Dear friends of the blog in the last few weeks have been engaged in the renovation of the house in Sicily annunciatines here in Castanea. I wanted to experiment with his hands the hard work together with creativity, inventiveness and desire ... to quality that the Lord has given me. During the work I thought the image of Jesus, which was destroyed physically, but with a cane in hand, as something precious, royal scepter, a symbol of divinity has always attracted my attention. They put a reed in his right ( Mt 27, 29 ). The barrel, wood fragile image of weakness is in your hands : into your hands I commend my spirit (Lk 24, 46 ). not break a bruised reed, nor quench a wick the dull flame ( Mt 12, 20 ). You do not put it under your feet, do not take her to her knees to break it and throw it in the fire, but bring it with you as a sign of a love that does not stop even before the derision and the mockery and unites us and brings us to the Father! Our helplessness has value because Jesus is taken away but there transformed (Liturgy) . precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of His faithful ( Ps 116 [115], 15 ). You carry it as a triumph, a trophy, an achievement. You came to earth to take upon Thee human frailty. On you I depend since womb, from my mother's womb You are my support ( Ps 71 [70], 6 ). What did you go to see in the desert? A reed shaken by the wind? ( Lk 7, 24 ). John, who is in prison for his unyielding demand for justice, there is a rod that bends. Contemplating Jesus with a rod in hand, we understand the consequential of his choices and his life, to the radical challenge to the absolute and total self. Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my game upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest for your souls. My game indeed is easy and my burden is light ( Mt 11, 29 - 30 ). The Lord will complete its work for me. Lord, strengthen the work of our hands! ( Ps 138 [137], 8 ). God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world and what is nothing to reduce to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast before God ( 1 Cor 1, 27 - 29 ). took away the reed and struck him on the head ( Mt 27, 30 ). Jesus, you are hit, wrought through our weakness, our weakness, which becomes against you, strength and power of evil. Rest upset, in contemplating your face, the effects of human pride and arrogance that, in you, take the appearance of aggression and violence unleashed. That cane and 'sign of the Cross of Christ which you load and dispersion of the flock. Strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered ( Mk 14, 27 ). Then all the disciples forsook, fled ( Mt 26, 56 ). There scattered, each for its own account and leave me alone ( Jn 16, 32 ). With a rod struck him on the cheek the judge of Israel ( Mk 4, 14 ). I will chasten him with the rod of men, and the shots that give the children of ( Es 15, 17 ). If God rips off our weakness, we are children of God and so we are ( 1 Jn 3 2 )! The human carnage and aggression man walked on and made insecure need to rising refer to the weakness of others. who has experienced the anger of the oppressed, the destructive mania of the downtrodden, the rebellion of the persecuted, can understand the mission of Jesus: preach good news to the poor, proclaim liberty to captives and sight to the blind, to set at liberty the oppressed, to proclaim the year of grace. ( Lk 4, 18 ) Jesus takes upon himself, in the barrel, an image of weakness and pain, every discomfort, every setback and every human rejection. He is the true human development, the sense of pain, raises the royal scepter barrel, rising for the full share of human suffering, making a scapegoat and victim of pranks and insults of trampled earth spewing up Jesus, meek and humble of heart ( Mt 11, 29 ), the bitter cup of their dissatisfaction and violence.
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