Prophetic ardour, Salvation that does not repeat
(Lk 1:57-66.80)
Salvation - the cue for a full existence - runs through increasingly vast spaces and breaks into in a peremptory way, without ever repeating itself.
It doesn’t ask for authoritative permits, nor does it wait for a beautiful swept and adorned dwelling.
It even enters the House (Israel) in which nothing was done but to commemorate, with no possibility of renewal and progress.
It transforms it, though scented with incense and pureness.
In that context, unfortunately, the Waiting had become a habit [to wait] that no longer expected anything.
The announcement of the new times, conversely, arouses contagious joys, a desire to make and affect the ancient habitual enclosure - in all aspects of mentality, suddenly no longer compliant.
Change ushers in an era of redemption: concretely, a life as people saved.
Trajectory now able to open loop holes on the great wall of conventions that bridle the freedom to be and to do.
Zechariah [«God makes memory»: the usual God and the usual memory] generates a Promise that is being fulfilled before the eyes.
Word-event that really visits the people - here and now, every dawn - imposing the «none of your kinship» (v.61) ie of the custom: here is Johanan [«God has made Grace»].
The Merciful Living One is no longer exactly that of the bloody and propitiatory cults at the Temple - but of the perspectives, of the deployed horizons.
You find lightness. No conditioning blockage, no guilt sense for having diverted. In His proposals for dilated life, He is and remains «Favourable».
The Name to be imposed by ancient tradition conveyed a culture and a role (even) with sacred accents, reassuring.
By changing it, destiny is modified. Thus we doesn’t fall into a garment, in a part to be recited; we grasp the essence of the expected Face.
The Eternal is not the One who invites to a series of identified roles to trace without respite: his unconditional initiatives offer every day a decisive field’s opening.
The Most High creates, and calls for development, for the better and further: the categories of possibilities are overflown!
The ancient barriers between Heaven and Earth, between Tradition and Manifestation, are about to fall in favor of a world prone to life.
Redemption begins to make sparks with textbook choices: they can't stand each other anymore.
Even in our journey, accepting different horizons from the expected we allow the divine soul of salvation history to visit us.
This is so that the essence of our deep states detaches itself from the common judgment, and re-tunses on how much is still Unknown but we feel it belongs to us.
In each shift of gaze we will find another cosmos, a discreet, reserved Beauty - in which the Secret for each is nestled, a stage of complete realization for all.
Fulfilment is now «fortified in Spirit and in deserts» instead of according to manners and measure - in special places (v.80) from which one can push oneself out, even irregularly.
[Weekday Liturgy, December 2023]
