by FAUSTI - "A man": It is God, both Father and Mother, Law and Love. The two sons indicate the totality of men. Sinners or righteous, for Him we are always and only children. That is why He has compassion for everyone and does not look to sins. The deep desires of our heart are about what God has in Himself, and what we need. From here envy and aversion to God as our antagonist can arise. But God is not antagonistic. He gives to His children everything He has. In fact, He had already given to Adam that equality which he then wanted to kidnap to Him. For itself every gift, however small, is a sign of another reality: the donation of the Donor. The requests that the two children make to the Father (substances and kids) are always small and petty compared to the Gift he wants to make: Himself. The youngest son leaves nothing of what is his, he takes everything away. The essential is absent: the love of the Father, of Whom everything is a gift. Whoever departs from God can still live by His fruits: love, joy, justice and peace. But not for long. Once the capital has been extinguished, these, too, cease. When the sun has set, the night will not be late. The abandonment to the Father soon brings about the general famine. The son, who departed from the Father, loses his substance. He loses himself, his being son. It is a stream that is cut off from the spring from which it flows. In the anguish in which everything is nothing, the void is unnecessarily filled with everything, which is eaten from nothing. To believe one can enjoy life without God is like to want to breathe without air. Beyond any false modesty, what then brings us nearer to God is need. Man himself is need of God. Made by Him, only in Him is himself. He comes from Him and realizes himself by returning to Him. Rejected God, Who leaves us free even when we make a mistake, we serve the idol.Those who had suffered from the closeness of the Father go to serve foreign masters. There he would like to be nourished by what satisfies the pigs. But an invisible hand prevented him from doing so, because his satiety is only with the Father. Before he was out of himself, alienated in his desires that, instead of saving him, had reduced him to hunger. Now he does not repent, he simply comes to his conclusion. . He noted that reality was not what he was thinking . Before he was out of himself, alienated in his desires that, instead of saving him, had reduced him to hunger. Now he does not repent, he simply comes to his conclusions. He noted that reality was not what he thought. It is a conversion to oneself, more than to the Father. He sensed his own true interest. It is the beginning of a journey. He sees the difference between what is in his misery and what is in the Father's house. It is the gap between reality and desire, between hunger and satiety.
-->The man who has abandoned God, feels the absolute emptiness, the alternative to God is not atheism, but the anguish of nihilism. I think that today nothingness is the normal pedagogue to Christ. The desire for God, the conclusion of the journey, is the principle of setting in motion. Nostalgia for the Father is essential to man, who is always a son. Nostalgia that is the pain of return: It is pain that knows and indicates the way to find peace, and grows in proportion to distance. If he stops running away and looks towards heaven, towards Him, he realizes the smile with which He has always looked at him. But the son has not yet understood that the Father is gratuitous love and thinks, not having deserved it, to renounce his fatherhood. If he looks at himself, he sees his own failure, but if he looks at Him he discovers his own essence of son. Conversion is accepting God as the Father who loves freely. Seeing the evil of the son, the Father is troubled by the bowels... emotion is the fundamental quality of that God who is Mercy. The kiss of the Father of life is His Fatherly Love for the Son. All the other gifts are contained in this Kiss, which is the Holy Spirit, the common Life of the Father and the Son given to the sinner. The Father is in a hurry. He knows how harms to his son his idea of returning as a servant. His fatherhood is always ready for us when we return to Him. And a new robe of that He covers us is Christ Himself. He is the new garment of those who are regenerated in Baptism. He makes us and reveals us children. And they began to do feasting, the beginning of what will be without end. The eldest son is Israel, the firstborn of God, the figure of every righteous person. For him to return to the Father means to participate in His Feast for the brother. In the Feast there is the harmony of mutual love and the dance of the Father and of the Son in the one Spirit. We are all invited to become His children, living by the Son. No one is missing, not even the right one. Then it will be feast, joy, symphony, dance. It will be the return of all creation to the Father in the Son, in Whom and for Whom all things have been done. This is our salvation: the full joy of God!
LUKE 15. 11 - 32 "Then he said, 'There was a man who had two sons. 12.The younger one said to his father, "Father, let me have the share of the estate that will come to me." So the father divided the property between them. 13.A few days later, the younger son got together everything he had and left for a distant country where he squandered his money on a life of debauchery. 14.'When he had spent it all, that country experienced a severe famine, and now he began to feel the pinch; 15.so he hired himself out to one of the local inhabitants who put him on his farm to feed the pigs. 16.And he would willingly have filled himself with the husks the pigs were eating but no one would let him have them. 17.Then he came to his senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have all the food they want and more, and here am I dying of hunger! 18.I will leave this place and go to my father and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; 19.I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired men." 20.So he left the place and went back to his father. 'While he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with pity. He ran to the boy, clasped him in his arms and kissed him. 21.Then his son said, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your son." 22.But the father said to his servants, "Quick! Bring out the best robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23.Bring the calf we have been fattening, and kill it; we will celebrate by having a feast, 24.because this son of mine was dead and has come back to life; he was lost and is found." And they began to celebrate. 25.'Now the elder son was out in the fields, and on his way back, as he drew near the house, he could hear music and dancing. 26.Calling one of the servants he asked what it was all about. 27.The servant told him, "Your brother has come, and your father has killed the calf we had been fattening because he has got him back safe and sound." 28.He was angry then and refused to go in, and his father came out and began to urge him to come in; 29.but he retorted to his father, "All these years I have slaved for you and never once disobeyed any orders of yours, yet you never offered me so much as a kid for me to celebrate with my friends. 30.But, for this son of yours, when he comes back after swallowing up your property -- he and his loose women -- you kill the calf we had been fattening." 31.'The father said, "My son, you are with me always and all I have is yours. 32.But it was only right we should celebrate and rejoice, because your brother here was dead and has come to life; he was lost and is found." '"
by FAUSTI - "A man": It is God, both Father and Mother, Law and Love.
RispondiEliminaThe two sons indicate the totality of men. Sinners or righteous, for Him we are always and only children.
That is why He has compassion for everyone and does not look to sins.
The deep desires of our heart are about what God has in Himself, and what we need. From here envy and aversion to God as our antagonist can arise.
But God is not antagonistic. He gives to His children everything He has.
In fact, He had already given to Adam that equality which he then wanted to kidnap to Him.
For itself every gift, however small, is a sign of another reality: the donation of the Donor.
The requests that the two children make to the Father (substances and kids) are always small and petty compared to the Gift he wants to make: Himself.
The youngest son leaves nothing of what is his, he takes everything away.
The essential is absent: the love of the Father, of Whom everything is a gift.
Whoever departs from God can still live by His fruits: love, joy, justice and peace.
But not for long. Once the capital has been extinguished, these, too, cease.
When the sun has set, the night will not be late.
The abandonment to the Father soon brings about the general famine.
The son, who departed from the Father, loses his substance. He loses himself, his being son.
It is a stream that is cut off from the spring from which it flows. In the anguish in which everything is nothing, the void is unnecessarily filled with everything, which is eaten from nothing.
To believe one can enjoy life without God is like to want to breathe without air.
Beyond any false modesty, what then brings us nearer to God is need.
Man himself is need of God.
Made by Him, only in Him is himself. He comes from Him and realizes himself by returning to Him.
Rejected God, Who leaves us free even when we make a mistake, we serve the idol.Those who had suffered from the closeness of the Father go to serve foreign masters. There he would like to be nourished by what satisfies the pigs. But an invisible hand prevented him from doing so, because his satiety is only with the Father. Before he was out of himself, alienated in his desires that, instead of saving him, had reduced him to hunger. Now he does not repent, he simply comes to his conclusion. . He noted that reality was not what he was thinking .
Before he was out of himself, alienated in his desires that, instead of saving him, had reduced him to hunger. Now he does not repent, he simply comes to his conclusions. He noted that reality was not what he thought.
It is a conversion to oneself, more than to the Father. He sensed his own true interest.
It is the beginning of a journey.
He sees the difference between what is in his misery and what is in the Father's house.
It is the gap between reality and desire, between hunger and satiety.
-->The man who has abandoned God, feels the absolute emptiness, the alternative to God is not atheism, but the anguish of nihilism.
RispondiEliminaI think that today nothingness is the normal pedagogue to Christ.
The desire for God, the conclusion of the journey, is the principle of setting in motion.
Nostalgia for the Father is essential to man, who is always a son. Nostalgia that is the pain of return: It is pain that knows and indicates the way to find peace, and grows in proportion to distance. If he stops running away and looks towards heaven, towards Him, he realizes the smile with which He has always looked at him. But the son has not yet understood that the Father is gratuitous love and thinks, not having deserved it, to renounce his fatherhood.
If he looks at himself, he sees his own failure, but if he looks at Him he discovers his own essence of son.
Conversion is accepting God as the Father who loves freely.
Seeing the evil of the son, the Father is troubled by the bowels... emotion is the fundamental quality of that God who is Mercy.
The kiss of the Father of life is His Fatherly Love for the Son.
All the other gifts are contained in this Kiss, which is the Holy Spirit, the common Life of the Father and the Son given to the sinner.
The Father is in a hurry. He knows how harms to his son his idea of returning as a servant. His fatherhood is always ready for us when we return to Him. And a new robe of that He covers us is Christ Himself.
He is the new garment of those who are regenerated in Baptism. He makes us and reveals us children.
And they began to do feasting, the beginning of what will be without end.
The eldest son is Israel, the firstborn of God, the figure of every righteous person. For him to return to the Father means to participate in His Feast for the brother.
In the Feast there is the harmony of mutual love and the dance of the Father and of the Son in the one Spirit. We are all invited to become His children, living by the Son.
No one is missing, not even the right one.
Then it will be feast, joy, symphony, dance.
It will be the return of all creation to the Father in the Son, in Whom and for Whom all things have been done.
This is our salvation: the full joy of God!
LUKE 15. 11 - 32 "Then he said, 'There was a man who had two sons. 12.The younger one said to his father, "Father, let me have the share of the estate that will come to me." So the father divided the property between them. 13.A few days later, the younger son got together everything he had and left for a distant country where he squandered his money on a life of debauchery. 14.'When he had spent it all, that country experienced a severe famine, and now he began to feel the pinch; 15.so he hired himself out to one of the local inhabitants who put him on his farm to feed the pigs. 16.And he would willingly have filled himself with the husks the pigs were eating but no one would let him have them. 17.Then he came to his senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have all the food they want and more, and here am I dying of hunger! 18.I will leave this place and go to my father and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; 19.I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired men." 20.So he left the place and went back to his father. 'While he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with pity. He ran to the boy, clasped him in his arms and kissed him. 21.Then his son said, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your son." 22.But the father said to his servants, "Quick! Bring out the best robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23.Bring the calf we have been fattening, and kill it; we will celebrate by having a feast, 24.because this son of mine was dead and has come back to life; he was lost and is found." And they began to celebrate. 25.'Now the elder son was out in the fields, and on his way back, as he drew near the house, he could hear music and dancing. 26.Calling one of the servants he asked what it was all about. 27.The servant told him, "Your brother has come, and your father has killed the calf we had been fattening because he has got him back safe and sound." 28.He was angry then and refused to go in, and his father came out and began to urge him to come in; 29.but he retorted to his father, "All these years I have slaved for you and never once disobeyed any orders of yours, yet you never offered me so much as a kid for me to celebrate with my friends. 30.But, for this son of yours, when he comes back after swallowing up your property -- he and his loose women -- you kill the calf we had been fattening." 31.'The father said, "My son, you are with me always and all I have is yours. 32.But it was only right we should celebrate and rejoice, because your brother here was dead and has come to life; he was lost and is found." '"
RispondiEliminaFirst reading Joshua 5:9-12 ©
RispondiEliminaThe Israelites celebrate their first Passover in the Promised Land
The Lord said to Joshua, ‘Today I have taken the shame of Egypt away from you.’
The Israelites pitched their camp at Gilgal and kept the Passover there on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening in the plain of Jericho. On the morrow of the Passover they tasted the produce of that country, unleavened bread and roasted ears of corn, that same day. From that time, from their first eating of the produce of that country, the manna stopped falling. And having manna no longer, the Israelites fed from that year onwards on what the land of Canaan yielded.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 33(34):2-7 ©
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
I will bless the Lord at all times,
his praise always on my lips;
in the Lord my soul shall make its boast.
The humble shall hear and be glad.
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Glorify the Lord with me.
Together let us praise his name.
I sought the Lord and he answered me;
from all my terrors he set me free.
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Look towards him and be radiant;
let your faces not be abashed.
This poor man called, the Lord heard him
and rescued him from all his distress.
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Second reading
2 Corinthians 5:17-21 ©
God reconciled himself to us through Christ
For anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation; the old creation has gone, and now the new one is here. It is all God’s work. It was God who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the work of handing on this reconciliation. In other words, God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself, not holding men’s faults against them, and he has entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled. So we are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were appealing through us, and the appeal that we make in Christ’s name is: be reconciled to God. For our sake God made the sinless one into sin, so that in him we might become the goodness of God.
Gospel Acclamation Lk15:18
Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus!
I will leave this place and go to my father and say:
‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.’
Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus!