FIRST READING
Es 32,7-11.13-14
Exodus
In those days, the Lord said to Moses: "Go ', come down, because your people, whom you brought out from the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. Have not been slow to move away from the way which I commanded them! Have made it a molten calf, then they knelt down before, they offered sacrifices and said, "Here il tuo Dio, Israele, colui che ti ha fatto uscire dalla terra d’Egitto”». Il Signore disse inoltre a Mosè: «Ho osservato questo popolo: ecco, è un popolo dalla dura cervìce. Ora lascia che la mia ira si accenda contro di loro e li divori. Di te invece farò una grande nazione».Mosè allora supplicò il Signore, suo Dio, e disse: «Perché, Signore, si accenderà la tua ira contro il tuo popolo, che hai fatto uscire dalla terra d’Egitto con grande forza e con mano potente? Ricòrdati di Abramo, di Isacco, di Israele, tuoi servi, ai quali hai giurato per te stesso e hai detto: “Renderò la vostra posterità numerosa come le stelle del cielo, e tutta questa terra, I mentioned, I will give to your descendants and possess for ever. "The Lord repented of the evil that had threatened to do to his people.
PSALM RESPONSORIAL
from Ps 50
Ricordadi me, Lord, in your love.
mercy on me, O God, in your love, in your great misericordiacancella iniquità.Lavami my all of my guilt, my sin puro.Crea Give me, O God, a pure heart in me a spirit saldo.Non driven from your presenzae not take your holy spirito.Signore, open my labbrae my mouth shall declare your lode.Uno contrite spirit is a sacrifice a Dio;un cuore contrito e affranto tu, o Dio, non disprezzi.
SECONDA LETTURA
1Tm 1,12-17
Dalla prima lettera di san Paolo apostolo a Timoteo
Figlio mio, rendo grazie a colui che mi ha reso forte, Cristo Gesù Signore nostro, perché mi ha giudicato degno di fiducia mettendo al suo servizio me, che prima ero un bestemmiatore, un persecutore e un violento. Ma mi è stata usata misericordia, perché agivo per ignoranza, lontano dalla fede, e così la grazia del Signore nostro ha sovrabbondato insieme alla fede e alla carità che è in Cristo Gesù.Questa parola è degna di fede e di essere accolta da tutti: Cristo Jesus came into the world to save sinners, the first of which is me. But precisely for this reason I obtained mercy, because Christ Jesus wanted me, first, to show the whole of his magnanimity, and I was an example to those who would believe in him for life eterna.Al King eternal, incorruptible , invisible and only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
SINGING THE GOSPEL
2Cor 5.19
Alleluia, alleluia.Dio has reconciled the world to himself in Christ, entrusting to us the message of riconciliazione.Alleluia.
GOSPEL
Lk
from 15.1 to 32 vangelo secondo Luca
In quel tempo, si avvicinavano a Gesù tutti i pubblicani e i peccatori per ascoltarlo. I farisei e gli scribi mormoravano dicendo: «Costui accoglie i peccatori e mangia con loro». Ed egli disse loro questa parabola: «Chi di voi, se ha cento pecore e ne perde una, non lascia le novantanove nel deserto e va in cerca di quella perduta, finché non la trova? Quando l’ha trovata, pieno di gioia se la carica sulle spalle, va a casa, chiama gli amici e i vicini e dice loro: “Rallegratevi con me, perché ho trovato la mia pecora, quella che si era perduta”. Io vi dico: così vi sarà gioia nel cielo per un solo peccatore che si converte, più che per novantanove who just do not need conversione.Oppure, what woman, if he has ten coins and loses one, light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds? And after finding it, call together her friends and neighbors, and says, 'Rejoice with me because I found the coin that I lost. " So, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents. "Then he said:" A man had two sons. The younger one said to his father: "Father, give me the share of assets that belong to me." And he divided his wealth between them. A few days later, the younger son gathered all his belongings and set off for a distant country and there squandered his fortune by living debauchery. When he had spent all, there came a severe famine in that country, and he began to feel the pinch. So he went to serve a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine. He would gladly have fed on the pods which were fed the pigs, but nobody gave him anything. Then came to himself and said, "How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and I perish here with hunger! I will get up, go to my father and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, are no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me like one of your employees. " He got up and returned to his padre.Quando was still way off, his father saw him, he had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. The son said "Father I have sinned against heaven and before thee, are no longer worthy to be called your son." But the father said to his servants, 'Quickly, bring out the best robe and let her wear, Put the ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Take the fattened calf and kill it; we are celebrating, because this my son was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found ". And they began to festa.Il eldest son was in the field. Come back when it was close to home, he heard music and dancing called one of the servants and asked what it was all that. That's said, "Your brother is here and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound." He was indignant, and refused to go. His father then went out to beg. But he said to his father: "Behold, I served you for many years and I never disobeyed your command, and you've never given a young goat to celebrate with my friends. But now that this son of yours came back, who has devoured your substance with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf. " The father said "Son, you are always with me and all that is mine is yours, but we must celebrate and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found "."
Es 32,7-11.13-14
Exodus
In those days, the Lord said to Moses: "Go ', come down, because your people, whom you brought out from the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. Have not been slow to move away from the way which I commanded them! Have made it a molten calf, then they knelt down before, they offered sacrifices and said, "Here il tuo Dio, Israele, colui che ti ha fatto uscire dalla terra d’Egitto”». Il Signore disse inoltre a Mosè: «Ho osservato questo popolo: ecco, è un popolo dalla dura cervìce. Ora lascia che la mia ira si accenda contro di loro e li divori. Di te invece farò una grande nazione».Mosè allora supplicò il Signore, suo Dio, e disse: «Perché, Signore, si accenderà la tua ira contro il tuo popolo, che hai fatto uscire dalla terra d’Egitto con grande forza e con mano potente? Ricòrdati di Abramo, di Isacco, di Israele, tuoi servi, ai quali hai giurato per te stesso e hai detto: “Renderò la vostra posterità numerosa come le stelle del cielo, e tutta questa terra, I mentioned, I will give to your descendants and possess for ever. "The Lord repented of the evil that had threatened to do to his people.
PSALM RESPONSORIAL
from Ps 50
Ricordadi me, Lord, in your love.
mercy on me, O God, in your love, in your great misericordiacancella iniquità.Lavami my all of my guilt, my sin puro.Crea Give me, O God, a pure heart in me a spirit saldo.Non driven from your presenzae not take your holy spirito.Signore, open my labbrae my mouth shall declare your lode.Uno contrite spirit is a sacrifice a Dio;un cuore contrito e affranto tu, o Dio, non disprezzi.
SECONDA LETTURA
1Tm 1,12-17
Dalla prima lettera di san Paolo apostolo a Timoteo
Figlio mio, rendo grazie a colui che mi ha reso forte, Cristo Gesù Signore nostro, perché mi ha giudicato degno di fiducia mettendo al suo servizio me, che prima ero un bestemmiatore, un persecutore e un violento. Ma mi è stata usata misericordia, perché agivo per ignoranza, lontano dalla fede, e così la grazia del Signore nostro ha sovrabbondato insieme alla fede e alla carità che è in Cristo Gesù.Questa parola è degna di fede e di essere accolta da tutti: Cristo Jesus came into the world to save sinners, the first of which is me. But precisely for this reason I obtained mercy, because Christ Jesus wanted me, first, to show the whole of his magnanimity, and I was an example to those who would believe in him for life eterna.Al King eternal, incorruptible , invisible and only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
SINGING THE GOSPEL
2Cor 5.19
Alleluia, alleluia.Dio has reconciled the world to himself in Christ, entrusting to us the message of riconciliazione.Alleluia.
GOSPEL
Lk
from 15.1 to 32 vangelo secondo Luca
In quel tempo, si avvicinavano a Gesù tutti i pubblicani e i peccatori per ascoltarlo. I farisei e gli scribi mormoravano dicendo: «Costui accoglie i peccatori e mangia con loro». Ed egli disse loro questa parabola: «Chi di voi, se ha cento pecore e ne perde una, non lascia le novantanove nel deserto e va in cerca di quella perduta, finché non la trova? Quando l’ha trovata, pieno di gioia se la carica sulle spalle, va a casa, chiama gli amici e i vicini e dice loro: “Rallegratevi con me, perché ho trovato la mia pecora, quella che si era perduta”. Io vi dico: così vi sarà gioia nel cielo per un solo peccatore che si converte, più che per novantanove who just do not need conversione.Oppure, what woman, if he has ten coins and loses one, light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds? And after finding it, call together her friends and neighbors, and says, 'Rejoice with me because I found the coin that I lost. " So, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents. "Then he said:" A man had two sons. The younger one said to his father: "Father, give me the share of assets that belong to me." And he divided his wealth between them. A few days later, the younger son gathered all his belongings and set off for a distant country and there squandered his fortune by living debauchery. When he had spent all, there came a severe famine in that country, and he began to feel the pinch. So he went to serve a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine. He would gladly have fed on the pods which were fed the pigs, but nobody gave him anything. Then came to himself and said, "How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and I perish here with hunger! I will get up, go to my father and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, are no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me like one of your employees. " He got up and returned to his padre.Quando was still way off, his father saw him, he had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. The son said "Father I have sinned against heaven and before thee, are no longer worthy to be called your son." But the father said to his servants, 'Quickly, bring out the best robe and let her wear, Put the ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Take the fattened calf and kill it; we are celebrating, because this my son was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found ". And they began to festa.Il eldest son was in the field. Come back when it was close to home, he heard music and dancing called one of the servants and asked what it was all that. That's said, "Your brother is here and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound." He was indignant, and refused to go. His father then went out to beg. But he said to his father: "Behold, I served you for many years and I never disobeyed your command, and you've never given a young goat to celebrate with my friends. But now that this son of yours came back, who has devoured your substance with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf. " The father said "Son, you are always with me and all that is mine is yours, but we must celebrate and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found "."
HOMILY
COMMENT ON READING
lose at home
Chapter 15 of Luke's Gospel presents us with three parables on the theme of the first misericordia.La he describes a situation of material loss outside the home: a sheep is lost and then found by a shepherd in deserto.La second episode tells us about a loss of material at home: a coin is lost and then found by a woman in her third abitazione.La is like a synthesis of the two before and at the same time tells the story of two people are lost spiritually out of a house (the prodigal son) in the other house (the older brother).
This parable, the third of Chapter 15 of Luke, commonly called the Prodigal Son, we can reflect on the theme of mercy and helps us respond to the seven major points.
How to behave in front of other men's sins
the beginning of Chapter 15 it says: "The Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man welcomes sinners and eats with them." The translation CEI continues: "Then he told them this parable ...". The word "then" is important: the grammar tells us that this is a conjunction, which implies a consequence. We might translate: "In consequence of these murmurings, Jesus told them this parable." The purpose of the parable of the prodigal son is then to send a message to those who consider themselves righteous and judge others. The intention is to tell Jesus that moves to give a lesson to those who judge the sins of others: the title of the parable, as said, it should be: "Parable of the older son who was considered fair and ordered his brother." How many times This also happens to us, we take advantage of the mistakes of others, to try to take advantage of staff. We are not like Moses, before error that others do the opposite: intercedes. We are not like Jesus, who before fault of Paul ("blasphemer, persecutor, violent") makes it strong, the renewed confidence, he calls to the ministero.Ricordiamoci said of the Desert Fathers: "If your brother sins, cover with the mantle of your love! "How
do with who would take the dead
Ask the inheritance to his father while he is still alive, is the greatest act of disrespect as possible, in the Semitic world. Equivalent to wish him the morte.La request of the prodigal son amounts to a declaration of death: "Father, I have no time to wait you might die: I now want your money." Those of us who, if he had the opportunity to know in advance that son, raised and cared for with great sacrifice, would like one day we die, also agreed to make the world? Yet God knew that we would act like that, and gave us life the same. In addition to this, he sent his only Son, what is most precious had to save us. The parable tells us that the Heavenly Father, although he knew that we would sin, gave us life and he saved us through love, gratuitamente.Alla lack of love and respect, meanness, insensitivity, hatred - we are told parable - you respond with love. "Hatred can be vanquished only by love. Responding to hate with hate is not nothing but increase the same size and depth of hatred "(Mahatma Gandhi).
How to deal with the loneliness of abandonment
"A man had two sons." It is strange the presence of this single father. In the parable above, always set in the house, about a woman. In Scripture, the woman is the household: there is no home unless there is a woman. In the case described in the Gospels, there are always women alongside men, from Simon's mother-in-law Martha and Mary by women of following Jesus (Luke 8:1). Where is she here? Throughout this story never mentions a female presence: it remains a question mark and the feeling of being in front of a father solo. È un padre solo che accetta, per amore, di diventare ancora più solo.Il tema dell’amore come capacità di lasciare liberi, rompendo i vincoli della possessività è molto presente anche nell’arte e nel mondo della canzone. La parabola sembra dirci che amare significa lasciare liberi, anche rischiando la solitudine profonda.“Ti lascerò andare, ma indifesa come sei, farei di tutto per poterti trattenere” (Oxa –Leali).“Non ti voglio fermare, io ti lascerò andare. C’è sempre una partenza, stai con me o stai senza!Perché credo che amare sia lasciar liberi” (Mauro di Maggio).
Come capire che siamo sulla via sbagliata
Il figliol lavish party for a distant country and squandered all a life of debauchery: at one point began to feel the pinch. "He would gladly have fed on the pods which were fed the pigs, but nobody gave him anything." It is difficult to imagine that this guy was unable to take the pods themselves. Certainly could have done so in secret. It is an interesting detail: "No one gave him anything." Began the young man in a crisis, due to a lack of love, before a physical need, it is a human need: to realize that there is no one who take care of us, we prepare to eat, we really love. Love got home, he begins to create the feeling of nostalgia: a comparison raises the malessere.Questo young person starts to realize that there's something wrong: he has woven a network of free love. It was put in the condition of not loving and not to accept more amore.Ecco a criterion to determine if there is something wrong: the resistance to the ability to receive love is like a warning light. "Man can not live without love. He remains a being incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if not encounter love, if he does not experience "(John Paul II, RH 10).
How to distinguish the true from the false repentance
"How many employees my father's have bread enough and I perish here with hunger! I will get up, go to my father .... "The young man decides to go home, moved from a situation of extreme need: no mention of his meanness, sin committed, his father abandoned. He continues to see if this becomes stesso.Il sin for us only when we experience the effects on our skin. Only when the consequences of our wrongdoing turn into something that touches us, then an action of ours began to feel like a peccato.È repentance for convenience, because it is based only on the vision of themselves and their own future good, but it is a timid start, a consequence of that "then came to his senses. "The dictionary of the Italian language, the" repentance "states" to feel remorse for the actions. " None of this happens to the prodigal son: it moves above its own selfish interest and the look on their bisogni.Il true repentance, however, is what looks to God and fratelloTuttavia that of the prodigal son is a timid start, something that in motion: "He got up and returned to his father." Even this can happen to us: the beginning of a life change is caused by the firsthand experience that a certain behavior has negative consequences for us. However, mysteriously, from here in the hope of God, who knows how we are made. "The repentance of a man is the crowning glory of a hope of God," said Charles Peguy.
How to tell if someone really loves
"When he was away, his father saw him, he had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him." These six verbs tell us all about true love . See when a person is still far away, it means that they were waiting for her to tempo.Provare compassion means that you do not think most of the past, all'affronto suffered, to who is right or wrong, but you are willing to open your heart and think about his pain, another is a meeting without giudicareCorrere fare il fatidico “primo passo”, è offrire la mano gratuitamente.Gettarsi al collo, abbracciando una persona, è nella Bibbia un gesto di amore profondo: così fa Giuseppe con Beniamino (Gen 45,14), Tobi con il figlio (Tob 11,13), gli anziani di Efeso con Paolo (At 20,37).Nella Bibbia il bacio viene scambiato in 46 occasioni. Questo, però, è forse il più famoso di tutti. “Il bacio è qualcosa che la natura ha inventato per fermare i discorsi quando le parole diventano inutili” (Ingrid Bergman). Il padre non ha nulla da dire al figlio: il suo silenzio vale più di tante parole.
Come rendersi conto che ci si è persi in casa
Il fratello maggiore “si indignò e non voleva entrare”: egli elenca i propri meriti e parimenti i demeriti del fratello al padre, recriminando di non aver ricevuto mai nulla dal padre.“Figlio, tutto ciò che è mio è tuo”. In quei tempi biblici l'eredità veniva divisa fra i figli maschi, al primogenito spettavano due parti. Nel caso di questa parabola la proprietà era stata divisa in tre, col primogenito destinatario di due parti. Il secondogenito aveva già ricevuto la sua parte e perciò tutta la proprietà del padre sarebbe stata ereditata dal figlio maggiore. Il padre, con umiltà e pazienza, conferma questo al figlio per rassicurarlo del suo dovuto.“La parabola sottolinea che, ragionando così, anche il figlio more leaves and stays out of the house as his younger brother. Therefore, the Father, he had compassion, "he ran to meet the prodigal son, now comes out again to meet the eldest son. With that gesture of kindness, the Father says to both, that his love for them is free. There is no right to love, a right that one can gain or lose. God loves us not because we deserve it, but because he is good and loves us for free. Consequently, as the prodigal son has not lost the love of the Father away from him, so even the eldest son has the right to love of the Father because they walked away. Fall into the same error we children of the Church when we think we have no need of mercy, as if going to Mass on Sunday, receiving the sacraments, doing some good work, we acquired the "right" to salvation. How many times have we, believers and practitioners, we suffer the Father as the eldest son of the parable, an injustice considering the Father's mercy toward her brother, a sinner "(P. Sorge).
Let me conclude these brief reflections, with the "Prayer of a father of Douglas McArthur, who is like a synthesis of everything we have said so far:
Give me Lord, a son who is so hard to know when it is weak, and so courage to be ashamed in front of himself when he sins. Give me a child not only desires, but to act, a child who knows you and you learn to know himself: This is the cornerstone of wisdom. Bring him, I beg you, not the way of leisure and comfort, but put it under the spur of difficulties and weight problems. Teach him to maintain balance in the storm and to have compassion on those who fail. Give me a son whose heart is transparent and whose gaze is turned upward, a child who knows how to govern itself without any claim to govern others, who can walk into the future without forgetting the past. Give him humility to always remember the simplicity of true wisdom and the meekness of true strength. So I, her father, I can say I have not lived in vain.
lose at home
Chapter 15 of Luke's Gospel presents us with three parables on the theme of the first misericordia.La he describes a situation of material loss outside the home: a sheep is lost and then found by a shepherd in deserto.La second episode tells us about a loss of material at home: a coin is lost and then found by a woman in her third abitazione.La is like a synthesis of the two before and at the same time tells the story of two people are lost spiritually out of a house (the prodigal son) in the other house (the older brother).
This parable, the third of Chapter 15 of Luke, commonly called the Prodigal Son, we can reflect on the theme of mercy and helps us respond to the seven major points.
How to behave in front of other men's sins
the beginning of Chapter 15 it says: "The Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man welcomes sinners and eats with them." The translation CEI continues: "Then he told them this parable ...". The word "then" is important: the grammar tells us that this is a conjunction, which implies a consequence. We might translate: "In consequence of these murmurings, Jesus told them this parable." The purpose of the parable of the prodigal son is then to send a message to those who consider themselves righteous and judge others. The intention is to tell Jesus that moves to give a lesson to those who judge the sins of others: the title of the parable, as said, it should be: "Parable of the older son who was considered fair and ordered his brother." How many times This also happens to us, we take advantage of the mistakes of others, to try to take advantage of staff. We are not like Moses, before error that others do the opposite: intercedes. We are not like Jesus, who before fault of Paul ("blasphemer, persecutor, violent") makes it strong, the renewed confidence, he calls to the ministero.Ricordiamoci said of the Desert Fathers: "If your brother sins, cover with the mantle of your love! "How
do with who would take the dead
Ask the inheritance to his father while he is still alive, is the greatest act of disrespect as possible, in the Semitic world. Equivalent to wish him the morte.La request of the prodigal son amounts to a declaration of death: "Father, I have no time to wait you might die: I now want your money." Those of us who, if he had the opportunity to know in advance that son, raised and cared for with great sacrifice, would like one day we die, also agreed to make the world? Yet God knew that we would act like that, and gave us life the same. In addition to this, he sent his only Son, what is most precious had to save us. The parable tells us that the Heavenly Father, although he knew that we would sin, gave us life and he saved us through love, gratuitamente.Alla lack of love and respect, meanness, insensitivity, hatred - we are told parable - you respond with love. "Hatred can be vanquished only by love. Responding to hate with hate is not nothing but increase the same size and depth of hatred "(Mahatma Gandhi).
How to deal with the loneliness of abandonment
"A man had two sons." It is strange the presence of this single father. In the parable above, always set in the house, about a woman. In Scripture, the woman is the household: there is no home unless there is a woman. In the case described in the Gospels, there are always women alongside men, from Simon's mother-in-law Martha and Mary by women of following Jesus (Luke 8:1). Where is she here? Throughout this story never mentions a female presence: it remains a question mark and the feeling of being in front of a father solo. È un padre solo che accetta, per amore, di diventare ancora più solo.Il tema dell’amore come capacità di lasciare liberi, rompendo i vincoli della possessività è molto presente anche nell’arte e nel mondo della canzone. La parabola sembra dirci che amare significa lasciare liberi, anche rischiando la solitudine profonda.“Ti lascerò andare, ma indifesa come sei, farei di tutto per poterti trattenere” (Oxa –Leali).“Non ti voglio fermare, io ti lascerò andare. C’è sempre una partenza, stai con me o stai senza!Perché credo che amare sia lasciar liberi” (Mauro di Maggio).
Come capire che siamo sulla via sbagliata
Il figliol lavish party for a distant country and squandered all a life of debauchery: at one point began to feel the pinch. "He would gladly have fed on the pods which were fed the pigs, but nobody gave him anything." It is difficult to imagine that this guy was unable to take the pods themselves. Certainly could have done so in secret. It is an interesting detail: "No one gave him anything." Began the young man in a crisis, due to a lack of love, before a physical need, it is a human need: to realize that there is no one who take care of us, we prepare to eat, we really love. Love got home, he begins to create the feeling of nostalgia: a comparison raises the malessere.Questo young person starts to realize that there's something wrong: he has woven a network of free love. It was put in the condition of not loving and not to accept more amore.Ecco a criterion to determine if there is something wrong: the resistance to the ability to receive love is like a warning light. "Man can not live without love. He remains a being incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if not encounter love, if he does not experience "(John Paul II, RH 10).
How to distinguish the true from the false repentance
"How many employees my father's have bread enough and I perish here with hunger! I will get up, go to my father .... "The young man decides to go home, moved from a situation of extreme need: no mention of his meanness, sin committed, his father abandoned. He continues to see if this becomes stesso.Il sin for us only when we experience the effects on our skin. Only when the consequences of our wrongdoing turn into something that touches us, then an action of ours began to feel like a peccato.È repentance for convenience, because it is based only on the vision of themselves and their own future good, but it is a timid start, a consequence of that "then came to his senses. "The dictionary of the Italian language, the" repentance "states" to feel remorse for the actions. " None of this happens to the prodigal son: it moves above its own selfish interest and the look on their bisogni.Il true repentance, however, is what looks to God and fratelloTuttavia that of the prodigal son is a timid start, something that in motion: "He got up and returned to his father." Even this can happen to us: the beginning of a life change is caused by the firsthand experience that a certain behavior has negative consequences for us. However, mysteriously, from here in the hope of God, who knows how we are made. "The repentance of a man is the crowning glory of a hope of God," said Charles Peguy.
How to tell if someone really loves
"When he was away, his father saw him, he had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him." These six verbs tell us all about true love . See when a person is still far away, it means that they were waiting for her to tempo.Provare compassion means that you do not think most of the past, all'affronto suffered, to who is right or wrong, but you are willing to open your heart and think about his pain, another is a meeting without giudicareCorrere fare il fatidico “primo passo”, è offrire la mano gratuitamente.Gettarsi al collo, abbracciando una persona, è nella Bibbia un gesto di amore profondo: così fa Giuseppe con Beniamino (Gen 45,14), Tobi con il figlio (Tob 11,13), gli anziani di Efeso con Paolo (At 20,37).Nella Bibbia il bacio viene scambiato in 46 occasioni. Questo, però, è forse il più famoso di tutti. “Il bacio è qualcosa che la natura ha inventato per fermare i discorsi quando le parole diventano inutili” (Ingrid Bergman). Il padre non ha nulla da dire al figlio: il suo silenzio vale più di tante parole.
Come rendersi conto che ci si è persi in casa
Il fratello maggiore “si indignò e non voleva entrare”: egli elenca i propri meriti e parimenti i demeriti del fratello al padre, recriminando di non aver ricevuto mai nulla dal padre.“Figlio, tutto ciò che è mio è tuo”. In quei tempi biblici l'eredità veniva divisa fra i figli maschi, al primogenito spettavano due parti. Nel caso di questa parabola la proprietà era stata divisa in tre, col primogenito destinatario di due parti. Il secondogenito aveva già ricevuto la sua parte e perciò tutta la proprietà del padre sarebbe stata ereditata dal figlio maggiore. Il padre, con umiltà e pazienza, conferma questo al figlio per rassicurarlo del suo dovuto.“La parabola sottolinea che, ragionando così, anche il figlio more leaves and stays out of the house as his younger brother. Therefore, the Father, he had compassion, "he ran to meet the prodigal son, now comes out again to meet the eldest son. With that gesture of kindness, the Father says to both, that his love for them is free. There is no right to love, a right that one can gain or lose. God loves us not because we deserve it, but because he is good and loves us for free. Consequently, as the prodigal son has not lost the love of the Father away from him, so even the eldest son has the right to love of the Father because they walked away. Fall into the same error we children of the Church when we think we have no need of mercy, as if going to Mass on Sunday, receiving the sacraments, doing some good work, we acquired the "right" to salvation. How many times have we, believers and practitioners, we suffer the Father as the eldest son of the parable, an injustice considering the Father's mercy toward her brother, a sinner "(P. Sorge).
Let me conclude these brief reflections, with the "Prayer of a father of Douglas McArthur, who is like a synthesis of everything we have said so far:
Give me Lord, a son who is so hard to know when it is weak, and so courage to be ashamed in front of himself when he sins. Give me a child not only desires, but to act, a child who knows you and you learn to know himself: This is the cornerstone of wisdom. Bring him, I beg you, not the way of leisure and comfort, but put it under the spur of difficulties and weight problems. Teach him to maintain balance in the storm and to have compassion on those who fail. Give me a son whose heart is transparent and whose gaze is turned upward, a child who knows how to govern itself without any claim to govern others, who can walk into the future without forgetting the past. Give him humility to always remember the simplicity of true wisdom and the meekness of true strength. So I, her father, I can say I have not lived in vain.
LITURGY
penitential rite
* Lord, you compassion for the sins of your people, noi.Signore have mercy, mercy!
* Christ, that we have deemed worthy of trust, putting at your service, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy!
* Lord, you cheer for each of your child who returns to life, noi.Signore have mercy, mercy!
INTERCESSIONS
brothers and sisters, the Church is called by Christ to be an instrument of divine mercy in the world. Let us pray it can always be faithful to its mission. Let us pray, O Lord!
* For the ministers of the Church because, as the Father of the Prodigal Son, may be an image of saving, please.
* For peace in the world, that all men may understand that the only response to hate is love which forgives, taught by Jesus Christ, we pray.
* For the prodigal sons and all those who have lost the meaning of life so that they can, with our help, to find that there is a Father who waits for them with love, please.
* For all the older brothers of the Church, because it might include the gratuity of love of God and eliminate all forms of feedback to others and human evaluation, please.
Holy Father, who loves us infinitely and are always willing to forgive us, we entrust our prayers and deepest desires of our hearts. Receive them, along with bread and wine that we have, and turn them into pleasing sacrifice to you. Through Christ our Lord. AMEN.
FOR MEDITATION
After communion
The way home (Pato)
take advantage of your goodness, his head bowed, but with the heart still stuck in the mud of your naivete porcile.Approfitterò Father, who sees me even when I turn my son to live spalle.Tornerò in your house, because I know that I caccerai.Tornerò to live in your home, despite the opinion of the brothers, despite the look of the infected children bene.Approfitto for your mercy, I looted looting your stuff and now your old heart . Return to your home, and I do not even take the trouble of lifting myself off all the garbage of the nights of kisses and hugs pagati.Approfitto, shamelessly, sorry to metà.È hunger and nostalgia of an atom to drive my child passi.Approfitto of foam te.Ho words of remorse to ask for a bed and you made me a abbraccio.Ho begged a piece of bread, and you made me bellezza.Ti I asked water and wine and you've shed your tears . I asked you to rest and I guarito.Ho begged your property and you made me to myself.
* Lord, you compassion for the sins of your people, noi.Signore have mercy, mercy!
* Christ, that we have deemed worthy of trust, putting at your service, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy!
* Lord, you cheer for each of your child who returns to life, noi.Signore have mercy, mercy!
INTERCESSIONS
brothers and sisters, the Church is called by Christ to be an instrument of divine mercy in the world. Let us pray it can always be faithful to its mission. Let us pray, O Lord!
* For the ministers of the Church because, as the Father of the Prodigal Son, may be an image of saving, please.
* For peace in the world, that all men may understand that the only response to hate is love which forgives, taught by Jesus Christ, we pray.
* For the prodigal sons and all those who have lost the meaning of life so that they can, with our help, to find that there is a Father who waits for them with love, please.
* For all the older brothers of the Church, because it might include the gratuity of love of God and eliminate all forms of feedback to others and human evaluation, please.
Holy Father, who loves us infinitely and are always willing to forgive us, we entrust our prayers and deepest desires of our hearts. Receive them, along with bread and wine that we have, and turn them into pleasing sacrifice to you. Through Christ our Lord. AMEN.
FOR MEDITATION
After communion
The way home (Pato)
take advantage of your goodness, his head bowed, but with the heart still stuck in the mud of your naivete porcile.Approfitterò Father, who sees me even when I turn my son to live spalle.Tornerò in your house, because I know that I caccerai.Tornerò to live in your home, despite the opinion of the brothers, despite the look of the infected children bene.Approfitto for your mercy, I looted looting your stuff and now your old heart . Return to your home, and I do not even take the trouble of lifting myself off all the garbage of the nights of kisses and hugs pagati.Approfitto, shamelessly, sorry to metà.È hunger and nostalgia of an atom to drive my child passi.Approfitto of foam te.Ho words of remorse to ask for a bed and you made me a abbraccio.Ho begged a piece of bread, and you made me bellezza.Ti I asked water and wine and you've shed your tears . I asked you to rest and I guarito.Ho begged your property and you made me to myself.
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