(Mt 6:19-23)
«Where your Treasure is, your heart will be there» (v.21). It’s not a tasteless personal or institutional problem; on the contrary, it is indispensable for to find again yourself.
Ignoring it means giving additional breath to it, making grow out of proportion; making it even more out of time and difficult to read - and identify its therapies.
In order to understand and activate different resources, each community must go through the moments of the most severe verification - overcoming the stumbling block ‘forward’, "outgoing".
In the form of Relationship, everything opens up intense life - which integrates and goes beyond self-love, the thirst for domination.
This frees us from the "old", that is, it closes a cycle of paths already developed - to make us return as newborns.
Hope that has weight dismantles the inessential; it expels the noise of thoughts that are no longer in tune with our growth, and introduces dreamy energies, a wealth of possibilities.
There will be initial resistance, but development is predisposed.
Hope sacrifices ballasts and activates us according to the ‘inner divine’. It opens the doors wide to a new phase, brighter and corresponding.
The earth’s treasures quickly blind; likewise they pass: suddenly. The age of global crisis slams it in our face.
Yet, it’s a necessary pain.
We understand: the new paths are not traced by goods, but by the Void that acts as a cavity.
The religiosity good for all seasons gives way to the unprecedent life of Faith.
Here lies the Art of discernment and pastoral care: it should be able to introduce new competitive, different energies - cosmic and personal - that prepare unpublished, open and free synthesises.
We know this, and yet in some intriguing circles and gangs [Pope Francis would say] the lust for possession does not allow them to see clearly.
The dulling of eyes sick with robbery prevailed. First here and there, gradually occupying the soul.
As if to say: there is another experience of the "divine", indifferent.
And the litmus test is precisely that of the petty scrutinizing (vv.22-23) that holds back. With the gaze that closes the horizon of existence.
Instead, in the attempts and paths of Faith that are not satisfied, life becomes bright with creative Love that blooms again, and puts everyone at ease.
Even the old can re-emerge in this new spirit, this time perennial. Because there are other Heights. Because what makes intimate to God is nothing external.
The authentic Church aroused by clear ‘visions’ always reveals something portentous: fruitfulness from nullity, life from its effusion, birth from apparent sterility.
A river of unthinkable harmonies will reconnect the reading of events and the action of believers to the work of the Spirit, without barriers.
Because when someone surrenders their normalized thinking, and settles getting down, the new advances.
The choice is now inexorable: between death and life; between greed and «darkness» (v.23), or Happiness.
The first step is to admit that you have to make a journey.
To internalize and live the message:
Where is your Treasure? Is your heart and eye simple?
Have you ever experienced sides that others judge to be inconclusive [from a material point of view] and instead have prepared your new paths?
[Friday 11th wk. in O.T. June 21, 2024]
