am broken my ties
paid my dues
my doors wide open
I go everywhere.
They crouch in their corner
continue to weave the pale canvas of their hours;
or go sit in the dust
to count their coins
and call me because go back
But now my sword is forged,
I have already put the armor
my horse is already looking forward
and I earn my kingdom.
Tagore
Luke 5.27-32
At that time, Jesus saw a publican named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said, "Follow me. He left everything, got up and followed him.
Levi made him a great feast in his house. And on the other there was a crowd of people sitting at table with them.
The Pharisees and their scribes murmured, saying to his disciples: "Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?".
Jesus replied: "I'm not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick, and I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
COMMENT
Matthew, a sinner intent to sin. The hands still glued to the unscrupulous money extorted. And a voice like a diamond at a glance: "Follow me." Certainly more than the "follow" did "me." Usually we tend to emphasize the fact that they follow and we lose sight of Chi seguire. E, ancor prima, Chi chiama ad essere seguito. Una voce, uno sguardo, e una parola. Il tutto accaduto proprio lì, dove Matteo era in quello stesso istante, immerso nel suo impuro lavoro di esattore e taglieggiatore. Un mafioso più o meno. Basta pensare cosa evochi in noi questa parola per capire che vita conducesse Matteo. Mafioso e collaborazionista, peggio di un kapò in un campo di concentramento. Da vomitare. E lì, in quel vomito di vita, un raggio di luce, come ha inimitabilmente dipinto Caravaggio.
Un raggio di luce, lo sguardo di Gesù. L'unico Dio perchè l'unico che si sia chinato su quel relitto d'uomo, publish, sell. The only one to find him, look at him, call him. Jesus, the one to love him. So, without moralizing, without judging anyone. Love me to the point of wanting with him. And who would take hours, so on two feet, a mafioso, a traitor in the house .... Only the Lord. Call Matthew was like handing over the administration of a bank to a thief. Jesus gave his treasures, his most precious things in Matthew, thief.
The absolute uniqueness of this experience has generated in Matthew 's exceptional. Conversion. Grace has turned the gratitude . Why conversion always flows from gratitude. How not to follow the only one who had loved him, the only one who had healed and ripped to hell? Matthew has touched a greater love for each other, something never seen, felt, lived, which takes you right into the depths of yourself and drags you with him in a heavenly love. Let all then it was for Matthew winning freedom, but a waiver! Let it all is simply to have found the one thing necessary to live is beautiful. It's true. And holy. Leave everything is being kidnapped by the love that is impossible even to dream, but to which all, in every man, tends irresistibly. Leave everything you have him now, Jesus Leave everything at once because has already received everything. And in all of Jesus is also given to any other thing, person, love, work. Transfigured. Everything new.
Following Jesus is, in fact, before anything else, invite them to our lives, our history. As Matthew. For him the first fruit of the encounter with Christ was to convey the uniqueness of that experience to his friends. As a sort of pilgrimage since in the depths of its story, Matt leads Jesus to their places, people, things that just before he left. With Christ you do not lose anything in our lives! The follow me Jesus had fully involved, everything about him was now of Christ. " we not perhaps all afraid in some way - if we let Christ enter fully into us, if we open ourselves totally to him - afraid that He might take something away from our lives? Are we not perhaps afraid to give up something big , unique, something that makes life so 'beautiful? not then risk ending up diminished and deprived of their liberty? no! If we let Christ, we lose nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful and great. No, only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is truly revealed the great potential ' the human condition: do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and gives you everything. We give ourselves to him, we receive a hundredfold. It ', open, open wide the doors to Christ, and you will find true life "(Benedict XVI, Homily at the Opening pontificate April 24, 2005).
Matthew had left everything was free and this could give himself. Like St. Paul, free from all had been able to do everything for everyone. Calling unexpected and free of Matthew Jesus walks into a pilgrimage of memory to discover that every moment, every relationship of his life was healed. The doctor looked at, loved, known, cared for. The word of the mercy has regenerated, and now Matt can look at itself and its history with new eyes. Where sin abounded grace overflows. The unworthy regained dignity, and what was put at the service of iniquity is now offered for Justice. Reports cleansed, purified eyes, thoughts enlightened, sanctified every action. In the love of Jesus, the past does not crush it, this is not the poison, do not fear the future. E 'vivo Matthew, is a man, is Christ.
's great to be breath-taking the mystery contained in this Gospel passage. There is coagulated the whole of Christianity. An unexpected encounter. One love, free of charge. It saved his life, aroused. No preparation, no good provision, only an infinite love. Those who met him can no longer do without. Hugh of St. Victor wrote that " who finds his homeland sweet is just a tender amateur. Who is sweet all the homelands We have already started on the right track. But only perfect one who feels alien in any place. " Freed from a love that crosses all boundaries, who has known the love of Christ is already citizen of another world, a 'living symbol of Heaven. Her walk everyday in the footsteps of Jesus, drawing the traces of hope for the world.
Lent is this meeting prepared for us. And 'Christ down to our lives, in our sins. It does not matter if we are not waiting, if we are busy with our shady dealings. Import your love. Import experience, true and real, of his forgiveness. Import freedom. It is for us, is embedded in the merciful and compassionate eyes of Jesus, in his eyes rested on each of us today. In his speech, in the call that resonates today, and every moment, crouching in the corners where we get lost in our thoughts. Love and freedom, peace and joy, the fruit of his love that comes to us today. Please perchè si compia in ciascuno di noi una quaresima di stupore, gli occhi di Matteo folgorati dallo sguardo del Signore.
Giovanni Paolo II
Messaggio ai giovani per la XX GMG (6/8/04)
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Sono tanti i nostri contemporanei che non conoscono ancora l’amore di Dio, o cercano di riempirsi il cuore con surrogati insignificanti. E’ urgente, pertanto, essere testimoni dell’amore contemplato in Cristo... La Chiesa ha bisogno di autentici testimoni per la nuova evangelizzazione: uomini e donne la cui vita sia stata trasformata dall’incontro con Gesù; uomini e donne capaci di comunicare quest’esperienza agli altri. La Chiesa ha bisogno di santi. Tutti siamo chiamati alla santità, e solo i santi possono rinnovare l’umanità.
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