2Cor 4.14 to 5.1
Sl 23: "Uphold me, O God, in your abode"
25.1 to 13 Mt
And so Mary is playing the grandmother. Somewhere you'll be adding: "It was time," but for us it is not so peaceful. However, it is playing the way he wanted her, quietly and almost without telling anyone (in fact every time someone was leaving, he said that it would be their farewell ...).
For our last goodbye I chose these two pages of the New Testament speak of the Christian faith, leave a message of hope, tell something also my grandmother's ...
Paul has come through an ordeal that has personally touched and involved the community of Corinth, which is very close, opens his page saying the foundation of her faith and her hope, the resurrection of Jesus Christ "We believe that the person who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us to him with you." Also stresses that for him and his friends in Corinth evidence, dealt with and crossed in the faith, was not sterile, for anyone thank God turned up 'All is for you, the grace, enhanced by many face the anthem abound thank you for the glory of God. " Armed with this spiritual experience, the call center Paul arrives to live in the dynamics of the Provisional tension between what is already present and what is not, and calls on them to look ahead to appearances, not to cling to what is seen; not to fixate on the immediate (passing) to cling to what remains: "The temporary, light weight of our suffering for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all: we look not to the visible things which are of a time but on the invisible, that are eternal. " So we move from 'home ground, which is [temporary and precarious] like a tent " the eternal home God has prepared in heaven. This look
able to discern and distinguish what goes with what is left is the eye of faith. There are things that move and things that are, things which are seen and things unseen, is the present moment and the tremendous weight of glory, the temporal and the eternal. There is the outer man and inner man. And the trials and sufferings (as tough and hard to deal with), lived with faith, hope and love despite all contribute to making us who we are, help us to revise our hierarchy of values, we open up the sensitivity to pain and suffering of our neighbor.
I think the grandmother was daughter, wife, vedova per molti anni, madre per la sua famiglia, madre la seconda volta per i nipoti, madre la terza volta quando è tornata dai suoi genitori, ridiventati come bambini per l'età, e se ne è fatta carico, di nuovo e sempre con consapevole generosità. Penso a questa eredità: come ci ricorda San Paolo, tutti i gesti di amore, di dedizione, di dimenticanza di sé per aprirsi agli altri, tutti i legami intrecciati lungo una vita, tutte le ricerche del volto del Signore, tutto questo non passa, fa parte di ciò che rimane, di ciò che Dio accoglie per portarlo a pienezza nella vita eterna.
«Dicci quando succederà...!»: così gli Apostoli si erano rivolti a Gesù; e il Maestro risponde with four dishes on supervision. We heard one, the third, which I want to emphasize the second part is not enough to be invited, so be prepared. To be "recognized" by the Lord on the day of his return we all play today in our daily choices.
is not a threat, not a severe criticism to be afraid. We should not prepare for the final ballot, but the encounter with the Lord in joy. Then you should prepare for this great moment with our whole life is in the flow of life that we must provide for the unpredictable, but not through extraordinary things with ordinary everyday living more in a spirit of service to God and to others, a spirit that moves us from ourselves to open ourselves to the Other and to others. Thus, when the time of the meeting, or sleep, whether we are awake, whether sudden or not, since "we do not know neither the day nor the hour", we are ready and we can enter into the glory of God Foreseeing this time , will not be so concerned to prepare to die, but rather to learn to live, and live each day as children of the Father, the example of Jesus then yes we will be "recognized" by the Father, for it carries within us the image of his Son.
The grandmother was not unprepared for sure: for some time, of course, asked for prayers for the deceased loved ones and my good death " but his preparation has started much earlier, with a simple faith and sincere conducted with serenity, a faith which often recurred, always. I have a memory that seems very far away (it goes back at least thirty-five years ago) but it is very clear: I remember one bedroom, in the evening, Serina; me, already under the covers, and the voice of the grandmother who, in dark, the recitation of the prayer "I adore the evening." The states themselves but also for me, so I learn a little at a time.
So every day until the day before yesterday: they had evolved, now had the radio on to lead the prayers, but no less authentic.
