FAUSTI: Jesus left to us as an inheritance the command to love one another (Jn 13:34). Here it goes further upstream: He says of loving Him. The aim of love is reciprocity, by which one becomes the life of the other. By loving Him, we become what He is; and we can love our brothers and sisters with His love, which is the same as that of the Father. Christianity is above all love for Jesus, who assimilates us to Him, the Son, giving us His love for the Father and for our brothers and sisters. Love is not only a feeling. It involves the whole person, giving her a new way of being. It informs her understanding, wanting and acting. Concretely one loves with facts and in truth. (1 Jn 3:18). Observing his commands is the condition for remaining in the covenant of the faithful God, who has loved, chosen and freed us. They can be observed either out of obligation, as slaves, as the older brother in the parable does (Lk 15:29), or for the love of sons. For Jesus, the principle of observance is the love of a heart that knowns to be loved, the new heart of the new covenant. He calls these commands "my" commandments because the Scriptures and Moses talk about Him, and He speak of "commandments" in the plural because His commandment, even if it is only one (Jn 13:34), is also multiple. Love in fact expresses itself in every single action and makes us discern, here and now, what is best to do. For this reason it is the fulfilment of the Law with all its various precepts. "Love and do what you will" - (St. Augustine) - does not mean that he who loves allows himself to do everything, but that love does no harm to anyone (Rom 13:10) and spontaneously guides the will to do what is good. He who does evil does not love. As Jesus by His departure becomes the pontiff between us and God, the brother who intercedes before the Father. He opens to us the access to Him and to His gifts. Jesus asks the Father for the definitive gift for us. He obtains everything that He asks for. (11,42). That is why the Consoler is certainly given to us. We pray ... to prepare ourselves to receive Him. "Consoler", because "con-solar" means to be with someone who is alone, so that he is no longer alone. The Consoler is the One who is "with" us, offering us that company that overcomes our radical loneliness. This Consoler is another respect to Jesus, who is now leaving. This Consoler is given by the Father to those who love the Son and observe His commands. To love Him means to live like Him, observing His Word. And His Word is the command to love one another (13:34). Only those who love the Son and brothers and sisters experience the Love of the Father. The coming of God, Father and Son, will be that of the Spirit, precisely of those who love the Son and the brethren.
-->God's dwelling place among men, His definitive Covenant, is that of love. Whoever loves Jesus becomes the temple of God, the place of His presence. He has within himself the Son who is in the Father and the Father who is in the Son. In him the Father and the Son place their home, manifesting themselves to him and in him. The place that Jesus prepares for us near the Father is ourselves that, in love, we become dwelling place of Him and of the Father. Those who do not love Jesus do not observe His words. For this reason, he ignores the Son sent by the Father to reveal His Love for us. The period in which He has dwelt with us is the centre and summit of time. Through the proclamation of the Gospel, each time enters that time, in which God reveals Himself in a definitive and normative way. The Spirit of Love will teach us and imprint the Son in our hearts. God, who was with us first in the Law and then with us in the flesh of the Son, will be in us with His Spirit. The Holy Spirit, who is Love, will make us understand all that the Son has told us. Love, as it makes us understand, thus makes us remind, carry in our hearts, all that Jesus said, because we can live with it. Jesus said and gave everything. The Holy Spirit will not add anything to what He has revealed and given; instead, He will make the mystery of the Son and the Father enter ever more deeply into us, with a love that makes us know and with a knowledge that makes us love.
9- 6 - 19 Sequence Veni, Sancte Spiritus Come, Holy Spirit, come! And from your celestial home Shed a ray of light divine! Come, Father of the poor! Come, source of all our store! Come, within our bosoms shine. You, of comforters the best; You, the soul's most welcome guest; Sweet refreshment here below; In our labor, rest most sweet; Grateful coolness in the heat; Solace in the midst of woe. O most blessed Light divine, Shine within these hearts of yours, And our inmost being fill! Where you are not, we have naught, Nothing good in deed or thought, Nothing free from taint of ill. Heal our wounds, our strength renew; On our dryness pour your dew; Wash the stains of guilt away: Bend the stubborn heart and will; Melt the frozen, warm the chill; Guide the steps that go astray. On the faithful, who adore And confess you, evermore In your sevenfold gift descend; Give them virtue's sure reward; Give them your salvation, Lord; Give them joys that never end. Amen. Alleluia. Alleluia R. Alleluia, alleluia. Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. R. Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel JN 20:19-23 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be with you." When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you."
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained."
FAUSTI: Jesus left to us as an inheritance the command to love one another (Jn 13:34). Here it goes further upstream: He says of loving Him. The aim of love is reciprocity, by which one becomes the life of the other. By loving Him, we become what He is; and we can love our brothers and sisters with His love, which is the same as that of the Father. Christianity is above all love for Jesus, who assimilates us to Him, the Son, giving us His love for the Father and for our brothers and sisters. Love is not only a feeling. It involves the whole person, giving her a new way of being. It informs her understanding, wanting and acting. Concretely one loves with facts and in truth. (1 Jn 3:18). Observing his commands is the condition for remaining in the covenant of the faithful God, who has loved, chosen and freed us. They can be observed either out of obligation, as slaves, as the older brother in the parable does (Lk 15:29), or for the love of sons. For Jesus, the principle of observance is the love of a heart that knowns to be loved, the new heart of the new covenant. He calls these commands "my" commandments because the Scriptures and Moses talk about Him, and He speak of "commandments" in the plural because His commandment, even if it is only one (Jn 13:34), is also multiple. Love in fact expresses itself in every single action and makes us discern, here and now, what is best to do. For this reason it is the fulfilment of the Law with all its various precepts. "Love and do what you will" - (St. Augustine) - does not mean that he who loves allows himself to do everything, but that love does no harm to anyone (Rom 13:10) and spontaneously guides the will to do what is good. He who does evil does not love. As Jesus by His departure becomes the pontiff between us and God, the brother who intercedes before the Father. He opens to us the access to Him and to His gifts. Jesus asks the Father for the definitive gift for us. He obtains everything that He asks for. (11,42). That is why the Consoler is certainly given to us. We pray ... to prepare ourselves to receive Him. "Consoler", because "con-solar" means to be with someone who is alone, so that he is no longer alone. The Consoler is the One who is "with" us, offering us that company that overcomes our radical loneliness. This Consoler is another respect to Jesus, who is now leaving. This Consoler is given by the Father to those who love the Son and observe His commands. To love Him means to live like Him, observing His Word. And His Word is the command to love one another (13:34). Only those who love the Son and brothers and sisters experience the Love of the Father. The coming of God, Father and Son, will be that of the Spirit, precisely of those who love the Son and the brethren.
-->God's dwelling place among men, His definitive Covenant, is that of love. Whoever loves Jesus becomes the temple of God, the place of His presence. He has within himself the Son who is in the Father and the Father who is in the Son. In him the Father and the Son place their home, manifesting themselves to him and in him. The place that Jesus prepares for us near the Father is ourselves that, in love, we become dwelling place of Him and of the Father. Those who do not love Jesus do not observe His Words. For this reason, he ignores the Son sent by the Father to reveal His Love for us. The period in which He has dwelt with us is the centre and summit of time. Through the proclamation of the Gospel, each time enters that time, in which God reveals Himself in a definitive and normative way. The Spirit of Love will teach us and imprint the Son in our hearts. God, who was with us first in the Law and then with us in the flesh of the Son, will be in us with His Spirit. The Holy Spirit, who is Love, will make us understand all that the Son has told us. Love, as it makes us understand, thus makes us remind, carry in our hearts, all that Jesus said, because we can live with it. Jesus said and gave everything. The Holy Spirit will not add anything to what He has revealed and given; instead, He will make the mystery of the Son and the Father enter ever more deeply into us, with a Love that makes us know and with a knowledge that makes us love.
FAUSTI: Jesus left to us as an inheritance the command to love one another (Jn 13:34).
RispondiEliminaHere it goes further upstream: He says of loving Him.
The aim of love is reciprocity, by which one becomes the life of the other.
By loving Him, we become what He is; and we can love our brothers and sisters with His love, which is the same as that of the Father. Christianity is above all love for Jesus, who assimilates us to Him, the Son, giving us His love for the Father and for our brothers and sisters.
Love is not only a feeling. It involves the whole person, giving her a new way of being. It informs her understanding, wanting and acting.
Concretely one loves with facts and in truth. (1 Jn 3:18).
Observing his commands is the condition for remaining in the covenant of the faithful God, who has loved, chosen and freed us. They can be observed either out of obligation, as slaves, as the older brother in the parable does (Lk 15:29), or for the love of sons.
For Jesus, the principle of observance is the love of a heart that knowns to be loved, the new heart of the new covenant.
He calls these commands "my" commandments because the Scriptures and Moses talk about Him, and He speak of "commandments" in the plural because His commandment, even if it is only one (Jn 13:34), is also multiple.
Love in fact expresses itself in every single action and makes us discern, here and now, what is best to do.
For this reason it is the fulfilment of the Law with all its various precepts.
"Love and do what you will" - (St. Augustine) - does not mean that he who loves allows himself to do everything, but that love does no harm to anyone (Rom 13:10) and spontaneously guides the will to do what is good. He who does evil does not love.
As Jesus by His departure becomes the pontiff between us and God, the brother who intercedes before the Father. He opens to us the access to Him and to His gifts.
Jesus asks the Father for the definitive gift for us. He obtains everything that He asks for. (11,42).
That is why the Consoler is certainly given to us. We pray ... to prepare ourselves to receive Him.
"Consoler", because "con-solar" means to be with someone who is alone, so that he is no longer alone.
The Consoler is the One who is "with" us, offering us that company that overcomes our radical loneliness.
This Consoler is another respect to Jesus, who is now leaving. This Consoler is given by the Father to those who love the Son and observe His commands.
To love Him means to live like Him, observing His Word.
And His Word is the command to love one another (13:34).
Only those who love the Son and brothers and sisters experience the Love of the Father.
The coming of God, Father and Son, will be that of the Spirit, precisely of those who love the Son and the brethren.
-->God's dwelling place among men, His definitive Covenant, is that of love.
RispondiEliminaWhoever loves Jesus becomes the temple of God, the place of His presence.
He has within himself the Son who is in the Father and the Father who is in the Son.
In him the Father and the Son place their home, manifesting themselves to him and in him.
The place that Jesus prepares for us near the Father is ourselves that, in love, we become dwelling place of Him and of the Father.
Those who do not love Jesus do not observe His words.
For this reason, he ignores the Son sent by the Father to reveal His Love for us.
The period in which He has dwelt with us is the centre and summit of time.
Through the proclamation of the Gospel, each time enters that time, in which God reveals Himself in a definitive and normative way.
The Spirit of Love will teach us and imprint the Son in our hearts.
God, who was with us first in the Law and then with us in the flesh of the Son, will be in us with His Spirit.
The Holy Spirit, who is Love, will make us understand all that the Son has told us.
Love, as it makes us understand, thus makes us remind, carry in our hearts, all that Jesus said,
because we can live with it.
Jesus said and gave everything. The Holy Spirit will not add anything to what He has revealed and given; instead, He will make the mystery of the Son and the Father enter ever more deeply into us, with a love that makes us know and with a knowledge that makes us love.
9- 6 - 19
RispondiEliminaSequence Veni, Sancte Spiritus
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
And from your celestial home
Shed a ray of light divine!
Come, Father of the poor!
Come, source of all our store!
Come, within our bosoms shine.
You, of comforters the best;
You, the soul's most welcome guest;
Sweet refreshment here below;
In our labor, rest most sweet;
Grateful coolness in the heat;
Solace in the midst of woe.
O most blessed Light divine,
Shine within these hearts of yours,
And our inmost being fill!
Where you are not, we have naught,
Nothing good in deed or thought,
Nothing free from taint of ill.
Heal our wounds, our strength renew;
On our dryness pour your dew;
Wash the stains of guilt away:
Bend the stubborn heart and will;
Melt the frozen, warm the chill;
Guide the steps that go astray.
On the faithful, who adore
And confess you, evermore
In your sevenfold gift descend;
Give them virtue's sure reward;
Give them your salvation, Lord;
Give them joys that never end. Amen.
Alleluia.
Alleluia
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful
and kindle in them the fire of your love.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel JN 20:19-23
On the evening of that first day of the week,
when the doors were locked, where the disciples were,
for fear of the Jews,
Jesus came and stood in their midst
and said to them, "Peace be with you."
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you.
As the Father has sent me, so I send you."
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,
"Receive the Holy Spirit.
Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them,
and whose sins you retain are retained."
FAUSTI: Jesus left to us as an inheritance the command to love one another (Jn 13:34).
RispondiEliminaHere it goes further upstream: He says of loving Him.
The aim of love is reciprocity, by which one becomes the life of the other.
By loving Him, we become what He is; and we can love our brothers and sisters with His love, which is the same as that of the Father. Christianity is above all love for Jesus, who assimilates us to Him, the Son, giving us His love for the Father and for our brothers and sisters.
Love is not only a feeling. It involves the whole person, giving her a new way of being. It informs her understanding, wanting and acting.
Concretely one loves with facts and in truth. (1 Jn 3:18).
Observing his commands is the condition for remaining in the covenant of the faithful God, who has loved, chosen and freed us. They can be observed either out of obligation, as slaves, as the older brother in the parable does (Lk 15:29), or for the love of sons.
For Jesus, the principle of observance is the love of a heart that knowns to be loved, the new heart of the new covenant.
He calls these commands "my" commandments because the Scriptures and Moses talk about Him, and He speak of "commandments" in the plural because His commandment, even if it is only one (Jn 13:34), is also multiple.
Love in fact expresses itself in every single action and makes us discern, here and now, what is best to do.
For this reason it is the fulfilment of the Law with all its various precepts.
"Love and do what you will" - (St. Augustine) - does not mean that he who loves allows himself to do everything, but that love does no harm to anyone (Rom 13:10) and spontaneously guides the will to do what is good. He who does evil does not love.
As Jesus by His departure becomes the pontiff between us and God, the brother who intercedes before the Father. He opens to us the access to Him and to His gifts.
Jesus asks the Father for the definitive gift for us. He obtains everything that He asks for. (11,42).
That is why the Consoler is certainly given to us. We pray ... to prepare ourselves to receive Him.
"Consoler", because "con-solar" means to be with someone who is alone, so that he is no longer alone.
The Consoler is the One who is "with" us, offering us that company that overcomes our radical loneliness.
This Consoler is another respect to Jesus, who is now leaving. This Consoler is given by the Father to those who love the Son and observe His commands.
To love Him means to live like Him, observing His Word.
And His Word is the command to love one another (13:34).
Only those who love the Son and brothers and sisters experience the Love of the Father.
The coming of God, Father and Son, will be that of the Spirit, precisely of those who love the Son and the brethren.
-->God's dwelling place among men, His definitive Covenant, is that of love.
RispondiEliminaWhoever loves Jesus becomes the temple of God, the place of His presence.
He has within himself the Son who is in the Father and the Father who is in the Son.
In him the Father and the Son place their home, manifesting themselves to him and in him.
The place that Jesus prepares for us near the Father is ourselves that, in love, we become dwelling place of Him and of the Father.
Those who do not love Jesus do not observe His Words.
For this reason, he ignores the Son sent by the Father to reveal His Love for us.
The period in which He has dwelt with us is the centre and summit of time.
Through the proclamation of the Gospel, each time enters that time, in which God reveals Himself in a definitive and normative way.
The Spirit of Love will teach us and imprint the Son in our hearts.
God, who was with us first in the Law and then with us in the flesh of the Son, will be in us with His Spirit.
The Holy Spirit, who is Love, will make us understand all that the Son has told us.
Love, as it makes us understand, thus makes us remind, carry in our hearts, all that Jesus said,
because we can live with it.
Jesus said and gave everything. The Holy Spirit will not add anything to what He has revealed and given; instead, He will make the mystery of the Son and the Father enter ever more deeply into us, with a Love that makes us know and with a knowledge that makes us love.