FAUSTI - "Now the Son of Man was glorified and God was glorified in Him", says Jesus after giving the morsel to Judas, who goes out into the night. This "now" marks the beginning of the "hour" of the glorification of the Son of Man, in which the chief of this world is expelled (12,31) and we finally know I-Am (8,28). The moment in which darkness takes possession of the light, is the very moment in which the light enters into darkness. And it is salvation. Light does not suppose darkness, just as love does not suppose hatred, nor life does death, nor joy does sadness. Salvation, on the other hand, necessarily presupposes perdition. Not that evil is necessary for good; but, since there is, "it is necessary" that God enters into it to meet us. For Him our perdition becomes a reason to save us and an opportunity to reveal Himself. Jesus, by revealing the betrayal, does not intend to denounce the traitor, but instead offers him His friendship, even knowing that he rejects it.Jesus not only prescribes, but gives a new Commandment. It is not an imposition, but a gift that makes us live our reality as children and brothers, and it is new because we see for the first time a God who washes our feet and gives us Himself. We love only if we know that we are loved: we can love because He first loved us. When He says He loves us "as" He loved us, the adverb "as" indicates not only the way: His love for us, as well as a model, is the source of our mutual love."Love one another as I have loved you" can be translated as "Love one another with the same love with which I have loved you". In fact, "God is Love" and in "this is love: it is not we who have loved God, but He who has loved us and sent His Son as a victim of expiation of our sins". (1 Jn 4:8-10). It is a gift that Jesus leaves to His own: it is His own life, to be cultivated and guarded.
FAUSTI - "Now the Son of Man was glorified and God was glorified in Him", says Jesus after giving the morsel to Judas, who goes out into the night. This "now" marks the beginning of the "hour" of the glorification of the Son of Man, in which the chief of this world is expelled (12,31) and we finally know I-Am (8,28).
RispondiEliminaThe moment in which darkness takes possession of the light, is the very moment in which the light enters into darkness. And it is salvation.
Light does not suppose darkness, just as love does not suppose hatred, nor life does death, nor joy does sadness. Salvation, on the other hand, necessarily presupposes perdition.
Not that evil is necessary for good; but, since there is, "it is necessary" that God enters into it to meet us. For Him our perdition becomes a reason to save us and an opportunity to reveal Himself. Jesus, by revealing the betrayal, does not intend to denounce the traitor, but instead offers him His friendship, even knowing that he rejects it.Jesus not only prescribes, but gives a new Commandment. It is not an imposition, but a gift that makes us live our reality as children and brothers, and it is new because we see for the first time a God who washes our feet and gives us Himself.
We love only if we know that we are loved: we can love because He first loved us.
When He says He loves us "as" He loved us, the adverb "as" indicates not only the way: His love for us, as well as a model, is the source of our mutual love."Love one another as I have loved you" can be translated as "Love one another with the same love with which I have loved you".
In fact, "God is Love" and in "this is love: it is not we who have loved God, but He who has loved us and sent His Son as a victim of expiation of our sins". (1 Jn 4:8-10). It is a gift that Jesus leaves to His own: it is His own life, to be cultivated and guarded.