How to place oneself in "astral" upheavals
(Lk 21:20-28)
At the time of Jesus the eternal city was self-destructing, but the distances between heaven and earth were thinning.
Living Word and Ecclesial meditation.
Even today we are experiencing reversals: suddenly the fulfilling center becomes a battered suburbs, and vice versa.
What is the trauma finalized for? And what about the fall of faith that results from it?
But what matters of the crisis is precisely in the indwelling states, triggered by the overthrows - despite the external perceptions of loss.
It’s necessary to disengage from apparent causes; to enter deep into the spaces that we feel violated.
That pain is part of ourselves, of the way of Faith.
By acknowledging and accepting it as an intimate vein, a genuine side of the being that belongs to us, we regain integrity; we can start again.
The authentic Church thinks of the meaning of the journey... even of the whole story, reflecting in particular on the instability [what was high now falls ruinously].
On the rubble here is looms the end of the ancient order, upset in the archaic prestige and in the same ordering.
The new world will have inverted hierarchies (vv.25-26).
They have ended up extinguishing their useless attractiveness; they have run out of time.
Bitter fruits generated by elect powers, from ‘celebrities’ that seemed heavenly [sun, moon, stars and powers that have always overpowered humanity: vv.25-26].
A veil was taken away from their unilateral teachings.
They had partial, purely temporal programs. They didn’t form the whole of life.
And here finally is the trigger of a new Kingdom, which is inaugurated in the aspect of a Son, a Friend with a heart of man and not of a beast (cf. Dn 7:2-14).
At the bottom of the institutional history there is a sense of death, but right here the soul is liberated and sublimated.
The truths yet established will finally be ‘measured’ by a saving Presence.
‘Flesh’ like us and ‘Rock’ like God.
A demanding Grace is rising on the supposed catastrophe, an inexorable stage for the establishment of a completely different Fraternity - and the appearing of a new Creation.
In such a way, ruin and destruction will turn into high consciousness; Exodus, joy of transformation, sense of freedom.
We will be without regrets for the impressive "smoke" of what has self-destroyed - because of its scarce human-divine figure.
All this we will activate, even if we were deemed unwise, for the common configurations.
More reason, to make us invited who ‘realize of’.
In Him the upheavals will turn into acute consciousness and happy relationships, emancipated from infinity and justice.
New Majesty, who does not reject the night.
Because when we dwell in the pain that we would like to flee, the distances between heaven and earth are narrowing.
[Thursday 34th wk. in O.T. November 28, 2024]
