FAUSTI - Mary perceives a presence behind her. She turns, looking away from the tomb. She must look away from the place of death to meet the Lord of life. "Mary!" "Look to Him and you will be radiant" (Sl 34, 6). The Lord is always behind us, because it is He who comes to look for us. If we look for Him we will not find Him , unless we stop and turn around to let Him find us. "He didn't know that He was Jesus." Mary, after going beyond the angels, guardians of the tomb, finds the beloved of her heart. But she does not recognize Him, even though He is present. God is always a misunderstood presence, because He is supremely discreet, like love. All tales of resurrection are tales of "recognition". He is the Living One: everything is in Him and He in everything. Enlightenment is not seeing anything else from what is there, but having new eyes and a new heart to see the Other who is there. "Thinking that he was the gardener," Mary calls Him Lord, even though she does not yet know that He is the One she is looking for. He Himself, the Bridegroom who is before ,He has carried His Body into the night and immersed it in the sheol, giving proof of His Love stronger than death. Mary questions the only One who is able to give her an answer.She wants nothing else but Him. Without Him she is wandering. She does not find a home with any of her companions, even if they are as bright as angels. The Lord has brought His Body into death to put it before Mary's eyes, as her life. How can she alone remove that Body that Joseph took off the cross to place it in the tomb, assisted by Nicodemus? But love is capable of carrying every weight, because nothing in the world weighs as much as love. Only if Mary lifts the Body of her Lord, is the stone lifted from the tomb that is her heart. How is it now that He has already risen and says that He has not yet ascended to the Father? In reality the Son has already ascended to the Father. With His death He went to prepare a place for us and promised that He would come and take us with Him, because we too are where He is (14:2). Now that He has risen, He fulfills the promise: He returns to us with the power of His Spirit, because we too go where He has always been. Only when we too are in the abode of His Father and ours will there be the definitive embrace. The "ascent" to the Father, of which he speaks, is not so much his own as that of his brothers and sisters, to whom He has shown the way. This way, which is the truth of life (14:6), is the earthly Jesus, the Master: "His flesh" teaches every flesh the way to the Father. All history, personal and universal, is now but the return of creation to its Creator, in the flesh of the Son. The embrace with the Risen One becomes a sending towards his brothers and sisters. It is the only time that Jesus calls the disciples "my brothers". He made us such by assuming our flesh and living in it the fullness of love. Having fulfilled His mission as Son, He begins ours as His brothers, that we become sons by loving as He loved us. He is no longer visibly with us, but He is with us, indeed, in us, with His Spirit so that, going towards others, we may make our "ascent" to the Father.
The total Christ, the Body of the Son in His full stature, will be with the Father when all men, His brothers, are one in love. Mariam, like the Church, will proclaim to her brothers and sisters that God whom no one has ever seen. He is "my Father" of Jesus, the Only Begotten Son who became our brother so that His Father may also become our Father and our God. To see the Risen One with the eyes of the flesh is the first witness, to see Him with the eyes of the heart is for all who love Him. The encounter with Jesus makes Mariam rise again. She sees Him, according to His promise. "You see me, for I live and you will live" (14:19). And the new life is His own as Son, addressed to the brothers and sisters as to the Father. Mariam's announcement goes from direct to indirect speech. "I have seen the Lord" is the testimony of her encounter, which founds our faith.
FAUSTI - Mary perceives a presence behind her. She turns, looking away from the tomb. She must look away from the place of death to meet the Lord of life.
RispondiElimina"Mary!" "Look to Him and you will be radiant" (Sl 34, 6).
The Lord is always behind us, because it is He who comes to look for us. If we look for Him we will not find Him , unless we stop and turn around to let Him find us.
"He didn't know that He was Jesus." Mary, after going beyond the angels, guardians of the tomb, finds the beloved of her heart. But she does not recognize Him, even though He is present.
God is always a misunderstood presence, because He is supremely discreet, like love.
All tales of resurrection are tales of "recognition".
He is the Living One: everything is in Him and He in everything.
Enlightenment is not seeing anything else from what is there, but having new eyes and a new heart to see the Other who is there.
"Thinking that he was the gardener," Mary calls Him Lord, even though she does not yet know that He is the One she is looking for. He Himself, the Bridegroom who is before ,He has carried His Body into the night and immersed it in the sheol, giving proof of His Love stronger than death.
Mary questions the only One who is able to give her an answer.She wants nothing else but Him. Without Him she is wandering. She does not find a home with any of her companions, even if they are as bright as angels. The Lord has brought His Body into death to put it before Mary's eyes, as her life.
How can she alone remove that Body that Joseph took off the cross to place it in the tomb, assisted by Nicodemus?
But love is capable of carrying every weight, because nothing in the world weighs as much as love.
Only if Mary lifts the Body of her Lord, is the stone lifted from the tomb that is her heart.
How is it now that He has already risen and says that He has not yet ascended to the Father? In reality the Son has already ascended to the Father. With His death He went to prepare a place for us and promised that He would come and take us with Him, because we too are where He is (14:2).
Now that He has risen, He fulfills the promise: He returns to us with the power of His Spirit, because we too go where He has always been. Only when we too are in the abode of His Father and ours will there be the definitive embrace.
The "ascent" to the Father, of which he speaks, is not so much his own as that of his brothers and sisters, to whom He has shown the way. This way, which is the truth of life (14:6), is the earthly Jesus, the Master: "His flesh" teaches every flesh the way to the Father. All history, personal and universal, is now but the return of creation to its Creator, in the flesh of the Son.
The embrace with the Risen One becomes a sending towards his brothers and sisters. It is the only time that Jesus calls the disciples "my brothers". He made us such by assuming our flesh and living in it the fullness of love. Having fulfilled His mission as Son, He begins ours as His brothers, that we become sons by loving as He loved us. He is no longer visibly with us, but He is with us, indeed, in us, with His Spirit so that, going towards others, we may make our "ascent" to the Father.
The total Christ, the Body of the Son in His full stature, will be with the Father when all men, His brothers, are one in love. Mariam, like the Church, will proclaim to her brothers and sisters that God whom no one has ever seen. He is "my Father" of Jesus, the Only Begotten Son who became our brother so that His Father may also become our Father and our God. To see the Risen One with the eyes of the flesh is the first witness, to see Him with the eyes of the heart is for all who love Him.
RispondiEliminaThe encounter with Jesus makes Mariam rise again.
She sees Him, according to His promise. "You see me, for I live and you will live" (14:19).
And the new life is His own as Son, addressed to the brothers and sisters as to the Father.
Mariam's announcement goes from direct to indirect speech.
"I have seen the Lord" is the testimony of her encounter, which founds our faith.