiful Shepherd he feeds His sheep in love, because there is only one free flock, and only one Shepherd. He has the initiative of the mission and keeps the union, so not to be ragged the “one”of the saved . In the listened epiosode there is as the next repeat of these wave that Jesus has set in motion: now it reflectes itself in the disciples and, through them, it extends to infinity, giving life by His Spirit to the whole world. Now the disciples are at work. They are no longer at night and indoors in Jerusalem, but in the morning and outdoors on the Sea of Galilee, the place of their everyday life, and of Jesus. The time and the place are significant: the dawn is the boundary between day and night, the coast is the boundary between sea and land. Dawn and coastline are the time and the place typical of man, placed between two opposing realities,he called to cross the threshold from darkness to light, from death to life. The disciples went out from where the Lord washed their feet and they face with Him and as Him the world. After the gift of Jesus who loved them until to give Himself and He came back showing Himself as the conqueror of death and the prince of life : the day of the Lord begins. It is every day, to live now in the love of the Father and of the brothers. For bthis the seven go to "fish men for life." As Jesus did, they too tear up the brothers from the water where they drown, to communicate to them the fountain of living waters.
S. FAUSTI -
RispondiElimina"Do you love me?" These are the words of Jesus, who died and risen, to Peter.
Everyone feels the words adressed to himself, as the purpose, or rather, the source of the whole Gospel.
Jesus asks Peter if he loves Him "more" than the others to downsize his claim to be better than others. But not only
this : the love has as spur the "most" And in fact it is always a competition ; but not with the others, but with oneself, to overcome selfishness, pride and fear.
Love is always a "most" - if it isn't growing, it decreases - in humility and in dedication.
It's our participation in the "magis, most" of the majesty of God's Love, in whose image we are created.
Our heart is in fact driven by the insatiable desire for a most endless.
What ends up is finite , but not perfect.
This "more", the divine mark of man,it is his torturing destiny of happiness or of damnation: it marks the progress of its history if it is invested in the love, the right to regress if it is invested in selfishness.
The affirmative answer of Peter is not based on his own safety to give his live for Jesus.
It is based on what the Lord knows, He had predicted to him his defection, but also that he would have followed Him later.
For the third time He has confirmed the trust to him.
The latter response of Jesus sums up the other two: He says "feed" like the first time and "my sheep" as the second. Peter, with and as the beautiful Shepherd he feeds His sheep in love, because there is only one free flock, and only one Shepherd.
He has the initiative of the mission and keeps the union, so not to be ragged the “one”of the saved .
In the listened epiosode there is as the next repeat of these wave that Jesus has set in motion: now it reflectes itself in the disciples and, through them, it extends to infinity, giving life by His Spirit to the whole world.
Now the disciples are at work. They are no longer at night and indoors in Jerusalem, but in the morning and outdoors on the Sea of Galilee, the place of their everyday life, and of Jesus.
The time and the place are significant: the dawn is the boundary between day and night, the coast is the boundary between sea and land.
Dawn and coastline are the time and the place typical of man, placed between two opposing realities,he called to cross the threshold from darkness to light, from death to life.
The disciples went out from where the Lord washed their feet and they face with Him and as Him the world.
After the gift of Jesus who loved them until to give Himself and He came back showing Himself as the conqueror of death and the prince of life : the day of the Lord begins.
It is every day, to live now in the love of the Father and of the brothers.
For bthis the seven go to "fish men for life."
As Jesus did, they too tear up the brothers from the water where they drown, to communicate to them the fountain of living waters.