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Faith, caricatures and Footsteps of the Son

(Lc 9,57-62)

 

For Semites, parental figures indicate the link with ethnicity, tradition, past and cultural environment.

Jesus seems to exclude the correlation to such figures, although he addresses his own intimates in an exclusive and singular way.

He never speaks of fathers, but about the Father - who is not a repeater.

Therefore he imposes on everyone a horizontal cut with the customs that could delay or condition his Call, the profound discovery of the meaning of events, the rise of a new mentality, the Dishipleship.

He diversifies Vocations, to make everyone understand the intimate character, by Name, of the relationship of Covenant in the Faith - which he does not depersonalize.

Symbiosis with the surrounding mentality or intellectual knowledge itself can paradoxically obscure precisely the intelligence of the unrepeatable inclinations that in our interior manifest the incomparable signature of the Creator.

The authentic Appeal grasps woman and man in an exclusive, penetrating way, in the uniqueness of their experience.

Sometimes the best thing to do for yourself and your neighbor is to cut an umbilical cord, and take a step back from the expectations of people you usually attend.

Always attending the same conformist environments, we identify ourselves in roles, labels, characters and situations: the center of expectations and dreams is blocked.

The doors of other worlds, of another kingdom, are not opened.

Personality wants its space of autonomy, because life in fullness is experiencing a fresh cascade of rebirth in Christ - celebrating together, but standing on one’s own legs.

Jesus is peremptory, because the choice is decisive.

Those who remain with their heads down or backwards - or in confrontation - cannot experience the adventure of Faith. They doesn’t live, but drag along the religion of the dead.

Who is only in the future and has no sense of reality, experiences illusions. But those who stay in the past or with models, are with the skeletons and do not perceive the sense of change.

Behind the main lines of the personality of each is hidden a Pearl, which in order to make significant contributions according to the Lord’s Plan must manifest its very unique nuances.

Over time, compromise becomes a habitus that makes natural trends lose: but the chromosomes of the Vocation are nested in them.

The suggestion of the forms to be perpetuated or overcome at all costs, the snare of narrow judgments, the bonds of circles, can take away from us the hidden wealth.

Self-referential configurations wich steal the present, and future: this is the real mistake to avoid!

What matters is not to restore the situation, copy the ancients or the acclaimed and strongs à la page, identify yourself to be sure and not make mistakes, but renew yourself to evolve, grow, expand, amaze.

Otherwise our clumsy problems will always be identical and there will be no exuberant Way nor Promised Land, but only a vicious circle of regrets or false reassurances.

To live the Faith of the real moment one cannot be repeating schoolchildren of the place or fashions, of the time or the day before.

 

 

[Wednesday 26th wk. in O.T.  October 1st, 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".

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