FAUSTI - "If anyone is thirsty, come to Me and drink", Jesus cries out on the last day of the Feast of the Tabernacles. The Spirit ... that John saw descending and dwelling upon Him ( 1,32), that He gives birth from on high ( 3,1) and in whom the Father is worshiped in Spirit and in Truth ( 4,23), is now promised to all who adhere to Him. His life of Son, and His Love for the Father and His brothers and sisters, will be offered to all who believe in Him when He will be glorified. He has just said that we cannot go where He is (7:33-36). But now He invites us to come to Him and He gives us the means to reach Him, so that we too can be where He is. The means we have is, at first sight, a non-meaning: thirst. It is not only a lack of water. It is also a desire for it. Desire is the only capacity to draw from the gift: it produces nothing, but it welcomes everything. Revelation takes place on the last day, the solemn and conclusive day of the feast. Jesus cries that in Him every blessing is given to man. He is not sitting like the scribe. He is standing, standing like the herald. And He cries out like Wisdom, who calls to the banquet of life (Proverbs 1,20 - 8,1). Jesus is the wisdom of God, the new temple, the rock from which flows the spring of living water opened in Jerusalem. All this will be clear after He will be Glorified and will have given us the Spirit. On the feast day, the prophet Ezekiel, chapter 47, wrote about the spring that comes out of the temple and becomes a great river of life-giving water, on the banks of which grow fruit trees of every kind. The temple was seen in relation to the rock that God broke, bringing forth waters as out of the abyss (Psalm 78). - St. Paul says." All were baptized in relation to Moses in the cloud and in the sea, all ate the same spiritual food, all drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from a spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ" (1 Cor 10:3) - . The gift of the Spirit is the fulfillment of the work of God the Creator and Liberator: God communicates to man His life and His freedom. Thus man is born from on high (3:3-5) and becomes a son of God (1:12). That is why God created him. All the great themes of the Bible, from creation to exodus, from the covenant to the law, from the promised land to the temple, from the Messiah/Bridegroom to His final triumph, are fulfilled in the gift of the Spirit. Creation reaches the seventh day, man enjoys freedom of the son, God is for him and he for God, the wisdom of love holds the world, the earth becomes a garden, the presence of God pervades the universe, the song of the bridegroom and the bride resounds and every creature is in communion with its Creator....Jesus fulfills God's great promise and man's secret desire. With him begins the definitive epoch, that of water and the Spirit, where the water of life is the same Spirit of God who is Love.
FAUSTI - "If anyone is thirsty, come to Me and drink", Jesus cries out on the last day of the Feast of the Tabernacles.
RispondiEliminaThe Spirit ... that John saw descending and dwelling upon Him ( 1,32), that He gives birth from on high ( 3,1) and in whom the Father is worshiped in Spirit and in Truth ( 4,23), is now promised to all who adhere to Him. His life of Son, and His Love for the Father and His brothers and sisters, will be offered to all who believe in Him when He will be glorified.
He has just said that we cannot go where He is (7:33-36).
But now He invites us to come to Him and He gives us the means to reach Him, so that we too can be where He is.
The means we have is, at first sight, a non-meaning: thirst.
It is not only a lack of water. It is also a desire for it.
Desire is the only capacity to draw from the gift: it produces nothing, but it welcomes everything.
Revelation takes place on the last day, the solemn and conclusive day of the feast.
Jesus cries that in Him every blessing is given to man.
He is not sitting like the scribe. He is standing, standing like the herald.
And He cries out like Wisdom, who calls to the banquet of life (Proverbs 1,20 - 8,1).
Jesus is the wisdom of God, the new temple, the rock from which flows the spring of living water opened in Jerusalem.
All this will be clear after He will be Glorified and will have given us the Spirit.
On the feast day, the prophet Ezekiel, chapter 47, wrote about the spring that comes out of the temple and becomes a great river of life-giving water, on the banks of which grow fruit trees of every kind.
The temple was seen in relation to the rock that God broke, bringing forth waters as out of the abyss (Psalm 78).
- St. Paul says." All were baptized in relation to Moses in the cloud and in the sea, all ate the same spiritual food, all drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from a spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ" (1 Cor 10:3) - .
The gift of the Spirit is the fulfillment of the work of God the Creator and Liberator: God communicates to man His life and His freedom. Thus man is born from on high (3:3-5) and becomes a son of God (1:12). That is why God created him.
All the great themes of the Bible, from creation to exodus, from the covenant to the law, from the promised land to the temple, from the Messiah/Bridegroom to His final triumph, are fulfilled in the gift of the Spirit. Creation reaches the seventh day, man enjoys freedom of the son, God is for him and he for God, the wisdom of love holds the world, the earth becomes a garden, the presence of God pervades the universe, the song of the bridegroom and the bride resounds and every creature is in communion with its Creator....Jesus fulfills God's great promise and man's secret desire.
With him begins the definitive epoch, that of water and the Spirit, where the water of life is the same Spirit of God who is Love.