FAUSTI - "They took the Lord out of the tomb and we don't know where they laid him". It is the cry of Mary Magdalene, who seeks and does not find the Beloved of her heart. Dead at the hands of her enemies, buried by friendly hands, she is now absent from the tomb. We are on the first day after the Sabbath. Son of man and Son of God, who, with blood and water, communicated his life to his brothers and sisters. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus responded with love to His love: they prepared the great feast by placing Him in the tomb. Here, on the seventh day, the Lord rested from His toil, completing the Sabbath and Easter. Now we are on the first day of the week, which has become the Lord's day, Sunday. The great surprise on the morning of the new Easter is the empty tomb. How is it that the Lord is not where he was placed, where everyone is or will be placed forever? The tomb is the universal meeting place. There men are gathered, all equally defeated, prey to death. The only difference, for another momentary one, is between the already dead and the not yet dead. What Mary sees is a sign of the inconceivable. Mary cannot understand. She is running to announce the disappearance of Jesus. She thinks he's been stolen.
She hasn't yet understood that love conquers death. "She comes to Simon Peter and the other disciple." Peter, who has reneged, is named first. He is placed as the first of the disciples because he has experienced what makes us disciples. The Lord's faithfulness to our infidelity. The "other disciple" is not simply the other between two, but the other, the different. In fact, he placed his head in Jesus' womb and chest, which he then saw pierced. After Mary's announcement, Peter and the other disciple went out to go to the tomb. Peter and the other run together. But this one is faster. He arrives first at the tomb, as he arrives first to believe and to see the Risen One. For the heart puts wings on the feet and mind. The friend, who loves as he is loved, precedes the one who is first of the disciples: the primacy is always of love! They also see the linen stretched out and the shroud apart, wrapped in a place. The "place" par excellence for the Jews is the sanctuary ,God is no longer there. The Glory dwells in the Body of Jesus, the new sanctuary, where God removes every veil from His Face and ours. Seeing this, the beloved disciple believes in Jesus, Lord of life, even without having seen him. He is the prototype of those who, after him, will believe in Jesus without seeing him. through the signs recounted by the evangelist himself This "other" disciple sees with the heart. In Mary, finally, followed by the other two disciples and Thomas, is referred to the founding experience reserved for those who transmit to us the announcement of the Resurrection: they see and touch the Risen One. Finally, we come, who believe in their witness. . Each event, unique and unrepeatable, is seen only by those who are near in time and space. However, the word of those who witness Him makes Him present also to those who listen to Him. Man is the one who knows how to read reality. Every event is a sign, which is significant only for those who understand it. Faith is not blind: it is intelligence that grasps the meaning of facts and realizes why they are so and not differently. Believing is not credulonry, but a more reasonable reading of reality. The first disciples, contemporaries of Jesus, believe in Him not only because they have seen Him Risen, but also because they have experienced what it means for them that He is Risen. We, who come later, believe in their Word. Accepting their testimony, we see with their eyes. There always remains a veil on the face of the one who reads the Scripture, who is eliminated by conversion to Christ the Lord. And this is given to those who have contemplated His Love and love Him!
RispondiEliminaFAUSTI - "They took the Lord out of the tomb and we don't know where they laid him". It is the cry of Mary Magdalene, who seeks and does not find the Beloved of her heart. Dead at the hands of her enemies, buried by friendly hands, she is now absent from the tomb. We are on the first day after the Sabbath.
Son of man and Son of God, who, with blood and water, communicated his life to his brothers and sisters.
Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus responded with love to His love: they prepared the great feast by placing Him in the tomb. Here, on the seventh day, the Lord rested from His toil, completing the Sabbath and Easter. Now we are on the first day of the week, which has become the Lord's day, Sunday.
The great surprise on the morning of the new Easter is the empty tomb.
How is it that the Lord is not where he was placed, where everyone is or will be placed forever?
The tomb is the universal meeting place. There men are gathered, all equally defeated, prey to death. The only difference, for another momentary one, is between the already dead and the not yet dead.
What Mary sees is a sign of the inconceivable.
Mary cannot understand.
She is running to announce the disappearance of Jesus.
She thinks he's been stolen.
She hasn't yet understood that love conquers death.
"She comes to Simon Peter and the other disciple."
Peter, who has reneged, is named first. He is placed as the first of the disciples because he has experienced what makes us disciples. The Lord's faithfulness to our infidelity.
The "other disciple" is not simply the other between two, but the other, the different.
In fact, he placed his head in Jesus' womb and chest, which he then saw pierced.
After Mary's announcement, Peter and the other disciple went out to go to the tomb. Peter and the other run together. But this one is faster. He arrives first at the tomb, as he arrives first to believe and to see the Risen One. For the heart puts wings on the feet and mind.
The friend, who loves as he is loved, precedes the one who is first of the disciples: the primacy is always of love!
They also see the linen stretched out and the shroud apart, wrapped in a place.
The "place" par excellence for the Jews is the sanctuary ,God is no longer there.
The Glory dwells in the Body of Jesus, the new sanctuary, where God removes every veil from His Face and ours.
Seeing this, the beloved disciple believes in Jesus, Lord of life, even without having seen him. He is the prototype of those who, after him, will believe in Jesus without seeing him. through the signs recounted by the evangelist himself
This "other" disciple sees with the heart.
In Mary, finally, followed by the other two disciples and Thomas, is referred to the founding experience reserved for those who transmit to us the announcement of the Resurrection: they see and touch the Risen One.
Finally, we come, who believe in their witness. .
Each event, unique and unrepeatable, is seen only by those who are near in time and space.
However, the word of those who witness Him makes Him present also to those who listen to Him.
Man is the one who knows how to read reality. Every event is a sign, which is significant only for those who understand it.
Faith is not blind: it is intelligence that grasps the meaning of facts and realizes why they are so and not differently. Believing is not credulonry, but a more reasonable reading of reality.
The first disciples, contemporaries of Jesus, believe in Him not only because they have seen Him Risen, but also because they have experienced what it means for them that He is Risen.
We, who come later, believe in their Word.
Accepting their testimony, we see with their eyes.
There always remains a veil on the face of the one who reads the Scripture, who is eliminated by conversion to Christ the Lord.
And this is given to those who have contemplated His Love and love Him!