Readings: Dt 11,18.26-28.32 / Ps 30 / Rom 3.21-25a .28 / 7.21 to 27 Mt
ROCKY
The liturgy of this Sunday - that pauses ordinary time for giving space to that of Lent - sounds like a complaint of inconsistency, hateful distance between saying and doing, so easy to see in others, though difficult to recognize in ourselves. The world is thus divided into two parts: one part of the talkers who do not achieve anything with their stable (non) action, and the other ones instead maybe talk a little, but realize solid facts, which remain long. If so, we would already have a good reminder for our lives, scattered in so many things so easily ambiguous. But, on closer listening, liturgy goes further, offering us a shout much richer and deeper than a reasonable call to be authentic.
Dissociation
is true, there is a folly - very difficult to recognize and admit - that consists in the ability to tolerate a certain amount of schizophrenia in our freedom . We claim to be things that will not do, and we practice things that have nothing to do with what, deep down, want to be. And we go on like this, weeks, months, years, apportion blame and responsibility outside, away from ourselves, but do not admit that we are deviating from (our) truth. The Master Jesus warns us: "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven" (Mt 7:21). This is not a threat but a call. The situation is very clear in the eyes of the Lord: "Whoever hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a man wise, who built his house upon the rock "(7:24), while" everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand (7.26 ). Every day our freedom and set in motion is caused by many things: people, events, meetings and unexpected. Fear and selfishness make us lay bricks on the sand, so the illusion that we can quickly provide a hedge against the storms of life. But the voice of God calls us to dig and build upon a solid foundation if we want to guarantee a long life and stable. Yeah, but who stand it? Who is capable of realizing that many many pieces of our lives are nothing more than bricks placed in the sand?
None
Paul cut short and exclaimed: "There is no difference, because all have sinned and fall short the glory of God "(Romans 3:23). The look of love fiery apostle of Christ can not fall in the risk of reducing the gospel to a simple moral discourse. Humanity - the apostle seems to say - is not divided into two categories, but united by a single need, to find a basis of salvation, on which to build a future of hope. While in reality there are many distinctions - not least among those who manage to be more consistent and who is not - it is also true that, from God's point of view, any distinction tends to disappear. God looks upon His creatures' apart from works "(3:28) who know how to do, seeing them and judging them all the same: children deprived of eternal life, continually exposed to failure, evil, sin. Paul is not afraid to show this scenario, since in her heart beats an incredible hope: "God has established (Jesus Christ) forward as an expiation, through faith in his blood "(3.25), and therefore knows that all men are" justified freely by his grace "(3.24).
End of speech
At this point can best be understood in the parable with which Jesus concludes the Sermon on the Mount, and figure out who is "wise (7:24) and who is "the fool" (7:26) in his eyes. "My words which Jesus asks to put" it "(7,24.26) are not in fact new rules to be observed, in addition to those old. They are rather a new kind of relationship to be accepted - with God, with ourselves, with others - from which you can rebuild in a new way of things forever. These words, in fact, beginning with the unforgettable anaphora of the Beatitudes (cf. 5:1-12) by which the Lord Jesus has revealed to us how and what to see when he looks to our humanity: a land called to become a place happiness. The Beatitudes' are a challenge whereby you can believe that there is nothing else that would make you happy if what you are and what life we \u200b\u200bcan be "(Brother MichaleDavide). Putting into practice the words that the Lord has directed the mountains of Galilee - the wonderful perspective echoed in the Gospels of Sundays past - is to try to tackle every situation with surprising gentleness, with filial heart. Means to accept with serenity of being robbed by 'rain', 'rivers' and 'twenty' (7.25), and doggedly seek to enter into a rocky friendship with Christ, learning from his eyes to look at our lives and our history with the mercy that is (go to) live. Of course then when you are and you feel loved, we love more and more and better and better. Naturally. To become "perfect in self-giving.
Happy are we if we put "heart and soul" (Deuteronomy 11:18) These words of freedom. If we "care" (11,32) of legarcele 'hand as a sign "and to keep them" as a pendant from your eyes "(11:18). Anywhere, without fear, without arrogance. To put bricks "on rock" (Mt 7:25) of God's faithfulness to be, to make you happy.
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