Personal Love: from spent religiosity to Faith
(Lk 1:39-45)
‘Incarnation’: if the gaze mildly begins to rest on the human condition, here is the beginning of a reign of peace.
The hesitant crowd can rejoice, for that slight Presence comes that frees life and makes us feel adequate.
Unusual opportunity, not lacerating; to measure for amiable church and in person, even of children.
To the many prescriptions on cold stone slabs, Mary replaces the caress of a heart of flesh.
And the feast is a sign that the Lord has come to His family.
The young woman spontaneously ranks among normal people.
She did not pursue projects, nor attributed his being in the world and happiness to ways of doing things, to the judgments - passengers - of time.
She didn’t misunderst God by exchanging Him with the common places. She did not hinder his intimacy, thinking she was wrong because “different”.
With a silent mind and detachment from opinions, she allowed the vocational instinct to transmute her, conceive, and convey life.
In the events - even of others - and inside herself, she grasped the insecurity moments to remember herself of the Pearl to be sifted.
She didn’t think, didn’t speak, didn’t act like she was "infinite"; but firmly, yes.
She didn’t ask for permission to embark on a risky journey.
Passionate research that kept her alive, knowing that the things of the soul are different.
She recognizes herself in Elizabeth. She, too, a forgotten, who cultivates the promise [«Eli-shébet»: My-Personal Lord has ‘sworn’; how to say ‘God is faithful to Me’].
Zechariah instead [«zachar-Ja» the Lord (not “mine” but) of Israel, ‘remembers’] fails to move from regular devotion to unforeseen trust - which involves his founding Eros.
Mary didn’t want to be fake, she didn’t want to become artificial.
She gave no space to the toxins of the mind created by the habit without dream, by the paradigms of her place and time.
She chooses not to lay down the evolutionary side: she understands that it could be stimulated precisely by bitterness, abandonment, impacts, wounds.
Ark of the Covenant with visionary and feasible intimacy, without (inside) icy tablets of legalism.
She understands, poor in Spirit: God does not express Himself by emanating codes and minutiae, but in Love - which doesn’t demolish.
She had with Heaven a ‘uniqueness’ relationship, not of "stone" and brake, like as for an intimidated obedience.
In her marrow: Resembling - from Equal to Equal. She imposes herself on the rule hopes, moving from detted religiosity to Faith.
Trajectory of the soul, of Mary, of the waiting People: new consciousness and different orientation of humanity.
[4th Sunday in Advent (year C), 21-22 December 2024]
