and New Year, today, a change of year, a common event after all, that the desperate need for hope of men filled with a secular ritual made of fireworks, the opulent tables, drinking toasts and anesthesia, are charged in an attempt to exorcise the time, booking for the days to come only comfort, joy and happiness. BeerBash of meaninglessness, intentional forgetting the true meaning of time and life. Although it is ultimately a good thing that still feels the need to hope and expect something better for tomorrow, if anything serves to bridge the gap of the absence of values. For us Christians, but the time is sacred, since God dwells in him.
time, the story, my story, not a series of events that follow one another without any sense but, rather, is the space that I gave to the project that God has for me, a piece of infinity in in a man. In our life there are the best years, made up of job satisfaction, of immense joy as the birth of a son, and other more difficult and painful years in which we experience the emotional bankruptcy or bereavement of a loved one. Both villages are in each case by the tenderness of God Of course, health, peace, prosperity, love, are all important things, but they are due, are not totally discounted.
So what better wish can I make for the new year if not given at the Word of today: "God make his face shine upon you"? "Let's face shine, a beautiful Semitism that indicates a person's smile. When we smile, our face lights up.
And this I wish you, brothers, sisters, friends, readers, no matter what happens to you in this new year, your face is always bright a mirror image of the smiling face of God, you, brethren, our God is a God who smiles. And who loves him, even in adversity, in pain, in opposition, he always manages to smile reflected in her face. This is comforting, brethren, God is smiling, not scowling, is not impenetrable, is not unfriendly, is not rattled: God smiles every time. Also the face of the infant Jesus surrounded by little in the human fragility, reveals to us this face of God smiling. The problem, however, are us, only us: you and me. In moments of fatigue and pain we can not confidently look up to God, but we are overwhelmed by emotion, anger, despair, do not recognize in God, no smile.
My brothers: do not expect that God will solve the problems, nor that we pave the life we \u200b\u200bsimplify it. Life is a mystery and as such should be welcomed and respected. But if God smiles on us, always, means that there must be a reason - a reason that you may not see a reason to ignore it - if he is there, always smiling for him if our problems are not problems, it means that we must abandon ourselves to Him we must trust him! Here, brothers and sisters: whatever happens this year in our lives, to wallow in his smile, always!
What to do in order to grasp more easily and clearly God's smile? We must imitate Mary, his mother a teenager. Mary fact that today we honor with the title "Mother of God," is troubled by too many events that have occurred in the last week: the birth alone, being away from his home, rather than temporary accommodation, the visit of crude and unsavory pastors. That is, Mary? Despairs? No: it collects all these concerns in his heart and meditate in silence. Rather, as the greek literally says Luke, "took the pieces and tried to reassemble. That's right, brothers, often missing in our lives just that: a vital refuge, an entering into ourselves (take Secumar) to rebuild our lives swept away by events, by the experience: a place to hang a wire on which to hang all our miseries, to dry in the sun of God's love we need, in other words, faith, a faith that believes that is our common thread, our precious heart breaking, absolutely irreplaceable. Only by faith, in listening and meditating on the Word daily, we realize that God smiles on us.
God chose Mary among millions of women certainly more appropriate for her: she, a woman child, totally unprepared. Maria makes it for sure. Nobody ever would have given her credit. But the principles of God are different from ours. God always chooses for his exploits men who underestimated her hands in the stone rejected becomes the cornerstone, because he has always and forever, use other criteria. God, my brethren, you have in mind for each of us an amazing journey, in-credible, exceptional, but is dependent on us, can not, can not achieve his dream if we do not we trust Him, if we resist, if we continue to oppose, to want to direct our own lives. God loves and chooses who is available in a particular way, those who trust in Him, who can say, like Mary, "Okay, I do not know where I want to take, but I trust you. I follow you blindly go. " It is wonderful to do so? This is the faith, my brothers!
then look to Mary, the beginning of this new year, and entrust ourselves to God: stop ask him why what happens happens, complain to why certain things happen and go wrong and always up to us! Let's stop frapporgli obstacles and to pull us back when we called. Whatever happens we have to accept his will. We must understand that He wants us to go right in there. Period. "I trust you. If you have permission, it is because I have to learn something, I'll try to do that with your help. Lead me and will follow you in front of you and I behind.
I assure you that in this way, all our anxieties vanish and we will find in us an irresistible force: with our "yes" not only enhance the smile of God in us but it will radiate to the whole world and we will have peace.
And then the smile of the Peace of God be with you, brother and sister, both in your home, in your community and where you work, and where you have fun. Whether in your city where you live, whether in the world. For all to see, not only those of the Church or the prayers of synagogues and mosques, but also in the other, in listening to each other, in helping those who are in difficulties, forgiveness after the clash, love it can and should be given always in season!
And he concludes: Happy New Year, dear reader, dear brothers. God, who makes all things new, we want to renew, we will, believe, among his closest disciples: he wants to love at all costs! Let him do, let us get a good time, everyone. I pray you. Amen.
My brothers: do not expect that God will solve the problems, nor that we pave the life we \u200b\u200bsimplify it. Life is a mystery and as such should be welcomed and respected. But if God smiles on us, always, means that there must be a reason - a reason that you may not see a reason to ignore it - if he is there, always smiling for him if our problems are not problems, it means that we must abandon ourselves to Him we must trust him! Here, brothers and sisters: whatever happens this year in our lives, to wallow in his smile, always!
What to do in order to grasp more easily and clearly God's smile? We must imitate Mary, his mother a teenager. Mary fact that today we honor with the title "Mother of God," is troubled by too many events that have occurred in the last week: the birth alone, being away from his home, rather than temporary accommodation, the visit of crude and unsavory pastors. That is, Mary? Despairs? No: it collects all these concerns in his heart and meditate in silence. Rather, as the greek literally says Luke, "took the pieces and tried to reassemble. That's right, brothers, often missing in our lives just that: a vital refuge, an entering into ourselves (take Secumar) to rebuild our lives swept away by events, by the experience: a place to hang a wire on which to hang all our miseries, to dry in the sun of God's love we need, in other words, faith, a faith that believes that is our common thread, our precious heart breaking, absolutely irreplaceable. Only by faith, in listening and meditating on the Word daily, we realize that God smiles on us.
God chose Mary among millions of women certainly more appropriate for her: she, a woman child, totally unprepared. Maria makes it for sure. Nobody ever would have given her credit. But the principles of God are different from ours. God always chooses for his exploits men who underestimated her hands in the stone rejected becomes the cornerstone, because he has always and forever, use other criteria. God, my brethren, you have in mind for each of us an amazing journey, in-credible, exceptional, but is dependent on us, can not, can not achieve his dream if we do not we trust Him, if we resist, if we continue to oppose, to want to direct our own lives. God loves and chooses who is available in a particular way, those who trust in Him, who can say, like Mary, "Okay, I do not know where I want to take, but I trust you. I follow you blindly go. " It is wonderful to do so? This is the faith, my brothers!
then look to Mary, the beginning of this new year, and entrust ourselves to God: stop ask him why what happens happens, complain to why certain things happen and go wrong and always up to us! Let's stop frapporgli obstacles and to pull us back when we called. Whatever happens we have to accept his will. We must understand that He wants us to go right in there. Period. "I trust you. If you have permission, it is because I have to learn something, I'll try to do that with your help. Lead me and will follow you in front of you and I behind.
I assure you that in this way, all our anxieties vanish and we will find in us an irresistible force: with our "yes" not only enhance the smile of God in us but it will radiate to the whole world and we will have peace.
And then the smile of the Peace of God be with you, brother and sister, both in your home, in your community and where you work, and where you have fun. Whether in your city where you live, whether in the world. For all to see, not only those of the Church or the prayers of synagogues and mosques, but also in the other, in listening to each other, in helping those who are in difficulties, forgiveness after the clash, love it can and should be given always in season!
And he concludes: Happy New Year, dear reader, dear brothers. God, who makes all things new, we want to renew, we will, believe, among his closest disciples: he wants to love at all costs! Let him do, let us get a good time, everyone. I pray you. Amen.
0 comments:
Post a Comment