(Lk 14:12-14)
Inviting the excluded, without a spirit of interest: the Christian community is open to everyone, especially those who have nothing to offer in return.
The Church cannot be complicit with those who turn the world into a business.
And are we really today finally learning to invite for free, not in an even more interested and mercantile way?
We are well aware that the interweaving of the computational circuits behind our actions is astounding, almost as complex as the very complicated computer circuits.
And someone is also looking for sacralization:
Before exposing ourselves in a work, we weigh with incredible rapidity all the possible relapses, the reactions useful or harmful to our interests.
Even during the course of social action, we recalibrate any changes that produce the desired effect, and at the same time the hoped compensation.
If this doesn’t come, surely we imagine that there must have been a (mechanical) fault somewhere.
If we are not careful, much of our existence is transformed into a cybernetic of interest.
It also happens with God.
Instead, it is Love that conquers the world.
It is the unconditional gift that shakes, moves, conquers; it preludes and reflects the Mystery.
In the transformation of one’s own goods into Encounter, Relationship, intimate Life and of others, the source of Joy gushes forth.
Gaiety of completeness of being, Life of the Trinity itself: different Happiness, without due or expected returns; prelude to Resurrection.
A divine existence, not behind the clouds or at the end of history, but from now on.
No reciprocation is really worth such boundless and real vertigo.
Thus the type of participants in the breaking of Bread in churches - today of an increasingly varied mentality - describes the essence of God.
The ‘polyhedron’ becomes an icon and attribute of the tolerant mercy of the Eternal.
But it is not an external or paternalistic patch; nor is it configured as a rescue of the situation [or remorse of conscience].
The condition of sin does not nullify the plan of salvation. Rather, it emphasizes the personal Exodus and the passion of things.
Different faces and circumstances become sacraments of Grace, Love so open that no human narrowness can close.
Even a non-one-way personal formation is well recalled by the thousand unusual presences of a multipolar world [as an intimate and concrete appeal].
In this way, every heterogeneous aspect is now finally appreciated as an added value, instead of being considered a “carnal” or “impurity” expression.
In short, our attitude as sisters and brothers imitates divine magnanimity: we welcome willingly and freely those who are 'different' and those without great energy or appeal.
Not because we are or they are 'good', but so that we all become good. And by being close, together, in an unforeseen, therefore vital way; overeminent one.
To internalize and live the message:
What does not elevate your relationships? and the complete sense of you?
[Monday 31st wk. in O.T. November 4, 2024]
