FAUSTI - To know is to love and to love is to know. Those who have accepted the Word now know the revelation of the Son. To know means to have the same experience as the Son, who receives from the Father His being and His feeling, His speaking and His acting. All that the Son is and has, is from the Father, a gift of His love. Jesus manifested the Father to us and we knew Him, because He gave us the Words that the Father gave to Him. The Words received from the Son are synthesized in the command of love. Jesus accomplished it to perfection and leaves it as a gift to His disciples. The disciples are the ones who accept the Words that Jesus gave them. In reality, the Word is one. The Son who loves as He is loved by the Father. But the Word of Love is articulated in many words, indeed, in every word. To accept it is the act of freedom of man, who generates him as a son of God. Whoever accepts the words of the Word made flesh, knows Jesus as the Son who came out of the Father. Knowing becomes believing: knowing is fundamentally believing in love. The words of love are known by those who accept them with love. Whoever does not love, does not understand. Only love contains truth and life, the truth of life. - For them I ask" Jesus' question expresses a desire. It is certain that it 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 it and desire it. Jesus does not ask for the world. "The world" here is understood as that structure of lie that dominates our relationships. When, on the other hand, the world is understood as the whole of the slaves of this system, then it is said that: "God so loved the world that He gave His Son, to save it". For Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, the Savior of the world, the One who gives His flesh for the life of the world (6:51), the One who is the light of the world (8:12), the light that comes into the world to enlighten every man (1:4). Jesus intercedes for men whom the Father has given to Him as brothers. Their belonging to the Father is underlined once again. 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. This gift is the mutual knowledge between Father and Son, their relationship of ineffable Love (Mt 11:27), in which we are also included, who belong to the Father as sons and to the Son as brothers. Jesus is glorified in the disciples, because they recognized Him as Son, receiving His same relationship 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 Words of Son.
FAUSTI - To know is to love and to love is to know. Those who have accepted the Word now know the revelation of the Son.
RispondiEliminaTo know means to have the same experience as the Son, who receives from the Father His being and His feeling, His speaking and His acting.
All that the Son is and has, is from the Father, a gift of His love. Jesus manifested the Father to us and we knew Him, because He gave us the Words that the Father gave to Him. The Words received from the Son are synthesized in the command of love.
Jesus accomplished it to perfection and leaves it as a gift to His disciples.
The disciples are the ones who accept the Words that Jesus gave them.
In reality, the Word is one. The Son who loves as He is loved by the Father.
But the Word of Love is articulated in many words, indeed, in every word.
To accept it is the act of freedom of man, who generates him as a son of God. Whoever accepts the words of the Word made flesh, knows Jesus as the Son who came out of the Father.
Knowing becomes believing: knowing is fundamentally believing in love. The words of love are known by those who accept them with love.
Whoever does not love, does not understand. Only love contains truth and life, the truth of life. - For them I ask" Jesus' question expresses a desire. It is certain that it 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 it and desire it.
Jesus does not ask for the world.
"The world" here is understood as that structure of lie that dominates our relationships. When, on the other hand, the world is understood as the whole of the slaves of this system, then it is said that: "God so loved the world that He gave His Son, to save it".
For Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, the Savior of the world, the One who gives His flesh for the life of the world (6:51), the One who is the light of the world (8:12), the light that comes into the world to enlighten every man (1:4).
Jesus intercedes for men whom the Father has given to Him as brothers. Their belonging to the Father is underlined once again. 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.
This gift is the mutual knowledge between Father and Son, their relationship of ineffable Love (Mt 11:27), in which we are also included, who belong to the Father as sons and to the Son as brothers.
Jesus is glorified in the disciples, because they recognized Him as Son, receiving His same relationship 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 Words of Son.