PRESO TRA GLI UOMINI E COSTITUITO PER GLI UOMINI
Il brano evangelico narra la guarigione del cieco di Gerico Bartimeo… Bartimeo è uno che non si lascia sfuggire l’occasione. Ha sentito che passava Gesù, ha compreso che era l’occasione della sua vita e ha agito con prontezza. La reazione dei presenti (“lo sgridavano perch? tacesse”) mette in luce la inconfessata pretesa dei “benestanti” di tutti i tempi che la miseria resti nascosta, non si mostri, non disturbi la vista e i sonni di chi sta bene.
Il termine “cieco” si è caricato di tanti sensi negativi che è giusto riservarlo, come oggi si tende a fare, alla cecità morale dell’ignoranza e dell’insensibilità. Bartimeo non è cieco, è solo un non-vedente. Con we see the heart better than many others around him, why? has faith in hope. Indeed, it is this inner vision of faith that helps to recover even the appearance of things. "Your faith has saved you," Jesus tells
I will stop here because the explanation of the gospel? I would like to present an argument in the Second Reading of this Sunday, on the figure and the role of the priest. The priest says at the outset that it is " taken from among men." It is not a be uprooted or fallen from heaven, but a human being who has had a family and a story like everyone else. "Taken from among men" also means that the priest is made of the same stuff as any other human creature: the desires, feelings, struggles, the doubts, the weaknesses of all. Scripture sees in this an advantage for other men, not a cause of scandal. In doing so he will in fact be more prepared to be compassionate, being covered too weak.
Taken from among men, the priest is then " made for men," that is given back to them, placed at their service. A service that touches the deepest dimension of man, his eternal destiny. St. Paul summarizes the priestly ministry in a statement: "one should regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God" (1 Cor 4:1). This does not mean that the priest is indifferent to the needs of the people even human, but that these deals with a different spirit from that of sociologists and politicians. Often, the parish is the strongest point of aggregation, including social life of a country or district.
This is a vision that we laid out in the positive figure of the priest. Not always, of course, is that. Every so often remind us of the news that there is another reality, made of weakness and infidelity ... From it the Church can not do is ask for forgiveness. But there is a truth to be remembered as a partial consolation of the people. As a man, the priest may be wrong, but that makes the gestures as a priest, the altar or in the confessional, are not so invalid or ineffective. The people are not deprived of the grace of God because dell'indegnità the priest. It is Christ who baptizes, celebrates, forgives him is merely a tool.
I am pleased to recall in this regard, the words he utters before his death the "Country Priest" by Georges Bernanos: "All is grace." The misery of his alcoholism is the grace, why? made him more compassionate toward people. God does not press so much that his representatives on earth to be perfect, because they are merciful.
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