Today we have an impression of oblivion, of the Lord.
The pit seems to be able to hide and silence Him, so much so that there is no need to contest him - it would be enough to neglect or pity him.
Instead, we want to meditate again on the revolution of Christ and his new Light, to recognize it as ours, assimilate and live it - right from the roots of being and on our journey.
God's Silence is part of Revelation: Glory and Life which correspond to us; in a democratic, multifaceted, not one-sided way.
Silence that respects our ‘flower’.
Thus, amidst the ups and downs of our lives as well, here is the laying and the mysterious plotting of ‘seeds’ - a whole series of alternatives:
A different Face of God, creator and redeemer of our intelligence and freedom; educator never sullen - nor dominator ready to unleash reprisals.
Not sovereign who governs by enacting laws, but Parent who transmits his own Life.
We do not meet Him by rising and forcing, for it is He who ceaselessly proposes, reveales Himself, and Comes.
He does not stand “at the head” and you at the back; he does not place himself above while you remain below.
It does not put itself “in front” so that someone is destined to fall behind [with the strongest, quickest and most organised ones always close, with no possibility of turnover and replacement].
An activity of denunciation of false religion: that of repetitive fulfilments - and of fixed or too sophisticated, disembodied ideas - beneath a cloak of plagiarism, fear, intimidation.
The Lord is righteous, for He understands us. Let's banish empty, futile, dissipative manners.
Whoever finds himself socially constrained is never himself and cannot love, as he’s conditioned; overwhelmed one by comparisons and external needs.
A new authenticity of woman and man, no longer identified in roles and characters to be played and compared, but autonomous and realized by a personal Call.
Not attracted ones by the combination of culture-devotion-power-interest, but fascinated by the Wisdom that dwells in every slight and small Uniqueness.
So free and unambitious, they can willingly stoop to the less fortunate. Without intimate dissociation.
A new face of society, one that is neither competitive nor the prerogative of the cunning, interest groups, or circles, but characterised by the exchange of ‘gifts’.
Conviviality of the differences that accentuates and lets life flourish, of each and every one.
In short, we are not a typology of eternal failures.
The Father wants people who travel towards themselves, and dreams a humanizing Family.
Lovable, because He doesn’t absorb our energies, but rather transmits them.
Holy Saturday, Burial of the Lord [April 19, 2025]
