From "give me" to "tell me"
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by Giosy Cento
Understanding the moment of the Liturgy of the Word means immersing yourself in the dialogue of Love, because it cannot be a monologue. Solitary communication is like a theater stage. Here, the place is the ecclesial community that awaits the voice of its Lord to drink from the Source the clear and never polluted water of the absolute truth that reveals only Love. These are the minutes dedicated to the heart-to-heart meeting with the loving God who removes all his veils and makes himself known to his creatures.
And if the Eucharistic celebration is the source and summit of the life of the Church (Lumen Gentium), it is precisely here, with the Word, that the first fundamental communication between God and man takes place. it is the Lord who takes the initiative because, for an... eternity, he has heard man's cry, listens to his whys, knows the secret intrigues of history and stories and wants to respond to open the horizons of hope that man, alone, he cannot find. This is why, as history unfolded, God raised up men who read the events with the heart of God and wrote them, in his holy name, to give the right "tips", "the divine keys" for reading the human, personal and historical life. Thus the Lord Almighty wrote his never-ending love letter to his children who should never tire of reading it.
From the reasons for faith to walking together
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by Gianni Gennari
Up until now, for a year, we have been thinking about believing, and then about the way in which the Judeo-Christian faith has gradually presented itself in the history of man, with the progressive revelation of a God who calls to salvation, promises liberation , he speaks and with his words indicates that knowing him and recognizing him means observing his "words".
In these, after presenting himself as unique, different from the silent idols, He asks to be recognized in his "very similar image" which is man created male and female, and called to definitive salvation in the course of history, that is, in time. However, this is revealed to us as a premise and promise of credible eternity, because the Eternal One himself was introduced into it, the Word who became flesh, and came to live among us. Jesus of Nazareth, eternal son of the Father and son of Mary in time, is the presence of God, the God who is himself, one single reality with his Father who also becomes our Father if in our freedom we welcome his living image, Christ and the neighbor, and which is installed in the heart of redeemed humanity as the eternal "breath" of life, the "ruàh" of God, the Holy and sanctifying Spirit.
In the light of the Risen Christ salvation begins
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of Mother Anna Maria Cánopi
The mystery of the childhood and hidden life of Jesus Christ, which we contemplated during the Christmas season, finds its full flowering and mature fruit in the Paschal mystery. The shoot of the root of Jesse has become a great tree; a new spring of life has blossomed on earth. And this miracle happens first and foremost in the hearts of believers.
The Resurrection of Christ is the event that lies at the source of the liturgical year: all the other feasts derive from it. The Christian faith, in fact, is founded on the redemptive death and Resurrection of Christ. As Saint Paul states, if Christ had not risen, our faith would be in vain and we would be more to be pitied than all men. "But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have died" (cf. 1Cor 15,15-20).
Jesus the paternal kiss of God to humanity
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by Gianni Gennari
I concluded our last dialogue by recalling the first passage of the first writing of the entire New Testament, the First Letter of Saint Paul to the Thessalonians, which certainly dates back to the end of the 40s, noting that there is already, explicitly, the whole reality of our faith: God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the Church, the Apostle as "episcopos", overseer of communion and also our human life enlivened by the three theological virtues.
This is the consequence of the revelation and gift of God which is perfected in Jesus of Nazareth, God and Man, in whom everything was created and everything is saved from the dominion of sin and with his historical story concluded with the revelation-gift of the mystery Paschal: Passion, death, resurrection, Ascension, Pentecost, creation in the Holy Spirit of the new Community of salvation which is the Church-Mystery, the Mystical Body of Christ which lives through the historical event of the all-priestly People of God institution of the "royal priesthood" of all the baptized, as Saint Peter teaches from the beginning, and in which there are different ministries and charisms which over the centuries have manifested the grace and goodness of God united in his mercy even with the limitations and miseries that come from us , men of Baptism and all the Sacraments, when we want to substitute our "ways" for his. I realized that the period is long, but have the patience to read it little by little, without rushing to the next word...