Jul 22, 2025 Written by 

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Treasure and Pearl - forms of interiority

(Mt 13:44-46)

 

Jesus does not want to make us poor poor, but Allies. His Presence completes and realizes us by Name; not in a negative sense, but in a full capacity.

The choice or "renunciation" He asks for, is not about options any. He does not make what is not worth protrude. That's why He does not belittle us.

And the total Word is the real deal.

A hidden Treasure that must first be hidden again (v.44)!

We realize that we have only partially seen of it; there is still much more to discover.

It’s not something verifiable immediately and completely.

Warning: we have to hide it again!

Here is the whole game, because such Splendor doesn’t belong to the rituals of folklore, or to the contour duties, that would make us prisoners.

In fact, the spring to get out of the cliché, the protocol, the pack ways, becomes an opportunity to discover something new.

The authentic Kingdom will not be intrusive: it doesn’t demand membership - under penalty of exclusions. It delivers other messages, transmutative from within.

We can grasp it in our roots, because it corresponds to the complete life project that inhabits us and mysteriously we intuit our own.

We understand: it makes us look forward, it makes us feel good. It makes us discover other worlds, and our own Core; beyond the problems that are gripping.

This is where the unexplainable, works.

The insecure becomes a determined person, the loser is transformed by grace into wise.

We understand that welcoming the springing Logos and corresponding to one’s personal Vocation will not be terrifying, but regenerating.

 

Who will shift his thoughts, will bet everything, and will bring out his essence.

In ancient times «Pearls» were the most precious and splendid things: in short, man is in search of Beauty as a meaning of life and of his own personality.

But who is the really charming man who lives completely, not epidermal?

Before Matthew allowed himself to be made an apostle, he assumed that his invaluable Diamond was the hoarding. And he has to change his mind.

Saul imagined that the boundless Gem - the authenticity of man - was the inappuntability of his practices and ideas.

God’s free Gift has urged both in the Quest for the Precious Pearl: what is delicious, fraternal, donative, lovable and not to be missed.

The preciousness of the Gospel, the valuable Uniqueness of Faith in Christ, his authentic Kingdom, are the true Capital that makes us happy.

The most beautiful unforeseen of the genuine Church: that has nothing to do with the fiction of identifications - inattentive to humanization - nor with the inculcated appearance of the many external things.

In this way, the people of the sons generated to new life will find wealth already in the being of things, in the furrows of history; from the soul, and in trials.

 

Out of concealment, out of patient silence, out of sudden reality, come understandings, empathies, spontaneous correspondences.

Voices that can come to us, to change life and make it unpredictable.

Exceptional Encounters tell the soul: we are not only the hardships that afflict us.

But those events, one must know how to wait for them.

 

 

[Wednesday 17th wk. in O.T.  July 30, 2025]

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don Giuseppe Nespeca

Giuseppe Nespeca è architetto e sacerdote. Cultore della Sacra scrittura è autore della raccolta "Due Fuochi due Vie - Religione e Fede, Vangeli e Tao"; coautore del libro "Dialogo e Solstizio".

While the various currents of human thought both in the past and at the present have tended and still tend to separate theocentrism and anthropocentrism, and even to set them in opposition to each other, the Church, following Christ, seeks to link them up in human history, in a deep and organic way [Dives in Misericordia n.1]
Mentre le varie correnti del pensiero umano nel passato e nel presente sono state e continuano ad essere propense a dividere e perfino a contrapporre il teocentrismo e l'antropocentrismo, la Chiesa invece, seguendo il Cristo, cerca di congiungerli nella storia dell'uomo in maniera organica e profonda [Dives in Misericordia n.1]
Jesus, however, reverses the question — which stresses quantity, that is: “are they few?...” — and instead places the question in the context of responsibility, inviting us to make good use of the present (Pope Francis)
Gesù però capovolge la domanda – che punta più sulla quantità, cioè “sono pochi?...” – e invece colloca la risposta sul piano della responsabilità, invitandoci a usare bene il tempo presente (Papa Francesco)
The Lord Jesus presented himself to the world as a servant, completely stripping himself and lowering himself to give on the Cross the most eloquent lesson of humility and love (Pope Benedict)
Il Signore Gesù si è presentato al mondo come servo, spogliando totalmente se stesso e abbassandosi fino a dare sulla croce la più eloquente lezione di umiltà e di amore (Papa Benedetto)
More than 600 precepts are mentioned in the Law of Moses. How should the great commandment be distinguished among these? (Pope Francis)
Nella Legge di Mosè sono menzionati oltre seicento precetti. Come distinguere, tra tutti questi, il grande comandamento? (Papa Francesco)
The invitation has three characteristics: freely offered, breadth and universality. Many people were invited, but something surprising happened: none of the intended guests came to take part in the feast, saying they had other things to do; indeed, some were even indifferent, impertinent, even annoyed (Pope Francis)
L’invito ha tre caratteristiche: la gratuità, la larghezza, l’universalità. Gli invitati sono tanti, ma avviene qualcosa di sorprendente: nessuno dei prescelti accetta di prendere parte alla festa, dicono che hanno altro da fare; anzi alcuni mostrano indifferenza, estraneità, perfino fastidio (Papa Francesco)
Those who are considered the "last", if they accept, become the "first", whereas the "first" can risk becoming the "last" (Pope Benedict)
Proprio quelli che sono considerati "ultimi", se lo accettano, diventano "primi", mentre i "primi" possono rischiare di finire "ultimi" (Papa Benedetto)
St Clement of Alexandria commented: “Let [the parable] teach the prosperous that they are not to neglect their own salvation, as if they had been already foredoomed, nor, on the other hand, to cast wealth into the sea, or condemn it as a traitor and an enemy to life, but learn in what way and how to use wealth and obtain life” (Who is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved, 27, 1-2) [Pope Benedict]
Così commenta San Clemente di Alessandria: «La parabola insegni ai ricchi che non devono trascurare la loro salvezza come se fossero già condannati, né devono buttare a mare la ricchezza né condannarla come insidiosa e ostile alla vita, ma devono imparare in quale modo usare la ricchezza e procurarsi la vita» (Quale ricco si salverà?, 27, 1-2) [Papa Benedetto]

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