Monday, June 19, 2006

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16th Sunday in time to the Church

So the twelve apostles returning from their first mission. Happy but tired. It is easy to imagine the show with a wild enthusiasm, the story of their journey: they did what they said but also what they saw. They have so much to tell
Jesus ... But, unfortunately for them, they are continually disturbed by a crowd of onlookers who want to see Jesus. So Jesus offers to retire a wilderness. Silence, withdrawal from the world, prayer ... that's a nice way to finish their mission. Take the time to stop, to listen to God speak to us in silence. Nothing we can not dispense with, and every Christian needs to find those moments of solitude, to the fullness of God.
This time, it seems impossible for the disciples to leave : they go in a boat, but they are identified. Not that we know exactly how it happened, the crowd of onlookers ran and came before them on the other side.
What will the reaction of Jesus? Us, when someone comes to disturb our rest, however legitimate, we are not always very welcoming. Jesus, himself, remains available. He did not have time to eat, he allows himself to eat. As expressed in the text, it is seized with pity, "taken from the womb." Why? Because he feels that the crowd is hungry for God and it is abandoned as sheep without a shepherd. Then, forgetting to rest, he began to hear the crowd at length.
Jesus really is the good shepherd , who does not stop at its own needs, his personal peacefully at her little comfort. The crowd needs him, she claims? Until the end, he will sacrifice himself.
In the first reading, Jeremiah accuses the shepherds because they have failed in their task because they have divided and dispersed the people . The "sheep" were for them a source of income, nothing more.
The conclusion is self-same: whoever wants to be a disciple of Jesus must learn to be eating, eaten by the others. This is the program that Jesus offers to all those who invoke him. For Jesus, a single truth: love, giving himself completely.

Friday, June 9, 2006

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We've all been baptized in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Our Christian life is marked by the sign of the cross. Each of our Eucharistic celebrations, every prayer in church or at home, before eating or getting up. The Sign of the Cross is a summary of our faith in God is our first profession of faith. Yet to speak of the Trinity, words fail us.
is that too often it seems, we seek to explain the "Trinity" when there is enough to live.
So, it is necessarily wrong. One God in three persons, said to be consubstantial, that is to say, of the same nature and yet distinct from one another. You understand something about this gibberish? After sufficient to state a belief in God and avoid some errors in doctrine, we made the incomprehensible Trinity, abstract and useless.
But the originality of faith, too little known by the Christians themselves, is to believe in a God who is love itself communication. God as revealed in Jesus Christ, is manifested as a unity of communion, as a movement of donations. Father is opened every gift, he gives himself. The Son receives the Father, it is thanks to the Father. And the Spirit, we might say, is the relationship between the two, it means free and unlimited.
Trinitarian confession is not the result of speculation. I have no evidence or scientific explanation. To be honest, I barely understand how God made to live this relationship in itself, but what I am sure that the true face of God is Jesus who reveals it. He speaks of God as a Father who finds joy in giving everything. He tells us he is the beloved Son since forever and he shares everything with the Father. And it's even Jesus promises the Spirit who will renew the face of the earth and extend its presence among us. Such a God, the living God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. And "there is no other."
We would like God in our image, but it is we who are in his image. Like the Trinity, we are called to form families and communities united in our respect for diversity. Transforming our loneliness into solidarity, that is our mission Son and daughters of God.
Remember, faith is not believe that God exists, but to believe that I exist for God. Through him, with him and in him, dare to live as God, love and fully given.

Saturday, June 3, 2006

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TRINITY PENTECOSTAL, Year B

At Pentecost, the Church is born. But it is important to go beyond the physical description to grasp its spiritual significance. Beyond the "mighty wind" and "tongues of fire", it must enter into the movement of the Holy Spirit. Do not misunderstand me. I do not question the historical aspect of Pentecost, I do not even doubt of its manifestations, but what it is for us is to receive the gift of the Spirit of the floor to reach the heart and stir from within. Without this gift, not evangelism.
Here is the Church not only the apostles but the whole community. The text insists that "they were all together."
To awaken the faith of the community, to reverse the routines, legal barriers, fear and laziness, nothing like a "mighty wind". The community runs out of steam? They lack motivation? The Spirit is withering and penetrating, like a burning fire.
awakened, animated by divine fire, the young community will receive the gift of speech and mission of Jesus Christ offer to all nations.
Different languages express clearly the universality of the Church snapping racist and national frameworks.
The effect of the fullness of the Holy Spirit is visible: the disciples, hitherto timid, begin to speak, to proclaim the wonders of God, each according to the particular gift of the Spirit.
Paul spoke of confrontation. "Live under the guidance of the Spirit, he repeated incessantly. The commandments, laws corporations without the spirit of Christ, did no good. But if we have the Spirit of Jesus, no need of laws, there is no law that takes. We do good pushed inside. Go to Mass because it's an order, staying faithful to his partner because it is a command, will never be a slave morality. "Love and do what you want," said Saint Augustine. Access an operation of free men.
Thus, the Spirit works in two directions: first, it protects us from a hostile world to which he makes us fearless. Jesus called our lawyer, in Greek the Paraclete, the lawyer who will take our cause in hand when we face the contradiction. other hand, it leads us to Christ Jesus. It puts us in communion with him. It is the Spirit of truth. He will tell us everything he hears. The gospel would be meaningless if the Spirit did not speak to us.