S. FAUSTI - "Here is the groom, go out to meet him!" It is the cry that raises in the middle of the night. The one whom the bride and the Spirit invoke. "Come on!" ,and who said. "I will come soon" (Acts 22: 17-20), finally comes! It is the most beautiful metaphor of human existence, compared to a going out to meet the Bridegroom. All our life is an "exit" aimed to this: we come out from mother's womb in the sunlight, we go out every moment from what we are toward what we become, until when we come out from the life to meet our life that is hidden with Christ in God (Col 3: 3). We ignore the day and the time of the arrival, but we know that every day and every hour are a step toward Him. Provided, however, that we listen and follow His Word. This is the oil that the wise virgins bring with themselves. It is necessary to enter to the wedding. All their existence , indeed, has been a vigilant and an industrious acknowledgment of the daily visits, of the Groom until it became full of oil, filled with Holy Spirit. The foolish virgins, however, didn't listen to and didn't done His Word: they didn't expected , acknowledged and beloved Him. Their existence is an empty vase, without love. Instead of going to meet Him, they have departed from Him and from His voice, until when they would not perceive Him. Because of this He will say to them, "I do not know you!" Here it is the importance of the present moment: it is the only one that has been given to us to live and to acquire the necessary oil. The Eternal salvation or the perdition depends solely on what here and now we freely do. The future is entrusted to our hands. The menacing description of failure is necessary to awaken us from unconsciousness and from idleness,in order to bring into action our freedom. This passage is addressed to the community of thedisciples, so that they wouldn't automatically award t themselves the salvation for the simple reason of being believers. Not the one who says salvation or of perdition. It wants that we identify ourselves with the foolish virgins, so that we "Lord, Lord!" will enter in the kingdom of heavens, but only those who do the will of the Father (7:21), that consists in living as children by loving the brothers. The tale is an allegory that makes us read the deep meaning of our daily history in terms of become like those wise ones. The Church invokes: "Maranà tha. Come, O Lord "(1 Cor 16, 22), and every single disciple says with Paul. "I live, but not me, but Christ lives in me . The life that I now live in the flesh I live it in the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. " To correspond to love with the love is the life of man. Then it is the very life of God, Father and Son.The future is the encounter with the Bridegroom, but this is accomplished for those who accumulate every day the oil that remains forever. If one does not live in love, his life is out! "Between life and death, I choose guitar," said a poet, "I chose to sing to the Lord, with my mouth, with my heart, with my works! Jesus is the One who loved me and gave Himself for me (Gal 2:20).He is it the Bridegroom (Ephesians 5: 25-27).
S. FAUSTI - "Here is the groom, go out to meet him!" It is the cry that raises in the middle of the night. The one whom the bride and the Spirit invoke. "Come on!" ,and who said. "I will come soon" (Acts 22: 17-20), finally comes!
RispondiEliminaIt is the most beautiful metaphor of human existence, compared to a going out to meet the Bridegroom. All our life is an "exit" aimed to this: we come out from mother's womb in the sunlight, we go out every moment from what we are toward what we become, until when we come out from the life to meet our life that is hidden with Christ in God (Col 3: 3).
We ignore the day and the time of the arrival, but we know that every day and every hour are a step toward Him. Provided, however, that we listen and follow His Word.
This is the oil that the wise virgins bring with themselves. It is necessary to enter to the wedding.
All their existence , indeed, has been a vigilant and an industrious acknowledgment of the daily visits, of the Groom until it became full of oil, filled with Holy Spirit.
The foolish virgins, however, didn't listen to and didn't done His Word: they didn't expected , acknowledged and beloved Him. Their existence is an empty vase, without love.
Instead of going to meet Him, they have departed from Him and from His voice, until when they would not perceive Him.
Because of this He will say to them, "I do not know you!"
Here it is the importance of the present moment: it is the only one that has been given to us to live and to acquire the necessary oil. The Eternal salvation or the perdition depends solely on what here and now we freely do. The future is entrusted to our hands.
The menacing description of failure is necessary to awaken us from unconsciousness and from idleness,in order to bring into action our freedom.
This passage is addressed to the community of thedisciples, so that they wouldn't automatically award t themselves the salvation for the simple reason of being believers. Not the one who says salvation or of perdition. It wants that we identify ourselves with the foolish virgins, so that we "Lord, Lord!" will enter in the kingdom of heavens, but only those who do the will of the Father (7:21), that consists in living as children by loving the brothers.
The tale is an allegory that makes us read the deep meaning of our daily history in terms of become like those wise ones.
The Church invokes: "Maranà tha. Come, O Lord "(1 Cor 16, 22), and every single disciple says with Paul. "I live, but not me, but Christ lives in me . The life that I now live in the flesh I live it in the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. " To correspond to love with the love is the life of man.
Then it is the very life of God, Father and Son.The future is the encounter with the Bridegroom, but this is accomplished for those who accumulate every day the oil that remains forever.
If one does not live in love, his life is out!
"Between life and death, I choose guitar," said a poet, "I chose to sing to the Lord, with my mouth, with my heart, with my works!
Jesus is the One who loved me and gave Himself for me (Gal 2:20).He is it the Bridegroom (Ephesians 5: 25-27).