Book of Revelation 7,2-4.9-14. I, John, saw another angel come up from the East, holding the seal of the living God. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were given power to damage the land and the sea, "Do not damage the land or the sea or the trees until we put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God." I heard the number of those who had been marked with the seal, one hundred and forty-four thousand marked from every tribe of the Israelites: After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands. They cried out in a loud voice: "Salvation comes from our God, who is seated on the throne, and from the Lamb." All the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They prostrated themselves before the throne, worshiped God, and exclaimed: "Amen. Blessing and glory, wisdom and thanksgiving, honor, power, and might be to our God forever and ever. Amen." Then one of the elders spoke up and said to me, "Who are these wearing white robes, and where did they come from?" I said to him, "My lord, you are the one who knows." He said to me, "These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." Psalms 24(23),1-2.3-4ab.5-6. The LORD's are the earth and its fullness; the world and those who dwell in it. For he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.
Who can ascend the mountain of the LORD? or who may stand in his holy place? One whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean, who desires not what is vain.
He shall receive a blessing from the LORD, a reward from God his savior. Such is the race that seeks for him, that seeks the face of the God of Jacob. First Letter of John 3,1-3. Beloved: See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 5,1-12a. When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them, saying: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you (falsely) because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven. "
WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER The saints are close to us, indeed they are our truest brothers and sisters. They understand us, love us, know what is truly good for us, help us and await us. They are happy and want us to be happy with them in paradise.
Thus they invite us on the path of happiness, indicated by today’s beautiful and well-known Gospel passage: “Blessed are the poor in spirit.... Blessed are the meek.... Blessed are the pure in heart...” (cf. Mt 5:3-8). But how? The Gospel says blessed are the poor, while the world says blessed are the rich. The Gospel says blessed are the meek, while the world says blessed are the overbearing. The Gospel says blessed are the pure, while the world says blessed are the cunning and the pleasure-seekers. This way of the Beatitudes, of holiness, seems to always lead to defeat. Yet — the first reading also reminds us — the Saints hold “palm branches in their hands” (Rev 7:9), which is a symbol of victory. They have prevailed, not the world. And they exhort us to choose their side, that of God who is Holy. (Angelus, 1 Nov 2018)
FAUSTI - The discourse is destined for the "crowds", for humanity oppressed by evil that rushes to Him from the four cardinal points (4,23). The Words that follow are the therapy that makes them new people, with the same wisdom as the Son. God on Sinai revealed the Word. Here is manifested the Son, prototype of every brother, perfectly fulfilled Word. In the background is the anonymous crowd. The disciple is the one who "learns" and makes himself close to Him. to listen to it and follow Him He opens His mouth to reveal Himself, the Eternal Word of the Father. Jesus is He who says and who is said, He who speaks, is the Word itself. The Sermon on the Mount is a baptismal catechesis, a breviary of Christian life, the rule of life of the Son. It is the new heart, promised by the prophets. Without the gift of His Spirit, the Beatitudes are a sublime ideology, all the more despairing as the more sublime. For eight times plus one Jesus repeats the refrain, because the "judgment" of God, so different from ours, can be impressed in us. His words have a unique subversive charge: they turn the world and its principles upside down. Jesus congratulates the disadvantaged, because they have "the great advantage":God is for them, with them, One of them! The root of Blessedness of course, is not the illness, but the "righteousness of God. which does not give each his own, but according to need, giving priority to those who have less. In Greek it is not written "poor", which indicates one who has little and painfully, unlike the rich, who has so much and without effort. It is written "pitocco," which indicates one who is hiding, destitute, begging. Pitocco has nothing, not even the dignity of a face to save: he lives by gift. Poverty is associated with guilt or lesser value. In the A. Testament, wealth is God's gift, but poverty is the fault of the rich man, who steals or does not share with his brother. The poor man is necessarily humble: he lives by what the other gives him. This is the condition of the Son, who receives everything from the Father, even being himself. Each of us is what we have received. Poverty is the emptiness that everything receives: the absolute poverty receives the Absolute. Poverty in spirit is humility, which means one who has little and with sorrow, unlike the rich, who has so much and without effort. It is written "pitocco," which indicates one who is hiding, destitute, begging. Pitocco has nothing, not even the dignity of a face to save: he lives by gift. Poverty is associated with guilt or lesser value. In the A. Testament, wealth is God's gift, but poverty is the fault of the rich man, who steals or does not share with his brother. The poor man is necessarily humble: he lives by what the other gives him. This is the condition of the Son, who receives everything from the Father, even being himself. Each of us is what we have received. Poverty is the emptiness that everything receives: the absolute one receives the Absolute. Poverty in spirit is humility, the first characteristic of love. It is understood by those who have the same sentiments that were in Christ Jesus (Philip.2,5-11). God is essentially poor, he possesses nothing. He is all of the Other. His very Being is to be of the Son if He is the Father, to be of the Father if He is the Son, to be of the Father and of the Son if He is the Spirit. "The first and last beat itudes are in the present, the others in the future. The Kingdom of God is already of the poor and the persecuted. But the tension remains for a different future. The plant comes from the seed that has been laid down. Let no one deceive himself, each one will reap what he has sown (Gal 6:7); and he who sows in weeping will reap with jubilation (Sl 126). Against any triumphalistic or millenary temptation, the Kingdom is, at present, always of the poor and persecuted. The poor are afflicted. To him it goes badly. "The present of affliction has a different future (Is 61,1).
-->"Consolation" indicates the joy of the new world, in which there will be no more evil. Jesus, weeping over Jerusalem and oppressed in the garden, faced the Cross, looking at the Glory that was before him, and now sits at the right hand of God. Looking at Him, and above all, following Him, we are not discouraged (Heb 12:2). His destiny is also ours: for this reason "the sufferings of the present moment are not comparable to the future glory that must be revealed in us". (Rom 8,18). "Blessed are the meek" Meek is he who does not assert his rights and yields rather than gets angry. He who loves is always meek. The poor are forced to be so. The behavior changes the feeling! "They will inherit the earth" the earth, which provides a living, is a symbol of the Spirit, which is life. The promised land is the promise of the Spirit. He who has the spirit of the master loses it, he who has the spirit of the poor, he has the inheritance: he is a son, equal to the Father, with His own love for his brothers and sisters. Meek is Moses, He who bears the Kingdom, Jesus (Zc 9,9). "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness" Hunger and thirst are need of life, and life is "righteousness", the will of God, His Love for all. From Him, made Bread, we too take strength and filial fullness "Blessed are those whose hearts are touched by the evil of others as if it were their own. Mercy is the fundamental form of love: passion that becomes com-passion. The merciful one finds God himself, who is mercy, and himself, His son, merciful as the Father. It is the only beatitude where one finds in the future what one already has now! "Blessed are the pure in heart" (Sl 24:4) The heart, the center of the person, contains "the hidden man" (1PT 3:4): the Son, who dwells in our hearts by faith (Eph 3:17). He who has a pure heart, not obscured by so many desires and fears, finds Him. "The pure heart is a transparent eye that sees God. And sees Him in all things, because He has Him inside and projects Him on everything. Purity of heart is obtained with righteous intention: he who seeks only God in everything, finds Him, who is all in all (1 Cor 15:28). Jesus not only says, He gives us what He says. The Words of Jesus are medicine to our evils, the truth that heals the heart from the lie that lies at their origin. The Sermon on the Mount is "indicative" that becomes "imperative". Man has no other duty than to become what he is. It is important first of all to grasp the "beauty" of this discourse that gives us back in the Son the true face of ourselves and of the Father. To make peace among men means to make them our brothers. To make them brothers is the work of the Father and of those who are already sons. "Blessed are those persecuted because of justice" Those who love the Father and the brothers and sisters, they clash with evil: they find hostility and persecution, in themselves and outside themselves.
Book of Revelation 7,2-4.9-14.
RispondiEliminaI, John, saw another angel come up from the East, holding the seal of the living God. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were given power to damage the land and the sea,
"Do not damage the land or the sea or the trees until we put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God."
I heard the number of those who had been marked with the seal, one hundred and forty-four thousand marked from every tribe of the Israelites:
After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.
They cried out in a loud voice: "Salvation comes from our God, who is seated on the throne, and from the Lamb."
All the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They prostrated themselves before the throne, worshiped God,
and exclaimed: "Amen. Blessing and glory, wisdom and thanksgiving, honor, power, and might be to our God forever and ever. Amen."
Then one of the elders spoke up and said to me, "Who are these wearing white robes, and where did they come from?"
I said to him, "My lord, you are the one who knows." He said to me, "These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb."
Psalms 24(23),1-2.3-4ab.5-6.
The LORD's are the earth and its fullness;
the world and those who dwell in it.
For he founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the rivers.
Who can ascend the mountain of the LORD?
or who may stand in his holy place?
One whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean,
who desires not what is vain.
He shall receive a blessing from the LORD,
a reward from God his savior.
Such is the race that seeks for him,
that seeks the face of the God of Jacob.
First Letter of John 3,1-3.
Beloved: See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Beloved, we are God's children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 5,1-12a.
RispondiEliminaWhen Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him.
He began to teach them, saying:
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you (falsely) because of me.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven. "
WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER
RispondiEliminaThe saints are close to us, indeed they are our truest brothers and sisters. They understand us, love us, know what is truly good for us, help us and await us. They are happy and want us to be happy with them in paradise.
Thus they invite us on the path of happiness, indicated by today’s beautiful and well-known Gospel passage: “Blessed are the poor in spirit.... Blessed are the meek.... Blessed are the pure in heart...” (cf. Mt 5:3-8). But how? The Gospel says blessed are the poor, while the world says blessed are the rich. The Gospel says blessed are the meek, while the world says blessed are the overbearing. The Gospel says blessed are the pure, while the world says blessed are the cunning and the pleasure-seekers. This way of the Beatitudes, of holiness, seems to always lead to defeat. Yet — the first reading also reminds us — the Saints hold “palm branches in their hands” (Rev 7:9), which is a symbol of victory. They have prevailed, not the world. And they exhort us to choose their side, that of God who is Holy. (Angelus, 1 Nov 2018)
FAUSTI - The discourse is destined for the "crowds", for humanity oppressed by evil that rushes to Him from the four cardinal points (4,23). The Words that follow are the therapy that makes them new people, with the same wisdom as the Son. God on Sinai revealed the Word.
RispondiEliminaHere is manifested the Son, prototype of every brother, perfectly fulfilled Word. In the background is the anonymous crowd.
The disciple is the one who "learns" and makes himself close to Him.
to listen to it and follow Him
He opens His mouth to reveal Himself, the Eternal Word of the Father. Jesus is He who says and who is said, He who speaks, is the Word itself.
The Sermon on the Mount is a baptismal catechesis, a breviary of Christian life, the rule of life of the Son. It is the new heart, promised by the prophets.
Without the gift of His Spirit, the Beatitudes are a sublime ideology,
all the more despairing as the more sublime.
For eight times plus one Jesus repeats the refrain, because the "judgment" of God, so different from ours, can be impressed in us. His words have a unique subversive charge: they turn the world and its principles upside down. Jesus congratulates the disadvantaged, because they have "the great advantage":God is for them, with them, One of them!
The root of Blessedness of course, is not the illness, but the "righteousness of God. which does not give each his own, but according to need, giving priority to those who have less.
In Greek it is not written "poor", which indicates one who has little and painfully, unlike the rich, who has so much and without effort.
It is written "pitocco," which indicates one who is hiding, destitute, begging. Pitocco has nothing, not even the dignity of a face to save: he lives by gift.
Poverty is associated with guilt or lesser value. In the A. Testament, wealth is God's gift, but poverty is the fault of the rich man, who steals or does not share with his brother.
The poor man is necessarily humble: he lives by what the other gives him.
This is the condition of the Son, who receives everything from the Father, even being himself.
Each of us is what we have received.
Poverty is the emptiness that everything receives: the absolute
poverty receives the Absolute.
Poverty in spirit is humility, which means one who has little and with sorrow, unlike the rich, who has so much and without effort.
It is written "pitocco," which indicates one who is hiding, destitute, begging. Pitocco has nothing, not even the dignity of a face to save: he lives by gift.
Poverty is associated with guilt or lesser value. In the A. Testament, wealth is God's gift, but poverty is the fault of the rich man, who steals or does not share with his brother.
The poor man is necessarily humble: he lives by what the other gives him.
This is the condition of the Son, who receives everything from the Father, even being himself.
Each of us is what we have received.
Poverty is the emptiness that everything receives: the absolute one receives the Absolute.
Poverty in spirit is humility, the first characteristic of love.
It is understood by those who have the same sentiments that were in Christ Jesus (Philip.2,5-11).
God is essentially poor, he possesses nothing. He is all of the Other.
His very Being is to be of the Son if He is the Father, to be of the Father if He is the Son, to be of the Father and of the Son if He is the Spirit.
"The first and last beat itudes are in the present, the others in the future.
The Kingdom of God is already of the poor and the persecuted.
But the tension remains for a different future. The plant comes from the seed that has been laid down.
Let no one deceive himself, each one will reap what he has sown (Gal 6:7); and he who sows in weeping will reap with jubilation (Sl 126).
Against any triumphalistic or millenary temptation, the Kingdom is, at present, always of the poor and persecuted. The poor are afflicted. To him it goes badly.
"The present of affliction has a different future (Is 61,1).
-->"Consolation" indicates the joy of the new world, in which there will be no more evil.
RispondiEliminaJesus, weeping over Jerusalem and oppressed in the garden, faced the Cross, looking at the Glory that was before him, and now sits at the right hand of God. Looking at Him, and above all, following Him, we are not discouraged (Heb 12:2). His destiny is also ours: for this reason "the sufferings of the present moment are not comparable to the future glory that must be revealed in us". (Rom 8,18).
"Blessed are the meek" Meek is he who does not assert his rights and yields rather than gets angry.
He who loves is always meek. The poor are forced to be so. The behavior changes the feeling!
"They will inherit the earth" the earth, which provides a living, is a symbol of the Spirit, which is life.
The promised land is the promise of the Spirit. He who has the spirit of the master loses it, he who has the spirit of the poor, he has the inheritance: he is a son, equal to the Father, with His own love for his brothers and sisters.
Meek is Moses, He who bears the Kingdom, Jesus (Zc 9,9).
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness" Hunger and thirst are need of life, and life is "righteousness", the will of God, His Love for all.
From Him, made Bread, we too take strength and filial fullness
"Blessed are those whose hearts are touched by the evil of others as if it were their own.
Mercy is the fundamental form of love: passion that becomes com-passion.
The merciful one finds God himself, who is mercy, and himself, His son, merciful as the Father.
It is the only beatitude where one finds in the future what one already has now!
"Blessed are the pure in heart" (Sl 24:4) The heart, the center of the person, contains "the hidden man" (1PT 3:4): the Son, who dwells in our hearts by faith (Eph 3:17). He who has a pure heart, not obscured by so many desires and fears, finds Him.
"The pure heart is a transparent eye that sees God. And sees Him in all things, because He has Him inside and projects Him on everything.
Purity of heart is obtained with righteous intention: he who seeks only God in everything, finds Him, who is all in all (1 Cor 15:28).
Jesus not only says, He gives us what He says. The Words of Jesus are medicine to our evils, the truth that heals the heart from the lie that lies at their origin.
The Sermon on the Mount is "indicative" that becomes "imperative".
Man has no other duty than to become what he is. It is important first of all to grasp the "beauty" of this discourse that gives us back in the Son the true face of ourselves and of the Father.
To make peace among men means to make them our brothers.
To make them brothers is the work of the Father and of those who are already sons.
"Blessed are those persecuted because of justice" Those who love the Father and the brothers and sisters, they clash with evil: they find hostility and persecution, in themselves and outside themselves.
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