sabato 26 gennaio 2019

C - 3 SUNDAY O.T.


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  1. FAUSTI - By the history of Israel has tilled a piece of our land, sowed His Word there and cultivated It. It has slowly grown and has become a large tree, with ripe fruits: a tree of life, which bears twelve harvests and produces fruits every month; the leaves of which serve to heal the nations" (Rev 22:2). God's hard work has now come to fulfilment: at a precise point and time, He Himself has opened a breach in the wall of our history.
    When the last stone that served as a veil had fallen down, a way out of perdition was opened up, but no one noticed. At the time, not even the very nearest ones! The work of God, small and punctual, has been smothered by the noise of the whole great history.
    Luke wishes to take every man by the hand and lead him to that door: it is the story of Jesus, place where the wall was demolished. Through this door the man, with all his wounds and disappointments, with all his hopelessness and anguish, comes out of the prison of death and enters into the light of life. Luke's Gospel is a "historical" Gospel, it takes charge of the history of the concrete man and opens it to salvation, firstly promised and now realized in Jesus.
    Jesus is the center of time, the eternal today of God for the world.
    Through Him " today salvation has entered into this house".
    In the prologue Luke gives his credentials of " historian of salvation ".
    He He describes those things that were done among us, transmitted by eyewitnesses, who became "servants of the Word".
    Jesus in the power of the Spirit begins His ministry and inaugurates the jubilee year in which the fatherhood of God is lived in fraternity among men: it is the entrance into the promised land.
    He presents himself as the "fulfilment" of the Word of grace, which brings God's blessing and accomplishes the promise. The evangelist wants to make his reader discover this Word of grace announced "today".
    The Scripture find fulfillment in the ear of those who listen to Jesus proclaiming it: what it promises is proclaimed as realized in Him and listening to His Word,it is its full fulfillment in faith, which makes happen "here too" today what He did at Capernaum then.
    From the beginning Jesus appears to us more than a scribe and a prophet; He not only explains the Word of God, but He actualizes it. This actualization does not consist in adapting it to one's own time, but in "making it present", it makes His life present, contemporaneous to it. He, the obedient Son, is the fulfilment of every Word. Thus, also for us, to actualize the Word means to listen to the Gospel. The obedience to it makes us present to the today of God, present to Jesus, the Son, in whom the history of every Adam finds fulfilment. To God it is pleasing to save the world through the proclamation of the Gospel. The Word, weak instrument and free way of communion, is God's power for the salvation of everyone who has faith (Rom 1:16).
    In this inaugural speech we have the authentic explanation of Jesus' Ministry: what is the aim (being children of the Father in being brothers among us), what is the instrument (listening to the Word of the Father), how to act (in the power of Love, which is the Spirit of God), when to act (today) and for whom (for those who listen).

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  2. Alleluia, alleluia.
    The Lord sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor,
    and to proclaim liberty to captives.
    R. Alleluia, alleluia.
    Gospel LK 1:1-4; 4:14-21
    Since many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the events
    that have been fulfilled among us,
    just as those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning
    and ministers of the word have handed them down to us,
    I too have decided,
    after investigating everything accurately anew,
    to write it down in an orderly sequence for you,
    most excellent Theophilus,
    so that you may realize the certainty of the teachings
    you have received.

    Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit,
    and news of him spread throughout the whole region.
    He taught in their synagogues and was praised by all.

    He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up,
    and went according to his custom
    into the synagogue on the sabbath day.
    He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah.
    He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written:
    The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
    because he has anointed me
    to bring glad tidings to the poor.
    He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives
    and recovery of sight to the blind,
    to let the oppressed go free,
    and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.
    Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down,
    and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him.
    He said to them,
    "Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing."

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  3. Reading 1 EZ 17:22-24
    Thus says the Lord GOD:
    I, too, will take from the crest of the cedar,
    from its topmost branches tear off a tender shoot,
    and plant it on a high and lofty mountain;
    on the mountain heights of Israel I will plant it.
    It shall put forth branches and bear fruit,
    and become a majestic cedar.
    Birds of every kind shall dwell beneath it,
    every winged thing in the shade of its boughs.
    And all the trees of the field shall know
    that I, the LORD,
    bring low the high tree,
    lift high the lowly tree,
    wither up the green tree,
    and make the withered tree bloom.
    As I, the LORD, have spoken, so will I do.
    Responsorial Psalm PS 92:2-3, 13-14, 15-16
    R. (cf. 2a) Lord, it is good to give thanks to you.
    It is good to give thanks to the LORD,
    to sing praise to your name, Most High,
    To proclaim your kindness at dawn
    and your faithfulness throughout the night.
    R. Lord, it is good to give thanks to you.
    The just one shall flourish like the palm tree,
    like a cedar of Lebanon shall he grow.
    They that are planted in the house of the LORD
    shall flourish in the courts of our God.
    R. Lord, it is good to give thanks to you.
    They shall bear fruit even in old age;
    vigorous and sturdy shall they be,
    Declaring how just is the LORD,
    my rock, in whom there is no wrong.
    R. Lord, it is good to give thanks to you.
    Reading 2 2 COR 5:6-10
    Brothers and sisters:
    We are always courageous,
    although we know that while we are at home in the body
    we are away from the Lord,
    for we walk by faith, not by sight.
    Yet we are courageous,
    and we would rather leave the body and go home to the Lord.
    Therefore, we aspire to please him,
    whether we are at home or away.
    For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ,
    so that each may receive recompense,
    according to what he did in the body, whether good or evil.

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