Readings: Lv 19,1-2.11-18 / Ps 18 / Mt 25:31-46
NATURALLY
the Holiness Code of Leviticus, the Liturgy of the Word offers guests a first reading, immediately raises the shot of our Lenten journey, with an invitation to be desired life in its fullness. "Be holy, for I the Lord your God, am holy" Moses refers to "the whole community of Israel" (Lev. 19:2), after ensuring that listening to the will of God as it may seem an appeal premature and breathtaking, the horizon of holiness is the only one where you can enter the Lenten journey, not impossible unattainable goal to our forces, but as the realization of our humanity according to the desire and the grace of God so of course a challenge demanding, it takes lead in sharing the very life of God, needs to be articulated into milestones, the most concrete and accessible to our will sometimes fragile and indecisive. In ancient times the path to holiness, it was stated in a reasonable number of prohibitions: "Do not ruberete," "Do not swear," "not oppress," "do not despise," "not commit injustice," "coverai not hate in your heart ',' no revenge and cherish no grudge "(19, passim). These prohibitions will then summarize everything in a positive command, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (19:18).
Through a parable - the last story in the Gospel of Matthew - the Lord Jesus becomes the goal of holiness in a form of attention to the "smaller" details of reality that are "brothers" (Mt 25:40). The solemn and majestic setting of the parable, where "the Son of Man" appears "in his glory" with "all the angels," her sitting 'on the throne of his glory, "while" all nations "are gathered together" before himself "(25.31 to 32) makes it even more surprising to his message. At the end of time - or at the end of the day - the men - said to Jesus - will be assessed in relation to what will have been able to have compassion towards people less happy and less fortunate who have met him. Only this and nothing else is basis of our sanctification, that is, the ability to enter into the joy of eternal life.
Lent us now look to the bottom rather than top down in the folds of the unassuming newspaper, which are the light of the Gospel, the great desert in which we learn to be disciples. The fact that both the righteous and the wicked will be surprised of being judged on something that does not remember having done, telling us that our compassion must become something very natural and spontaneous to be authentic, an attitude that you do not and should one can not truly being aware of it, a movement that is accomplished without too much thinking, without even having the intention to do something more than just what you are doing.
It's a good challenge for our spiritual, constantly in search of a spiritual mirror in which to scrutinize the improvements occurred. The conversion to the Lord is not an offer of a force that we have not ostentatious or proud, but the return of a love received. Made with natural, effortless.
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