(Mk 12:35-37)
«And the large crowd listened to him gladly» (v.37). For what reason, despite the dangerous contention with the acknowledged teachers?
The scribes claimed that the Messiah was an exceptionally remarkable man, but not endowed with divine status.
It was necessary to go deeper into the common idea about the ancient Promises.
So the new Rabbi asks the official experts why king David calls him «Lord» - if he was only supposed to be his 'son'.
Everyone admitted that the Messiah would be a descendant of the prestigious ruler.
Yet, for the Master, the blood bond or the imperial dream do not exhaust the identity of the Coming One; far from it, they deflect it.
Within this horizon, we too are called to thoroughly reconsider the Person of Christ.
He is not reducible to congenial proportions - suited to a mentality, or to its external expectations.
In the divine condition that is fullness of humanization, the Risen One does not meet expectations: he exceeds them.
He is not 'son', but Lord of David - and of the soul.
The hoped-for Emmanuel - God With Us - cannot be a catalogued one.
In short, He alone gives divine meaning and depth to all that is man's [of all and every one].
By personal Faith, it is in the horizon of another - alternative - realm that hardships, sufferings and detachments make us grow.
And they can be part of a plan of Mystery that flows into Light.
Our destiny and eminent task do not at all have measures akin to framed, all-too-trivial convictions.
Only by allowing ourselves to be moulded by the all-round journey in Christ do hardships and difficulties not become enemies.
The particular pains we experience are perhaps a sign of our unfulfilled talents.
Unusual resources that we have not listened to and not yet cradled, to which we have not given space.
Encountered, recognised, integrated, invested in an unprecedented way and even different from normal or other people's intentions, these dormant energies will lead to an integral expansion of ideas and horizons, of soul and gestures.
In this way, Mystery and uncommon adventure are needed.
So when weaknesses, hardships, and even discomforts should arise, we know that they do not come to punish or chastise us, but to remind us of a fundamental side.
This, in order to make memorial-factum of an aspect of deep character, and future; archetypal and missional.
To actualize how much of ourselves we have perhaps not yet realized and brought to awareness, because overwhelmed by precisely external factors.
In spite of the gilded cage of artificial certainties all around, and comfortable routines laces, we would miss the Magic, the surprise that makes the heart leap, the decisive Encounter.
A new teaching, even for the Temple.
[Friday 9th wk. in O.T. June 5, 2026]
