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November 28, 2010 - First Sunday of Advent

"Watch, do not know on what day your Lord is coming."
and that God comes when we least expect it. Maybe we look for life, or think we look for it, or we believe we have found it and then resting on our laurels and Meanwhile, life runs on us.
is evident that God is mysterious and accessible and hidden, and have not yet.
is that our lives are over, with his desires and his disappointments, his findings and his pauses, his fears and his irony, his enthusiasm and his failures. Come and find it hard to hold it in one place, anywhere, around which everything else to run.
For all these reasons, we really need to stop, at least a few minutes to look at where we're going to find a thread to hang, like the clothes, all our events.
And today begins the rise: a new liturgical year unfolds before us, leading us to the first major event: Christmas.
I do not like the Christmas windows, the sequins, the senseless rush. In fact, I hate this Christmas. I hate the scrawl that we did, the show of good feelings insufferable, the hypocrisy of political correctness that makes Christmas a birthday party with no interest in anything about the celebration.
But I want to prepare for Christmas, I absolutely need to build an ark, and to hell with those who see me sneer nailed to the boards and planing rowing in the city center. I need to figure out how I can find God became accessible, that face, now meet them. I want to be able to see this God delivered, given up, blatant, hidden in the eyes and faces of many babies. Few
four weeks, I know. But I want to try again this year.
Yes, brethren, we celebrate one hundred born, without ever once God is born in our hearts. How beautifully Bonhöffer
says: "No one owns God so that you do not need to wait. Yet she can not wait for God who does not know that God has already waited a long time him. "
Now we begin to read Matthew the tax collector becomes a disciple, one who has done well the accounts in his pocket, he accompanies us and encourages us sull'impervia road conversion. The Gospel passage is difficult and confusing and could be read in key ridiculous.
Jesus, as usual, is extraordinary cites symbolic events of Noah, says that around him there was a lot of good people who were swept away by the flood without even realizing it. So he invites us to watch, stay awake, just as Paul writes to the Romans.
And he warns that one is taken, the other left. One encounters God, the other not. One is filled, the other does not find. God is fair, modest, almost shy, does not require his presence, his coming is like the evening breeze.
We are asked to open our hearts, open eyes, to let emerge the desire. How? I do not know, brothers and sisters. We try to carve out a space to do daily to prayer, to meditate on the Word. Most are engaged take an hour on Sundays to do an hour of silence and prayer, or take a little detour to go to work to get into a church. If living in there, help the Christian symbols of Christmas: to prepare a crib, decorate a tree, to participate in the novena. Let's do something, a little thing, to ask if Christ is born in us, not to be overwhelmed by the deluge of words and things that everyone experiences. But, to aggravate our situation, we must not only fight against forgetting. We have to also fight against the fake birth of our consumer society. I do not understand why a wonderful feast, the feast celebrating the news dell'inaudito of God that breaks into the world, was overwhelmed a false and apparent gooders Christmas.
is a drama, Christmas is the story of a God who is present and a humanity absent. In this respect there is nothing to celebrate, to be happy: the man certainly did a very good figure, the first time, that of Bethlehem.
Christmas is a punch in the stomach, a provocation, an event that forces you to take sides. Christmas is the surrender of God that compels us to conversion.
In these years we promptly did a Christmas stereotypes of a "family" happy around a lit tree, harmonies and songs of angels propinano us that the media relentlessly, while true for the poor, for those who have suffered neglect, trauma, bereavement, Christmas superficially so ostentatious, it becomes an occasion for sadness, loneliness and suffering. Too often, the God of the poor, the God who comes to the shepherds, the marginalized of the time, the God who is not born in the Temple of Jerusalem, but in the cave of Bethlehem, God comes to us from the replacement of our little hypocritical gooders. If only the old, if people abandoned the wounded from life if not a leap of hope on Christmas Eve, it means that our ad is ambiguous, swept away and replaced by a generic message of peace useless. I exaggerate? God grant that this is so. Amen.

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November 21, 2010 - XXXIV Sunday Ordinary Time: Feast of Christ the King

"Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise. "
Today's feast, Christ the King, is a lukewarm challenge to our faith that challenges our contemporary fragile, our Christianity nearsighted, with small projects.
say that Christ is king, it means that he will have the last word on history, on every story, even on my personal history. To say that Christ is king, it means not to give false evidence to the defeat of God and man in the modern world, believing instead that the world - despite everything - is not falling into chaos, but very tender and pregnant in the embrace of the Father. To say that Christ is king, is to create spaces of representation of the United where we are living our vocation to life, small advertising space to tell those who have lost the hearts and minds here, God loves you.
Today is the feast in which the ecclesial community is looking ahead, beyond and within our efforts because, again, the yardstick of our being is the realization of the United Church.
Christ, a king out of the box, then. Worse, the royalty of Jesus is a royalty that contradicts our view of God, because this God is defeated King of all losers, more than any fragile fragility. A king without a throne and scepter without hanging naked on a cross, a king who needs a sign to be identified. This is our God, brothers, defeated a god, not a triumphant God, not an omnipotent God, but God OSTES, displayed, disfigured, wounded, gave up, defeated.
A defeat, however, is a clear gesture of love, an impressive gift of self. A defeated
God of love, a God who - unexpectedly - shows his greatness in love and forgiveness. God - yes him - is at stake, it turns out, is revealed, is delivered.
God is not hidden, mysterious: it is clear, obvious provocation; hung on a cross, seemingly defeated, play all out to bend the hardness of man.
Jesus came to tell God to tell it. He, son of the Father gives to us and tells us who is truly God and the man replies. "No, thank you." Maybe God prefer a stern and forbidding, the supreme selfish enough in itself, powerful enough to convince and hold good?
Perhaps the pagan idea of \u200b\u200bGod that we do not satisfy us more because we like more, does not force us to conversion, he asks only superstition, not turn our affections, just tickle them.
The key to reading the Gospel today is all quell'inquietante assertion of the crowd to Jesus: "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself." Sentence to say that Luke is also the priests and soldiers pagans all agree that a sign of weakness in the thinking of others. The powerful, as we imagine, is the one who saves himself, who can afford to think only of themselves that has the means to be satisfied without the need of others. In this God is what we can not afford to be the most powerful of the powerful, who can do anything that does not need anything or anyone, lucky man! God becomes the projection of our most secret and unacknowledged desires, is what we admire in man politically successful, rich and secure a God with whom we can relate only trying to seduce him, to flatter, to bribe him.
No, brothers and sisters: Our God does not save himself, save us, save me.
God by giving self-fulfilling, relate, opening up to me, to us.
The two thieves crucified with him on Calvary, are the result of our discipleship.
The first challenge God sets the record straight: "If there is' that happen, deliver me from this suffering, save yourself and us, save me" concept of God as a king that simply subject, but under certain conditions however: in exchange for what they want, such as a redemption in extremis, does not admit its responsibility, it is not adult in his life read, try the shot, if it goes wrong. It is not loving his request: oozes pettiness and selfishness. How to - unfortunately often - our faith. What if I gain?
The other thief, however, is baffled. Capacitance does not know what happens, God is there who share his suffering. Suffering a result of his choices, his, innocent and pure that God hears and receives the shocking reality of what happens: weeping, cries out his love and calls for repentance and salvation.
Well, this is the icon of the disciple, brothers and sisters: one who realizes that the true face of God is compassion, tenderness, love and forgiveness. In our human suffering, we have two choices: we can fall into despair or fall at the foot of the cross and recognize, "this man really is the Son of God."
Yes my brethren, God is truly a king abnormal king hard to understand with our human logic.
A king who presented an alternative way of living, another way of thinking, a thinking that totally contradicts our "first of all we save ourselves and then, if anything, we will save the other."
So let's be honest, brothers, we understand it really is a God like that? A God who is weak with the weak? A God who is love and mercy for all? This is, indeed, the King we want?
We do not give a hasty reply, please, because if so - sincere and reasoned as it is logical - we can not camp in any way further excuses to devote Our conversion to full-time staff. Honest and final. Amen.

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November 14, 2010 - XXXIII

"When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be terrified, because these things must happen first, but now is not the end"
The liturgical year draws to a close now that arouses us through the Word of God, the desire to meet his face. A face that appears in all its glory next Sunday when we celebrate the King, Lord of time and history.
Today's readings invite us to live as long as a place of salvation: although a superficial reading, the word for this Sunday could instill fear in us food and the fear of God, of his trial, his conviction, in view of the fact that issues are addressed at the end of human life and the world.
The Word of God but is always encouragement, consolation and strength, even in difficult situations, suffering, persecution. He wants to make conscious and responsible to renew the trust, to let Him save by
Faced with the dramatic events of our time, we are asked not to be afraid, to grow in the knowledge that God alone is Lord of history and only he has the reins of the world. We are called to perseverance, not to desist from believing, always, faithful the Lord, confident that "he who endures will be saved" and that there will finally be given the fullness of life.
It is true that our ineradicable desire for happiness is continually frustrated by the knowledge that humanity is headed toward a life increasingly difficult and problematic. Maybe that's why we indulge in false prophets offering artificial goals to forget the reality of time passing, to drive away the fear of the advancing end, places that provide happiness in the ephemeral wealth, well-being, goals that promise a life free of hitches and difficulties, a body forever young, charming and perfect with the latest scientific findings aesthetics. But this distortion of reality, refused in its drama and its transience, become inexorably further cause for fear and anxiety. We are witnessing a growing pessimism creeping into our streets and wedged into many hearts, corroded by a desperation that mask of indifference, or hides in the search for satisfaction that appaghino this desire to live and live happily.
the contrary, the right attitude is to those who wait with joyful serenity on the day of the glorious coming of Christ to those who remain ignorant of the world, considered unrelated to a humanity which, though redeemed, rejects the outstretched hand of Jesus
The strong appeal of Paul to the Thessalonians - that waiting for the end of the world were living in idleness and doing nothing in continuous agitation "- teaches that we must live the fragment of time that we are allowed, with dedication, love for others, performing such duties as well that God has entrusted to us. Why, brothers, we just save ourselves together with others, through others. The salvation comes to the love of God overflows our brothers, of whom we must win as many to Christ.
Because if it is Jesus Christ who has redeemed the world, today he works in the world by Christians, members of His Body the Church. If we love in this way the world, for that alone we are somehow changing, there is indeed a first fragment of a changing world, and it is our heart.
We then have faith in Him, in Jesus He does not want to scare us unnecessarily. Wants us to return to the faith so pure and true, because faith is to trust blindly the architect of human history that God is the God of my personal history.
to save the world or the shields will not be stellar, and even the most sophisticated security systems. To save my life will not be money or success that I'll accumulate.
My salvation comes from God who knows me through. My attitude of commitment must be courageous in giving testimony. This means having the courage to face life, to follow his call, even if they are not perfect, they are not "angels." It means that those who commit around me do not fall into fear and resignation, but recover strength from my example. And in this commitment of love, witness that I know God will not let perish not a hair of my head ... even when it seems that they are already fallen all!
We must say, we must bear witness, because around, brothers, there is much fear, so much uncertainty for the future. The information and assumptions on the future of mankind and the future life of our land, there are all in a negative direction, making it relevant today and the dreaded words of Jesus when he said that wars, revolutions, earthquakes, terrifying events, famines and pestilence will precede the end of the world. The man's actions seem even prevent that nature maintains a balance and save herself, so that the land - the house that God has entrusted to humanity because she lived it and keep it - is becoming the bleak scenario of hatred and selfishness that fight and destroy each other.
"No - Jesus said - you are calm. These are not the signs of the end. These are not signs of a world plunging into chaos. I have already had to deal with this madness, in a world - my own - much more aggressive than yours ".
And, smiling, continued: "Change Your look. Look at the positive things, to love so that humanity, after all, can produce, that arouses the wonder of creation and that all scales; advancing the Kingdom in the hearts, shy, discreet, peaceful, unarmed ".
"Look to yourself, my brother - I might add - to what the Lord was able to take in all the years of your life, despite everything. To all the love you have given and received, in spite of everything. Look at you and beautiful work of God, the manifestation of solar, goodness and beauty that has created in you. Watch and do not be discouraged.
Even more, the fatigue can be an opportunity for us all to grow, to believe. Faith is refined in the test, becomes more transparent, our eyes become brighter: we become witnesses of God, and when the world judges us, then we become truly holy! So without realizing it, my brothers and sisters, we discover the true believers! If the world criticizes us, if they attack us and despise us, let's not on the defensive, we do not fall into the trap, not reason with his logic, but let us consider all the Spirit.
Yes, brothers, because when the world speaks of the Church or Sparla too (a lot of interest in sports these days), it is then that the Church must speak more of Christ! Amen.

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Sunday in Ordinary Time November 7, 2010 - XXXII

"God is not dead, but of the living because all live to him. "peremptory
This statement of Jesus gives us the opportunity today to address one issue on discipleship.
The occasion was a discussion (discussions blessed!) of Jesus with the Sadducees that, unlike Pharisees were the aristocratic and conservative wing of Israel and that they considered the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, grew slowly in the reflection of the people and definitely made the time of the Maccabean revolt, an unnecessary addition to the teaching of Moses. Thus, the non-crossing shared theory of resurrection with the custom of the levirate (the seed was so important that a brother had to give a son to the widow, sister!) bring to Jesus a paradoxical case (the famous story of the widow "ammazzamariti!).
Jesus, as usual, puts the debate on a different level, invites listeners to look up from a projected view of the fact that after death the anxieties and expectations of this earthly life. It is a new dimension to what Jesus offers, a fullness started but never finished, that does not destroy the feelings (note: in the kingdom but we recognize we are all in all!), But that contradicts the current view of reincarnation (we are one with God not recyclable, and life is not a punishment from which to escape, but an opportunity to identify with!), a vision that drives us to trust in God dynamic and alive, not stuffed!
And here is worth the initial resume concise statement of Jesus: "God is God of the living, because they all live in him."
Now in the end of this year of reflection on discipleship, led by the Gospel of Luke, we can not help ourselves with two questions: we, we really believe in the God of the living? And we, we are truly alive?
Understanding this is quite simple, brothers, we believe in the God of the living if our faith is real, not tired habit; painful and restless desire, not boring duty, zeal and prayer, no ritual and superstition. God is alive in us, if we allow ourselves to meet like Zacchaeus, convert like Paul, so, after his meeting, nothing is as it was before. We believe in a living God if we accept the Word (viva!) that devastated us, questions us, gives us answers. We believe in the God of the living if we listen to those we speak (well) about him, how - for him - they love.
In the endless sea of \u200b\u200bmalice, oppression, intolerance, of cruel revenge, all kinds of violence, in which the average daily overwhelm us, it's really exciting to see every now and then proposed again made light of the stories: the Church to help flood victims and disaster victims all over the world, priests who give hope to prisoners, homeless people with poor friars, nuns who wear out to the derelict, missionaries promoting dignity for women, helping them emerge from poverty and slavery for men. Here, a lot of people believe the God of the living and working and suffering that all might have life, wherever they are, whoever they are. Scores of witnesses are behind and in front of us. As the mother of the first reading, which encourages children to martyrdom rather than recant their faith, like so many (too many) Christian martyrs today's victims of false religious ideologies, like those working for peace in daily life and toil.
We are alive (I am?) Where we learned to stop going after him, if we let ourselves be fooled by the sirens did not promise us that if we have any happiness if appaiamo, if we pray, we produce, earn, seduce etc. And if we know forgive, if we know try, if we understand that this life is worth to be discovered, "more" hidden in the folds of history, of our history.
This must be our belief, brothers, this must be our faith, a faith that becomes possible to produce good, which becomes a new life for others. Otherwise, it is life, and we will not live! His disciples to be dynamic, we must get to the bottom, despite fatigue, despite the fears, despite the uncertainty in finding our role, despite the discovery of many of our weaknesses, but with the certainty that he will embrace, with us, all our defects and inconsistencies. So, brothers and sisters, let us try! We too become live disciples of a living God, so we can already now, to really live life. Amen.