FAUSTI - "The earth" is where Jesus now stands and manifests Himself. It is where one departs for the mission and where one returns bringing new brothers and sisters. It is the place of the Eucharist, the true Promised Land, where one lives as children and brothers. It is not said that they see Jesus, but embers with fish and bread. The embers, evoking the denial of Peter (18,18), prepare the continuation of the scene. Fish and bread - there is a over-image between Jesus and the Eucharistic gifts - recall the fact of the loaves and fishes, when Jesus anticipated His Passover (6,9-11). Now the disciples understand the speech made in the synagogue of Capernaum on the Bread of Life (6,26-59): Jesus is the Bread offered. Also the fish, which lives in the abyss and comes to earth to be cooked and become food, is Him: "The fish roasted on fire represents Christ in His Passion". (St. Augustine). In fact the fish lives in death (= sea) and, dying on earth, gives itself as life to others. Jesus, precisely because He is renegade and killed, is food for all. Now that He has loved us to the gift of Himself, we too have His Spirit and can do as He did. From the Eucharist of the Son, celebrated in solitude on the Cross, springs our Eucharist as brothers, sharing of His mission and His fruit. From the Eucharist we leave from children towards our brothers and sisters, to the Eucharist we return with new brothers and sisters who become children, capable of going in turn towards our brothers and sisters. And so on, until then the dispersed children of God will be gathered in unity in the Son (11,51). And His Father will become the Our Father, of all (20,17). Our fishing, previously fruitless, "now" is fruitful because we have listened the command of love. The word "catch" so far referred to Jesus, who surrendered Himself to those who wanted to catch Him. Also other brothers, "captured" by Love, thanks to our testimony, have become like Him, who makes Himself food for the life of the world. This is the fruit of the mission, which transforms men into children who are able to love their brothers and sisters as the Son loved them. The imperative is in the plural, as in v. 6. "Cast the nets. All the disciples participate, by direct order of the Lord, to the effort and the fruit. Peter stands out for his initiative to give a good example and to maintain the unity of the net. Peter now rises from the water where he is immersed, like Jesus in His Baptism. Now Simon will become Peter, with his new name. Peter no longer "pulls" the sword to kill (18:10), but pulls the great multitude of men towards life, because he too, like everyone else, was drawn by the Love of the Crucified One. The net holds together the fruit of the peach, while it is dragged to the earth, where the Son stands. In fact, the Son had prayed to the Father so that the brothers would be "one" in love. (17, 11...). All men - and there are so man - are "IN NET", connected in unity. The mission of the Son is to bring the brothers together in "one". This union, it is useful to reiterate, is never uniformity and homologation, almost an indistinct blend of persons, but freedom in distinction, proper to the persons who love each other. This unity does not tear itself to pieces, because it is in love that it accepts and maintains all diversity.
-->And Jesus: "He takes the bread and gives it to them..." the expression recalls the gift of the loaves and fishes. "Take the bread and give" are the words of the Eucharist, where we receive the Bread of Heaven which gives eternal life: whoever eats it enters into communion with Him and lives by Him, like Him of the Father. It is the fulfillment in us of the gift of the Son. The verbs, conjugated to the present, indicate that the presence is now always present. In this banquet, in addition to the bread and fish that Jesus gave us, there is also what we have caught, which serves as a companion, to add to the food that He gives us. This "addition" is our response to His gift, which makes us fully participate in His nature as Son who, as He receives from the Father, gives love and life to our brothers and sisters. The Eucharist involves us and those to whom we turn, to the point of embracing the whole world, depicted in the multitude of fish. There is a close relationship between the Eucharist and Mission: there is no Mass without Mission (20:19.23) and there is no Mission without Mass. "Thus," in this way, for the third and final time - after the first on Easter evening and the second eight days later - the Lord manifested Himself to the disciples gathered together. The three "gradual" manifestations indicate the passage from the one reserved for the first, who "believe because they see" to the one addressed to us who "do not see and believe".
Acts of the Apostles 4,1-12. After the crippled man had been cured, while Peter and John were still speaking to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple guard, and the Sadducees confronted them, disturbed that they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead. They laid hands on them and put them in custody until the next day, since it was already evening. But many of those who heard the word came to believe and (the) number of men grew to (about) five thousand. On the next day, their leaders, elders, and scribes were assembled in Jerusalem, with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly class. They brought them into their presence and questioned them, "By what power or by what name have you done this?" Then Peter, filled with the holy Spirit, answered them, "Leaders of the people and elders: If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a cripple, namely, by what means he was saved, then all of you and all the people of Israel should know that it was in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarean whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead; in his name this man stands before you healed. He is 'the stone rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.' There is no salvation through anyone else, nor is there any other name under heaven given to the human race by which we are to be saved." Psalms 118(117),1-2.4.22-24.25-27a. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever. Let the house of Israel say, "His mercy endures forever." Let those who fear the LORD say, “His mercy endures forever.”
The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. By the LORD has this been done; it is wonderful in our eyes. This is the day the LORD has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it.
O LORD, grant salvation! O LORD, grant prosperity! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD; we bless you from the house of the LORD. The LORD is God, and he has given us light. Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 21,1-14. Jesus revealed himself again to his disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself in this way. Together were Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, Zebedee's sons, and two others of his disciples. Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We also will come with you." So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. When it was already dawn, Jesus was standing on the shore; but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, "Children, have you caught anything to eat?" They answered him, "No." So he said to them, "Cast the net over the right side of the boat and you will find something." So they cast it, and were not able to pull it in because of the number of fish. So the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord." When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he tucked in his garment, for he was lightly clad, and jumped into the sea. The other disciples came in the boat, for they were not far from shore, only about a hundred yards, dragging the net with the fish. When they climbed out on shore, they saw a charcoal fire with fish on it and bread. Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish you just caught." So Simon Peter went over and dragged the net ashore full of one hundred fifty-three large fish. Even though there were so many, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, "Come, have breakfast." And none of the disciples dared to ask him, "Who are you?" because they realized it was the Lord. Jesus came over and took the bread and gave it to them, and in like manner the fish. This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to his disciples after being raised from the dead.
WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER Today's Gospel narrates the third appearance of the risen Jesus to the disciples, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, with the description of the miraculous catch of fish. The story is set in the context of the daily life of the disciples, who have returned to their land and to their work as fishermen, after the shocking days of the Lord's passion, death and resurrection. It was difficult for them to understand what had happened. But, while everything seemed to be over, it is Jesus who "looks" for his disciples again. It is He who goes to look for them. (April 10, 2016)
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FAUSTI - "The earth" is where Jesus now stands and manifests Himself. It is where one departs for the mission and where one returns bringing new brothers and sisters. It is the place of the Eucharist, the true Promised Land, where one lives as children and brothers. It is not said that they see Jesus, but embers with fish and bread.
RispondiEliminaThe embers, evoking the denial of Peter (18,18), prepare the continuation of the scene.
Fish and bread - there is a over-image between Jesus and the Eucharistic gifts - recall the fact of the loaves and fishes, when Jesus anticipated His Passover (6,9-11).
Now the disciples understand the speech made in the synagogue of Capernaum on the Bread of Life (6,26-59): Jesus is the Bread offered. Also the fish, which lives in the abyss and comes to earth to be cooked and become food, is Him: "The fish roasted on fire represents Christ in His Passion".
(St. Augustine). In fact the fish lives in death (= sea) and, dying on earth, gives itself as life to others. Jesus, precisely because He is renegade and killed, is food for all.
Now that He has loved us to the gift of Himself, we too have His Spirit and can do as He did. From the Eucharist of the Son, celebrated in solitude on the Cross, springs our Eucharist as brothers, sharing of His mission and His fruit.
From the Eucharist we leave from children towards our brothers and sisters, to the Eucharist we return with new brothers and sisters who become children, capable of going in turn towards our brothers and sisters.
And so on, until then the dispersed children of God will be gathered in unity in the Son (11,51).
And His Father will become the Our Father, of all (20,17). Our fishing, previously fruitless, "now" is fruitful because we have listened the command of love. The word "catch" so far referred to Jesus, who surrendered Himself to those who wanted to catch Him. Also other brothers, "captured" by Love, thanks to our testimony, have become like Him, who makes Himself food for the life of the world.
This is the fruit of the mission, which transforms men into children who are able to love their brothers and sisters as the Son loved them. The imperative is in the plural, as in v. 6. "Cast the nets. All the disciples participate, by direct order of the Lord, to the effort and the fruit.
Peter stands out for his initiative to give a good example and to maintain the unity of the net.
Peter now rises from the water where he is immersed, like Jesus in His Baptism. Now Simon will become Peter, with his new name.
Peter no longer "pulls" the sword to kill (18:10), but pulls the great multitude of men towards life, because he too, like everyone else, was drawn by the Love of the Crucified One.
The net holds together the fruit of the peach, while it is dragged to the earth, where the Son stands.
In fact, the Son had prayed to the Father so that the brothers would be "one" in love. (17, 11...).
All men - and there are so man - are "IN NET", connected in unity. The mission of the Son is to bring the brothers together in "one". This union, it is useful to reiterate, is never uniformity and homologation, almost an indistinct blend of persons, but freedom in distinction, proper to the persons who love each other. This unity does not tear itself to pieces, because it is in love that it accepts and maintains all diversity.
-->And Jesus: "He takes the bread and gives it to them..." the expression recalls the gift of the loaves and fishes. "Take the bread and give" are the words of the Eucharist, where we receive the Bread of Heaven which gives eternal life: whoever eats it enters into communion with Him and lives by Him, like Him of the Father.
RispondiEliminaIt is the fulfillment in us of the gift of the Son.
The verbs, conjugated to the present, indicate that the presence is now always present.
In this banquet, in addition to the bread and fish that Jesus gave us, there is also what we have caught, which serves as a companion, to add to the food that He gives us. This "addition" is our response to His gift, which makes us fully participate in His nature as Son who, as He receives from the Father, gives love and life to our brothers and sisters.
The Eucharist involves us and those to whom we turn, to the point of embracing the whole world, depicted in the multitude of fish.
There is a close relationship between the Eucharist and Mission: there is no Mass without Mission (20:19.23) and there is no Mission without Mass.
"Thus," in this way, for the third and final time - after the first on Easter evening and the second eight days later - the Lord manifested Himself to the disciples gathered together.
The three "gradual" manifestations indicate the passage from the one reserved for the first, who "believe because they see" to the one addressed to us who "do not see and believe".
Acts of the Apostles 4,1-12.
RispondiEliminaAfter the crippled man had been cured, while Peter and John were still speaking to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple guard, and the Sadducees confronted them,
disturbed that they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.
They laid hands on them and put them in custody until the next day, since it was already evening.
But many of those who heard the word came to believe and (the) number of men grew to (about) five thousand.
On the next day, their leaders, elders, and scribes were assembled in Jerusalem,
with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly class.
They brought them into their presence and questioned them, "By what power or by what name have you done this?"
Then Peter, filled with the holy Spirit, answered them, "Leaders of the people and elders:
If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a cripple, namely, by what means he was saved,
then all of you and all the people of Israel should know that it was in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarean whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead; in his name this man stands before you healed.
He is 'the stone rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.'
There is no salvation through anyone else, nor is there any other name under heaven given to the human race by which we are to be saved."
Psalms 118(117),1-2.4.22-24.25-27a.
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
for his mercy endures forever.
Let the house of Israel say,
"His mercy endures forever."
Let those who fear the LORD say,
“His mercy endures forever.”
The stone which the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.
By the LORD has this been done;
it is wonderful in our eyes.
This is the day the LORD has made;
let us be glad and rejoice in it.
O LORD, grant salvation!
O LORD, grant prosperity!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD;
we bless you from the house of the LORD.
The LORD is God, and he has given us light.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 21,1-14.
Jesus revealed himself again to his disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself in this way.
Together were Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, Zebedee's sons, and two others of his disciples.
Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We also will come with you." So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.
When it was already dawn, Jesus was standing on the shore; but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus.
Jesus said to them, "Children, have you caught anything to eat?" They answered him, "No."
So he said to them, "Cast the net over the right side of the boat and you will find something." So they cast it, and were not able to pull it in because of the number of fish.
So the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord." When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he tucked in his garment, for he was lightly clad, and jumped into the sea.
The other disciples came in the boat, for they were not far from shore, only about a hundred yards, dragging the net with the fish.
When they climbed out on shore, they saw a charcoal fire with fish on it and bread.
Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish you just caught."
So Simon Peter went over and dragged the net ashore full of one hundred fifty-three large fish. Even though there were so many, the net was not torn.
Jesus said to them, "Come, have breakfast." And none of the disciples dared to ask him, "Who are you?" because they realized it was the Lord.
Jesus came over and took the bread and gave it to them, and in like manner the fish.
This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to his disciples after being raised from the dead.
WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER
RispondiEliminaToday's Gospel narrates the third appearance of the risen Jesus to the disciples, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, with the description of the miraculous catch of fish. The story is set in the context of the daily life of the disciples, who have returned to their land and to their work as fishermen, after the shocking days of the Lord's passion, death and resurrection. It was difficult for them to understand what had happened. But, while everything seemed to be over, it is Jesus who "looks" for his disciples again. It is He who goes to look for them. (April 10, 2016)
THANK YOU, POPE FRANCIS!
https://thewordofthegospel-yearc.blogspot.com/2013/06/