We are eight days of Holy Week and Easter fortnight. Already the cross of Christ stands before us as a prophetic sign, as an expression of New Covenant. For Jesus, the time is right to give his life and this time he desired, while the fearful. And we, how do we prepare for death?
because you never know when or under what circumstances we will have to live our last visit. Usually, we avoid asking this question, it scares us, we fear it, it seems too far-reaching consequences. Yet even if one seeks to delay the inevitable, it nevertheless remains that death will eventually catch up with us one day or another, whether we like it or not. So far face reality and seek ways to prepare for it sincerely.
Notice that Jesus does not philosophize before death. It does not respond. He lives simply to die as an obedience to his fragile human condition as solidarity with suffering humanity. There is nothing to understand death, except that she is the obligatory passage to live forever.
importantly, do not believe that Jesus was glad to die. In the letter to the Hebrews, St. Paul shows us that Jesus is torn. He understands that he must give his life. He is aware of the drama being played out, but it is in the tears he finally agrees to give to the end.
The problem for us is that we would rise again before I die!
With simple words, however, Jesus will put hope in our hearts that we so desperately need. In this little grain of wheat comes down all our lives. Indeed, all nature reveals to us the mystery of the resurrection. Just observe our environment, to contemplate the life around us. "Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone, but if it dies, it produces much fruit. That is what Jesus tells us today. What he lived, what he saw, so he invites us to live our turn.
It will be an entirely new Alliance. For now, it's part of us that this hope: "if I be lifted up, will draw all men to myself."
At eight days of Holy Week, it is good to repeat once again the health check of our faith: are we willing to die to ourselves to bear fruit and give life to others?
Friday, March 31, 2006
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Friday, March 24, 2006
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the middle of Lent, here that is already shining the light of Easter. The Gospel shows us Christ in High Cross, raised in glory. The apostle reminds us that Passover was like we made at our baptism and first reading tells an important passage of the History of Israel's deportation Babylon and the return from exile. What they have in common? This passage from death to life!
Historically, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took Jerusalem in 587 BCE. Those who escaped the massacre were deported as slaves. Israel will have lost everything: its land, its temple, its institutions, its king. is what Psalm 136 says: "By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept (...) How can we sing a song of the Lord in a foreign land? " 70 years later, Cyrus took the figure of a savior. It allows a small group of Jewish return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple. is the return from exile.
In the Gospel, Jesus also recalls another significant event in the history of Israel: the ordeal of snakes in the desert. The people who walked in the desert had no where to hide and snakes came to invade the camp. Those who died had been bitten until the day God asked Moses to make a bronze serpent. Anyone who watched the snake was healed.
For Jesus is merely a point of comparison: as the serpent was a sign Life after death sign, well, Jesus raised on the cross become a sign of life after being killed. Quite the mystery of death and resurrection that unfolds before our eyes. The cross tells us two things: first the violence of sin, and secondly, the boundless love of God.
What then is the way I look on the cross? A look of curiosity, pity or a look of faith and hope? He who contemplates a vision of faith understand that God loved the man to give his only begotten Son.
" It is by grace we are saved, "says St. Paul , but must still feel the need to be saved. We gladly said Christian, is said to believe in God, Jesus, perhaps even to the Church, but have we ever had the experience of salvation? We were immersed in God through baptism, does it change something in our lives?
(second homily)
Today's text is not easy to understand. It tells or an episode from the life of Jesus, or a parabola. It is rather a meditation on the cross .
The cross we often problematic. Saint Paul spoke last Sunday as a "scandal" and a "madness". It appears, in the eyes of the world as a failure. Jesus died on the cross! Besides, it necessarily refers to the suffering, which is scary!
But in the Gospel of John, Jesus speaks of the cross as an "ascent" as the instrument of "hello" or even as a "Glorification". Is that the cross, for believers and believers, reveals the face and heart of God, the God of Jesus Christ, a God who is love. Viewed in this light, the cross becomes the sign of a love that goes beyond everything.
In the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians we read, on this Fourth Sunday of Lent: "God is rich in mercy (...) he loved us with great love." Do we really believe? In general, we are rather skeptical ... it wants proof, evidence. It is rarely satisfied with a simple word and Jesus knows. That's why he uses concrete examples. To lend credibility to his word, Jesus refers to an event that happened long ago in the desert.
You probably know that episode of the "brazen serpent" : when crossing the desert, the Israelites doubted God's goodness, then, it sends serpents that invade the camp. All those who are bitten die until God told Moses to make a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. Just look to the brazen serpent to be healed.
You see the link: in the mind of Jesus, when he will be "high" on the cross, simply look to him for salvation. As the brazen serpent was signs of life after death sign Similarly, Jesus 'high' on the cross become a sign of life.
The reversal is wonderful: Jesus crucified was not down forever in death, as one would expect, but it has never been "high". More importantly, it will become a source of life, and eternal life to all those who will their gaze on him. Not a look of curiosity or pity, but a look of faith. Of faith and love.
Here we are invited to fix our gaze on the Crucified and discern in him, in faith, that which his Father raised.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
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"Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise" What Jesus calls into question so violently today is not trade as such, but the cult of the Temple has become a trade , a kind of bargain with God. Judge for yourself ...
At Temple, we had to offer sacrifices. Rich offered, for example, an ox, a bull offered a less affluent and the poor lamb, a pair of doves. But these offerings were interested gestures: they gave to receive. This is exceeded
you tell me? Not so sure! In reality, it is still in the church, unfortunately, a religion of merit to be acquired. We often think that to deserve something, he must "earn" his salvation. You end up believing that God loves us that if we observe the law perfectly. However, Jesus denounces this economy market. He wants to make the faith desirable and believe me when I tell you he loves us even with our sin. God gives freely. It gives even free. Without any merit on our part.
So if we want to be Christians, we must move from the market than the gift, the religion of traffic to the religion of the home. The passage is not easy, I admit. It is much safer to make a report to give and take. It is certainly less humiliating. But it is the conversion that we do if we want to follow Christ.
Jews, witnesses the violent gesture of Jesus, asking for a sign. Jesus responds with a baffling riddle: "Destroy this Temple and in three days I will raise it." There is no better way to destroy the very foundations of the religion of the time. I venture a parallel with our churches today , our temples to us. Some people are worried about the future of our temples, but what is the real issue? What do we fear most? If you had to choose between your family or your house, what are the criteria for discernment?
After the exchange, Jesus presents himself as the new Temple. Jesus therefore gives a sign, but this sign is visible only to believers. It is not proof, but rather an ordeal. It will take three days to understand and again, we really understand? What still remains a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to the whole world is what God has chosen!
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
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Readings this Sunday (click here) What catechesis awesome! In a short story, we see the glory and mission of Jesus. The story is meant as reassuring for us who walk by faith. Let's see how the apostles were able to interpret the event of the transfiguration.
The action takes place on a mountain, a place of revelation. In this sacred space, the disciples will receive a new angle the person of Jesus and his mission. For a moment, clearly they see Jesus as the heir of Moses , The liberator of his people. They see it also as heir to Elijah. They understand even better than Jesus as the Messiah and prophet, in the footsteps of the greatest prophets of the Old Testament. Hence the excitement of Peter: "It is good that we are here, let us make three tents," as if it were possible to capture the moment.
But Jesus is more than just a political leader, more than a prophet, he is the Son of God, he is God. A voice is heard and said: "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him! "This is the" listen to the "That is difficult. Admire a master or love from afar is easy, but to attend her school, to understand his teaching and live is something else. Seen in this light, the story of the transfiguration is more telling than a single event, it is a life story that concerns us all and all, everyday.
At times, God asks all. Abraham knows something. The story of the sacrifice of Isaac shakes consciences. How a father can offer his son as well, how can God ask such a crime has a father? In reality, the purpose of this story was just to ban child sacrifice practiced by the Canaanites, as God intervenes to prevent Abraham from killing his son. The fact remains that God asks Abraham something that seems unthinkable, even absurd and contrary to filial love. But Abraham had faith in God, "If God be for us," could he say, "who can be against us? .
And what about the sacrifice of Jesus? What proof of love God has given it? He did not spare his own Son, for all of us who have delivered. So how could he, having given us what he holds most dear, do not give us everything, since, with his son, he gave everything! It and Paul reasons.
When experienced a personal encounter with Christ, everything else seems pointless. So if the disciples "saw no man save Jesus only" is that it became the center of their lives and that now they see the world through his eyes.
Friday, March 3, 2006
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A loyalty ... confusing! Our spiritual life is also known periods of desert to which we are more or less well prepared. In these difficult times, a feeling of loneliness and abandonment we invaded. God seems absent. Our prayer seems pointless. The challenge is to persevere and be patient. At that time, it is good to remind us how the Lord has been present in our joys and our problems. Any
temptation puts our faith to the test. The temptation to ease, to enjoy life without taking into account the following day. The temptation to put God to the test, ask him for evidence. The temptation to put God in question, or worse, be mistaken for gods. The temptation to impose on each other the way we think and live. And the list could go longer. All our lives, child, adolescent, adult and even towards the end of our lives, the temptations are there lurking, waiting for a weakness on our part to infiltrate, to insinuate itself: it is laziness, the Pride, jealousy, envy ... whatever!
But what is even more confusing is that God continue to trust us. God continue to hope in us, despite our doubts, despite our faults and sins repeated. He continues to love us, to make alliance with us. When Jesus
from Galilee and takes the call to conversion that launched Jean Baptiste, he invited everyone at the same time, each to strengthen and grow in faith when difficulties arise in life. No question of giving up, no question of becoming discouraged and no question of reducing the requirement of the message of Jesus. Instead, it is in the light of Jesus' call to revise the way we relate to God, men and things.
Finally, if life is responsible for testing our faith and our faithfulness to God, let's be smart enough to avoid falling and let us arm ourselves for battle, prayer, sharing and fasting. It exceeded you tell me? Not for those who consider his means as a further opportunity to strengthen their choice in favor of the Alliance.
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we enter Lent. This is the time to go without dessert, to forego some trips, it really feels like doing penance. Each year it returns, each year we start to make efforts, we deprive ourselves of some things as an athlete, it is carried out, we train for Easter ... "Return to Me with all your heart, "says the Lord by the prophet Joel. That is what serves our training. Return to God is to first agree to not be God, but to require him to live. "Now is the acceptable time is now the day of salvation. "
Jesus gives us three examples:
He talks about the charity. It invites us to do so in silence and in secret. Share free, without waiting, this is a gesture quite evangelical. There are those who give to avoid getting involved, there are those who do not give because they believe it does not really help the person and there are those who give themselves to each other, simply because the other has needs. In truth, it is not only giving, but to have an open heart to another. Jesus exhorts us
how to pray in secret. Today, we are not so inclined to pray in public as the Pharisees of the Gospel of Matthew. Praying in public became almost indecent! So where would hide the hypocrisy of our time? Maybe in our way of saying: "I do not need to go to church to pray, I pray at home. "For some people, this means, do not pray at all! If we do not really specific time in our lives to prayer, in fact we end up not praying. As the prayer remains a duty, an obligation merely external, or even a chore, we will avoid. As long as God remains for us a means and not an end in itself, we really never learn to pray.
And what about fasting? Do not think only to the deprivation of food and drink. What are our small drugs, the things we can not pass but that is not really necessary? Where are our outbuildings? Television, computer, or work ... everyone to examine themselves. Deprive us of some of the excesses we give more time for God and for others!