FAUSTI - Even though you have seen me, nevertheless do not believe" His listeners "see" the Bread of Life, of which the one in the desert and the one on the mountain are signs, and yet they do not believe in Him. They have seen the signs and have listened the meaning. There is in their hearts an impediment to believing that there wasn't in the Samaritan woman. The Lord cannot be their bread, as long as other breads are their lord. They cannot believe in God, as long as their god is their own self. - The Father's will is to communicate His life to His children. Jesus, coming down from heaven, does the work of the Father, so that it will not be lost nothing of what He loves, so that the last day may be for all ones the life and not the death... The Father's will is to give us the Son, because in Him we "see" His love for us and welcome Him. To adhere to the Son is to already have eternal life now, which consists in loving the Father and our brothers and sisters. This love is victory over death and the deposit of the future resurrection: united with Him, we are in communion with the very source of life. Jesus is man, how can He be of divine origin? Why does He call God "my Father" and promise to men the life of God? How can a man make himself equal to God? It is the mystery of Jesus. He is flesh, like all of us. But He is the Word, made flesh, the Son of God who became the Son of man, an inevitable scandal so that every son of man may become the Son of God. Jesus reaffirms that welcoming Him is a gift from the Father, His work par excellence. He draws every man to the Son so that he may become a son. This attraction of the Father, even if it is mysterious, is innate in man, precisely because of His son: is expressed in the many requests for meaning that each one poses. We are all directly instructed by God, disciples of the inner voice that bears witness to the Word, the true light that illuminates every man. We are "theo-didact". , educated by God, He acts in the heart of every man, drawing him towards light and life, towards the Son in whom He gives Himself to us as Father. If before there was the law, written on boards of stone, now God Himself writes His Word in our hearts, putting in us a new heart, full of His Love.
FAUSTI - Even though you have seen me, nevertheless do not believe" His listeners "see" the Bread of Life, of which the one in the desert and the one on the mountain are signs, and yet they do not believe in Him.
RispondiEliminaThey have seen the signs and have listened the meaning. There is in their hearts an impediment to believing that there wasn't in the Samaritan woman. The Lord cannot be their bread, as long as other breads are their lord. They cannot believe in God, as long as their god is their own self. - The Father's will is to communicate His life to His children. Jesus, coming down from heaven, does the work of the Father, so that it will not be lost nothing of what He loves, so that the last day may be for all ones the life and not the death...
The Father's will is to give us the Son, because in Him we "see" His love for us and welcome Him.
To adhere to the Son is to already have eternal life now, which consists in loving the Father and our brothers and sisters. This love is victory over death and the deposit of the future resurrection: united with Him, we are in communion with the very source of life. Jesus is man, how can He be of divine origin? Why does He call God "my Father" and promise to men the life of God?
How can a man make himself equal to God? It is the mystery of Jesus.
He is flesh, like all of us.
But He is the Word, made flesh, the Son of God who became the Son of man, an inevitable scandal so that every son of man may become the Son of God. Jesus reaffirms that welcoming Him is a gift from the Father, His work par excellence. He draws every man to the Son so that he may become a son.
This attraction of the Father, even if it is mysterious,
is innate in man, precisely because of His son:
is expressed in the many requests for meaning that each one poses. We are all directly instructed by God, disciples of the inner voice that bears witness to the Word, the true light that illuminates every man. We are "theo-didact". ,
educated by God, He acts in the heart of every man, drawing him towards light and life, towards the Son in whom He gives Himself to us as Father.
If before there was the law, written on boards of stone, now God Himself writes His Word in our hearts, putting in us a new heart, full of His Love.