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.
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.
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