Lk 19:1-10
At that time, Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. And here is a man named Zacchaeus, chief tax collector and rich, trying to see who Jesus was, but he could not because of the crowd because he was small in stature. So he ran ahead and see him, he climbed a sycamore, was to pass beyond. When he reached the place, Jesus looked up and said, "Zacchaeus, come down quickly, for today I must stay at your house." He hurried down and welcomed him with joy. Seeing this, all complained: "He went to stay at a sinner." But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord: "Behold, Lord, I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, restore it fourfold." Jesus said, "Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham, the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost."
COMMENT
down. This is the exact opposite of all our momentum. Imagine if, once you get something, a goal, an outcome, or whatever, we want to get off. Leave it alone. Absolutely impossible. But it was indeed down, leaving the position achieved and be guided by an Other. Let another to lead the ranks of our lives. Just because it is seeking Zacchaeus to see Christ. And 'He-who-was intended to be always on the move in search of the lost. Zacchaeus precisely. Get off the projects from their own ideas and letting the Lord. Just in these days where trouble even thinking of ideas have not lined up: all beliefs have equal right by golly.
But with the Lord no. It 'just the opposite, in terms of personal salvation or sanctification. E 'groped in vain to climb, to break away from the crowd: wasted effort. Why I need to get Jesus is risen to our feet too high. Our perfect and true joy comes from listening His voice full of compassion that brings us down, in reality and in the total abandonment of children into the arms of the Father.
Its called freedom of the heart to return until all we had stolen and defrauded: the love the brothers. Love is the sweetest fruit of the free enjoyment of those who is loved by the Lord.
Comments (2)
The Lord must pass right by our parties. The Lord must stay in our house. Today. Why then trying to run before? scale because the story unable to accept our smallness and inadequacy? He knows everything. He knows us. He knows our name, as appears clearly in the Gospel of this Sunday when, amazingly, Jesus called Zacchaeus by name. He knows perfectly well where we appollaiamo waiting to find out who is this God who disrupts the lives.
He loves us, anyway, regardless. For this he needs, driven by an uncontrollable explosion of love, come and stay, and stay at our house. We invent ways and climbing trees to try to see him, and he, trampling on the very real ground of our lives, have to come to our house. And there's no time to tidy up, sweeping, there is no time to prepare the meeting. He anticipates there. Always.
Only His Word can change, even today, our lives: "Come down here." Back to you, part of the truth and not fear. Jesus wants to be with us, with me, with you. Nothing else matters. Past, present, future, everything is enclosed in a word of love: "Fear not, get off, I love you as you are. I've always loved." Now, immediately, without delay, there is another who asked to descend from the dreams and alienated from the joints and accept His love exactly where we are. Follow the path that makes us fall from the tree on which, as Adam and Eve, we have stretched out my hand drawn by deception under which we would become like god, walk, step by step, the path that leads down into the waters of baptism as the catechumens in the early church, ran the catechumenate. Get
agrees that today because Christ is still home to all of us. Agrees with us and the world. Agrees because his love is capable of transforming a heart that has used all by itself - friends, sex, money, work, boyfriends and family - in your heart to give oneself, to lose his life living the same life of Christ. Your love it can transform and transfigure all of us, make our life agape, a unique and intense act of love, like Zacchaeus, and we loved turned into a generous lover. Reconciled with God, the public sees renewed and reconciled even their lives, and where sin had abounded with fraud, theft and reports selfish and greedy, now grace abounds, which is to return the stolen goods over all law and justice.
encounter with Christ, life is remedied in the very roots, the reports maintained and reconciled, and in the light of His love and wisdom of the Cross which opens horizons, look at its history without fear. When the Lord enters and stops in our home the fruits of the Passover not long in coming here is reconstructed families, friendships that become gradually well and honest, chaste courtships. Where comes the Lord all found the original and authentic. Zacchaeus returns disproportionately the work disproportionate means of grace. There is no law that takes! There is much that can moralism, because the act has always followed the be: "Ethics is a consequence of being: first, the Lord gives us a new being, this is the great gift, being above the ' act and this is then followed the act, as an organic reality, because what we are, we can be even in our business. And so we thank the Lord that he has removed us from the pure morality, we can not obey a law that is source to us, but we just have to act according to our new identity. So obedience is no longer an external thing, but a realization of the gift of new being ... We thank God that He goes before us, gives us what we need to give us, and then we can be, in truth and strength of our new being, actors of his reality "(Benedict XVI, Lectio Divina with the seminarians, the Roman Seminary Chapel Maggiore, February 12, 2010).
Being in Christ, as it was for Zacchaeus, who welcomed him in his house - in its intimacy, in his things in his mind and soul you might say - is to act as Christ, because love is free of God who opens her heart dramatically. It pushes the child to return to reconcile with her parents, her husband to humiliate his wife in front of her, the friend the friend became an enemy to love as it is, each of us into their history to return , to do justice, or to let Grace operates out of proportion according to the justice of the Cross.
fact, "Today salvation has come to this house," the Lord is entered in the privacy of Zacchaeus, as in ours, as in the community, the Church, and shed its fragrant scent, the oil which is the anointed Messiah, Saviour, the Holy Spirit that transforms the house of Zacchaeus in the bowels of mercy. Has therefore taken in the same depths of love, like the Church always in code, as each of us. Jesus, in their desire to stay with Zacchaeus, has attracted the same desire. The desire of Jesus created in Zacchaeus desire. The go to Jesus Zacchaeus Zacchaeus has raised going to look and look to Jesus, desire and longing, love, and love.
Here is hidden the secret of Christianity, the impressive new port in the world. The search for Zacchaeus has resulted in discovering itself be, in advance, Jesus tried to search to see who Jesus was and ended the encounter with the gaze of Jesus that he was looking for. Jesus saw Zacchaeus and this changed his life. "I think that those who became touched by this mystery, which God has revealed and has pierced the veil of the temple, showed its face, is a source of permanent joy. We can only say:" Thank you. Yes, now we know who you are, who God is and how to respond to Him. "And I think that this joy of knowing God who has revealed himself, showed up to the close of his being, also means the joy of communication: who has understood this, lives touched from this reality ... The mission is not something external addition to faith, but it is the dynamism of the faith itself. Who has seen, who he met Jesus, must go from friends and must say to friends: "We found him, Jesus who was crucified for us" (Benedict XVI, idem ...) . Be with the Lord is all: when Jesus called the Twelve was mainly because they were alone with him then, and as a result and consequence, to preach.
Thus the Lord, the house of Zacchaeus and torn regained the power of the devil, and finally became his own home, you make every word of the old law, that "but I say" born of a justice that exceeds that of the Pharisees, the measure boundless love of God, which places the forgiveness and mercy where none would have even dared to hope. His love evokes the grumbling scandalizzante executioners in the flesh, the moralists who pretend to make the law creating the precepts that do not exceed the limits, and despise the other. His love death rather recreates everything seemed lost, in a splendid ever known. Zacchaeus is the fruit of love that has conquered death, which has multiplied the loaves and fishes, which calmed storms, which healed bleeding, leprosy, blindness and deafness. Zacchaeus is the old man and found lost and recreated the image of its Creator. Zacchaeus is the image of anyone who is touched by grace, transformed into a son of Heaven. In him the law is outdated and made love that gives us life in abundance and to live in a joy that goes beyond all hope and expectation.
For this reason, the sign of the refund and the gift of money multiplied by the poor, we see the fruit of the encounter with the Lord that everything is now transformed. But the gift of Zacchaeus is the result of the anticipated gift of God's gift Zacchaeus is the result of per- gift of God: " the real news is not what we do, the real news is what has made him: the Lord has given himself and the Lord has given us the real news to be members of his own into his body. So, the novelty is the gift, great gift, and the gift, by the novelty of the gift, following the new act. "In Zacchaeus, as in all of us, there is also a first ontological level where" we are united with Him, that gave us in advance himself, has already given us his love, the fruit. Do not we who must produce great fruit, Christianity is not a moral lesson, is not we who must do what God expects from the world, but must first join this ontological mystery: God gives himself. His being, his love precedes our actions and, in the context of his body, in the context of being in him, identified with him, covered with his blood, we too can act with Christ "(Benedict XVI, idem ...).
In Zacchaeus and anyone who makes his own life was crucial experience into a generous gift that brings joy and filled every moment because" the True justice does not consist in obedience to certain rules, but is love, creative love, which finds itself the richness, abundance of good. Abundance is one of the terms of the New Testament, God always gives abundantly. To create man, this creates an abundance of immense cosmos, to redeem man gives himself, gives himself in the Eucharist. And who is united with Christ, lives by this law, it asks: "I can still do this or not?", "I have to do this or not?", But he lives in the enthusiasm of love that question: "this is still required or prohibited," but, simply, creativity, love, wants to live with Christ and for Christ and give all of himself to him and thus enter into the joy of bearing fruit, it is the dynamism that lives in the love of Christ to go, that is, not left alone for me, see my perfection, to ensure for me eternal happiness, but forget myself, as Christ is going to go ... The more we are filled with the joy of having discovered the face of God, the more the enthusiasm of love e noi sarà reale in goalkeeper frutto "(Benedict XVI, idem ...)
Gospel St. Luke 19:1-10.
J esus entered Jericho and was going through the city.
There lived a very rich man named Zacchaeus, who was chief of the publicans.
He wanted to see who Jesus was but could not because of the crowd, because it was short.
then went ahead and a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way.
At that place, Jesus looked up and said, "Zacchaeus, come down, because today I have to stay at your house."
Zacchaeus came down quickly and received him joyfully.
Seeing this, they all murmured, saying, "He's gone to stay in the house of a sinner." Zacchaeus
But the Lord said resolutely: "Lord, I give half my goods to the poor, and if I hurt someone, I will give four times more."
And Jesus said, "Today salvation has come to this house, and also this man is a son of Abraham,
for the Son of Man came to seek and to save was lost. "
COMMENT
Download. This is the exact opposite in our momentum. Do not mention it if, having achieved something, a goal, a result or that that is, we would wins down and quits. Absolutely unacceptable. And yet this is just going down, leaving the position gained and be driving a Another . Let be a driving Other threads our lives. Simply because initially Zacchaeus was not the one who has tried to see Christ. It is he who - always - has been on the road to search for who estava lost. Zacchaeus, precisely. Download project, our own ideas and let the Lord. Just at this time when all the convictions have quale egual right and value, dammit!.
But with the Lord. With the exact opposite, also the subject of personal salvation or sanctification. It is useless to try to ride, to depart from the mass: fatigue wasted. Because it takes off: Jesus is at our feet up uploads too. The perfect our true happiness flows from listening to his voice full of mercy brings us back down, in reality, and total abandonment, the children in the arms of the Father.
Your call released heart to return everything to steal and disappointed: the love of the brethren. Love is the sweetest fruit of the joy of who is the Lord wanted for free.
COMMENT (2)
Mr. has to go right of our parts. The Lord has to stop at our house. Today. So why run around trying to precede it? Why climb the story unable to accept our smallness and inadequacy? He knows everything. He knows us. He knows our name, as appears clearly in the Gospel of this Sunday when, surprisingly, Jesus called Zacchaeus by name. He knows exactly where we hoped we posed in discover this God who is stir us stocks.
And more, He wants us always and in any case, without. Therefore He must , driven by an uncontrollable outburst of love, come and be and stay in our house. We invent ways and climbing trees to try to see, and He, stepping on the actual ground of our lives, driven by duty coming to our house. And no time to tidy up, sweeping, no time to prepare the meeting. The ahead of us and amazes us. Always.
only His Word can change, also today, our life, " low. " Back at you, back to the truth and not fear. Jesus wants to be with us, me, you. Does not have otherwise. Past, present, future, everything is contained in a word of love: "Fear not available, I love you so as you are. I've always wanted." Now, immediately, without delay, but not anything we've asked to get off the leakage sueñs and alienating, and accept His love exactly where we be. The path that makes us descend from the tree on which, as Adam and Eve, we reached out attracted by deception according to the qual we would become like god, walk, step after step, the path that leads down to the waters of baptism, as catetecumenos, in the early Church, toured the catechumenate. Download
why Christ should now stand in the house of every one of us. It us and the world. It is because their love can transform a heart that has used all by itself - friends, sex, money, work, boyfriends and family - in a heart capable of giving, of losing our life to live the life of Christ. His love can transform and transfigure effect all of us, making our life a agape, a unique and intense act of love, like Zacchaeus, and therefore wanted to become a generous lover. Reconciled with God, the collector is also renewed and reconciled his life and where sin had abounded with fraud, theft and relationships selfish and rapacious, the bursting Grazia now, which makes returning the abstracted beyond every law and justice.
encounter with Christ in life is sound even in the Rajec, relationships healed and reconciled, and, in light of his love and wisdom of the Cross which opens up different horizons, we can not look at our history without fear. When the Lord comes and stops at our house the fruits of Easter will not wait: stepfamilies, friendships made gradually free and fair, chaste courtship. Where comes the Lord is all original and authentic meaning. Zacchaeus returns so disproportionate to mean the work disproportionate of Grazia. Law No need! No moralism that can, because the act be always follows the " Ethics is a result of being: first the Lord gives us a new being, this is the great gift, to be preceded by acting as this being is then acting as an organic reality, that what we can be also in our business. Therefore, let us thank the Lord for us has brought the pure moralism, we can not obey a law that is before us, but we only act on our new identity. Therefore, obedience is not something outside, but a realization of the gift of new being ... Let us thank the Lord that he goes before us, gives us everything we need to give us, and we can be later in the truth and the strength of our new being agents of their reality. "(Benedict XVI, Lectio guess with seminarians, Roman Major Seminary Chapel, 12 February 2010). Being in Christ, as it has for Zacchaeus who has accepted it in his house - their privacy, their things, their spirit, in his mind and soul you might say - making them act like Christ, because it is the unconditional love of God that the heart swells with excess. And push the child return to reconcile with the parents, the husband to the woman to humble himself before her, the friend to friend for wanting to become an enemy as it is, every one of us into our history to return , to do justice, or to let so BOUT Grazia disproportionate justice according to Cross.
In fact, "Today salvation has come into this house," the Lord has come into the privacy of Zacchaeus, as in ours, as in that of the community, the Church, and has spread their fragrant perfume, oil that the Messiah is anointed Saviour, the Holy Spirit transforms the house of Zacchaeus in bowels of mercy. Zacchaeus welcomed because it has always been welcomed in the bowels of love of God as the Church every day in conversion, as each of us. Jesus, wanting to be with Zacchaeus has hogged the same desire. The desire of Jesus Zacchaeus has created desire. The walk of Jesus has moved towards Zacchaeus Zacchaeus walk toward the Lord. Look and look, I wish and desire, love and love.
Here is the secret of Christianity, novelty impressive leading the world. Searching Zacchaeus was found to be wanted by the Lord. The quest to see who was Jesus has done in his own eyes that he was looking for. Zacchaeus had seen Jesus and that he had changed his life. "I think he has been left untouched by this mystery, that God has revealed, has torn the veil of the temple, showed its face, is a source of permanent joy. We can only say:" Thanks. Yes, we know who you are, who God is and how to respond to it. "And I think that this joy of knowing God has been manifested, revealed to his inner being, implies also the joy of communicating: who has understood this She lives touched by this reality ... The mission is not added externally to the faith, but the dynamics of faith itself. Anyone who has seen, who has found Jesus, you must go and tell his friends: "What we found is Jesus, crucified for us." (Benedict XVI, idem ...). be with the Lord is all: when Jesus called the Twelve, was first to be with , then, therefore, as a result, to go and evangelize.
So the Lord in the house of Zacchaeus, recaptured and removed from the power of the devil and finally their turn to be same dwelling, meets every word of the Old Law, those "but I say" that flow from a righteousness that exceeds that of the Pharisees, the immeasurable extent of God's love, which deposed the forgiveness and mercy which would not have dared not wait. His love always shocked murmurs and stirs the executioners of the flesh, the moralists who claim to enforce the law by human rules and despise the other. His love instead death recreates everything seemed lost in a blaze ever known. Zacchaeus is the fruit of love that overcomes death, which has multiplied loaves and fishes, which has calmed storms, which has been cleaned up bleeding, leprosy, blindness and deafness. Zacchaeus is the old man looked lost and recreated in the image of his Creator. Zacchaeus is the image of whoever is, touched by Grazia, become a child of Heaven. In Zacchaeus is overcome and fulfilled the law in the love that gives life in abundance and makes living a joy that goes far beyond every hope and expectation.
Therefore, in the sign of the refund and the gift of money to the poor increased, podem see the fruit of an encounter with the Lord is that everything is transcended. But the gift of Zacchaeus is anticipated fructo gift of God. The gift is the fructo per-gift of God: " the real news is not what we do, the real innovation is what makes him the Lord has given us his person, and the Lord has given us the true novelty of being members of it in your body .... Therefore, the innovation is the gift, great gift, and gift, novelty gift, is also the act again. "In Zacchaeus, as each of us in fact is a first ontological level where "we are in him that has given him in advance, has already given us his love, Christianity is a moralism, is not we who must do what God expected of the world, but that above all we must enter this ontological mystery: God gives himself. Life, his love precedes our actions and in the context of his body, in the context of being in it, identified with him, ennobled by his blood, we too can act with Christ . "(Benedict XVI, idem ...). So
in Zacchaeus and all that do the same, crucial experience, life is transformed into a generous gift that gives joy to every moment because " true justice is not an obedience to certain rules, but is love, love creative that alone is wealth, the abundance of good. Abundance is one of the key words of the New Testament, God always gives abundantly. To create man, created this wealth of a vast cosmos, to redeem man gives himself in the Eucharist gives himself. And who is in Christ living in this Act, no question, "I can still do this or I can not?", "Should I or should not do this", but lives in the excitement of love that question: " this is still necessary or is forbidden ", but simply on the creativity of love, wants to live with Christ and for Christ and surrender himself totally to him and thus enter into the joy the fruit. It is the dynamism that lives in the love of Christ, go, ie not stay just for me, see my perfection, ensuring eternal happiness, but forget myself, going as Christ was ... The more full of the joy we have found the face of God, the more the love is real enthusiasm in us and bear fruit. "(Benedict XVI, idem ...)
I received this from the same Claudia trovaforbici with beads and pink linen, all very elegant in my opinion by adding ribbons and faded piece of green linen. 
I was lucky eh? the next swap ... 
