FAUSTI - AMEN, AMEN - These are Words of Revelation, with divine authority. Jesus turns to the Pharisees, blind shepherds to enlighten them. Jesus reproaches the leaders of the people who stand before him for not being shepherds: they do not enter through the door. The leaders of the people have stolen His flock from God: they are thieves. And they are bandits: they oppress and exercise violence. The shepherd, unlike thieves and robbers, enters through the door, because He is at home. Jesus opposes Himself to the leaders as a legitimate and unique shepherd. The shepherd is the Lord Himself (EZ. 34,11) and His Messiah (Ez 34,23), who takes His place, usurped by false shepherds. TO HIM THE DOORMAN OPENS, THE SHEEP HEAR HIS VOICE - The pastor is recognized as the shepherd. Every man recognizes and opens his heart to freedom, love and life, which he knows well to distinguish from slavery, selfishness and death. The oppressed people recognize the One who offers them a way out. The former blind man, who listened to the shepherd, was expelled from the temple and came to light. Lazarus will also hear His voice and come out of the tomb. The people, as oppressed, are sensitive to the voice of freedom. When it makes itself heard, this people listens willingly. Like YHWH in Exodus, Jesus leads His people to the promised land. The sheep follow Him, for He Himself is the way that leads to life. The Shepherd lives fully the Love of the Father and of His brothers and sisters. The false shepherds oppress us with subtle lies and, if necessary, with violence, terror and fear; the true Shepherd makes us free, capable of loving and serving, of hoping and daring. Each one is able to hear the difference between the two voices. The sheep, before the thief and the brigand, have an attitude opposite to what they have before the shepherd. The judgement of the truth of the shepherd is made by the sheep themselves, not by polls or pressure from the leaders. If he follows bad teachers or shepherds - the twentieth century gave us extraordinary examples, different from the previous only for the greater ability to do damage; what will the new reserve for us? - It does so only because it is mentally cloned by those who have the power and configure it in their own image and likeness. Today man is so alienated from himself that God seems to be the only alien. We listen to all the strangest voices, but not that of conscience, we are seduced by whatever merchant wants to buy us, but not by Him Who loves us with Eternal Love.
FAUSTI - AMEN, AMEN - These are Words of Revelation, with divine authority. Jesus turns to the Pharisees, blind shepherds to enlighten them.
RispondiEliminaJesus reproaches the leaders of the people who stand before him for not being shepherds: they do not enter through the door.
The leaders of the people have stolen His flock from God: they are thieves.
And they are bandits: they oppress and exercise violence.
The shepherd, unlike thieves and robbers, enters through the door, because He is at home.
Jesus opposes Himself to the leaders as a legitimate and unique shepherd. The shepherd is the Lord Himself (EZ. 34,11)
and His Messiah (Ez 34,23), who takes His place, usurped by false shepherds. TO HIM THE DOORMAN OPENS, THE SHEEP HEAR HIS VOICE -
The pastor is recognized as the shepherd. Every man recognizes and opens his heart to freedom, love and life, which he knows well to distinguish from slavery, selfishness and death.
The oppressed people recognize the One who offers them a way out. The former blind man, who listened to the shepherd, was expelled from the temple and came to light. Lazarus will also hear His voice and come out of the tomb.
The people, as oppressed, are sensitive to the voice of freedom. When it makes itself heard, this people listens willingly. Like YHWH in Exodus, Jesus leads His people to the promised land.
The sheep follow Him, for He Himself is the way that leads to life.
The Shepherd lives fully the Love of the Father and of His brothers and sisters. The false shepherds oppress us with subtle lies and, if necessary, with violence, terror and fear; the true Shepherd makes us free, capable of loving and serving, of hoping and daring. Each one is able to hear the difference between the two voices. The sheep, before the thief and the brigand, have an attitude opposite to what they have before the shepherd. The judgement of the truth of the shepherd is made by the sheep themselves, not by polls or pressure from the leaders. If he follows bad teachers or shepherds - the twentieth century gave us extraordinary examples, different from the previous only for the greater ability to do damage; what will the new reserve for us? - It does so only because it is mentally cloned by those who have the power and configure it in their own image and likeness.
Today man is so alienated from himself that God seems to be the only alien.
We listen to all the strangest voices, but not that of conscience, we are seduced by whatever merchant wants to buy us, but not by Him Who loves us with Eternal Love.