Jul 12, 2026 Written by 

‘Foreign’ Prodigies and presumption that makes dull

What about established praises?

(Mt 11:20-24)

 

Whoever enters himself on a path of following Christ, experiences «Prodigies» (vv.20-21.23). Wonders of the Spirit who works, and does not stray from the present; thus preparing the future.

There are those who look at the Lord with the eyes of the past, or with those of a preconceived, theoretical and sophisticated, unreal worldview.

Only the principle of Incarnation [which upsets us] broadens horizons even charismatic ones - and gives breath.

Here in practice, no one needs to remodulate the bottlenecks of the soul.

Our Oasis is paradoxical, and lies in radical passions; in the concert of their flowering that germinates in a crescendo, and does not want to die out.

Because - although rawer than the homologated "film" we see outside of us - it is the internal world that pulsates richer in interests.

So the withered quintessence wants to split the conditionings surface.

It speaks of a present that no longer nourishes us: too much in the head, too much epidermal and distant, incomplete; without added value.

While in the Spirit the heart incessantly desires to change color. The interior is multifaceted, and it really moves us.

Or the whole intimate malaise will write itself in the search for religiosity-spectacle, in adhering to banners [à la page also] or similar little sops.

 

Starting from other people’s common knowledge, we no longer have the codes to interpret the genius of time.

With blinkers one cannot evaluate oneself, nor discover the plot of God in history, nor even the not purely earthly dimension of his Gifts, everywhere extraordinary - even evident in their scope.

This is the only reward of vocation: another Vision and ‘intelligence’ of oneself and of the whole world, which regenerates in a growing rhythm - makes us reborn in less established ways; not too directing.

It is cool to have Faith in the kingdom to come, instead of seeing it black.

Believing only in customs or fashions of thought and taking them for granted does not avoid those mechanisms that make us recede.

 

So, one would allow oneself to be tied in laces, and guide by calculations; to start the personal path not by one’s own Name - but by some synthesis or other people’s science.

Authentic ‘praise’ is in us, and it is only of the Lord.

He is the Only One who turns to «cities» perhaps considered enemies and wicked, yet deprived of those convictions that would block them in another kind of perversion.

Absorbed in the «borning life» we let ourselves be overwhelmed by the germinal energy of this Eros, always unprecedented.

We do not entrust outside - only to breastplates - the spiritual well-being, and our growth.

 

It is not we who conduct Love.

 

 

To internalize and live the message:

 

Do the signs of Jesus in you debase and fall on deaf ears?

Has the reality in which you live saved and built you up [fetching yourself] or homologated you?

 

 

[Tuesday 15th wk. in O.T.  July 14, 2026]

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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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