Jesus is going up with his face toward Jerusalem "hardened", ie decided to bear witness to the Father, whatever the cost. Do not know, the apostles, who already sees the Rabbi the failure of his mission and that this feeling is not that motivate and push the total gift of itself. On the street you are met by ten lepers who are shouting from a distance. Leprosy is a terrible and devastating disease, which rots the body, mind and relationships. Of the ten
is a foreign enemy, a Samaritan. But illness and pain are common to all men, without distinction of religion or ethnicity. They scream their pain, their abandonment, their slow and inexorable rot.
Jesus asks them to go to be healed by the priests.
True, at times Jesus asks us to just go to a priest to heal.
is a tradition that refers to ancient Israel, when the priest also served as an official doctor, only because he could attest to the healing and reintegration into the community of a leper.
This request, by Jesus, shows his deep respect for the history of Israel, he did not come to change a jot or a sign, but to fulfill them, to return to their original plan of God More: healing is not instantaneous, takes a journey, a trust, God does not love the striking miracles, always asks awareness, journey, trust, brokerage. The ten
and must therefore, as they walk, they realize they are healed.
too many of us happen to heal the street, when we stop to attach conditions to God and to ourselves. Amazed, stunned, shocked, lepers healed obey the call of Jesus and range from the priest. With one exception, the Samaritan, who does not have a Temple, which has no priests, no official religion. Do not know where to go, and go back on his feet. Only one returned to give thanks, and full of faith.
Jesus, disheartened, notes that ten were cleansed, but only one saved.
Once cured, the return differences (the mystery of human frailty!): Nine go to the Temple and the Samaritan, alone again, without a temple in which to succeed, runs from the temple of the glory of God that Jesus is the Samaritan back praising God in a loud voice, can not remain silent, screaming her joy: his loneliness and his exclusion are finally finished.
the others? Jesus asks nothing, gone, gone. Healing
men by their ingratitude is more difficult to cure their diseases.
gratitude, celebration, wonder, attitudes are natural to man, yet often, in our lives, are obviously too little or nothing. We are all very mournful, always quick to point out the negative that weighs a ton in our budget.
We all take for granted: it is normal to exist, live, breathe, love, this is normal eating, bathing, living, working ... These are things we take for granted due to: our eyes, accustomed to them, no longer able to open up to gratitude. How wonderful it would meet on Sunday left the church - at least sometimes! - Someone who returns home happy, praising God .. As would be nice to see more smiles on the lips of Christians, most praise in their prayers, as gestures of gratitude to those who have recovered from their inner loneliness and leprosy, which is sin, are saved and made himself the Son of God
Yes brothers and sisters, we who are disciples of the Lord are not easily satisfied, we must be very careful not to fall nell'ingratitudine. Besides being healed does not mean automatically be saved.
The nine ungrateful are the perfect icon of Christianity, very popular, which uses God as a powerful healer to be invoked in times of difficulty. What a sad image of God is building those making use of him "when needed", who leave God out of their choices, their family, only to get angry and pull it into play when something goes wrong in their projects (I stress the "they", not those of God !).
also recovered nine: they got what they asked for, but not saved. Remained locked in their partial and distorted view of God, cured of leprosy on the skin, can not see the leprosy in their hearts. The God who is called the God of the impossible remedies, not the Temple in which to live, is powerful enough to bribe and convince, not God, healing, shows that the time has come messianic.
What a sad idea of \u200b\u200bGod have these lepers! A vision of superstitious belief and magic, which he accuses God of our diseases, which puts God at the bar, accusing him.
disease and death remind us of our contemporary world, lost in the delirium of omnipotence, that we are fragile creatures, we live our lives like a breath, that our body is mortal.
then confronted with these harsh realities, we must open, paradoxically, the door through which enter our inner world. Faced with suffering, as the two thieves on the cross, we can blaspheme God, accusing him of indifference, or to realize that dying beside us, fall into despair, or fall on their knees at the foot of the cross.
concludes, in Our life is enough to have health? Sure, health is a precious commodity, and to be retained with a good lifestyle, not to mention peace of heart, however, that the people who come to God and discovers her own life plan, certainly contributes to the achievement of a fundamental psychological well-being . But we all know that health is not enough, we need above all happiness.
Well, Jesus tells us today just is not all that health, more health is salvation and true happiness lies in opening our hearts in gratitude to a God who heals us - deep down - from all loneliness, from every suffering, every existential angst.
Here: achieve this happiness, my brothers and sisters, depends solely on us.
not lose valuable time. Amen.
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