FAUSTI - "For them I ask" The question of Jesus expresses a desire. It is certain that He will be granted, because it is the same as that of the Father. It is expressed aloud, before his disciples, so that they too may know him and desire him. Jesus does not ask for the world. "The world" here is understood as that structure of lie that dominates our relationships. When the world is understood instead as the whole of the slaves of this system, then He says: "God so loved the world that He gave His Son, to save it". Jesus intercedes for the men whom the Father has given Him as brothers. The Son recognizes that what He has and is comes from the Father, just as the Father in turn gives Him what He Himself has and is. Jesus is glorified in the disciples, because they recognized him as Son, receiving His same relation with the Father. In concrete terms, He is glorified through their love as brothers and sisters who guard the Word of the Father, learned from His Son's Words. Jesus is fulfilling Easter, His passage from this world to the Father. His life on earth, in which He manifested His Name to men, ends. It is good for us that He goes away, because He will send us the Comforter, He goes to prepare a place for us, because we too are where He is (14:2). Although they are not "from" the world, the disciples remain in the world, to continue His mission. Being "in" the world, both for the Son and for each of His brothers, is the condition in which the return to the Father is played out. "Here and now" we are called to live as children of the Father. "Keep them in Your Name" The name is the presence, the person. Through the Son who manifested it to us, the Father keeps us in Himself, in communion with Him, as our Father, In Him we guard our truth as children. "Let them be one. Being one is man's fundamental desire, it is the realization of love, the source of joy and life. If evil divides and kills, love unites and makes living. The true holiness that the Father wants from his children is unity in love. A fraternity where every diversity is welcomed and every misery is the object of mercy. Holiness, the perfection of God, what God is God for, and only He, is Mercy. This attribute reveals His essence as the omnipotence of an absolute love that creates and recreates every creature to His image and likeness. The union that exists between the brothers is the same as that between the Father and the Son, whose life is mutual love. The division between Christians is the great evil that opposes the glorification of the Father and the Son on earth: it divides the " unconsutile " tunic and tears the Body of the Son. The way to union among the various Churches is to read and reread these Words of Jesus until the blindness and animosity that comes from the divider disappears from our hearts. Then we will also be united with Israel; and the Glory will be revealed to all. As He is leaving, He reminds His disciples that He has done what He asks to the Father: He has kept and preserved them in His Name. In fact, the beautiful Shepherd gives His life in favor of the sheep. They will not be lost: no one can tear them out of His hand, which is the same of the Father.
->The son of perdition is the lost son. It is usually referred to as Judas. But one must bear in mind that the whole Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is a parable of the search for the lost and found son, dead and alive (Lk 15:24-32). He is the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the first who became the last (Mk 9:35), the least of the brothers (Mt 25:40), to be with all and in all. Perdition, we must not forget, is the very horizon of salvation: only what is lost can be saved. His words, which make us "One" in love, have as their end our joy (15:11). It is the same as the Son, loved by the Father. Jesus wants it to be in us to an ever greater extent, to the point of being complete. All the action of God brings the joy of man. Joy is the signature of the author, the seal of God on every work of His.
FAUSTI - "For them I ask" The question of Jesus expresses a desire. It is certain that He will be granted, because it is the same as that of the Father. It is expressed aloud, before his disciples, so that they too may know him and desire him. Jesus does not ask for the world.
RispondiElimina"The world" here is understood as that structure of lie that dominates our relationships. When the world is understood instead as the whole of the slaves of this system, then He says: "God so loved the world that He gave His Son, to save it".
Jesus intercedes for the men whom the Father has given Him as brothers. The Son recognizes that what He has and is comes from the Father, just as the Father in turn gives Him what He Himself has and is.
Jesus is glorified in the disciples, because they recognized him as Son, receiving His same relation with the Father. In concrete terms, He is glorified through their love as brothers and sisters who guard the Word of the Father, learned from His Son's Words.
Jesus is fulfilling Easter, His passage from this world to the Father.
His life on earth, in which He manifested His Name to men, ends. It is good for us that He goes away, because He will send us the Comforter, He goes to prepare a place for us, because we too are where He is (14:2).
Although they are not "from" the world, the disciples remain in the world, to continue His mission.
Being "in" the world, both for the Son and for each of His brothers, is the condition in which the return to the Father is played out. "Here and now" we are called to live as children of the Father.
"Keep them in Your Name" The name is the presence, the person. Through the Son who manifested it to us, the Father keeps us in Himself, in communion with Him, as our Father,
In Him we guard our truth as children.
"Let them be one. Being one is man's fundamental desire, it is the realization of love, the source of joy and life. If evil divides and kills, love unites and makes living.
The true holiness that the Father wants from his children is unity in love. A fraternity where every diversity is welcomed and every misery is the object of mercy.
Holiness, the perfection of God, what God is God for, and only He, is Mercy.
This attribute reveals His essence as the omnipotence of an absolute love that creates and recreates every creature to His image and likeness.
The union that exists between the brothers is the same as that between the Father and the Son, whose life is mutual love.
The division between Christians is the great evil that opposes the glorification of the Father and the Son on earth: it divides the " unconsutile " tunic and tears the Body of the Son.
The way to union among the various Churches is to read and reread these Words of Jesus until the blindness and animosity that comes from the divider disappears from our hearts.
Then we will also be united with Israel; and the Glory will be revealed to all.
As He is leaving, He reminds His disciples that He has done what He asks to the Father: He has kept and preserved them in His Name. In fact, the beautiful Shepherd gives His life in favor of the sheep.
They will not be lost: no one can tear them out of His hand, which is the same of the Father.
->The son of perdition is the lost son. It is usually referred to as Judas. But one must bear in mind that the whole Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is a parable of the search for the lost and found son, dead and alive (Lk 15:24-32). He is the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the first who became the last (Mk 9:35), the least of the brothers (Mt 25:40), to be with all and in all.
RispondiEliminaPerdition, we must not forget, is the very horizon of salvation: only what is lost can be saved.
His words, which make us "One" in love, have as their end our joy (15:11).
It is the same as the Son, loved by the Father. Jesus wants it to be in us to an ever greater extent, to the point of being complete.
All the action of God brings the joy of man.
Joy is the signature of the author, the seal of God on every work of His.