S. FAUSTI - The commandment of Love is the cornerstone of the Ancient and New Testament. It defines the truth of man in his relationship with God, with others and with himself. The whole world doesn’t worth an act of love, as all the water jars don’t worth of the source from which they were drawn. The one who loves, reaches the aim. The parable of the Good Samaritan is a miniature of the face of God revealed in the Old Testament that Jesus fully reflects in His : "The one who has seen me has seen the Father." (14.9) It's addressed to the lawyer, because he see the love the Father / Son open to the small ones. He is one who, all aimed in the effort to love God and the neighbor, rightly asks: "But, who does love me?”For the man, in fact, before love it comes to be loved : of Love they die,they live of be loved! If the love of God and of neighbor is the path of the life, the man travels it if not on reverse,just because he doesn’t feel loved. The law of love, good in itself, does nothing more that highlight its own failure. The road to salvation becomes for him a sentence of death! Ordering: "Go and you too do the same," Jesus doesn’t reaffirms an impossible law . It would be a mockery, not an answer to the question: "What do we have to do to inherit life?". He rather makes a proclamation of the Gospel: in him, the Samaritan, God took care of me and loved me, so that me too, cured of my disease, I may love Him with all my heart and my brothers like myself. The lawyer, who answered exactly on what "is written," is now called "to read" that what is written is performing under his eyes and in his ears while he listens to Jesus. There is the One who is branded as a Samaritan, because welcoming the sinners, transgress the whole law. He, who goes beyond any limit to go himself near to the man, actually reveals the Father's love.
Fausti – For this, You, Bread of Life, you become hungry to feed us in the journey; You, living water, you become thirsty, to quench our thirst in the desert; You, welcome, you maked yourself exiled to accommodate us in the escape, You, Glory, you make yourself nudityto clothe in the shame; You, force, you became weak, to visit us in the disease; You, ,Son, you became a slave to free us from the chains; You, right one, made yourself condemned to fix our condemnation and win in You any enmity. On the cross, tree of the truth, you have wanted to make yourself all that we are and we do not want to be, to give us your kingdom which we refused on the tree of evil. Then You have closed in your open arms any distance and you have fulfilled your mission of Son: to offer to all brothers the Mercy of the Father.
S. FAUSTI - The commandment of Love is the cornerstone of the Ancient and New Testament. It defines the truth of man in his relationship with God, with others and with himself.
RispondiEliminaThe whole world doesn’t worth an act of love, as all the water jars don’t worth of the source from which they were drawn. The one who loves, reaches the aim.
The parable of the Good Samaritan is a miniature of the face of God revealed in the Old Testament that Jesus fully reflects in His : "The one who has seen me has seen the Father." (14.9)
It's addressed to the lawyer, because he see the love the Father / Son open to the small ones.
He is one who, all aimed in the effort to love God and the neighbor, rightly asks: "But, who does love me?”For the man, in fact, before love it comes to be loved : of Love they die,they live of be loved!
If the love of God and of neighbor is the path of the life, the man travels it if not on reverse,just because he doesn’t feel loved.
The law of love, good in itself, does nothing more that highlight its own failure.
The road to salvation becomes for him a sentence of death!
Ordering: "Go and you too do the same," Jesus doesn’t reaffirms an impossible law . It would be a mockery, not an answer to the question: "What do we have to do to inherit life?".
He rather makes a proclamation of the Gospel: in him, the Samaritan, God took care of me and loved me, so that me too, cured of my disease, I may love Him with all my heart and my brothers like myself.
The lawyer, who answered exactly on what "is written," is now called "to read" that what is written is performing under his eyes and in his ears while he listens to Jesus.
There is the One who is branded as a Samaritan, because welcoming the sinners, transgress the whole law.
He, who goes beyond any limit to go himself near to the man, actually reveals the Father's love.
RispondiEliminaFausti – For this, You, Bread of Life, you become hungry to feed us in the journey;
You, living water, you become thirsty, to quench our thirst in the desert;
You, welcome, you maked yourself exiled to accommodate us in the escape,
You, Glory, you make yourself nudityto clothe in the shame;
You, force, you became weak, to visit us in the disease;
You, ,Son, you became a slave to free us from the chains;
You, right one, made yourself condemned to fix our condemnation and win in You any enmity.
On the cross, tree of the truth, you have wanted to make yourself all that we are and we do not want to be, to give us your kingdom which we refused on the tree of evil.
Then You have closed in your open arms any distance and you have fulfilled your mission of Son:
to offer to all brothers the Mercy of the Father.