FAUSTI - "Who do men say I am?" "But you, who do you say I am?" Jesus asks the disciples and us. Before everyone asked themselves "Who is he?" Now He Himself asks: "Who am I for you?". Christianity is the answer to this question that He asks me. His provocation is also an examination of sight, to make us see that we need further new eyes. Faith cannot be delegated. Everyone is called to give his own answer, to know him, love him and follow him, even if still imperfectly. So far Jesus has fulfilled our desires, but almost only to entice us and dispose us to receive a gift that surpasses all our expectations. He has drawn us to Him because we trust Him. From now on he will begin to give us no more gifts. Our eye must pass from His empty hand to His Face, and penetrate into His Heart, the source of every gift. God is Love, and nothing else loves but to love and give Himself to the beloved. The second part of the Gospel will thus present him to us, and will culminate on the Cross, where he will fully accomplish the Revelation of Himself in the gift of Himself. Our risk is to remain closed in the first part, without ever knowing the Lord. In fact, we do not seek Him, but His gifts, and we identify Him with them, reducing Him to an idol, coat hanger of our desires or ghost of our fears. God's wisdom passes through poverty, humiliation and humility; it accepts suffering, repudiation and killing, and so overcomes the evil done by the wisdom of man, who seeks having, power and appearance, causing his own death and that of others. Peter, like all of us, remains closed in the thought of man. His clash with Jesus is violent. It will become ever tighter, until the final confrontation. The cross, made by us and carried by Him, remains the only possible place of encounter. The journey is slow and difficult, but safe and respectful. The "Word", denouncing our blindness more and more clearly, places us in the need to ask for light. This is our greatest gesture of freedom, with which we recognize the truth and put ourselves behind Jesus, always tempted, like Peter, to put ourselves before us. Jesus is the Pastor who, with His Cross, His staff, leads us to victory over evil and death. We follow Him as the Word that indicates the path of life, the cloud and the pillar of fire that leads from slavery to freedom. It is the Lord present in our midst. Love and obedience to Him is our salvation.
FAUSTI - "Who do men say I am?"
RispondiElimina"But you, who do you say I am?" Jesus asks the disciples and us.
Before everyone asked themselves "Who is he?"
Now He Himself asks: "Who am I for you?".
Christianity is the answer to this question that He asks me.
His provocation is also an examination of sight, to make us see that we need further new eyes. Faith cannot be delegated. Everyone is called to give his own answer, to know him, love him and follow him, even if still imperfectly.
So far Jesus has fulfilled our desires, but almost only to entice us and dispose us to receive a gift that surpasses all our expectations. He has drawn us to Him because we trust Him.
From now on he will begin to give us no more gifts.
Our eye must pass from His empty hand to His Face, and penetrate into His Heart, the source of every gift. God is Love, and nothing else loves but to love and give Himself to the beloved.
The second part of the Gospel will thus present him to us, and will culminate on the Cross, where he will fully accomplish the Revelation of Himself in the gift of Himself.
Our risk is to remain closed in the first part, without ever knowing the Lord.
In fact, we do not seek Him, but His gifts, and we identify Him with them, reducing Him to an idol, coat hanger of our desires or ghost of our fears.
God's wisdom passes through poverty, humiliation and humility; it accepts suffering, repudiation and killing, and so overcomes the evil done by the wisdom of man, who seeks having, power and appearance, causing his own death and that of others.
Peter, like all of us, remains closed in the thought of man.
His clash with Jesus is violent. It will become ever tighter, until the final confrontation.
The cross, made by us and carried by Him, remains the only possible place of encounter.
The journey is slow and difficult, but safe and respectful.
The "Word", denouncing our blindness more and more clearly, places us in the need to ask for light.
This is our greatest gesture of freedom, with which we recognize the truth and put ourselves behind Jesus, always tempted, like Peter, to put ourselves before us.
Jesus is the Pastor who, with His Cross, His staff, leads us to victory over evil and death.
We follow Him as the Word that indicates the path of life, the cloud and the pillar of fire that leads from slavery to freedom. It is the Lord present in our midst.
Love and obedience to Him is our salvation.