FAUSTI- The witness of the Truth has passed from Jesus (18,37) to the beloved disciple (19,35) and from this to the community that witnesses the truth to us, because we witness it to others, until the return of the Lord. It is the truth of Love that makes us free (8,32). Whoever has discovered it, is in turn sent, with and like the Son, to witness it to the world. It is the last echo of the prologue that says: "We contemplated His Glory, the Glory of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth" (1:14). It corresponds to what his fellow citizens say to the Samaritan woman: "It is no longer because of your speech that we believe, for we ourselves have heard and know that He is truly the Saviour of the world" (84,42). The book closes with an opening: the community bears witness to the truth of the testimony received. It becomes the living Gospel (2 Cor 3:3), the perfume of Christ that makes the whole world perceive the difference between salvation and perdition, life and death (2 Cor 2:14). The whole Gospel is a witness to the truth of the Love between Father and Son, which gives eternal life: to those who receive it, it gives the power to become children of God (1:12). Our inner eye knows how to distinguish the voice of Wisdom from that of insipience, like light from darkness, joy from sadness, fear from trust, love from selfishness, life from death, God from idol. As I read it, the Gospel reads to me. The great discovery is that his narration tells me to myself in what the Spirit testifies to me as my deepest desire, freed from illusions and disappointments. Listening to the Word, transmitted by those who have received it before us, is our "Christmas". We are born as children of God (1:14). because, believing in Him, we have life in His name. "If we were to write one by one, I don't think even the world itself would contain books". The editor closes the epilogue of the Gospel by a hyperbole. It can be understood in a material sense: books, which one could write about the Word become flesh, would not physically stand in the world. How can one say everything about Him who is everything in all, and infinitely beyond everything? The universe is to him as a grain of "dust on the scales". , "morning dew fallen on the earth". Yet on it pours all His Love (Wisdom 11,22-26). In fact, everything has been done by Him and has its own existence in Him (1,3). The entire universe is an open and unresearched book, which awaits a reader who knows how to read the splendor of Infinity: it is a silent language that sings the Glory of God. (Sl 19,1-4).
The wealth that flows from the Gospel is inexhaustible, like water from a spring. The reader, after approaching the Word, perceives it with amazement and admiration. Everything written and unwritten about Jesus will be suggested to us by His Spirit, who will make us able to witness it (14,26 - 15,27 - 16,12-15), writing about Him in our lives. The Father has revealed everything to us in Jesus, Flesh of the Son. In Him "all the treasures of wisdom and science are hidden" (Col 2:3): from Him, the splendor of Glory (Heb 1:3), reverberates the infinite splendor of Truth. All creation, history and Scripture refer to Him, the principle and life of what exists (1,3 -5,39-46). But we know Him only progressively, day after day, learning with modesty from creation, history and Scripture. Those who pretend to know Him fully are foolish and impious: they are idolaters who confuse God with their own ideas about Him. All fanaticism comes from here. He who is wise, today as always, humbly seeks to listen to every person, culture and religion, to know the Lord of everything and everyone. Only the journey of history - for this reason it continues, even if it is already concluded in the Flesh of the Word -, is able to make us grasp what He has already given us
RispondiEliminaFAUSTI- The witness of the Truth has passed from Jesus (18,37) to the beloved disciple (19,35) and from this to the community that witnesses the truth to us, because we witness it to others, until the return of the Lord.
It is the truth of Love that makes us free (8,32).
Whoever has discovered it, is in turn sent, with and like the Son, to witness it to the world.
It is the last echo of the prologue that says: "We contemplated His Glory, the Glory of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth" (1:14). It corresponds to what his fellow citizens say to the Samaritan woman: "It is no longer because of your speech that we believe, for we ourselves have heard and know that He is truly the Saviour of the world" (84,42).
The book closes with an opening: the community bears witness to the truth of the testimony received. It becomes the living Gospel (2 Cor 3:3), the perfume of Christ that makes the whole world perceive the difference between salvation and perdition, life and death (2 Cor 2:14). The whole Gospel is a witness to the truth of the Love between Father and Son, which gives eternal life: to those who receive it, it gives the power to become children of God (1:12).
Our inner eye knows how to distinguish the voice of Wisdom from that of insipience, like light from darkness, joy from sadness, fear from trust, love from selfishness, life from death, God from idol.
As I read it, the Gospel reads to me.
The great discovery is that his narration tells me to myself in what the Spirit testifies to me as my deepest desire, freed from illusions and disappointments.
Listening to the Word, transmitted by those who have received it before us, is our "Christmas". We are born as children of God (1:14). because, believing in Him, we have life in His name.
"If we were to write one by one, I don't think even the world itself would contain books".
The editor closes the epilogue of the Gospel by a hyperbole.
It can be understood in a material sense: books, which one could write about the Word become flesh, would not physically stand in the world. How can one say everything about Him who is everything in all, and infinitely beyond everything? The universe is to him as a grain of "dust on the scales". , "morning dew fallen on the earth". Yet on it pours all His Love (Wisdom 11,22-26). In fact, everything has been done by Him and has its own existence in Him (1,3).
The entire universe is an open and unresearched book, which awaits a reader who knows how to read the splendor of Infinity: it is a silent language that sings the Glory of God. (Sl 19,1-4).
The wealth that flows from the Gospel is inexhaustible, like water from a spring.
The reader, after approaching the Word, perceives it with amazement and admiration. Everything written and unwritten about Jesus will be suggested to us by His Spirit, who will make us able to witness it (14,26 - 15,27 - 16,12-15), writing about Him in our lives.
The Father has revealed everything to us in Jesus, Flesh of the Son. In Him "all the treasures of wisdom and science are hidden" (Col 2:3): from Him, the splendor of Glory (Heb 1:3), reverberates the infinite splendor of Truth. All creation, history and Scripture refer to Him, the principle and life of what exists (1,3 -5,39-46). But we know Him only progressively, day after day, learning with modesty from creation, history and Scripture. Those who pretend to know Him fully are foolish and impious: they are idolaters who confuse God with their own ideas about Him.
All fanaticism comes from here. He who is wise, today as always, humbly seeks to listen to every person, culture and religion, to know the Lord of everything and everyone. Only the journey of history - for this reason it continues, even if it is already concluded in the Flesh of the Word -, is able to make us grasp what He has already given us