FAUSTI - Jesus is man, how can he be of divine origin? How come he calls God: "My Father" and promises men the life of God? How can a man become equal to God? It is the mystery of Jesus. He is flesh, like all of us. But it is the Word, become flesh, the Son of God who became Son of man, inevitable scandal so that every son of man becomes Son of God. Jesus reaffirms that accepting Him is a gift from the Father, his work par excellence. He draws every man to the Son so that he may become a son. This attraction of the Father, even if mysterious, is innate in man, precisely because he is his son: is expressed in the many requests for meaning that each one makes. We are all directly instructed by God, disciples of the inner voice that bears witness to the Word, the true light that enlightens every man. We are "theodidact". trained by God, He acts in the heart of every man, drawing him towards light and life, towards the Son in whom he gives himself to us as a Father. If before there was the law, written on boards of stone, now God Himself writes His Word in our hearts, putting in us a new heart, full of His love. Bread recalls the Word of God, the beginning of life. The true bread is Jesus, the Word become flesh. Manna is the food of Exodus. "Your fathers" ate of it, but did not reach the promised land (Ps 95:8); they failed on the way and did not obtain eternal life, because they did not listen to the Lord. Manna came from heaven, but only in the past; moreover, whoever ate it did not obtain life. The Bread of which Jesus speaks instead "descends" now from heaven, to the present, and whoever eats it, doesn't die. We pass from the Bread, which recalls the gift of manna, to the Flesh, which recalls the sacrifice of the Lamb. These are allusions to Exodus and Easter. The Bread that Jesus will give, when His hour has come, is His Flesh: His Body given for us. It is a foreboding of the Passion and its fruit. Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, becoming, in his sacrifice, the source of life and blessing for all. The flesh of Jesus, his humanity offered on the cross as a total gift of love, is the Epiphany of that God that no one has ever seen. In him the Word has become Flesh so that the flesh itself becomes the Word, the account of God, the presence of His Spirit that animates the world.
FAUSTI - Jesus is man, how can he be of divine origin? How come he calls God: "My Father" and promises men the life of God? How can a man become equal to God? It is the mystery of Jesus.
RispondiEliminaHe is flesh, like all of us.
But it is the Word, become flesh, the Son of God who became Son of man, inevitable scandal so that every son of man becomes Son of God. Jesus reaffirms that accepting Him is a gift from the Father, his work par excellence.
He draws every man to the Son so that he may become a son.
This attraction of the Father, even if mysterious, is innate in man, precisely because he is his son:
is expressed in the many requests for meaning that each one makes. We are all directly instructed by God, disciples of the inner voice that bears witness to the Word, the true light that enlightens every man.
We are "theodidact". trained by God, He acts in the heart of every man, drawing him towards light and life, towards the Son in whom he gives himself to us as a Father.
If before there was the law, written on boards of stone, now God Himself writes His Word in our hearts, putting in us a new heart, full of His love.
Bread recalls the Word of God, the beginning of life.
The true bread is Jesus, the Word become flesh.
Manna is the food of Exodus. "Your fathers" ate of it, but did not reach the promised land (Ps 95:8); they failed on the way and did not obtain eternal life, because they did not listen to the Lord.
Manna came from heaven, but only in the past; moreover, whoever ate it did not obtain life.
The Bread of which Jesus speaks instead "descends" now from heaven, to the present, and whoever eats it,
doesn't die. We pass from the Bread, which recalls the gift of manna, to the Flesh, which recalls the sacrifice of the Lamb. These are allusions to Exodus and Easter.
The Bread that Jesus will give, when His hour has come, is His Flesh: His Body given for us.
It is a foreboding of the Passion and its fruit.
Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, becoming, in his sacrifice, the source of life and blessing for all.
The flesh of Jesus, his humanity offered on the cross as a total gift of love, is
the Epiphany of that God that no one has ever seen.
In him the Word has become Flesh so that the flesh itself becomes the Word, the account of God, the presence of His Spirit that animates the
world.