(Mk 10,17-30)

Inherit the Life of the Eternal

To realize ourselves it’s not enough to accentuate or refine, we need to take a Leap; an extra step is not enough.

It starts from the perception of an inner wound that moves us (v.17) in search of that Good that ‘unifies’ and gives meaning to life.

Jesus makes us reflect on what is to be considered Great, «distinguished» [thus the Greek text: vv.17-18].

It is not a magisterium for those who are far away, but for us: «One you are missing!» [v.21] - as if he wanted to underline: «the One, the Whole you miss: you have almost nothing!».

Normal life goes on, but there is no astonishment.

Too many things are missing: the challenge of ‘the most’ personal, the care of others, the confrontation with the drama of reality. There is no Unity; there is a lack of authentic Presence that launches love into the spirit of adventure..

It is not a question of having an idea, an extra cue in addition to what we already have, while continuing to be slaves to it.

It’s not enough to improve relationship situations that we know by heart, being approved from the first step.

The transition from religiosity to Faith that brings our vocational destiny and full realization is played out on a shortage of supports - in chaotic systems of correlation.

To be happy is not worth "normalizing", because the soul demands the challenge of unexplored skies.

Waters that we have not probed: sides of ourselves, of others and of reality that we have not brought out, and yet perhaps we are not even scrutinizing.

It is necessary to venture into the basal and extraordinary stretches that today also call in the day after day; do not wait for insurance.

And the starting point can also be the accent of doubt, a healthy restlessness of the soul - the very danger... typical of critical witnesses.

Let’s not silence our being insecure, nor the sense of dissatisfaction for a life without jolts: they are fruitful suspensions, which will activate us.

Feeling complete, fulfilled, happy? One needs one's eyes and heart to yield, not to be occupied.

It is absolutely necessary to let certainties fall from the mind and from one's hand.

The gamble is the reckless investing of everything for 'another realm' - where energies surface, different relationships are explored; one attempts to sublimate possessions into a matrix of life [also others: v.21].

Our Core remains restless if it does not infuse correspondences that fly over the ancient ruler: the material goods, which make one stagnate.

The Deep Roots want to modify the vector of the swampy, situated ego - "as it should", well inserted or self-referential - so that it dilates to encompass the Thou and the real whole (vv.28-30).

It’s the Birth of the new woman and man; mothers and fathers of humanization.

What touches the divine condition. Able even to reverse positions (v.31).

It is Genesis in the authenticity of cosmic energies and inner powers, which are preparing stages of growth - elsewhere.

Gradually the feeling and reciprocity of a comprehensive relationship is created, the purpose of Love in what we undertake or redo; like the friendly warmth of a non-frigid Presence.

We live the extreme from which there is no turning back, because it places us in the very Life of the Eternal (v.17). The One who is missing (v.21).

As I strive to question myself or others, previously hidden resources that I did not even know about emerge.

With amazement I experience a reality that is gradually unfolding... as well as the Father who provides for me (v.27).

In this extension, we learn to recognize the [decisive new] Subject of the spiritual path: God's plan in Being itself.

Dream leading... and despite the travails, the emotional storms, our twists and turns, it gradually reveals itself to be Resembling.

As innate: forthright, genuine, limpid; irrefutable, glowing, flowing.

Leaving everything behind and experiencing the reversal

(Mk 10:28-31)

According to the correct mentality - typical of Judaism - to receive the divine inheritance it was enough to keep the commandments (vv.17-20).

But it is not with security upstream that one can make an exodus to meet the One (v.21) in the heart; nor can the Church stay safe with the material contribution of the rich (v.26).

The path of love and educational risk assume the journey of adventurous sobriety, without which it is not possible to affect the watertight compartments of thought and society.

In contrast to devotions, the life of Faith does not require the offering to God of a modest or resigned sacrifice, but abandonment to future that is to Come.

In this way - by making the disciples abide in the energy of undertaking - the believing experience will no longer leave anyone with their heads bowed. For here the cards are exchanged (v.31).

The Presence of the fraternal and concrete Kingdom - «in the midst» - overturns roles and perspectives, such as habitual positions between women and men, young and old, or new and veterans (v.31).

Inserted in the Church that hears the call to "go out", we stir our Core from the tortuousness of self-folding.

And here is the Father's Hundredfold in all (vv.28-30). Except for one thing: because we are called to be on the same level.

There will be no “hundred for one” of «fathers» [in the ancient sense] that is, of conditioning controllers (vv.29-30) who dictate their track and pace, as if to subordinates.

A life of obligations or attachments blocks creativity. To cling to an idol, to allow oneself to be plagued or intimidated, to anchor oneself in fear of problems or worries, is to create a dark chamber.

To feel programmable, already designed without an extra... to be subjected to ordinary or conformist opinions... excludes the vector of the unknown and all-personal Novelty.

He who allows himself to be inhibited by exclusive ethics, by having to be with himself and others according to clichés of established prestige and so on, builds an artificial dwelling, which is neither his ‘home’ nor the ‘tent of the world’.

And although in the step of the mission, even speculating that we can foresee fruitful eccentricities or global adventures, we shrivel our souls, we are frightened of possible conflicts.

But in fear we do not grasp what is truly ‘ours and others': what is only revealed during a process, which becomes holy in the exodus from self and in the quality of creative relationships.

After all, behind the reluctance ‘to be’ in Christ and in relationships that go beyond what is due and already thought, lies nothing more than the fear of losing the attention of others or one's reputation.

But along the Way, one has an intimate experience of a different Switch within, which helps us express ourselves and deal with events where not everything is already 'in place'.

Thus, by laying aside step by step the fears of being shouted at, and that life might collapse [precisely because of our ideal choices].

Away with the behind-the-scenes.

It is the new Genesis under a new and unknown stimulus that allows attention to be shifted from calculation to the brightness of the heart, from the brain to the eye, from reasoning to perception.

Once the artificial ties of wanting to come to head of situations [prematurely and necessarily] are removed, we will learn to embrace all sides, and life will go its own way, expanding from wave to wave.

We are no longer minors: we have full Hope - not moderate.

[28th Sunday in O.T.  B  (Mk 10:17-30)  October 13, 2024]