"And he was transfigured before them: and his face shone like the sun ...." Today the Gospel radically changes its setting, its "location". Last Sunday we were in the desert in solitude, hard work, the temptation, the possibility of making the wrong choices, take the seemingly easy way, but misleading. Today we are instead the antipodes, the scene is dominated by light, joy, happiness, the fullness, the "touch the sky, touch God, with a finger." On Sunday alone, today a group of people (Peter, James, John). There, the voice and vision of the evil one, and here the voice the vision of God, suffering, joy and celebration today. There the darkness and the darkness, much light here and the radiant face of Jesus Christ For a too human, that comes to life's temptations, Jesus too is opposed to the divine that is transfigured. What is the point of this change so sudden, still in a Lent that we interpret to be sad, funereal, devoted to the sacrifices and prayers continue? Where is it? Of course, teaching that Jesus wants to give us. Today, in particular, Jesus tries to give an answer about what can make people happy in this land. It gives us a little taste of what will be the future happiness, paradise-like, made of light, love, contemplation of God. It tells us that Lent is not sadness, but joy, enthusiasm, a path of "con-version" done with a smile and confidence. Well, Jesus, in short, tells us that our life can become radiant through love, tells us that we can enjoy our daily Tabor, living in advance through simply heavenly love. Yes, brethren, that is love, love alone that gives happiness to man: it is love that gives him the opportunity to touch, already now, the immense love God has for all of us.
The "Transfiguration" our "Transfiguration", then is this: to see and experiment with the eyes of the heart, with love, those wonderful things that no human eye could never perceive. This tells us the Gospel today. But understand, we understand the love, brothers, in fact, if we were in love at least once, if we have lost his head and did crazy things for someone, if we happened to see the world as a paradise, a huge garden flowers, because someone said "I love you", only then can we hope to understand the Gospel today: Yeah, because Jesus is a lover, a passionate conviction (I remember how the decision goes to Jerusalem incontrore for his "passion"?), is a raging fire that burns, that those who face set on fire. "God is love" confirms John. That is, only those who can open to love and live it, God can understand all those who keep their hearts closed, and you can not get a concept of God, but will never "hear" all those who are cold and unable to be moved, they will never hear how great he is, all those who can not surrender, who can not afford to feelings of love, it will continue to look for, but in vain.
transfigured's what brings us love. Why only true love, love those who are lost, can enjoy the sun reflected on the face of the person you love, admire the light in the eyes of a child, the immense universe in the face of a wrinkled old man, the stars, the universe and all the suns that shine in the eyes of those who want to really well.
I think it will happened to you, brothers, to cry in front of a face in despair, the pain of a loss, with scenes of heroic altruism and love, and just before sunset, at sunrise silent: to be felt so full of joy, deep feelings of emotion so intense, it was unable to hold back the tears. Here: this is "transfigured." Once I thought that was a sign of weakness, tenderness, lack of character and manhood. But I know that today it means to be alive, means to perceive what you live in, what the "others" living in it, does it mean to leave us touch the heart, it means let us hit and get involved with what's happening around us, not be as hard as impenetrable as marble or ice, however cold, icy, impassive. In other words it means to let "transforming." Yes, brethren, these are the moments of our "Transfiguration" are the moments when we feel with absolute certainty that it is worth living, even for a few moments, these are the moments when we feel gratified to be in the world, having the opportunity to exist, to love, to believe. Are the moments that give us energy, strength and courage to move forward and address the "downhill" from the mountain, crosses, crucifixes every day. Without these bursts of joy, happiness, life, infinity, of "God", everything is dramatic, agonizing, "black", unworthy of being lived, sucks. We have to allow happiness to get into it and we need to let us invade their lives, we must let life live in us, that shakes, it moves (e-motion), which is born continuously. And if that happens there, we need to worry, brothers, if there happens, we must seriously ask ourselves if our hearts are still alive or has already dead. For it is the wonder, the ability to excite us, to love, that tells us what we are still alive.
This is the Transfiguration. Our transfiguration. And we can directly experience the time, enough to have "eyes" to see: for example, when we fall in love, we experience the transfiguration, when the darkness of a difficult situation comes suddenly a flash of light, and have already lost, we find God , we experience the transfiguration, when we discover that our life is so small and insignificant compared to the world and the six billion people, has a meaning and a purpose, we experience the transfiguration, when we see, perceive the beauty of a person, his strength, his sensitivity, even if from the outside do not see anything, this is transfiguration. Transfiguration is to see people for who they really are, you see their true face, its true face, their shape as it was originally created by God, even before being deformed by the dark days, fear, grief, the anxieties and the anxieties of life.
If we happen to tears of joy, to feel so happy to touch the sky, being so full, so rich feel huge, warm like the sun, shining like the snowy peaks, or as deep as the sea, well, we need to know , brothers, that this is transfiguration. The world, in his misery, he will say that we are crazy: actually maybe a little 'too crazy we will be, but certainly we are very, very happy.
"Tabor, the mount of transfiguration and happiness in Hebrew means" navel "and" the principle of light. " Well, the transfiguration and then calls us all to cut the umbilical cords (dependencies) to be born, grow up and live every day: if the umbilical cord was cut, the child would die, not to cut some ties (ie, limited to changes, search make them more free or real, close them, forgive them, edit them, convert them) is useless, brothers, we would just die. We need to cut these cords without hesitation to move forward, we must cut the umbilical cord with those experiences that made us badly, with trauma, with what we would like to be but we have never been and that we can never be. We need a word cut away everything that makes us or hurt us, why keep it in our hearts, even if it is just a memory of many years ago, meaning it back every sacred day, right in time to make up for evil; not cut means continuing to pursue useless fantasies, which exist only in our minds that can not exist, and that never existed in reality. Life, in this sense, is a continuous cut umbilical cords in order to grow, to develop and bear fruit. But there is not umbilical cord is cut. It's the connection with God that must remain forever. Tabor, the navel of the world, tells us: "If you're stuck here, linked to me (= ligione be re-linked), then you're safe. This bond remains forever, this cord is steel and can not be truncated. As you fall down or go, this rope will keep you tied to me, and you do not lose. "
Tabor also means "principle of light." And we need light, brothers, we need experiences that enlighten us about our real identity, that make us discover our potential, that make us feel strong, because only in God, whatever we can. We need to feel our strength, to be told that "it is true that we are at a point of no return" and "that's not true that we can not change" and "that's not true that we can not be happy in this life "and" that's not true that we are destined to live in mediocrity, in getting by. " We need people who look in the eye and tell us: "You can" we repeat: "No, you can be different, you can live better, that we strattonino and we wake up," Osa, fly, do not adapt; six eagle, do not live in fear like a chicken! "of people who say:" You have the light soul, I see through your eyes: sprigionala, pull it out, make it out. "We need to" mothers "who love us, we deem it, that we welcome, as they are for us a warm and welcoming embrace for our fear, a safe haven in time of distress, sadness, darkness and difficulty. We need to "mother" to give us the love that makes us believe in ourselves, that makes us feel beautiful, good, desirable, important , precious, so we can one day believe in ourselves and move forward. We need fathers who provide us the strength to go off, not vivacchiare, which give us the enthusiasm and passion to live in full with energy, with everything ourselves; of the "fathers" who invite us to dare, to try not to be afraid.
Then we can go calmly to even the "passion", then we can tackle the most difficult moments and difficult, then we can face any difficulty because we have in energy, strength, enthusiasm, we have God in my heart. In our
"transfiguration", in our Christian life, let us ask ourselves in all humility and sincerity, "It's still good for us to be here with you, Lord?" "It's still nice to be with you in moments of prayer and meditation, Mass in the Church, in liturgy, in the silence of our room? ". Let's get a frank answer on this Lent a response like that of Peter, full of enthusiasm and happiness: " Domine, bonum est nos hic they - Lord, it is for us to be here ....." Admittedly, my brothers, it's really nice to be with Jesus, and everyone, without distinction, are called to experience in our lives that it is nice to be with God
To do this you must carve out spaces of silence, to devote time to cultivate love, get in tune with nature. To do so, as suggested by the Father, we must listen. Listening to the Son, listen to the Word, listening to ourselves, to hear what he has to say nice man, every man our brother. The beauty is the experience that comes by listening. For this we need to listen, because listening in our lives we could recover the Christian concept of God's beauty, the love of God Yes, brothers, because it is the beauty and warm light of God which we share: we live in horrendous cities, our suburbs are horrible, horrible pounding the proposals of our advertising is loud, horrible language and people who come to us by the media from the world of politics, entertainment, information. It's true: we urgently need the beauty, the beauty of God which is truth, well, goodness, love. God's beauty, the beauty of our soul in love: we have to understand, brethren, that true beauty is not a matter outward, a matter of aesthetics! Indeed, we can use all the "help" of this world, we can get shred into pieces, we can get silicone as I could, but without being able to be of "good" people! Because without the inner beauty, beauty of the image of God, we end up with looks like the cold, roll, hard and unhappy dolls, rather than "beautiful" people!
We must at all costs to regain that sense of wonder and beauty that lifts us high up there on Mount Tabor, to fix our gaze on Christ transfigured ecstatic. Why is with its light, the warmth of his love, we need to do as many of our churches Tabor, many places of beauty, silence, singing, faith, the times when we pray, in our daily lives must bear a modicum of that beauty, a beauty made of generosity, kindness, care, compassion, love, truth and tenderness: the beauty and the love of God, Then life will be beautiful, brothers! It will be really nice, because we have finally learned to live and to give it. Amen.
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