S. FAUSTI - The journey of Jesus to Jerusalem outlines the spiritual journey of the disciple. Now the third and final stage begins , which introduces to Jericho, door of the promised land. But who shall go up the mountain of the Lord?who shall take a stand in his holy place?The one who is clean of hands and pure of heart...(Ps 24.3). Only the Just has the strength to make the holy journey. (Psalm 84.6). For us it is impassable! But His mercy orders to us, sinners and fugitives, go to Jerusalem; His word sends us to accomplish what is prohibited to us . He, the only pilgrim who there rises, He makes it possible to us : He is the Samaritan who comes to meeting us, exiled from his face and excluded from glory, in order to He take charge of our leprosy. The invocation. "Jesus, have mercy!", Is the point to which Luke wants to bring his reader: it is the prayer of the Name that associates us with Him, in His own journey, in which we are cleansed. This story, which constantly changes scene to each verse and contains ten verbs of motion, it speaks not of the possibility, but of the reality of impossible. The salvation, that no one can reach, has already been given to all ten men . They are in fact in the same path of the One who came to search for all. But only one for now has the faith and encounters the Savior. This is responsible for the other nine, because they too will discover themselves healed and will come back to meeting the Lord ,doing Eucharist. The salvation in fact is not recover from the leprosy, but it is meet the One who healed us. The thirst is not subsiding with a glass of water, you have to find the source. To the gift it must return our thanks to the donor. Only the relationship with Christ saves us: his gifts simply mean to put us in communion with Him; only the love recognized and welcomed heals us from the inner death, which is the true leprosy. For this the salvation is between the "already" and the "not yet." Already offered to all, not everyone has it accepted. Yet nine out of ten not know that their life has been condoned of the death, they are living and dying yet as lepers. They are like a caged bird who doesn't know that the door is open. The only one who comes doing Eucharist is sent to give to everyone the good news. The eyes of the blind open themselves to see the light! . The message makes discover and accept the gift. This is such only when it finds hands to take it and the heart to rejoice of it. It 's the first time that Jesus is called by name. "There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men in which it is established that we can be saved" (Acts 4:12). The invocation unites us to Him, the way that leads to the Father
“Blessed is she who believed that what was spoken to her by the Lord would be fulfilled” (Lk 1,45)
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 11:27-28. While Jesus was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed." He replied, "Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it."
S. FAUSTI - The journey of Jesus to Jerusalem outlines the spiritual journey of the disciple.
RispondiEliminaNow the third and final stage begins , which introduces to Jericho, door of the promised land.
But who shall go up the mountain of the Lord?who shall take a stand in his holy place?The one who is clean of hands and pure of heart...(Ps 24.3).
Only the Just has the strength to make the holy journey. (Psalm 84.6). For us it is impassable!
But His mercy orders to us, sinners and fugitives, go to Jerusalem; His word sends us to accomplish what is prohibited to us .
He, the only pilgrim who there rises, He makes it possible to us : He is the Samaritan who comes to meeting us, exiled from his face and excluded from glory, in order to He take charge of our leprosy.
The invocation. "Jesus, have mercy!", Is the point to which Luke wants to bring his reader: it is the prayer of the Name that associates us with Him, in His own journey, in which we are cleansed.
This story, which constantly changes scene to each verse and contains ten verbs of motion, it speaks not of the possibility, but of the reality of impossible.
The salvation, that no one can reach, has already been given to all ten men . They are in fact in the same path of the One who came to search for all.
But only one for now has the faith and encounters the Savior.
This is responsible for the other nine, because they too will discover themselves healed and will come back to meeting the Lord ,doing Eucharist.
The salvation in fact is not recover from the leprosy, but it is meet the One who healed us.
The thirst is not subsiding with a glass of water, you have to find the source.
To the gift it must return our thanks to the donor. Only the relationship with Christ saves us: his gifts simply mean to put us in communion with Him; only the love recognized and welcomed heals us from the inner death, which is the true leprosy.
For this the salvation is between the "already" and the "not yet."
Already offered to all, not everyone has it accepted. Yet nine out of ten not know that their life has been condoned of the death, they are living and dying yet as lepers.
They are like a caged bird who doesn't know that the door is open.
The only one who comes doing Eucharist is sent to give to everyone the good news. The eyes of the blind open themselves to see the light! .
The message makes discover and accept the gift.
This is such only when it finds hands to take it and the heart to rejoice of it.
It 's the first time that Jesus is called by name. "There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men in which it is established that we can be saved"
(Acts 4:12). The invocation unites us to Him, the way that leads to the Father
“Blessed is she who believed that what was spoken to her by the Lord would be fulfilled” (Lk 1,45)
RispondiEliminaHoly Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 11:27-28.
While Jesus was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed."
He replied, "Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it."