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Guttuso, Flight into Egypt (1983, acrylic on canvas paper)

Matthew 2.13-23: [13] After they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother and flee into Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is trying to kill the child." [14] Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt, [15] where he remained until Herod's death, it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet: "From 'Egypt have I called my son. " ([16]Erode, accortosi che i Magi si erano presi gioco di lui, s'infuriò e mandò ad uccidere tutti i bambini di Betlemme e del suo territorio dai due anni in giù, corrispondenti al tempo su cui era stato informato dai Magi. [17]Allora si adempì quel che era stato detto per mezzo del profeta Geremia: “[18]Un grido è stato udito in Rama, un pianto e un lamento grande; Rachele piange i suoi figli e non vuole essere consolata, perché non sono più”.) [19]Morto Erode, un angelo del Signore apparve in sogno a Giuseppe in Egitto [20]e gli disse: «Alzati, prendi con te il bambino e sua madre e và nel paese d'Israele; perché sono morti coloro che insidiavano la vita del bambino». [21]Egli, stood up and took the child and his mother, and entered the land of Israel. [22] But when he heard that Archelaus was king of Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Warned in a dream, he withdrew in the regions of Galilee [23] and, just arrived, went to live in a town called Nazareth, it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets: "It will be called a Nazarene."


Dear friends, dear friends,

By next Sunday we are still in the Octave of Christmas (Sunday in the Octave of Christmas, December 30, 2007). The gospel brings us back to a famous episode which much impressed our imagination: The Escape Jesus in Egypt and the subsequent massacre of the innocents (Matthew 2.13-23).
When Matthew decides to write 'his' gospel, he felt that it was impossible to show the divine identity of Jesus of Nazareth, without attempting to describe the Jewish roots. In this way Jesus summed up, since childhood, the entire history of the people in which it was generated. In particular, through the experience of the flight into Egypt, it is as if Jesus was put in a position to relive the bitter experience of exile that had already experienced his people, making him well since it had been written by ancient prophets.
why Matthew is concerned to document carefully the first episodes of Jesus 'childhood, with a series of quotations prophetic, thus affirming that the episode in which we are witnessing, "because they might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet:' Out of Egypt I called my son '. " Indeed, at the end of the song, you will notice that, according to the instructions of their 'prophets of old,' Jesus "will be called a Nazarene." That story of love and deliverance that God had begun its binding to the Jewish people, thus finds its fulfillment in Jesus, because of a dangerous despot will be forced to live in Nazareth. However, some questions arise

: Liberation from what? And why its free through Jesus of Nazareth? In that sense Jesus frees us, save us, as well as the people of Israel have been freed and saved? One of the most serious issues from the religious point of view of Western Christianity today is this: From what we can and must liberate itself Jesus of Nazareth? Why give credence to the release, with the liberation and love of Jesus of Nazareth in my life? What comes back from having met me? Why not refer to other projects of liberation more appealing?
The issue is not only in accepting or not a religious of the Western Christian tradition to which we belong. It 'been said quite rightly that "We can not call ourselves Christians" in some respects (B. Cross). Today it is more urgent to try to reformulate the reasons for the hope that the believers in the West they say - at least according to some of their words - to have in Jesus of Nazareth. Without this process of reformulation of Christian hope that comes from him, confine Jesus to be in some good feelings into statements increasingly weak and even simplistic.

There is an expression that returns four times in the Gospel. First of all, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream saying: "Rise, take the child and his mother ...", sending it first to Egypt and then doing it back in the 'land of Israel'. It 's the time of Joseph who then "woke up and took the child and his mother to flee first to Egypt and to return after a while' time in the country of Israel.
How then re-express the reasons for our hope in Jesus of Nazareth? It tells us precisely the Gospel today: obedience to the Angel who invites us to welcome "the child and his mother." And if it's comforting to look ready obedience of Joseph, then it is important to dig deep on the mode in which is expressed in relation to the custody of Joseph of Jesus His singular authorship. Joseph on the one hand takes care of Jesus, but also with a woman who certainly has not conceived a child that comes from him. Jesus and His mother are one unit for Joseph.
If the first of our reasons to respect the 'custody' of Jesus, there is a deep and trusting obedience, we can reach the heart only if we just listen to God, like Joseph, be able to act as he means to bear yet full and comprehensive of all the mystery of God that is revealed in Jesus

How therefore expresses the faith of Joseph, his holiness? We do not have to do with a believer in the specifically Christian sense of the word. The rest of the gospel even testifies that Joseph was present in the public life of Jesus, His miracles and His preaching, to be like Mary, in front His death and resurrection of Easter. And, then, that holiness is never that of Joseph? Matt describes it through the experience of the dream. Something very similar to the star who had already guided the Magi to Bethlehem: The Magi had departed, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "and" Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream ".
The dream, the stars are different languages \u200b\u200bfrom the experience of the word, of verbalization. If the word has a conversational character of rational primary intention of wanting to explain the dream and the stars allude to something more evocative. At this level includes relished the figure of Joseph, who is "Right" and which, according to the Gospels, does not say a word, a question, like Mary. At this level, pre-verbal is therefore to be understood the sanctity of Joseph who just so he met Jesus as the Son of God If the dreams of Joseph, as the star of the Magi, we introduce a language, an expression of faith that does not coincide with their verbalization of the Gospels, but also reminding us that it leads to the truth of Jesus By establishing real contact with him. As a father learns to keep her son in her arms that just his woman has generated.

is a particular must not miss: the fact that Joseph does follow the experience of the dream, ' actions, of his own people in the Exodus experience, will become full of meaning and salvific value of Jesus with the Passover: that of awakening and rising. Just like standing still, watching the Jews on Easter night, before heading off to the promised land, just as he stands the risen Jesus, after passing through the bitter experience of the sleep of death.
The figure of Joseph is really secondary in meditation on the early Christian community that is concerned to understand fully the mystery of Jesus of Nazareth. Its concrete obedience testifies not only a real assumption of the beginning of the mystery of Jesus, but already a real advance and adherence to the Paschal Mystery of His death and resurrection. Even his own silence is significant. A real introduction to the full unfolding of the Word of God, in Jesus his Son.

A year goes to an end already appears on the horizon is another. Do not miss the serenity to continue to hope in Him who has joined us to stay with us forever. The Lord will shine upon each of you your face and still give you His peace.
What is still to all a good Sunday.

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Giotto, The Nativity of Greccio (Stories in the upper Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi)

Luca 2,1-14: [1]In quei giorni un decreto di Cesare Augusto ordinò che si facesse il censimento di tutta la terra. [2]Questo primo censimento fu fatto quando era governatore della Siria Quirinio. [3]Andavano tutti a farsi registrare, ciascuno nella sua città. [4]Anche Giuseppe, che era della casa e della famiglia di Davide, dalla città di Nazaret e dalla Galilea salì in Giudea alla città di Davide, chiamata Betlemme, [5]per farsi registrare insieme con Maria sua sposa, che era incinta. [6]Ora, mentre si trovavano in quel luogo, si compirono per lei i giorni del parto. [7]Diede alla luce il suo figlio primogenito, lo avvolse in fasce e lo depose in una mangiatoia, perché non c'era posto per loro nell'albergo. [8]C'erano in quella regione alcuni pastori che vegliavano di notte facendo la guardia al loro gregge. [9]Un angelo del Signore si presentò davanti a loro e la gloria del Signore li avvolse di luce. Essi furono presi da grande spavento, [10]ma l'angelo disse loro: «Non temete, ecco vi annunzio una grande gioia, che sarà di tutto il popolo: [11]oggi vi è nato nella città di Davide un salvatore, che è il Cristo Signore. [12]Questo per voi il segno: troverete un bambino avvolto in fasce, che giace in una mangiatoia». [13]E subito apparve con l'angelo una moltitudine dell'esercito celeste che lodava Dio e diceva: [14]«Gloria a Dio nel più alto dei cieli e pace in terra agli uomini che egli ama».
Cari amici e care amiche,

In riferimento alla celebrazione del Natale del Signore è bene affermare subito che la salvezza non è un’idea astratta, fuori dello spazio e del tempo, ma documentata da fatti precisi e databili. Per questo Luca sceglie di riferirsi al primo censimento che Cesare Augusto estende a tutti i territori del dominio romano, conferendo ad essi una solida struttura economico-politica. In questo modo i sudditi venivano contati per riscuotere le tasse e per poterne poi disporre per la guerra.
Siamo, dunque, davanti a una superba esaltazione del potere dell’uomo sull’uomo. Questo censimento è addirittura il primo di tutto l’universo: “In quei giorni un decreto di Cesare Augusto ordered that a census should be of the whole earth. This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. All went to be enrolled, each to his city. "An act involving a real membership or registration.
The long-awaited Messiah comes and goes in this mixed history of oppression and evil is not taking the logic of power, but the service, not of war and occupation violence, but peace. Just in this sense, the kairos - the appropriate time - of salvation, is also the most inconvenient and unlikely according to human logic. God, therefore, is utterly free to use all with imagination, to show His faithfulness and His love for man, for every man.

Joseph and Mary as they obey the laws of power and imposition of men. But in obedience to the whims of Caesar Augustus marks the design of love better than God's imagination is never able to conceive, "Even Joseph, who was of the house and lineage of David, from the town of Nazareth in Galilee for Judaea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, to be enrolled with Mary his betrothed, who was pregnant. " In terms
that this obedience may be required in the plan of salvation? How far? It 's a problem that has occupied the thinking of the Church since its inception and is solution, first in a line of free behavior of Jesus who was not deployed either with the revolutionary zealots who wanted to overthrow the Roman power, or with collaborators. His was a choice of solidarity with the man, being on the side of the weakest and poorest.
The Christian lives in this world and obeys its laws with freedom, asking to not be challenged in the obedience to the Spirit of Jesus is only true in this case, there arises the need of martyrdom, because, as Peter and John for their courts, "Judge for yourself whether it is right before God, to obey you rather than God" (Acts 4.19). Moreover, even Jesus, "Although he was Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered" (Hebrews 5:8).

Starting from Nazareth, in obedience to the imperial edict, "While they were there, the time came for her to be delivered." Just "that place" the Lord's promise is realized. The task of the "days of confinement" begins the realization of God's presence with men. Start a time that tends to perfection: "The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is near" (Mk 1:15). Therefore, from the cross, who made his sacrifice, Jesus says: "It is finished" (Gv19, 30).
Therefore, it is this that lies at the heart of the world, the first major survey of the history. The gifts that the Creator to His creature becomes the central point of telling the time, which is really to be divided into a before and an after. If only the first birth of this man's purpose was to make it to God by going to him after the birth of Jesus is God himself who comes to us, fulfilling His purpose, His purpose.
Here Mary gave birth to her firstborn son. " The son of God, which is now also the son of man, is now called "firstborn" in its own right. Firstborn of all creation (Col. 1:15) and "firstborn among many brethren "(Rom 8:29). Already in the second century, moreover, has documented the tradition of his birth in a cave, as in a cave will be buried his body after the crucifixion (Jn 19:41). Humility humility of the birth of the earth's land of his death.

Thus began the ecstasy, the great contemplation of Mary "wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in". So that we too, looking to Mary, we enter this experience even touch Emmanuel, that is, God with us. Knowledge through touch it involves a fusion of scent and taste. The same will occur in the Descent from the Cross and the Eucharistic gift of his body given to us in the dinner.
Even Mary's own actions are at once simple and noble: "She wrapped him in swaddling clothes." God has given so fully and without reserve, at the hands of a woman who takes care of him wrapped with extreme tenderness. But then "laid him in a manger, lying in the place where it normally is then put what will be eaten by animals admitted into the cave. Him, "the living bread that came down from heaven" (Jn 5,51), is laid in the place where they feed the animals.
And this is the real reason: "there was no place for them in the hotel (katàlima). The same term used at the Last Supper, when Jesus gives himself to your food, "and tell the owner of the house: the Master says, 'Where is the room (katàlima) where I may eat the Passover with my disciples? '"(Luke 22:11). It 's inevitable to take from these details, the passionate character of the birth of Jesus In this sense, in fact, Luke in his gospel of Jesus is the great icon painter

the beginning of a second section of the track proposed by today's liturgy: "C 'were in the same country shepherds keeping watch by night watch over their flock. " We know that priests belong to a social group very low. The same social class of the poor of the Beatitudes, which rightfully belongs to the kingdom of heaven (Matt. 5:3). In this sense, then, these pastors are introduced first to acknowledge that just that little child is the Son of God
For this "angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory of the Lord shone around them. They were terrified, but the angel said to them: 'Be not afraid, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people: to you is born in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord' " . There are the same traits to Mary: fear, call not to fear, beginning with the announcement today of e-Gospel, that is an ad full of joy.
The sign is now clear: "you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger." This child is in fact the sign of salvation. God, Jesus, is now the one to whom one can not think of anything smaller, because "the least among you, this is the greatest" (Lk 9.48). In this regard, "suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, 'Glory to God in the highest heaven and on earth peace among those whom he loves'."