Time is short
The common thread that binds and gives thematic unity to the three readings for this Sunday is that of time.
- "Yet forty days ... (First reading).
- ' The time now is short ... (Second reading).
- "The time has come ... "(Gospel).
God in today man
The Bible, the revelation of the transcendent God, opens and closes with temporal annotations, "In the beginning God created ..." (Genesis 1:1); "Yes, I will soon "(Revelation 22:20). In it, God is not caught in a timeless and abstract, in its essence eternal, as with the Greek philosophers, but in his speeches in today man, making the world a story of divine history.
in human time overlap two aspects: governed by the cycles of nature (cosmic time) and that is punctuated by the flow of events (historical time).
The historical time in the mentality of the Bible is punctuated by the great God's interventions in history, so that the history of the world becomes a story of salvation. This story
salt difficulty in successive stages, to Christ who is the culmination and the final outlet. Christ was aware of this when at the beginning of his preaching expressly declares: "The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is near ..." (Gospel). With him came the "fullness of time". He introduces the history and the final element discriminant so we can say ... the first time.
"Before you were without Christ, strangers from the covenants of promise ..." (Eph 2:12). "Now he has now reconciled by the death of his body of flesh" (Col 1:22).
With Jesus the definitive event has occurred but has not yet brought all its fruits. The "last days" are only opened: since its resurrection, they expand and become "life of the Church." That is why the kingdom of God has both a present and eschatological dimension.
The conversion to the gospel of Jesus Christ is every man for a change of era, a transition from present to future world from ancient time that goes to ruin, the new time that is heading towards the full manifestation.
The importance of "time of the Church" comes from the fact that it makes this transition: it is "on time", the "day of salvation" (2 Cor 6:2).
time who "do not have time"
Christ's victory over death is pushing boundaries of time and space. Christ makes a demystification of the time against the ideas that had deified, cosificato the incessant and uncontrollable flow of the seasons. The victory over death creates a time and a place for man to man: time and space construction of identity and the identity of the whole human community.
A "time for the man" is not only a gift: it must also be conquered. But the search for ever-shorter production times, the inability to stop the car faster as a symbol of power, the inability to control the course of events, the frantic need to upgrade in order to feel from one day to overcome 'otherwise, may be symptoms of a new man's submission to time. A running back.
time eats man
Some people are already too tired from walking, there are those who suddenly found himself on the edge, almost useless debris, some people were blown away from the gear name: elderly, chronically ill, handicapped, schizophrenic. The technological society has no time for them, because they are in the process of production. For them, we build nursing homes, hospitals, homes for the elderly.
The important thing is that do not impede the path. Time of nausea and sadness for the marginalized, for those who can be a "burden". Elder desire to get rid of or attempts at persuasion by relatives in the nursing home that "everything is for him: the dregs of society to become" community therapy "in which the patient is cured without cutting it off from the social fabric in which they live.
Christ is always present in his Church
From the Constitution "Sacrosanctum Concilium of Vatican II on the Liturgy (Nos. 7-8. 106)
Christ is always present in his Church, especially in liturgical . And 'present in the Sacrifice of the Mass both in the person of the minister, "He who, once offered on the cross, still offers himself for the ministry of priests," so much, and in the highest degree, under the Eucharistic species. And 'there with her power in the sacraments, so that when a man baptizes it is Christ who baptizes. E ' present in his word since it is he himself who speaks when the Church reads the Scriptures. And 'this then when the Church prays and sings the saints, for He promised: "Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in their midst" (Mt 18, 20).
In this so great, which is made with a perfect glory to God and men are sanctified, Christ always associates the Church with himself, his beloved wife, who begs him as his Lord and through him to make the worship to the Eternal Father.
Rightly so the liturgy is considered as the exercise of the priesthood of Jesus Christ in it, by sensible signs, and is meant, in a proper way, made the sanctification of man and is exercised by the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, the Head and his members, public worship and complete.
that every liturgical celebration, because it is of Christ the Priest and of His Body, the Church is a sacred action par excellence, and no other action of the Church, the same title and the same can equal its efficacy.
In the earthly liturgy we take part in a foretaste of that heavenly liturgy which is celebrated in the holy city of Jerusalem toward which we journey as pilgrims, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God, a minister of the sanctuary and the true tabernacle. Along with the multitude of the heavenly choirs sing to the Lord the hymn of glory; venerating the memory of the saints, we hope to have some share in their plight and eagerly await the Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ, until he appears, our lives, and we appear with him in glory.
According to the apostolic tradition, which originated from the same day of the resurrection of Christ, the Church celebrates the paschal mystery every eighth day, in what is appropriately called the "Lord's Day 'or' Sunday '. In this day Christ's faithful are to hold meetings to hear the word of God and participate in the Eucharist, thus calling to mind the passion, resurrection and glory of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God who "Has begotten living hope of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead" (1 Pt 1, 3). Sunday is therefore paramount that the party must be offered and taught the devotion of the faithful, so that it is also a day of joy and rest from work. Not the other celebrations are prepended, unless we are of the utmost importance, because Sunday is the foundation and kernel of the whole liturgical year.
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