FAUSTI - "Woman, behold your Son / behold your Mother" These are the last words Jesus addresses to the Mother and to the beloved disciple. The King of Glory continues "His judgment": to the crucifiers He gives the garments, to the Mother the disciple and to the disciple the Mother. "After this" He knows that everything is accomplished: He completes His mission as Son, He will deliver the Spirit. The other gospels look at what is happening on the cross in reflection, in the reactions of the spectators. Except in His double cry before He dies, Jesus is contemplated indirectly through the words of those present. John, on the other hand, with a rapid succession of scenes, points directly to the Glory: he dares to stare face to face at the Light of the world. The language, sober and essential, does not betray emotions. In a few words, it presents realities so great that, in front of them, everything is silent. In front of the sublime there is only ecstasy, silence of panic involvement. The last three icons report short moments where the duration of the story tends to correspond to that of the fact. Narrating time and narrated time coincide in real time. In this way we obtain the effect of making the reader participate in the event. He is present at the scene, immersed in a timeless time: he touches the Eternal, he sees the Invisible, he sinks into Glory. In fact, the Word, every Word, is like a window: do not look her, but through her. Then you open yourself to the Other; and the Other opens Himself to you. He exists for you and you for Him, He is part of you and you of Him. It can be said that, as in the "language of Adam," ...in a single word, it all adds up. This narrative, placed at the centre of the five representing what happens on the cross, is splendid, and, in John's economy, has a definitive value. In it, the themes of the Gospel are taken up and resonate together, in harmonious fullness: it is "the hour" towards which everything stretched, the hour of light, which reaches and illuminates the universe. The story is an inexhaustible well, with the depth of the mystery that it presents. In the Gospels, people are always also "characters". typical figures in which everyone recognizes himself. On a historical level, the mother of Jesus and other women are the people who love Jesus, while the disciple is the person who knows that is loved by Jesus. On the general symbolic level, the mother and women on the one hand and the beloved disciple on the other are the figure of the given love and the love received, respectively.
FAUSTI - "Woman, behold your Son / behold your Mother" These are the last words Jesus addresses to the Mother and to the beloved disciple. The King of Glory continues "His judgment": to the crucifiers He gives the garments, to the Mother the disciple and to the disciple the Mother.
RispondiElimina"After this" He knows that everything is accomplished: He completes His mission as Son, He will deliver the Spirit.
The other gospels look at what is happening on the cross in reflection, in the reactions of the spectators. Except in His double cry before He dies, Jesus is contemplated indirectly through the words of those present. John, on the other hand, with a rapid succession of scenes, points directly to the Glory: he dares to stare face to face at the Light of the world.
The language, sober and essential, does not betray emotions. In a few words, it presents realities so great that, in front of them, everything is silent. In front of the sublime there is only ecstasy, silence of panic involvement.
The last three icons report short moments where the duration of the story tends to correspond to that of the fact. Narrating time and narrated time coincide in real time. In this way we obtain the effect of making the reader participate in the event. He is present at the scene, immersed in a timeless time: he touches the Eternal, he sees the Invisible, he sinks into Glory.
In fact, the Word, every Word, is like a window: do not look her, but through her.
Then you open yourself to the Other; and the Other opens Himself to you. He exists for you and you for Him, He is part of you and you of Him. It can be said that, as in the "language of Adam," ...in a single word, it all adds up. This narrative, placed at the centre of the five representing what happens on the cross, is splendid, and, in John's economy, has a definitive value.
In it, the themes of the Gospel are taken up and resonate together, in harmonious fullness: it is "the hour" towards which everything stretched, the hour of light, which reaches and illuminates the universe.
The story is an inexhaustible well, with the depth of the mystery that it presents. In the Gospels, people are always also "characters". typical figures in which everyone recognizes himself.
On a historical level, the mother of Jesus and other women are the people who love Jesus, while the disciple is the person who knows that is loved by Jesus.
On the general symbolic level, the mother and women on the one hand and the beloved disciple on the other are the figure of the given love and the love received, respectively.