"Je te hips moi dans la tendresse" Luke 17.5-10: 1Disse again to his disciples: "It is inevitable that scandals occur, but woe to that man by whom they come. 2E` better for him to be putting a millstone around the neck and cast into the sea, rather than cause one of these little ones. 3 Statutes attention to yourself! If your brother sins, rebuke him, but if he repents, forgive him. 4E if sins seven times a day against you seven times and says: I am sorry, you must forgive him. " 5Member apostles said to the Lord: 6 "Increase our faith." The Lord replied, "If you had faith as a mustard seed you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it would obey. 7Chi you, if you have a servant plowing or keeping sheep, will say when he returns from the field, 'Come immediately and sit at the table? 8Non's say rather: Prepare to eat, rolled up her dress and servimi, till I have eaten and drunk, and after you eat and drink too? 9The grateful to his servant, because he was commanded? 10Così you also, when you have done all that is commanded you, say: 'We are useless servants. We did what we had to do. "
Dear friends, dear friends,
Sunday, October 7th we celebrate the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. In Luke's 17,5-10, Gesù, dopo che S’era rivolto a pubblicani e peccatori, ai Suoi discepoli e ai farisei, ha davanti gli apostoli, i Suoi più stretti collaboratori, ai quali aveva detto: “E’ inevitabile che avvengano scandali, ma guai a colui per cui avvengono. E’ meglio per lui che gli sia messa al collo una pietra da mulino e venga gettato nel mare, piuttosto che scandalizzare uno di questi piccoli” (17,1-2); soprattutto, però: “State attenti a voi stessi! Se un tuo fratello pecca, rimproveralo; ma se si pente, perdonagli. E se pecca sette volte al giorno contro di te e sette volte ti dice: Mi pento, tu gli perdonerai” (17,3-4). Anche nelle nostre comunità si pecca, causando scandal. For this you need to know how to forgive with the same heart of God's mercy
In this sense, then, the apostles said to Jesus: "Increase our faith." That is: "to the trust we place in you already, you add more faith (add faith)." Striking, however, that to express a heartfelt prayer so intense and not only of the disciples, but just those within the community of the Lord, they have a task of greater responsibility. Well beyond purely quantitative requirement, they well understood the boundless mercy of God who in Jesus has revealed, is they are called, that is properly sent (apostles), to announce something in excess of their forces.
why Jesus is right in his reply to the question of the faith without the defining abstractions, but, relying, as usual, with images and examples taken from life: "If you had faith as a mustard seed you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it would obey you. " If faith is not measured primarily in terms of quantity, its quality, with plenty already poured from him in the land of our poverty and inadequate, it will always be like a seed inside that is capable to unleash unpredictable forces and dynamics. So much so that Paul himself might say: "When I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Cor 12:10).
From faith, compared to the initial explosive force of a small seed, so you go to the parable of the 'unprofitable servant': "Who among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, will say when he returns from the field, 'Come immediately and sit at the table? He did not quite say 'Prepare to eat, rolled up her dress and servimi, till I have eaten and drunk, and after you eat and drink too? It is grateful to his servant, because he was commanded? ".
While the image of the seed first fix attention on the value of faith in itself, this short story inscribed more directly the action of faith in the very heart of the disciples of Jesus compared, not with the bosses, but above all to the servants of the faith itself. As Paul also says: "So, one should regard us servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God" (1 Cor 41). As if faith itself requires to be better understood (ie, accepted and lived), a sort of abandonment, trust, self-dispossession, without any reservation and claim. Just as a servant who knows how to be totally dedicated to the cause of his master, loyal to him alone, fully available to his cause.
Just this helps us to better understand what is precisely the root of apostolicity a disciple of the Lord. An immediate reading of this significant figure in the Church since the early apostles of Jesus to arrive, in the apostolic succession, to this day, will inevitably stress the importance of the function and the specific apostolic service itself. While much emphasis should be put on the style of their dedication and the zeal of a servant, not more than the importance of what he does or should fare. Questo definisce anzitutto la qualità di un apostolo. Conta il rapporto di ‘servitù’ nei confronti di Dio, prima che l’aspetto quantitativo del suo servizio,
Per raggiungere questo livello della fede, tipica di un apostolo, come anche di tutti i credenti, è necessario l’esercizio della gratuità. Se la fede cristiana non si intreccia, non si declina continuamente con azioni gratuite nei confronti di Dio, finisce per non essere sostenuta e compresa nella sua verità più profonda e autentica. Dice, infatti, Gesù: “Così anche voi, quando avrete fatto tutto quello che vi è stato ordinato, dite: Siamo servi inutili. Abbiamo fatto quanto dovevamo fare”.
In questo senso andrebbe meglio chiarito il significato dell’aggettivo ‘inutile’ applicato alla figura del servo: “siamo servi inutili”. Si potrebbe anche tradurre: “siamo semplicemente schiavi”, come direbbe anche Maria (Lc 1,38). L’identità dello schiavo è così pienamente definita dal padrone che solo in relazione ad esso può essere compresa davvero. Ma in questa prospettiva si comprende meglio anche il significato dell’‘inutilità’ propria di uno schiavo. Si tratta di una caratteristica che meno è supportata e compresa dalla nostra cultura occidentale che distingue between one free 'useless' and a free functional, serving always something, to achieve a goal. It 'just the futility that is not responding to any function that is simply reaffirmed faith in our relationship with the God of Jesus Christ. Why this was the very attitude of Jesus towards His Father: "My food is to do the will of him who sent me" and "I always do what pleases him."
What other meaning could have the Eucharist of Jesus 'servant of love', in which we participate on Sunday on Sunday? To learn, to practice in that authentic spirit of Christian service that inevitably brings us to the role of feeling 'just' the servants to the even more intimate and particular friends, "no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know what he is doing his master, but I have called you friends "(Jn 15:15).
Dear friends, dear friends,
Sunday, October 7th we celebrate the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. In Luke's 17,5-10, Gesù, dopo che S’era rivolto a pubblicani e peccatori, ai Suoi discepoli e ai farisei, ha davanti gli apostoli, i Suoi più stretti collaboratori, ai quali aveva detto: “E’ inevitabile che avvengano scandali, ma guai a colui per cui avvengono. E’ meglio per lui che gli sia messa al collo una pietra da mulino e venga gettato nel mare, piuttosto che scandalizzare uno di questi piccoli” (17,1-2); soprattutto, però: “State attenti a voi stessi! Se un tuo fratello pecca, rimproveralo; ma se si pente, perdonagli. E se pecca sette volte al giorno contro di te e sette volte ti dice: Mi pento, tu gli perdonerai” (17,3-4). Anche nelle nostre comunità si pecca, causando scandal. For this you need to know how to forgive with the same heart of God's mercy
In this sense, then, the apostles said to Jesus: "Increase our faith." That is: "to the trust we place in you already, you add more faith (add faith)." Striking, however, that to express a heartfelt prayer so intense and not only of the disciples, but just those within the community of the Lord, they have a task of greater responsibility. Well beyond purely quantitative requirement, they well understood the boundless mercy of God who in Jesus has revealed, is they are called, that is properly sent (apostles), to announce something in excess of their forces.
why Jesus is right in his reply to the question of the faith without the defining abstractions, but, relying, as usual, with images and examples taken from life: "If you had faith as a mustard seed you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it would obey you. " If faith is not measured primarily in terms of quantity, its quality, with plenty already poured from him in the land of our poverty and inadequate, it will always be like a seed inside that is capable to unleash unpredictable forces and dynamics. So much so that Paul himself might say: "When I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Cor 12:10).
From faith, compared to the initial explosive force of a small seed, so you go to the parable of the 'unprofitable servant': "Who among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, will say when he returns from the field, 'Come immediately and sit at the table? He did not quite say 'Prepare to eat, rolled up her dress and servimi, till I have eaten and drunk, and after you eat and drink too? It is grateful to his servant, because he was commanded? ".
While the image of the seed first fix attention on the value of faith in itself, this short story inscribed more directly the action of faith in the very heart of the disciples of Jesus compared, not with the bosses, but above all to the servants of the faith itself. As Paul also says: "So, one should regard us servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God" (1 Cor 41). As if faith itself requires to be better understood (ie, accepted and lived), a sort of abandonment, trust, self-dispossession, without any reservation and claim. Just as a servant who knows how to be totally dedicated to the cause of his master, loyal to him alone, fully available to his cause.
Just this helps us to better understand what is precisely the root of apostolicity a disciple of the Lord. An immediate reading of this significant figure in the Church since the early apostles of Jesus to arrive, in the apostolic succession, to this day, will inevitably stress the importance of the function and the specific apostolic service itself. While much emphasis should be put on the style of their dedication and the zeal of a servant, not more than the importance of what he does or should fare. Questo definisce anzitutto la qualità di un apostolo. Conta il rapporto di ‘servitù’ nei confronti di Dio, prima che l’aspetto quantitativo del suo servizio,
Per raggiungere questo livello della fede, tipica di un apostolo, come anche di tutti i credenti, è necessario l’esercizio della gratuità. Se la fede cristiana non si intreccia, non si declina continuamente con azioni gratuite nei confronti di Dio, finisce per non essere sostenuta e compresa nella sua verità più profonda e autentica. Dice, infatti, Gesù: “Così anche voi, quando avrete fatto tutto quello che vi è stato ordinato, dite: Siamo servi inutili. Abbiamo fatto quanto dovevamo fare”.
In questo senso andrebbe meglio chiarito il significato dell’aggettivo ‘inutile’ applicato alla figura del servo: “siamo servi inutili”. Si potrebbe anche tradurre: “siamo semplicemente schiavi”, come direbbe anche Maria (Lc 1,38). L’identità dello schiavo è così pienamente definita dal padrone che solo in relazione ad esso può essere compresa davvero. Ma in questa prospettiva si comprende meglio anche il significato dell’‘inutilità’ propria di uno schiavo. Si tratta di una caratteristica che meno è supportata e compresa dalla nostra cultura occidentale che distingue between one free 'useless' and a free functional, serving always something, to achieve a goal. It 'just the futility that is not responding to any function that is simply reaffirmed faith in our relationship with the God of Jesus Christ. Why this was the very attitude of Jesus towards His Father: "My food is to do the will of him who sent me" and "I always do what pleases him."
What other meaning could have the Eucharist of Jesus 'servant of love', in which we participate on Sunday on Sunday? To learn, to practice in that authentic spirit of Christian service that inevitably brings us to the role of feeling 'just' the servants to the even more intimate and particular friends, "no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know what he is doing his master, but I have called you friends "(Jn 15:15).
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