Book of Isaiah 52,7-10. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings glad tidings, Announcing peace, bearing good news, announcing salvation, and saying to Zion, "Your God is King!" Hark! Your watchmen raise a cry, together they shout for joy, For they see directly, before their eyes, the LORD restoring Zion. Break out together in song, O ruins of Jerusalem! For the LORD comforts his people, he redeems Jerusalem. The LORD has bared his holy arm in the sight of all the nations; All the ends of the earth will behold the salvation of our God.
PSALM Psalms 98(97),1.2-3ab.3cd-4.5-6.
Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done wondrous deeds; His right hand has won victory for him, his holy arm.
The LORD has made his salvation known: in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice. He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel.
All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation by our God. Sing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands; break into song; sing praise.
Sing praise to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and melodious song. With trumpets and the sound of the horn sing joyfully before the King, the LORD.
Letter to the Hebrews 1,1-6.
Brothers and sisters: In times past, God spoke in partial and various ways to our ancestors through the prophets; in these last days, he spoke to us through a son, whom he made heir of all things and through whom he created the universe, who is the refulgence of his glory, the very imprint of his being, and who sustains all things by his mighty word. When he had accomplished purification from sins, he took his seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high, as far superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. For to which of the angels did God ever say: "You are my son; this day I have begotten you"? Or again: "I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me"? And again, when he leads the first-born into the world, he says: "Let all the angels of God worship him."
HOLY GOSPEL of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 1,1-18. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. A man named John was sent from God. He came for testimony, to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to testify to the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, but his own people did not accept him. But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name, who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man's decision but of God. And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father's only Son, full of grace and truth. John testified to him and cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'The one who is coming after me ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.'" From his fullness we have all received, grace in place of grace, because while the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God. The only Son, God, who is at the Father's side, has revealed him.
FAUSTI - Surprisingly we discover that the One who loved to be called Son of Man and proclaimed Himself Son of God, is the Word that has always been with the Father and is God. It, witnessed by wises and prophets and never known, became Flesh in Jesus, to reveal and give us His own Glory of Only Son of the Father, so that, in Him, we can discover that we are sons of God. The prologue is like the beginning of a symphony, in which the motifs are preluded. In the history of theology it is like a mine of precious stones, from which the most important reflections on the Trinity and on the incarnation have been drawn. It is a hymn to the Word, Light and Life of everything, where what is said opens to the harmonies of the unspeakable. The word supposes one who speaks, expresses and gives himself, and another who listens him, imprints and welcomes within himself. The word implies two persons who enter into a relationship, in dialogue. It is born of the love of the speaker, corresponded by the listener: it is generated by love and generates love. This is why God who is Love is also Word. The Word is addressed not only to the Father, but also to the world: as it is Love and Life within God, it is also a source of Love and Life for every creature. Jesus, the Word become flesh, disposes of Life in the same way as the Father. It is in fact the full gift of the Father to the Son, who for this reason will say: "I am life" (14: 6) and "I came that they may have life and have it to the full" (10:10).My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what He commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. But if anyone obeys His Word, love for God is truly made complete in them. In the book of Genesis the creation is presented as the victory of light over darkness: God draws everything from nothingness into existence with the Word. The Word of light of the Father is to the origin of the world .Nothing can arrest It: neither darkness nor death, not even anything. The creation is essentially and completely "good" as the One who made it. And this will remain, even if the man, deceived, has temporarily subtracted himself from his vocation to respond to the Word. Darkness could nor overpower nor capture light: it is incapable of welcoming it, but also of destroying it, devouring it and reducing it to itself.If darkness takes the light, it is taken and illuminated. "No one has ever seen God. It is the only Son, who is close to the Father' heart, Who has made Him known". To see the mother is to be born, to see God is to come to the light of one's face. Nostalgia of the One in front of Whom the man is himself, the man is the desire to see the Lord , His hidden face. But no one has ever seen Him, because, from the beginning, Adam turned away from Him. We have no image of Him, because we are His only image and likeness, if we stand before Him Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, Who is towards the Father, with His works and Words, with His life and death, showed us God, to the point of saying: "He who has seen me has seen the Father" ( 14.9). He is, in fact, the Word, which for this reason has become " Flesh".The beginning of the Gospel of John brings us, with a shot of wing, over the space and beyond the time, beyond every creature, to show us Who Jesus is, man fully qualified to tell us about the invisible. - "No one has ever seen God. It is the only Son, who is close to the Father' heart, Who has made Him known". To see the mother is to be born, to see God is to come to the light of one's face.
WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER Faced with the announcement of the birth of a son (cf. Lk 1:13), Zechariah was incredulous because the laws of nature did not allow it. They were old, they were elderly. Consequently, the Lord rendered him mute for the entire gestation period (cf. v. 20). It was a sign. But God does not rely on our reasoning and our limited human abilities. We must learn to trust and be silent before the mystery of God and to contemplate, with humility and silence, his work which is revealed in history and often exceeds our imagination. And now that the event comes to pass, now that Elizabeth and Zechariah experience that “with God nothing will be impossible” (Lk 1:37), their joy is great. (…) Let us ask ourselves, each of us, in an examination of conscience: How is my faith? Is it joyful? Is it open to God’s surprises? Because God is the God of surprises. (Angelus, 24 June 2018)
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MASS OF THE DAY
RispondiEliminaBook of Isaiah 52,7-10.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings glad tidings, Announcing peace, bearing good news, announcing salvation, and saying to Zion, "Your God is King!"
Hark! Your watchmen raise a cry, together they shout for joy, For they see directly, before their eyes, the LORD restoring Zion.
Break out together in song, O ruins of Jerusalem! For the LORD comforts his people, he redeems Jerusalem.
The LORD has bared his holy arm in the sight of all the nations; All the ends of the earth will behold the salvation of our God.
PSALM
Psalms 98(97),1.2-3ab.3cd-4.5-6.
Sing to the LORD a new song,
for he has done wondrous deeds;
His right hand has won victory for him,
his holy arm.
The LORD has made his salvation known:
in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice.
He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness
toward the house of Israel.
All the ends of the earth have seen
the salvation by our God.
Sing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands;
break into song; sing praise.
Sing praise to the LORD with the harp,
with the harp and melodious song.
With trumpets and the sound of the horn
sing joyfully before the King, the LORD.
Letter to the Hebrews 1,1-6.
Brothers and sisters: In times past, God spoke in partial and various ways to our ancestors through the prophets;
in these last days, he spoke to us through a son, whom he made heir of all things and through whom he created the universe,
who is the refulgence of his glory, the very imprint of his being, and who sustains all things by his mighty word. When he had accomplished purification from sins, he took his seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
as far superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
For to which of the angels did God ever say: "You are my son; this day I have begotten you"? Or again: "I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me"?
And again, when he leads the first-born into the world, he says: "Let all the angels of God worship him."
HOLY GOSPEL
of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 1,1-18.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be
through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race;
the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
A man named John was sent from God.
He came for testimony, to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him.
He was not the light, but came to testify to the light.
The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him.
He came to what was his own, but his own people did not accept him.
But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,
who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man's decision but of God.
And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father's only Son, full of grace and truth.
John testified to him and cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'The one who is coming after me ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.'"
From his fullness we have all received, grace in place of grace,
because while the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
No one has ever seen God. The only Son, God, who is at the Father's side, has revealed him.
FAUSTI - Surprisingly we discover that the One who loved to be called Son of Man and proclaimed Himself Son of God, is the Word that has always been with the Father and is God. It, witnessed by wises and prophets and never known, became Flesh in Jesus, to reveal and give us His own Glory of Only Son of the Father, so that, in Him, we can discover that we are sons of God.
RispondiEliminaThe prologue is like the beginning of a symphony, in which the motifs are preluded.
In the history of theology it is like a mine of precious stones, from which the most important reflections on the Trinity and on the incarnation have been drawn.
It is a hymn to the Word, Light and Life of everything, where what is said opens to the harmonies of the unspeakable.
The word supposes one who speaks, expresses and gives himself, and another who listens him, imprints and welcomes within himself.
The word implies two persons who enter into a relationship, in dialogue.
It is born of the love of the speaker, corresponded by the listener: it is generated by love and generates love.
This is why God who is Love is also Word.
The Word is addressed not only to the Father, but also to the world: as it is Love and Life within God, it is also a source of Love and Life for every creature.
Jesus, the Word become flesh, disposes of Life in the same way as the Father.
It is in fact the full gift of the Father to the Son, who for this reason will say: "I am life" (14: 6) and "I came that they may have life and have it to the full" (10:10).My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what He commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. But if anyone obeys His Word, love for God is truly made complete in them.
In the book of Genesis the creation is presented as the victory of light over darkness: God draws everything from nothingness into existence with the Word. The Word of light of the Father is to the origin of the world .Nothing can arrest It: neither darkness nor death, not even anything.
The creation is essentially and completely "good" as the One who made it.
And this will remain, even if the man, deceived, has temporarily subtracted himself from his vocation to respond to the Word. Darkness could nor overpower nor capture light: it is incapable of welcoming it, but also of destroying it, devouring it and reducing it to itself.If darkness takes the light, it is taken and illuminated.
"No one has ever seen God. It is the only Son, who is close to the Father' heart, Who has made Him known".
To see the mother is to be born, to see God is to come to the light of one's face.
Nostalgia of the One in front of Whom the man is himself, the man is the desire to see the Lord , His hidden face. But no one has ever seen Him, because, from the beginning, Adam turned away from Him.
We have no image of Him, because we are His only image and likeness, if we stand before Him
Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, Who is towards the Father, with His works and Words, with His life and death, showed us God, to the point of saying:
"He who has seen me has seen the Father" ( 14.9). He is, in fact, the Word, which for this reason has become " Flesh".The beginning of the Gospel of John brings us, with a shot of wing, over the space and beyond the time, beyond every creature, to show us Who Jesus is, man fully qualified to tell us about the invisible. -
"No one has ever seen God. It is the only Son, who is close to the Father' heart, Who has made Him known".
To see the mother is to be born, to see God is to come to the light of one's face.
WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER
RispondiEliminaFaced with the announcement of the birth of a son (cf. Lk 1:13), Zechariah was incredulous because the laws of nature did not allow it. They were old, they were elderly. Consequently, the Lord rendered him mute for the entire gestation period (cf. v. 20). It was a sign. But God does not rely on our reasoning and our limited human abilities. We must learn to trust and be silent before the mystery of God and to contemplate, with humility and silence, his work which is revealed in history and often exceeds our imagination. And now that the event comes to pass, now that Elizabeth and Zechariah experience that “with God nothing will be impossible” (Lk 1:37), their joy is great. (…) Let us ask ourselves, each of us, in an examination of conscience: How is my faith? Is it joyful? Is it open to God’s surprises? Because God is the God of surprises. (Angelus, 24 June 2018)