"Che io conosca me e che io conosca te;
che io conosca me per umiliarmi, e che io conosca te per amarti"
S. Agostino, Soliloqui, II,1,1
From the Gospel according to Mark 8.27 to 33.
And Jesus went with his disciples to the villages around Caesarea Philippi and the way he asked his disciples, saying, "Who do people say I am?". And they told him, "John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of the prophets." But he replied: "Who do you say I am?". Peter answered, "Thou art the Christ." Then he warned them not to talk about him to anyone. And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed and after three days rise again. And he said this openly. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But Jesus turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! Why do you think is not God, but of men. "
COMMENT
a question. A reprimand. The words of Jesus addressed to discepoli, a Pietro, a ciascuno di noi. Il Vangelo di oggi è stretto in questa morsa perchè fuoriesca il pus che giace nascosto nei nostri cuori. E nelle nostre menti. Pensare secondo gli uomini . Ecco il veleno. Dal testo odierno scopriamo che Pietro e qualsiasi altro uomo la pensano esattamente allo stesso modo, e non è il pensiero secondo Dio.
La parola greca che, nel Vangelo odierno, indica il pensiero, assume una gamma di significati che ci aiutano a comprendere il senso delle parole del Signore. Tutti revolve around the most profound " wisdom." Becomes the same as in the case cunning of the serpent of Gen. 3. But the creative wisdom of God, as it appears in several texts of the wisdom literature. In it the use of the word according to the greek translation of the LXX takes on the sense of opinion , perspicacity, discernment . In the Gospels often the term refers to a wisdom capable of assessing of aspire to a goal, to take a position . The thought, that appears in today's passage, is therefore linked to wisdom. And it may be the flesh or according to God .
La Sapienza è quindi assimilabile ad una sorta di Dna spirituale . Il Dna infatti, rappresenta la molecola chiave nell'economia della cellula; è lì, infatti, che è contenuta l'informazione genetica da cui partono tutte le informazioni su come deve essere fatta una cellula e su cosa deve produrre, in una " catena " di informazioni. L'informazione viene poi trasmessa alle generazioni successive. La sapienza-pensiero è dunque il Dna a spiritual man, and can write a chain carnal chain or a divine .
We could then ask what wisdom is the cause of our thoughts, our aspirations, our choices. And, consequently, of our actions. If we are all broken, fragmented, if the doubts are the masters, then it is home to some of our actions. We live in a season where relativism creeps in all: "How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking ... The small boat of thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - thrown from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism, from atheism to a vague religious mysticism, from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what Saint Paul says about human on ' cunning that tends to deceive (cf. Eph . 4, 14). Having a clear faith, based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting bring "here and there by every wind of doctrine", seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. We are building a dictatorship of relativism that recognizes nothing as definitive and leaves as the ultimate criterion only the self and its desires "(J. Ratzinger, Homily at the Missa pro eligendo Roman Pontiff ) . The dictatorship of relativism ruled that the thoughts of Jesus' contemporaries, the people saying things about him different. Just like Peter will take the Lord to rebuke him on the sidelines. The people have their own plans, the DNA of thought draws events present a chain of information which tend to take a stand, to discern, to set targets,
but they are all in the flesh. The answers they give, signs of a bottom of relativism, they are all confined in a past - John the Baptist, Elijah, one of the prophets - which is projected onto this stretching on the future . It 's the clue that the work of Satan, his DNA braggart and deceiver. The effects are revealed in Peter, angry, shocked, as opposed to the very work of God which they even protested defender.
apostroferà Jesus as the fact that unmask the source of his satanic thought. Peter guessed, because the Father has revealed him, the true identity of his master, but the lust of the flesh prevents the eyes of faith, and encourages rebellion. St. Paul describes well in Chapter 8 of Romans the reality of Peter. Our. Christ belongs to those who have the Spirit, we might say the thought according to other Pauline texts. Think of the flesh, to follow the desires is to be Peter enemies of God with his thoughts in human flesh, was an enemy of God, until you identify with it, with the enemy, Satan. Thus became a scandal, the stumbling block on the path of obedience that the Son had to go. The thought of Peter had first place and that of God through Jesus had to suffer and be rejected in order to rise. This was the Christ, the Messiah, while Peter had acknowledged and confessed. He was the Son of man, Man realized that the thought of God . It was the wisdom of God, the scandalous Wisdom of the Cross. To this knowledge he had give life, and it was a moral duty, but, as suggested the original greek, it was kind of a necessity natural . His DNA was in love for his friends and even his enemies, until his death. He thought an infinite love .
Other Peter had in mind. Else we have in mind. Elders, priests, scribes, are all categories that we carry inside. form the DNA chain of our thoughts. Prestige, power, intelligence, religion. Yes, even religion, as a totem that can satisfy our desires. Jesus will be rejected by our own thoughts , whose image appears clearly in the categories "religious" that historically lead him to the gallows: "It's three forms of the only evil, selfishness ... correspond to the three lusts structure on which the world ... and the three seductive and illusory aspects of the forbidden fruit, which already seemed to Eve good, beautiful and desirable "(S. Fausti, Remember and tell the Gospel , Milan 1990, p. 262-263). The poison of Satan, the DNA of our crazy thoughts.
And here is the salvation. For Peter, and for each of us. The infinite love of Jesus, who out of love calls us by name, to come up and expel the poison that destroys us. Satan. Peter. Tu. And me. Satan conceals the truth discovering a bit. Satana che mostra il rifiuto e la morte e nasconde la risurrezione. E Pietro ci casca, e sgrida il Signore. Non ha sentito, non ha potuto ascoltare la buona notizia che il Signore aveva annunciato, si era bloccato alla parte che riguardava il dover soffrire, il suo pensiero inquinato gli aveva sottratto l'epilogo di Gloria. Non aveva compreso l'amore, il dover morire per risuscitare , il dover caricarsi del rifiuto e dei peccati, per cancellarli e per risorgere, garanzia del perdono e della vita eterna. Lo capirà più tardi, quando l'evento annunciato si farà carne in Lui. La carne santificata dallo Spirito di Cristo risorto. Quando il pensiero sarà, per mezzo dello Spirito Santo, lo stesso pensiero of Christ, and guide his meat to be offered in a mission identical to that of the Lord. to the Cross. What now will be the rejects his destiny, which glorify death by those who refused . And so for us. Exactly what we are rejecting today will be our trophy, on which the candle will shine the light of the Father in us . Disease, failure and waste. Our cross.
For now Peter must come down, come back, convert. Back walking behind Jesus. The translation of choice does not help us understand the love of Jesus to Peter. In greek does not say "far from me "but" behind me ". This is the expression that characterizes the disciple in other passages of the Gospel. Jesus wants Peter's close. It takes with him, but for us . Do not judge us , enlightens us . It tells us the truth and reveals what we have in the hearts and minds. It draws us to him. With love, to learn to follow him, to walk humbly with Him every day, to know the events of life. Follow and know the extent that we know ourselves. Praying with St. Francis "Who are you Lord, and who am I?" ( consid. the stigmata, 3, FF, 1915). Walking with him to receive from Him, in gift, His Spirit, the DNA of healthy Heavenly wisdom, that of the Cross, for think things according to God, to live down here than up there . "We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, true man. He is the measure of true humanism." Adult "is not a faith that follows the waves of fashion and the latest novelty; adult Mature faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ. It is this friendship that opens us to all that is good and gives us a criterion to discern between true and false, between deceit and truth " (J. Ratzinger, Homily on the Missa pro eligendo Roman Pontiff).
St. Cyril of Jerusalem (313-350), bishop of Jerusalem, Doctor of the Church
Catechesi 13, 1-4 : PG 33, 771-778
"And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things. "
We should not be ashamed of the cross of the Savior, but rather glory. Although it is true that the word of the cross is "a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles" (1 Cor 1, 18:23), is a source of salvation for us. If those who are perishing is foolishness, for us who are saved it is the strength of God It was not a simple man who gave his life for us, but the Son of God, God made man. If once quell'agnello, sacrificed in accordance with the prescriptions of Moses, took away the exterminating angel, there should be more effective to deliver dai peccati « l'Agnello che toglie il peccato del mondo » (Gv 1, 29) ?
Sì, Gesù ha veramente sofferto per tutti gli uomini. La croce non era un simulacro. Altrimenti anche la redenzione sarebbe stato un simulacro. La morte non era un'illusione ; la Passione fu reale. Cristo è stato veramente crocifisso ; non dobbiamo vergognarcene. È stato crocifisso ; non dobbiamo negarlo. Anzi, lo dico con fierezza... Riconosco la croce perché ho conosciuto la risurrezione. Se il crocifisso fosse rimasto nella morte, forse non avrei riconosciuto la croce e l'avrei nascosta, come pure avrei nascosto il mio Maestro. Invece la risurrezione ha fatto seguito alla croce, e non mi vergogno di parlare di essa.
St. John of the Cross (1542-1591), Carmelite, Doctor of the Church
Spiritual Canticle, 36-37
How many mysteries and wonders have contemplated the holy souls in this life, most remained unspoken and yet to understand. Much remains to be explored in Christ! He is like a rich mine of veins filled with many treasures, which, as used, it will fail to never see or touch the bottom end, and indeed in every winding here and there are other new areas of wealth . This was said in St. Paul, speaking of Christ: "O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways "(Rom. 11:3). Oh, if the soul could understand that you can not reach in the depths of riches and the wisdom of God, except where getting more numerous are the sufferings of all kinds, she puts her consolation and her desire! As someone who really wants the divine wisdom, first desire to truly enter into the thickness of the cross ... to access the riches of divine wisdom, the door is the cross. It is a narrow gate (Matthew 7:13) in which few wish to enter, while there are many who love the beloved which is reached by its means.
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