(Sal 118,24) R. Hallelujah, hallelujah. This is the day done by the Lord: Let us rejoice and rejoice. R. Hallelujah.
Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel. + From the Gospel according to Mark 16:9-15 Risen in the morning, on the first day after the Sabbath, Jesus first appeared to Mary of Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons. She went to announce it to all those who had been with him and were in mourning and weeping. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe. After that, he appeared to two of them in another way as they were walking into the countryside. They also returned to proclaim it to the others; but they did not believe them either. Finally he also appeared to the Eleven, while they were at the table, and reproached them for their disbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen him risen. And he said to them, "Go into all the world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature. Word of the Lord.
FAUSTI - By the Magdalene who seeks Him, Jesus makes himself found. To the disciples instead he comes on his own initiative, not sought, even if loved. While the people are closed, each one in his own room, the Lord goes out of His house and comes to visit the people ( Is 26,20). No closure stops the Risen One. The light enters the darkness of the disciples. The Lord does not save them from death - He did not even save Himself - but in the death in which they find themselves. He himself is the door to life (10:7-10). He stands upright, victorious over death. He is in the middle, at the center of the disciples and in the heart of each one. He is the light that dissolves darkness, the love that drives out all fear (1 Jn 4:18). Where death used to reign, now there is the Living One. He who loves us to the extreme, shows His Glory. God is in the midst of His people. The Lord wants to be with us always, even in us. That is why he has entered into the place where we were, into death and into the tomb. "Peace to you" 'Peace' is not simply the usual greeting of the Jews. It indicates the fullness of every messianic blessing. It is the gift of Jesus who says: "I leave you peace, I give you my peace", that peace that the world does not know. It is the Peace of Love that overcomes hatred. "Have peace in Me. You will have tribulations in the world; but have confidence: I have conquered the world. Perforated hands and pierced flank are the identity of the Risen One. His wounds are the source of this peace, they bring back to unity the scattered children of God. It is the wounds that heal us (Is 53:5), the display of His extreme Love. "That day", towards evening, darkness becomes light (Zk 14:7), like the "one" day of Creation. The disciples, contemplating their hands and flanks, the eternal memory of God's love, see the light of the world. That day is now the day in which we too live: by celebrating the Eucharist, we remember the love of the Lord, we receive His Spirit and are sent into the world to bring reconciliation. From this contemplation and communion of love, specific of the Eucharist, comes the gift of the Spirit and the mission springs from it. The Risen One presents Himself as the giver of peace. Joy and peace, joyful peace and peaceful joy are the proper ways of the presence of the Lord, who assimilates us to Him. After having rejoiced at the sight of the Lord, the disciples listen to Him. If the eye sees and the heart rejoices, the ear hears: contemplation becomes love and obedience. Jesus speaks of the "Holy Spirit" without an article, not because it is a vague and indeterminate reality. The Holy Spirit is His Love. He gives it to us in fullness, not in measure (3:34). But we have what we accept of it, and we can accept more and more of it, without determining limits to what is infinite. Jesus asks us to accept him. The imperative form "accept" is a pressing petition from the Son to our freedom, because we accept the gift that makes us what we are: His brothers and sons of His Father and our Father, His God and our God.
(Sal 118,24)
RispondiEliminaR. Hallelujah, hallelujah.
This is the day done by the Lord:
Let us rejoice and rejoice.
R. Hallelujah.
Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel.
+ From the Gospel according to Mark 16:9-15
Risen in the morning, on the first day after the Sabbath, Jesus first appeared to Mary of Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons. She went to announce it to all those who had been with him and were in mourning and weeping. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe. After that, he appeared to two of them in another way as they were walking into the countryside. They also returned to proclaim it to the others; but they did not believe them either. Finally he also appeared to the Eleven, while they were at the table, and reproached them for their disbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen him risen. And he said to them, "Go into all the world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.
Word of the Lord.
FAUSTI - By the Magdalene who seeks Him, Jesus makes himself found. To the disciples instead he comes on his own initiative, not sought, even if loved. While the people are closed, each one in his own room, the Lord goes out of His house and comes to visit the people ( Is 26,20).
RispondiEliminaNo closure stops the Risen One. The light enters the darkness of the disciples.
The Lord does not save them from death - He did not even save Himself - but in the death in which they find themselves.
He himself is the door to life (10:7-10).
He stands upright, victorious over death. He is in the middle, at the center of the disciples and in the heart of each one. He is the light that dissolves darkness, the love that drives out all fear (1 Jn 4:18).
Where death used to reign, now there is the Living One. He who loves us to the extreme, shows His Glory.
God is in the midst of His people.
The Lord wants to be with us always, even in us.
That is why he has entered into the place where we were, into death and into the tomb.
"Peace to you" 'Peace' is not simply the usual greeting of the Jews. It indicates the fullness of every messianic blessing. It is the gift of Jesus who says: "I leave you peace, I give you my peace", that peace that the world does not know. It is the Peace of Love that overcomes hatred. "Have peace in Me. You will have tribulations in the world; but have confidence: I have conquered the world.
Perforated hands and pierced flank are the identity of the Risen One.
His wounds are the source of this peace, they bring back to unity the scattered children of God. It is the wounds that heal us (Is 53:5), the display of His extreme Love.
"That day", towards evening, darkness becomes light (Zk 14:7), like the "one" day of Creation. The disciples, contemplating their hands and flanks, the eternal memory of God's love, see the light of the world.
That day is now the day in which we too live: by celebrating the Eucharist, we remember the love of the Lord, we receive His Spirit and are sent into the world to bring reconciliation.
From this contemplation and communion of love, specific of the Eucharist, comes the gift of the Spirit and the mission springs from it.
The Risen One presents Himself as the giver of peace. Joy and peace, joyful peace and peaceful joy are the proper ways of the presence of the Lord, who assimilates us to Him. After having rejoiced at the sight of the Lord, the disciples listen to Him. If the eye sees and the heart rejoices, the ear hears: contemplation becomes love and obedience.
Jesus speaks of the "Holy Spirit" without an article, not because it is a vague and indeterminate reality.
The Holy Spirit is His Love. He gives it to us in fullness, not in measure (3:34).
But we have what we accept of it, and we can accept more and more of it, without determining limits to what is infinite. Jesus asks us to accept him.
The imperative form "accept" is a pressing petition from the Son to our freedom, because we accept the gift that makes us what we are: His brothers and sons of His Father and our Father, His God and our God.