S. FAUSTI - Jesus is the definitive dwelling of God among the men,He is the Word to listen, He is the beauty to contemplate. Luke calls us, his readers, to contemplate "openly" He walks among us and opens us to the return to the Father. Following Him, we go back to being what we are: His children. But as no one has listened the Word of the Father, no one now welcomes the face of the Son. He does not find hospitality, because He is the smallest of all and the excluded by all. Rejected by the people who are far away , the Samaritans,He is not understood by the disciples who are nearer. He is excluded from the people who are excluded and He is not accepted by small people! He is very resolute in the Word of the Father, who is Love and tenderness. The Samaritan's face is different from that of any Adam, going down from Jerusalem to Jericho. He, visible image of invisible God, made himself a pilgrim for all the roads of the world, to return to His brothers their face of children. His journey to the Father and His coming among men coincide in one historic mission, fulfillment of the mystery of salvation. Rejected by his brothers for their disobedience, He delivered Himself to them in obedience to the Father, and saves them through the mercy and the cross. Here we see the difference between the spirit of man and spirit of God In front of his face, we are called to discern the spirit whose we are: we are very resolute like Him in love, or we are closed in the hard-heartedness of our hearts? Are we truly baptized in His Spirit or in opposite spirit? Disciple is one who recognizes this poor face, humiliated and humble, and operates according to His Spirit of mercy. He baptizes and immerses Himself in poverty, humiliation and humility; we do everything to stand out by having, the power and the appearance. The face of Jesus to Jerusalem shows us that our intelligence is disturbed.Ignoring the Word of the Son of Man, we lack of discernment and we militate under the banner of the enemy, of course, for a good purpose. Deceived by the intelligence, even our will has his desires and priorities that are opposed to follow Jesus It 's a will divided between the desire of following Him and this of keeping their material ,emotional and personal securities. There is a circularity between intelligence and will: one acts as he understands. But then, for good or bad habit, people understand as act. After the baptism, in which he worked the fundamental choice in the Spirit, Jesus faced and overcame in Himself the temptations. Even the disciple, after the baptism in the same Spirit, is called to make a decision and to overcome internal ambiguity to his will. As the disciple does not know , so he not wants the path of the Son of Man. For this, besides that in the intelligence, he must also be healed in the will. It actually does not want: it would the aim, but without put into action the means. In this passage the resistances opposing the disciple to his Lord , stand out.. These are the same that He first has met. These concern the appropriate means in order to aim. It's necessary a decision that breaks with the image of the mother (the world of needs and material securities), with that of his father (the world of the affections, of the duties and relations) and with the ego constraints (security and one's identity to keep ): they are poverty, chastity and obedience necessary to follow, overcoming the temptation of having, power and appearance. More than the three requirements that the teacher has towards the one who wants to follow him, those are three gifts that Jesus gives the disciple: the liberty from the things, from people and from the ego, to love Him completely.. Like any gift, it is only for those who want it. For this it should ask the Lord this insistently the Lord, despit opponent resistances.
When the days for Jesus' being taken up were fulfilled, he resolutely determined to journey to Jerusalem, and he sent messengers ahead of him. On the way they entered a Samaritan village to prepare for his reception there, but they would not welcome him because the destination of his journey was Jerusalem. When the disciples James and John saw this they asked, "Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?" Jesus turned and rebuked them, and they journeyed to another village.
As they were proceeding on their journey someone said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go." Jesus answered him, "Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head."
And to another he said, "Follow me." But he replied, "Lord, let me go first and bury my father." But he answered him, "Let the dead bury their dead. But you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God." And another said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say farewell to my family at home." To him Jesus said, "No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the kingdom of God."
S. FAUSTI - Jesus is the definitive dwelling of God among the men,He is the Word to listen, He is the beauty to contemplate. Luke calls us, his readers, to contemplate "openly" He walks among us and opens us to the return to the Father. Following Him, we go back to being what we are: His children.
RispondiEliminaBut as no one has listened the Word of the Father, no one now welcomes the face of the Son.
He does not find hospitality, because He is the smallest of all and the excluded by all.
Rejected by the people who are far away , the Samaritans,He is not understood by the disciples who are nearer. He is excluded from the people who are excluded and He is not accepted by small people! He is very resolute in the Word of the Father, who is Love and tenderness.
The Samaritan's face is different from that of any Adam, going down from Jerusalem to Jericho.
He, visible image of invisible God, made himself a pilgrim for all the roads of the world, to return to His brothers their face of children. His journey to the Father and His coming among men coincide in one historic mission, fulfillment of the mystery of salvation.
Rejected by his brothers for their disobedience, He delivered Himself to them in obedience to the Father, and saves them through the mercy and the cross.
Here we see the difference between the spirit of man and spirit of God
In front of his face, we are called to discern the spirit whose we are: we are very resolute like Him in love, or we are closed in the hard-heartedness of our hearts?
Are we truly baptized in His Spirit or in opposite spirit?
Disciple is one who recognizes this poor face, humiliated and humble, and operates according to His Spirit of mercy.
He baptizes and immerses Himself in poverty, humiliation and humility;
we do everything to stand out by having, the power and the appearance.
The face of Jesus to Jerusalem shows us that our intelligence is disturbed.Ignoring the Word of the Son of Man, we lack of discernment and we militate under the banner of the enemy, of course, for a good purpose. Deceived by the intelligence, even our will has his desires and priorities that are opposed to follow Jesus
It 's a will divided between the desire of following Him and this of keeping their material ,emotional and personal securities.
There is a circularity between intelligence and will: one acts as he understands.
But then, for good or bad habit, people understand as act. After the baptism, in which he worked the fundamental choice in the Spirit, Jesus faced and overcame in Himself the temptations.
Even the disciple, after the baptism in the same Spirit, is called to make a decision and to overcome internal ambiguity to his will. As the disciple does not know , so he not wants the path of the Son of Man. For this, besides that in the intelligence, he must also be healed in the will. It actually does not want: it would the aim, but without put into action the means.
In this passage the resistances opposing the disciple to his Lord , stand out..
These are the same that He first has met. These concern the appropriate means in order to aim.
It's necessary a decision that breaks with the image of the mother (the world of needs and material securities), with that of his father (the world of the affections, of the duties and relations) and with the ego constraints (security and one's identity to keep ): they are poverty, chastity and obedience necessary to follow, overcoming the temptation of having, power and appearance.
More than the three requirements that the teacher has towards the one who wants to follow him, those are three gifts that Jesus gives the disciple: the liberty from the things, from people and from the ego, to love Him completely..
Like any gift, it is only for those who want it. For this it should ask the Lord this insistently the Lord, despit opponent resistances.
Gospel Reading: Luke 9:51-62
RispondiEliminaWhen the days for Jesus' being taken up were fulfilled,
he resolutely determined to journey to Jerusalem,
and he sent messengers ahead of him.
On the way they entered a Samaritan village
to prepare for his reception there,
but they would not welcome him
because the destination of his journey was Jerusalem.
When the disciples James and John saw this they asked,
"Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven
to consume them?"
Jesus turned and rebuked them, and they journeyed to another village.
As they were proceeding on their journey someone said to him,
"I will follow you wherever you go."
Jesus answered him,
"Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests,
but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head."
And to another he said, "Follow me."
But he replied, "Lord, let me go first and bury my father."
But he answered him, "Let the dead bury their dead.
But you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God."
And another said, "I will follow you, Lord,
but first let me say farewell to my family at home."
To him Jesus said, "No one who sets a hand to the plow
and looks to what was left behind is fit for the kingdom of God."