S. FAUSTI - "I am the vine, you are the branches" Jesus says to his present and future disciples.. With this metaphor, full of suggestions, the glorified Lord talks of his deep union with those who adhere to Him., They love Him and keep his words. Vine and branches are an single tree: they have the same sap and produce the same fruit.. John, whose symbol is the eagle, whirls in the same place, with circles more and more elevated. Here, speaking of communion that already exists between Jesus and his disciples , He takes us beyond the space and the time, embracing every space and every time, to finally expand himself in the immensity of God. The speech has its own discontinuous continuity of the Eagle planar: in an updraft, without perceptible motion, transports us to the high up, with a wider vision that, from heaven, focuses each distance on the ground. This is not a duplicate, but a repetition of what he has just been said. The truth must be contemplated not once but many times, to be interiorized and be savored. Whenever the memory of what has been understood is revived with new resonances, the most simple and profound, that fill the heart and that expand themselves without end. For us, living in the time, the repetition is principle of life, like the beating of the heart, the breathing rhythm and every other vital function. This is also true for life in the Spirit: the Word, again and again listened ,chewed and assimilated, makes us live and grow day by day. In constant reminder, it is imprinted in us, it changes and assimilates us to itself.. The one lives ,in fact, of what reminds and becomes what is in his heart. In repetition there is no danger of boredom. in a continuous visits, what is beautiful, is more and more beautiful. The repetition is the foundation of contemplation, which leads us gradually to become a reflection of God's beauty. The vine is the fruit of the promised land: it gives the wine that gladdens the heart of man (Ps 104). It is symbol of the joy and of the love, that "something more" necessary to human life because it is more humane. He recalls the first of the signs that Jesus accomplished in Cana, renewing the alliance. The Psalm 80 reads the history of Israel under the metaphor of a vineyard, planted by God with love and vigor, which becomes florid to fill the earth, from the mountains to the sea and to the river But now it abandoned and devastated. The Psalm is an request to the Lord in order to He visit His vineyard, to shine His countenance and save this from the desolation. John presents the answer to this prayer finally listened. Now the vine is Jesus Himself, the true vine that bears fruit. In Him there is the passage from the vineyard to the vine, from the many to the one, which is both a response of God to man and of the man to God. If we remain united to Him through the faith, the love and the observance of His word, we pass from infidelity to fidelity, from infertility to fertility, from mourning to joy.
In Him the new covenant between God and man is indissoluble: He himself is the new covenant, because it is both the Son of God and Son of Man. The new people is formed by the branches united to Him, the only vine that produces fruits of love. After the metaphor Jesus-vine and the branches of fruitfulness who dwell in Him, it says that to dwell in Him is fulfill His command: to love us with His own love. It is the clear statement to the people of the new covenant, because he has understood the newness of life to which he is called and he does not falls into the conceit and into the infidelity than before. The word "dwell" dear to John, draws relationships, affection, love. The man resides where he has the heart, where he loves, he is at home in the one whom he loves. In Jesus, the Son of man and the Son of God, too us, we are children , face to the bosom of the Father. The union with God is not a vague affection, an esoteric speculation or an intellectual illumination. is concrete life, in love given for the brothers.
S. FAUSTI - "I am the vine, you are the branches" Jesus says to his present and future disciples.. With this metaphor, full of suggestions, the glorified Lord talks of his deep union with those who adhere to Him., They love Him and keep his words.
RispondiEliminaVine and branches are an single tree: they have the same sap and produce the same fruit.. John, whose symbol is the eagle, whirls in the same place, with circles more and more elevated. Here, speaking of communion that already exists between Jesus and his disciples , He takes us beyond the space and the time, embracing every space and every time, to finally expand himself in the immensity of God.
The speech has its own discontinuous continuity of the Eagle planar: in an updraft, without perceptible motion, transports us to the high up, with a wider vision that, from heaven, focuses each distance on the ground.
This is not a duplicate, but a repetition of what he has just been said. The truth must
be contemplated not once but many times, to be interiorized and be savored. Whenever the memory of what has been understood is revived with new resonances, the most simple and profound, that fill the heart and that expand themselves without end.
For us, living in the time, the repetition is principle of life, like the beating of the heart, the breathing rhythm and every other vital function.
This is also true for life in the Spirit: the Word, again and again listened ,chewed and assimilated, makes us live and grow day by day.
In constant reminder, it is imprinted in us, it changes and assimilates us to itself..
The one lives ,in fact, of what reminds and becomes what is in his heart.
In repetition there is no danger of boredom. in a continuous visits, what is beautiful, is more and more beautiful. The repetition is the foundation of contemplation, which leads us gradually to become a reflection of God's beauty.
The vine is the fruit of the promised land: it gives the wine that gladdens the heart of man (Ps 104).
It is symbol of the joy and of the love, that "something more" necessary to human life because it is more humane. He recalls the first of the signs that Jesus accomplished in Cana, renewing the alliance.
The Psalm 80 reads the history of Israel under the metaphor of a vineyard, planted by God with love and vigor, which becomes florid to fill the earth, from the mountains to the sea and to the river
But now it abandoned and devastated. The Psalm is an request to the Lord in order to He visit His vineyard, to shine His countenance and save this from the desolation.
John presents the answer to this prayer finally listened.
Now the vine is Jesus Himself, the true vine that bears fruit.
In Him there is the passage from the vineyard to the vine, from the many to the one, which is both a response of God to man and of the man to God.
If we remain united to Him through the faith, the love and the observance of His word, we pass from infidelity to fidelity, from infertility to fertility, from mourning to joy.
In Him the new covenant between God and man is indissoluble: He himself is the new covenant, because it is both the Son of God and Son of Man.
RispondiEliminaThe new people is formed by the branches united to Him, the only vine that produces fruits of love.
After the metaphor Jesus-vine and the branches of fruitfulness who dwell in Him, it says that to dwell in Him is fulfill His command: to love us with His own love.
It is the clear statement to the people of the new covenant, because he has understood the newness of life to which he is called and he does not falls into the conceit and into the infidelity than before.
The word "dwell" dear to John, draws relationships, affection, love.
The man resides where he has the heart, where he loves, he is at home in the one whom he loves.
In Jesus, the Son of man and the Son of God, too us, we are children , face to the bosom of the Father.
The union with God is not a vague affection, an esoteric speculation or an intellectual illumination. is concrete life, in love given for the brothers.