S. FAUSTI - "Remain here, and stay awake with me!" Jesus asks to his disciples. He wakes them up three times, because at least for a brief moment, before falling again into slumber, it is imprinted in their hearts what is happening in the night. Jesus calls them to contemplate the passion of the Son for the brothers. It is the same of the Father! The disciple is one that makes, of God's love for the world, his own home. The story is a window on the most intimate ego of Jesus : it reveals His relationship with the Father and with us. And it makes it with His own words, at the decisive moment of His life. It is the night when He gives Himself to death, the violent and unjust death, in the leaving of man and of God. Jesus takes upon Himself the evil of the brothers, the abandonment of the Father. His anguish is endless, boundless: He is "the Son", whose being is "the bilong to the Father." But even the being of the Father is "bilonging to the Son"! The evil of our abandonment touches the heart itself of God who loves us. He is is the lover who takes upon Himself the abandonment of the beloved! The evil in which Jesus is "baptized" is really absolute, it is impossible to think of a bigger one. On this night are all our nights; and the man knows many nights. The Son dives Himself in them and fills themof His presence. by the extreme distance ,He cries: "My Father!". In any abyss, from side to side of chaos, the voice of the Son resounds to the Father. "Abba" is the word spoken by the Son, the Father says. Jesus in this night, of any abandonment of the Father, He makes the abandon to the Father, making Himself close to any distance. Jesus feels sorrow and distress. The disciples were amazed of it. Although whit the eyes that stubbornly close again, they couldn't forget. "Over the years of His earthly life," the Son "offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who could save Him from death, and was heard", not because he was released, but because “ He lived well " death, the loud cries and tears, common to all His sinful brothers. For this He became the perfect Son as the Father. For "obedience" in "what He suffered." And so "He became the source of eternal salvation to those who listen to Him" and He was proclaimed "Pope", bridge between every lost man and his God. So he says one of the last writings of the N T providing still alive the memory of this scene. (Hb 5.7 to 10). The old Adam " lived badly " the good: He kidnapped the gift of sonship. The new Adam "lived well" even the evil: He gives Himself up to those who kidnap, bringing upon Himself the violence of theft. Because of this He is the Son equal to the Father: He gives Himself and saves everyone.
-->In the story Jesus addresses continually alternately to the Father and to His disciples, experiencing the silence of everyone. His only anxiety comes from his being between us and the Father, living together His love for Him and our desertion of Him. He is the ' "intercessor," He who gets in the way, weaving in Himself the story between any distance and laceration. Jesus lives His being of the Father, through Him and for Him, in our state of sin and rejection. We have not accepted nor God as Father or ourselves as children. We wanted to own our own life: thus we do not accept to be children. We remove birth and death, we eliminate our beginning and our end. This is why our life is violent, sad and distressed: split from its source, it feels “ thrown" into void. Jesus traces back the path of Adam, returning to the Father any abandonment of the Father. Jesus keeps vigil and prays: prostrated He has the power of the Spirit to cry. "My Father!" and to do His will. Instead the disciples are sleeping , sat in the weakness of their flesh, locked in the sleep of their death. The Son lives the drama that makes children those who are not children: the passage (baptismal) from my will to the will of the Father. Jesus wins the fight, and He heals us from the evil that is at the origin of our evils: the contrast between our and His will.Because of this it comes " the hour ", in view of which the world was created: that in which the Son of Man gives Himself to the Father in His surrendering to the lost brothers: it is the hour of salvation !. After this "good night" there is no more night. The light of the Son came into our darkness. Because of this,, to the end, after having repeaded to watch, Jesus says " to sleep and take their rest" and "to rise up and to go ." Every our sleep is not more an anticipation of the death, but " a way" in the new life of children. In fact every night of us is as clear as day, every our distance now anchored to the Father in the Son.
When Jesus and the disciples drew near Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find an ass tethered, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them here to me. And if anyone should say anything to you, reply, ‘The master has need of them.’ Then he will send them at once.” This happened so that what had been spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled: Say to daughter Zion, “Behold, your king comes to you, meek and riding on an ass, and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.” The disciples went and did as Jesus had ordered them. They brought the ass and the colt and laid their cloaks over them, and he sat upon them. The very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and strewed them on the road. The crowds preceding him and those following kept crying out and saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David; blessed is the he who comes in the name of the Lord; hosanna in the highest.” And when he entered Jerusalem the whole city was shaken and asked, “Who is this?” And the crowds replied, “This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth in Galilee.” At The Mass - Reading 1 IS 50:4-7
The Lord GOD has given me a well-trained tongue, that I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them. Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back. I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield from buffets and spitting.
The Lord GOD is my help, therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame. Responsorial Psalm PS 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24
R/ (2a) My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? All who see me scoff at me; they mock me with parted lips, they wag their heads: “He relied on the LORD; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, if he loves him.” R/ My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Indeed, many dogs surround me, a pack of evildoers closes in upon me; They have pierced my hands and my feet; I can count all my bones. R/ My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? They divide my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots. But you, O LORD, be not far from me; O my help, hasten to aid me. R/ My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I will proclaim your name to my brethren; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you: “You who fear the LORD, praise him; all you descendants of Jacob, give glory to him; revere him, all you descendants of Israel!” R/ My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Reading 2 PHIL 2:6-11
Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
S. FAUSTI - "Remain here, and stay awake with me!" Jesus asks to his disciples. He wakes them up three times, because at least for a brief moment, before falling again into slumber, it is imprinted in their hearts what is happening in the night. Jesus calls them to contemplate the passion of the Son for the brothers.
RispondiEliminaIt is the same of the Father! The disciple is one that makes, of God's love for the world, his own home.
The story is a window on the most intimate ego of Jesus : it reveals His relationship with the Father and with us. And it makes it with His own words, at the decisive moment of His life.
It is the night when He gives Himself to death, the violent and unjust death, in the leaving of man and of God. Jesus takes upon Himself the evil of the brothers, the abandonment of the Father.
His anguish is endless, boundless: He is "the Son", whose being is "the bilong to the Father."
But even the being of the Father is "bilonging to the Son"!
The evil of our abandonment touches the heart itself of God who loves us.
He is is the lover who takes upon Himself the abandonment of the beloved!
The evil in which Jesus is "baptized" is really absolute, it is impossible to think of a bigger one.
On this night are all our nights; and the man knows many nights.
The Son dives Himself in them and fills themof His presence. by the extreme distance ,He cries: "My Father!".
In any abyss, from side to side of chaos, the voice of the Son resounds to the Father.
"Abba" is the word spoken by the Son, the Father says.
Jesus in this night, of any abandonment of the Father, He makes the abandon to the Father, making Himself close to any distance. Jesus feels sorrow and distress. The disciples were amazed of it.
Although whit the eyes that stubbornly close again, they couldn't forget.
"Over the years of His earthly life," the Son "offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who could save Him from death, and was heard", not because he was released, but because “ He lived well " death, the loud cries and tears, common to all His sinful brothers. For this He became the perfect Son as the Father.
For "obedience" in "what He suffered." And so "He became the source of eternal salvation to those who listen to Him" and He was proclaimed "Pope", bridge between every lost man and his God.
So he says one of the last writings of the N T providing still alive the memory of this scene. (Hb 5.7 to 10).
The old Adam " lived badly " the good: He kidnapped the gift of sonship.
The new Adam "lived well" even the evil: He gives Himself up to those who kidnap, bringing upon Himself the violence of theft. Because of this He is the Son equal to the Father: He gives Himself and saves everyone.
-->In the story Jesus addresses continually alternately to the Father and to His disciples, experiencing the silence of everyone.
RispondiEliminaHis only anxiety comes from his being between us and the Father, living together His love for Him and our desertion of Him. He is the ' "intercessor," He who gets in the way, weaving in Himself the story between any distance and laceration. Jesus lives His being of the Father, through Him and for Him, in our state of sin and rejection. We have not accepted nor God as Father or ourselves as children.
We wanted to own our own life: thus we do not accept to be children. We remove birth and death, we eliminate our beginning and our end. This is why our life is violent, sad and distressed: split from its source, it feels “ thrown" into void.
Jesus traces back the path of Adam, returning to the Father any abandonment of the Father.
Jesus keeps vigil and prays: prostrated He has the power of the Spirit to cry. "My Father!" and to do His will.
Instead the disciples are sleeping , sat in the weakness of their flesh, locked in the sleep of their death.
The Son lives the drama that makes children those who are not children: the passage (baptismal) from my will to the will of the Father.
Jesus wins the fight, and He heals us from the evil that is at the origin of our evils: the contrast between our and His will.Because of this it comes " the hour ", in view of which the world was created: that in which the Son of Man gives Himself to the Father in His surrendering to the lost brothers: it is the hour of salvation !.
After this "good night" there is no more night. The light of the Son came into our darkness.
Because of this,, to the end, after having repeaded to watch, Jesus says " to sleep and take their rest" and "to rise up and to go ."
Every our sleep is not more an anticipation of the death, but " a way" in the new life of children.
In fact every night of us is as clear as day, every our distance now anchored to the Father in the Son.
At The Procession With Palms - Gospel MT 21:1-11
RispondiEliminaWhen Jesus and the disciples drew near Jerusalem
and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives,
Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them,
“Go into the village opposite you,
and immediately you will find an ass tethered,
and a colt with her.
Untie them and bring them here to me.
And if anyone should say anything to you, reply,
‘The master has need of them.’
Then he will send them at once.”
This happened so that what had been spoken through the prophet
might be fulfilled:
Say to daughter Zion,
“Behold, your king comes to you,
meek and riding on an ass,
and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.”
The disciples went and did as Jesus had ordered them.
They brought the ass and the colt and laid their cloaks over them,
and he sat upon them.
The very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road,
while others cut branches from the trees
and strewed them on the road.
The crowds preceding him and those following
kept crying out and saying:
“Hosanna to the Son of David;
blessed is the he who comes in the name of the Lord;
hosanna in the highest.”
And when he entered Jerusalem
the whole city was shaken and asked, “Who is this?”
And the crowds replied,
“This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth in Galilee.”
At The Mass - Reading 1 IS 50:4-7
The Lord GOD has given me
a well-trained tongue,
that I might know how to speak to the weary
a word that will rouse them.
Morning after morning
he opens my ear that I may hear;
and I have not rebelled,
have not turned back.
I gave my back to those who beat me,
my cheeks to those who plucked my beard;
my face I did not shield
from buffets and spitting.
The Lord GOD is my help,
therefore I am not disgraced;
I have set my face like flint,
knowing that I shall not be put to shame.
Responsorial Psalm PS 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24
R/ (2a) My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?
All who see me scoff at me;
they mock me with parted lips, they wag their heads:
“He relied on the LORD; let him deliver him,
let him rescue him, if he loves him.”
R/ My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?
Indeed, many dogs surround me,
a pack of evildoers closes in upon me;
They have pierced my hands and my feet;
I can count all my bones.
R/ My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?
They divide my garments among them,
and for my vesture they cast lots.
But you, O LORD, be not far from me;
O my help, hasten to aid me.
R/ My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?
I will proclaim your name to my brethren;
in the midst of the assembly I will praise you:
“You who fear the LORD, praise him;
all you descendants of Jacob, give glory to him;
revere him, all you descendants of Israel!”
R/ My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?
Reading 2 PHIL 2:6-11
Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
something to be grasped.
Rather, he emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
coming in human likeness;
and found human in appearance,
he humbled himself,
becoming obedient to the point of death,
even death on a cross.
Because of this, God greatly exalted him
and bestowed on him the name
which is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,
of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.