He calls to Himself and ‘makes’ the Twelve: big emergency, by small Name
(Mk 3:13-19)
In Christ, the physician of suffering humanity, the things of the soul seem different, and so do relationships.
All this leads his group to a different view of itself, history, world, multitudes (vv.7-9) and problems.
The axis is to be with Him (v.14) that is to form Church in Him. In fact, it is fundamental first to mature, wherever we live.
He who cultivates many cravings projects them; he procures others his own murky influences. This is why reflection is necessary; that critical, which really digs.
It conveys the sense of our getting on the field, and a righteous disposition.
Being with Jesus annihilates infidelities that do not propose simplicity of life and values of the spirit, that distance, building other temples and shrines.
The charge of universality contained in the rooting to values transmitted by dialogue with Him, questions us; in relationships as well as in self-knowledge.
We understand that... stimuli, flections, virtuous principles, gaps, hidden sides, achieved goals and bad-moments are complementary energy aspects.
It seems a paradox, but openness to the multitudes’ needs remains a exquisitely non-external problem.
It’s from themselves and from the already varied community that one looks at the world, knowing how to recover its opposite sides.
It is the Way of the Interior that penetrates the way of the outside.
It is the intimate road that can fight the power of evil that stifles the longings for life and annihilates personalities.
We must first heal what is essential and neighbour.
Of course, who do not accept risk cannot be missionary; the person who isn’t inserted among the poor people do not know their world.
But those who are not ‘made’ free [v.14: «(He) made (the) Twelve»] cannot free (v.15).
Who is not trained can’t educate; he can’t ‘remake history from the beginning’.
The only way to peer far and without borders is to ‘stick to the reason of things’.
Principle that is known in Christ Logos and only if we are not misled by the superficiality of reductions.
Understanding in God the nature of creatures, and conforming us to it, everyone is inspired to transmute and complete, without alienating forcings.
By exercising a practice of ‘goodness even with themselves too’.
To understand this and approach the sense of their missional Uniqueness, the Son himself must ascend on «’the’ Mount» (v.13), assimilating himself to the Father’s Vision.
None of the apostles was in themselves worthy of the Call.
Most of them have typical names of Judaism, even of the patriarchs time - which indicates a cultural and spiritual extraction rooted more in common religion than in personal Faith; not easy to manage.
Yet made them his ‘intimates, by Name’ - chain that united Heaven with the fate of their healing mission, now without fences.
Announcement of new Light received in Gift: where precisely does not a single shape or a single color appears.
For a contagion that is neither alarmist nor unilateral, but thriving, multifaceted, sometimes "hidden" - and restless, disquieting.
[Friday 2nd wk. in O.T. January 24, 2025]
