S. FAUSTI- "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he dies, he will live, "says Jesus to Martha. Indeed He is life and light, light that shines in the darkness, life that awakens from death. The last work of the Messiah has been the lighting of the blind: it has opened our eyes to reality, showing the truth of God and of man. Now He gives us the freedom in front of our last limit. The resurrection of Lazarus opens our eyes to death, a lifetime mortgage. To look into the eyes death and to scrutinize the mystery of it , it is necessary to live. Otherwise our life remains an escape, forced and unnecessary, from what we know to be the safe arrival point. Jesus saves us not 'from' death. It 's impossible, we are mortal ones. Instead, He saves us 'in' death. He doesn't take away neither that limit which is necessary to exist, nor the dignity to be conscious of it. Anyway He offers , to us to understand it,in living it in a new way, divine. Every our limit, including the last one,it is not the negation of ourselves, but a place of relationship with the others and with the Other. Rather than turning us in defense or in attack, we can open ourselves to communion and fulfill ourselves to image of God, who is love.We are to the last of the 'signs' that reveal the Glory of the Son of God. After this story, His Passion will follow , that realizes the meaning of all His action. Jesus is the Son who communicates all His life to the brothers, and He communicates His life because He is the Son. Many Fathers have seen in Lazarus besides a foreshadowing of Jesus dead and risen and our future resurrection, also a symbol of the new life of the baptized, freed from the sin, real death of man.. The text, highly symbolic and evocative, suggests various interpretations. The overcoming of death is the deepest desire of man; he does not want that is being in the world has as a destination the void. If the void were the aim of everything, everything would be absurd and nothing would be existing. But the void can not be the aim, because it can not be the principle of life that actually is there. The aim of any reality corresponds to its beginning.We are destined not to annihilation, but to the communion with the Son and with the Father. This story shows us the heart of the Christian message, which corresponds to the need for happiness and fulfillment existing in every man. Following this desire, it is reasonable to have faith in the God of life and to accept Him. The rejection of God and of life originates, more than by a reasonableness of it , by our tragic way of thinking about death with the emotional disorders that follow it. This story heals us from it.The resurrection is to believe in Jesus: the one who adheres to Him, even now he is in communion with the Son and, even though he dies, he will live. Indeed whoever lives and believes in Him shall never die. In fact, he participates to the life of God, Who is Love: "We know that we have passed over from death to life, because we love our brethren. Whoever does not love, remains in death "(1Jh 3,14). The return to life of Lazarus is a sign of what happens to Martha and Mary, his sisters, their brother comes out momentarily from the tomb, but to return there again, while the sisters go away from the village of grief and from the mourning house to meet, already now on this earth, the Lord of life. The real risen isn't Lazarus who came back to mortal life, but his sisters and anyone who believes in Jesus, gone to eternal life.
One does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God. Gospel JN 7:1-2, 10, 25-30
Jesus moved about within Galilee; he did not wish to travel in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill him. But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, he himself also went up, not openly but as it were in secret.
Some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, "Is he not the one they are trying to kill? And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him. Could the authorities have realized that he is the Christ? But we know where he is from. When the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from." So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said, "You know me and also know where I am from. Yet I did not come on my own, but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me." So they tried to arrest him, but no one laid a hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come.
S. FAUSTI- "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he dies, he will live, "says Jesus to Martha. Indeed He is life and light, light that shines in the darkness, life that awakens from death. The last work of the Messiah has been the lighting of the blind: it has opened our eyes to reality, showing the truth of God and of man.
RispondiEliminaNow He gives us the freedom in front of our last limit.
The resurrection of Lazarus opens our eyes to death, a lifetime mortgage.
To look into the eyes death and to scrutinize the mystery of it , it is necessary to live.
Otherwise our life remains an escape, forced and unnecessary, from what we know to be the safe arrival point.
Jesus saves us not 'from' death. It 's impossible, we are mortal ones.
Instead, He saves us 'in' death. He doesn't take away neither that limit which is necessary to exist, nor the dignity to be conscious of it. Anyway He offers , to us to understand it,in living it in a new way, divine. Every our limit, including the last one,it is not the negation of ourselves, but a place of relationship with the others and with the Other.
Rather than turning us in defense or in attack, we can open ourselves to communion and fulfill ourselves to image of God, who is love.We are to the last of the 'signs' that reveal the Glory of the Son of God. After this story, His Passion will follow , that realizes the meaning of all His action.
Jesus is the Son who communicates all His life to the brothers, and He communicates His life because He is the Son.
Many Fathers have seen in Lazarus besides a foreshadowing of Jesus dead and risen and our future resurrection, also a symbol of the new life of the baptized, freed from the sin, real death of man..
The text, highly symbolic and evocative, suggests various interpretations.
The overcoming of death is the deepest desire of man; he does not want that is being in the world has as a destination the void. If the void were the aim of everything, everything would be absurd and nothing would be existing. But the void can not be the aim, because it can not be the principle of life that actually is there.
The aim of any reality corresponds to its beginning.We are destined not to annihilation, but to the communion with the Son and with the Father.
This story shows us the heart of the Christian message, which corresponds to the need for happiness and fulfillment existing in every man. Following this desire, it is reasonable to have faith in the God of life and to accept Him. The rejection of God and of life originates, more than by a reasonableness of it , by our tragic way of thinking about death with the emotional disorders that follow it. This story heals us from it.The resurrection is to believe in Jesus: the one who adheres to Him, even now he is in communion with the Son and, even though he dies, he will live. Indeed whoever lives and believes in Him shall never die. In fact, he participates to the life of God, Who is Love: "We know that we have passed over from death to life,
because we love our brethren. Whoever does not love, remains in death "(1Jh 3,14).
The return to life of Lazarus is a sign of what happens to Martha and Mary, his sisters, their brother comes out momentarily from the tomb, but to return there again, while the sisters go away from the village of grief and from the mourning house to meet, already now on this earth, the Lord of life.
The real risen isn't Lazarus who came back to mortal life, but his sisters and anyone who believes in Jesus,
gone to eternal life.
Verse Before The Gospel MT 4:4B
RispondiEliminaOne does not live on bread alone,
but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.
Gospel JN 7:1-2, 10, 25-30
Jesus moved about within Galilee;
he did not wish to travel in Judea,
because the Jews were trying to kill him.
But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast,
he himself also went up, not openly but as it were in secret.
Some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said,
"Is he not the one they are trying to kill?
And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him.
Could the authorities have realized that he is the Christ?
But we know where he is from.
When the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from."
So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said,
"You know me and also know where I am from.
Yet I did not come on my own,
but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true.
I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
So they tried to arrest him,
but no one laid a hand upon him,
because his hour had not yet come.