FAUSTI - 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 among us in the flesh of the Son, will be in us through 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 of 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 a knowledge that makes love. Peace is the gift that contains every other gift. Peace is only for those who have found what they seek and obtained what they desire. Jesus, leaving, leaves us peace, gives us His peace, it is Messianic peace, the fullness of every blessing. Peace for the world is the interval between two wars. It lasts until the winner can impose himself and the conquered cannot rebel. It is the pax romana, fruit of weapons, that the world has always known, and it seems that it does not yet know a different one.
This is not the peace that Jesus leaves to us. But it is not even the peace of the Stoic, who remains courageous even if the world collapses on him. Nor is it the pernicious pax of those who live peacefully as slaves of selfishness, either their own or those of others. The peace of Jesus is born of a love stronger than death; it is the peace of the Risen Crucified One, which makes us co-citizens of the Saints and family members of God. The leaving of Jesus does not leave a void full of fear and discouragement; it is in fact His being forever in us with His Love. "I leave and come to you": Jesus once again reassures His own, saying that His leaving is a coming to us in a new way. Whoever loves Jesus rejoices for His return to the Father. He sees the Cross as the fulfillment of Love. Jesus enters into darkness to enlighten it. He gives His Life to those who steal it from Him. So "the world" that rejects Him because has not seen Him or known Him, can finally know how much God loves all and be drawn to Him. Father's command for the Son is to expose, dispose and lay down one's Life for the benefit of one's brothers and sisters. Jesus says: "No one takes it away from me, but I lay it away from myself. I have the power to lay it down and I have the power to take it again. This command taken from my Father"(10,18). The cross, now imminent, is the free action of the Son, who carries out the command of Love of the Father and reveals the glory of God. "Awake, let us go from here" are the same words that Jesus says before being arrested (Mark 14:42). The Lord tells the disciples to awaken. Through the command of love, He associates them with His leaving from this world to the Father. With these words, Jesus' speech symbolically comes out of Cenacle and is projected out, into space and time. It is addressed to the future community which, as a branch united to the vine, will prolong in the world the fruitful Presence of its Lord. "The Father is greater than Me". The Son and the Father are equal. The Father is greater in two ways: first because He is the origin of the Son, second because He Who loves considers the Beloved more than Himself. Here, being the Son who speaks, He affirms the greatness of the Father. The Word of Jesus anticipates the event because, when it happens, we can read it in Its Light. Then we will believe that He is the Lord of history: He knows what He does and does what He knows, directing everything according to His Love for us. (Ez 33:33).
FAUSTI - Those who do not love Jesus do not observe His words.
RispondiEliminaFor 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 among us in the flesh of the Son, will be in us through 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 of 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 a knowledge that makes love.
Peace is the gift that contains every other gift.
Peace is only for those who have found what they seek and obtained what they desire.
Jesus, leaving, leaves us peace, gives us His peace, it is Messianic peace, the fullness of every blessing.
Peace for the world is the interval between two wars. It lasts until the winner can impose himself and the conquered cannot rebel.
It is the pax romana, fruit of weapons, that the world has always known, and it seems that it does not yet know a different one.
This is not the peace that Jesus leaves to us. But it is not even the peace of the Stoic, who remains courageous even if the world collapses on him.
Nor is it the pernicious pax of those who live peacefully as slaves of selfishness, either their own or those of others.
The peace of Jesus is born of a love stronger than death; it is the peace of the Risen Crucified One, which makes us co-citizens of the Saints and family members of God.
The leaving of Jesus does not leave a void full of fear and discouragement; it is in fact His being forever in us with His Love. "I leave and come to you": Jesus once again reassures His own, saying that His leaving is a coming to us in a new way.
Whoever loves Jesus rejoices for His return to the Father.
He sees the Cross as the fulfillment of Love. Jesus enters into darkness to enlighten it. He gives His Life to those who steal it from Him.
So "the world" that rejects Him because has not seen Him or known Him, can finally know how much God loves all and be drawn to Him.
Father's command for the Son is to expose, dispose and lay down one's Life for the benefit of one's brothers and sisters. Jesus says: "No one takes it away from me, but I lay it away from myself. I have the power to lay it down and I have the power to take it again. This command taken from my Father"(10,18).
The cross, now imminent, is the free action of the Son, who carries out the command of Love of the Father and reveals the glory of God.
"Awake, let us go from here" are the same words that Jesus says before being arrested (Mark 14:42).
The Lord tells the disciples to awaken. Through the command of love, He associates them with His leaving from this world to the Father.
With these words, Jesus' speech symbolically comes out of Cenacle and is projected out, into space and time. It is addressed to the future community which, as a branch united to the vine, will prolong in the world the fruitful Presence of its Lord.
"The Father is greater than Me". The Son and the Father are equal. The Father is greater in two ways: first because He is the origin of the Son, second because He Who loves considers the Beloved more than Himself.
Here, being the Son who speaks, He affirms the greatness of the Father.
The Word of Jesus anticipates the event because, when it happens, we can read it in Its Light.
Then we will believe that He is the Lord of history: He knows what He does and does what He knows, directing everything according to His Love for us. (Ez 33:33).