FAUSTi - "Here comes the Bridegroom, go out to meet Him!" It's the cry that rises in the middle of the night. He whom the Bride and the Spirit invoke. "Come!" and who said: "I will come soon!" finally comes! It is the most beautiful metaphor of human existence, compared to going out to meet the Bridegroom. Our whole life is an exit, aimed at this: we leave the womb of the mother in the light of the sun, we leave every moment from what we are towards what we become, until we leave life to meet our Life, hidden with Christ in God. We do not know the day and time of arrival, but we know that every day and every hour is a step towards Him, provided however that we listen to Him and follow His Word. This is the oil that the wise virgins carry with them: it is necessary to enter the wedding. In fact, their entire existence has been a vigilant and active recognition of the daily visits of the Bridegroom, until it becomes full of oil, filled with the Holy Spirit. The foolish virgins, on the other hand, have not listened to and made His Word: they have not waited for Him, recognized Him and loved Him. Their existence is an empty vessel, without love. Instead of going to meet him, have strayed from Him to the point of not recognizing Him. That is why He will tell them, "I don't know you. This passage does not want to scare us about the future. Instead, it wants to make us responsible for the importance of the present moment. It is the only one given to us to live and acquire the necessary oil. Salvation or eternal perdition depends exclusively on what we here and now freely do. The future is entrusted to our hands. The threatening description of failure serves to awaken us from unconsciousness and idleness, to activate our freedom. We want to be identified with foolish virgins, so that we become like the wise virgins.. The future is the encounter with the Bridegroom, but this is achieved for those who accumulate every day that oil that remains forever. If one does not invest in love, his life is extinguished: The Church invokes . "Maranatha, come, O Lord!" (1 Cor 16:22), and every single disciple says with Paul: "yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me. The life that I am now living, subject to the limitation of human nature, I am living in faith, faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me." (Gal 2,20). Responding to love with love is the life of man. And it is the Life itself of God: Father and Son.
FAUSTi - "Here comes the Bridegroom, go out to meet Him!" It's the cry that rises in the middle of the night. He whom the Bride and the Spirit invoke. "Come!" and who said: "I will come soon!" finally comes! It is the most beautiful metaphor of human existence, compared to going out to meet the Bridegroom. Our whole life is an exit, aimed at this: we leave the womb of the mother in the light of the sun, we leave every moment from what we are towards what we become, until we leave life to meet our Life, hidden with Christ in God.
RispondiEliminaWe do not know the day and time of arrival, but we know that every day and every hour is a step towards Him, provided however that we listen to Him and follow His Word.
This is the oil that the wise virgins carry with them: it is necessary to enter the wedding.
In fact, their entire existence has been a vigilant and active recognition of the daily visits of the Bridegroom, until it becomes full of oil, filled with the Holy Spirit.
The foolish virgins, on the other hand, have not listened to and made His Word: they have not waited for Him, recognized Him and loved Him.
Their existence is an empty vessel, without love. Instead of going to meet him, have strayed from Him to the point of not recognizing Him.
That is why He will tell them, "I don't know you.
This passage does not want to scare us about the future. Instead, it wants to make us responsible for the importance of the present moment. It is the only one given to us to live and acquire the necessary oil.
Salvation or eternal perdition depends exclusively on what we here and now freely do.
The future is entrusted to our hands. The threatening description of failure serves to awaken us from unconsciousness and idleness, to activate our freedom.
We want to be identified with foolish virgins, so that we become like the wise virgins..
The future is the encounter with the Bridegroom, but this is achieved for those who accumulate every day that oil that remains forever.
If one does not invest in love, his life is extinguished:
The Church invokes . "Maranatha, come, O Lord!" (1 Cor 16:22), and every single disciple says with Paul: "yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me. The life that I am now living, subject to the limitation of human nature, I am living in faith, faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me."
(Gal 2,20).
Responding to love with love is the life of man. And it is the Life itself of God: Father and Son.