S. FAUSTI - Jesus proposes and gives the new economy of love, which wins that of selfishness. Five examples follow , which are also five rules with which they shows how to win evil with good. (Rom12,21). The first rule to win evil is to set oneself against evil and not wicked.. Evil first and foremost to those who do it, and it must not be returned. The wicked, first victim of evil, he is my brother, who must be loved with more heart. Jesus loves sinners because He hates sin; I hate sinners because I love sin. Sinners are subject of compassion for Him, of detestation for me.. My dislike for sinner reveals my sympathy for sin, my disassociation from wicked , my participation to evil. Only a pure heart loves tenderly the sinner. He has the compassion that overcomes evil itself. . Rather than returning by doubling it, he has the strength to bear it, to suffer-with the other, as the Lamb of God that brings and takes away the sin of the world (Jn 1:29). If the first rule to win evil is not to return it, the second is the disposability to bear the double in order not to double it. The Christian "tolerance" is not indifference to evil, but strength to tolerate (bring) upon hitself other's evil is " the lift" ability to "carry each another's burdens ", that is how to keep the Law of Christ ( Gal 6,2). It 's rare gratuitous love, with which one receives the other as it is. We all need it - who is not loved and accepted by anyone, it does not exist! - To love ourselves and to love in our turn, as we are loved. When you read the Bible, it must be remembered that God speaks a human language There is an evolution in the revelation, from the strong and terrible God, common to all peoples, we come gradually to the gracious and merciful God, forbearing and of great love That let pity Oneself(Gen 4.2).During the Messianic era their swords will be trasformed into dialogue and their spears into sickles (Is 2,4). Then the wolf too shall live with the lamb, and the wisdom of the Lord will fill the land as the waters cover the sea. (Isaiah 11: 6, 9). Whit Jesus that time has come . Love for the enemy is the essence of Christianity. To love your enemy means having known God in the Spirit. God in fact has no enemies, but only sons, who are brothers to love for me .As All the imperatives of Jesus, they are not impossible burdens, but liberating gifts. Who does not love the enemy, has not yet the Spirit of the Lord, who here reveals the infinity and the gratuity of His Love (Romans 5: 6-11). Now, loving the enemies and praying for the persecutors, I become what I am: son of the Father. If I do not love the enemy, I am the enemy of God, I do not consider myself His son, and I can not say "Our Father”.
-->God does not cut the light and water to those who does not pay the bill. His sun and His rain , His love and His mercy, are for everyone, because everybody He recognizes as sons, waiting for someone to recognize Him as Father, accepting the others as brothers. Loving with interest is everybody's business, even of sinners. The love of the enemy, however, is clear revelation of God's unconditional love. "So be you perfect" The Sermon on the Mount is a mountain range. This verse is the highest point of arrival, the panoramic summit, where you can see everything. "Be holy because I am holy" (LV 11, 44-45-17,1 - 19:21) is the principle of the law. Man is in the image of God, it is hitself only if like Him, "the Holy". Holiness is an attribute of God: He alone is God, Holy, more than any other. His "otherness" is known to us through Jesus. It is of the Father who loves just men and sinners. On the cross, where everything will be accomplished (Jn 19:30) and he will be recognized as the Son (27, 54) we see the holiness of the Father, of whom He is the perfect realization. This holiness does not separate from the world and from the sinner, but becomes compassion that is compromised in any situation, Mercy that comes into any misery. Luke translates this verse of Matthew thus: " Be merciful as your Father is merciful" (Lk 6:36), where "mercy" makes a Hebrew word that means "uterine, motherly" The characteristic of God the Father is His being Mother ! Mercy is more purifying than every "holiness" that divides just and unjust. It is the burning holiness of the Cross, the different Holiness , of the other, that we meet.
SATURDAY 18-2 Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 9:2-13. Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus. Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, "Rabbi, it is good that we are here! Let us make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." He hardly knew what to say, they were so terrified. Then a cloud came, casting a shadow over them; then from the cloud came a voice, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him." Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone but Jesus alone with them. As they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them not to relate what they had seen to anyone, except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead. So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what rising from the dead meant. Then they asked him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" He told them, "Elijah will indeed come first and restore all things, yet how is it written regarding the Son of Man that he must suffer greatly and be treated with contempt? But I tell you that Elijah has come and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him."
S. FAUSTI - Jesus proposes and gives the new economy of love, which wins that of selfishness.
RispondiEliminaFive examples follow , which are also five rules with which they shows how to win evil with good. (Rom12,21).
The first rule to win evil is to set oneself against evil and not wicked.. Evil first and foremost to those who do it, and it must not be returned. The wicked, first victim of evil, he is my brother, who must be loved with more heart. Jesus loves sinners because He hates sin; I hate sinners because I love sin. Sinners are subject of compassion for Him, of detestation for me..
My dislike for sinner reveals my sympathy for sin, my disassociation from wicked , my participation to evil.
Only a pure heart loves tenderly the sinner. He has the compassion that overcomes evil itself. . Rather than returning by doubling it, he has the strength to bear it, to suffer-with the other, as the Lamb of God that brings and takes away the sin of the world (Jn 1:29).
If the first rule to win evil is not to return it, the second is the disposability to bear the double in order not to double it. The Christian "tolerance" is not indifference to evil, but strength to tolerate (bring) upon hitself other's evil is " the lift" ability to "carry each another's burdens ", that is how to keep the Law of Christ ( Gal 6,2). It 's rare gratuitous love, with which one receives the other as it is. We all need it - who is not loved and accepted by anyone, it does not exist! - To love ourselves and to love in our turn, as we are loved.
When you read the Bible, it must be remembered that God speaks a human language
There is an evolution in the revelation, from the strong and terrible God, common to all peoples, we come gradually to the gracious and merciful God, forbearing and of great love That let pity Oneself(Gen 4.2).During the Messianic era their swords will be trasformed into dialogue and their spears into sickles (Is 2,4). Then the wolf too shall live with the lamb, and the wisdom of the Lord will fill the land as the waters cover the sea. (Isaiah 11: 6, 9).
Whit Jesus that time has come .
Love for the enemy is the essence of Christianity. To love your enemy means having known God in the Spirit. God in fact has no enemies, but only sons, who are brothers to love for me
.As All the imperatives of Jesus, they are not impossible burdens, but liberating gifts. Who does not love the enemy, has not yet the Spirit of the Lord, who here reveals the infinity and the gratuity of His Love (Romans 5: 6-11). Now, loving the enemies and praying for the persecutors, I become what I am: son of the Father. If I do not love the enemy, I am the enemy of God, I do not consider myself His son, and I can not say "Our Father”.
-->God does not cut the light and water to those who does not pay the bill. His sun and His rain , His love and His mercy, are for everyone, because everybody He recognizes as sons, waiting for someone to recognize Him as Father, accepting the others as brothers.
RispondiEliminaLoving with interest is everybody's business, even of sinners.
The love of the enemy, however, is clear revelation of God's unconditional love.
"So be you perfect" The Sermon on the Mount is a mountain range. This verse is the highest point of arrival, the panoramic summit, where you can see everything.
"Be holy because I am holy" (LV 11, 44-45-17,1 - 19:21) is the principle of the law.
Man is in the image of God, it is hitself only if like Him, "the Holy".
Holiness is an attribute of God: He alone is God, Holy, more than any other.
His "otherness" is known to us through Jesus. It is of the Father who loves just men and sinners.
On the cross, where everything will be accomplished (Jn 19:30) and he will be recognized as the Son (27, 54) we see the holiness of the Father, of whom He is the perfect realization.
This holiness does not separate from the world and from the sinner, but becomes compassion that is compromised in any situation, Mercy that comes into any misery. Luke translates this verse of Matthew thus: " Be merciful as your Father is merciful" (Lk 6:36), where "mercy" makes a Hebrew word that means "uterine, motherly"
The characteristic of God the Father is His being Mother !
Mercy is more purifying than every "holiness" that divides just and unjust. It is the burning holiness of the Cross, the different Holiness , of the other, that we meet.
SATURDAY 18-2 Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 9:2-13.
RispondiEliminaJesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them,
and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them.
Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus.
Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, "Rabbi, it is good that we are here! Let us make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
He hardly knew what to say, they were so terrified.
Then a cloud came, casting a shadow over them; then from the cloud came a voice, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."
Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone but Jesus alone with them.
As they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them not to relate what they had seen to anyone, except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what rising from the dead meant.
Then they asked him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
He told them, "Elijah will indeed come first and restore all things, yet how is it written regarding the Son of Man that he must suffer greatly and be treated with contempt?
But I tell you that Elijah has come and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him."