Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew 5.17 to 37.
I n those days, Jesus told his disciples: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the prophets: I am not come to abolish but to fulfill them. In truth I tell you, until you have passed the heavens and the earth, it will not sign or even an iota from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these precepts, however minimal, and teaches others to do likewise, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. Who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
For I say unto you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
You have heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever murders will be brought to trial.
But I say to every one who is angry with his brother will be judged. And whoever says to his brother, stupid, it will be answerable to the Sanhedrin, and whoever says, 'You fool, shall be in hell fire. Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go first be reconciled to your brother and then come and offer thy gift. Will soon agree with your opponent while you are away with him, because the adversary deliver thee to the judge and the judge to the guard and you will be thrown in jail.
In truth I tell you will never get out until you have paid the last penny!
You have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery but I say to everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
If your right eye causes you to sin, and cast it from thee better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body thrown into Gehenna.
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away: better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
was also said, Whoever divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce;
but I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife except for marital unfaithfulness, adulteress and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
you have heard that the ancients were told: Do not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to the Lord, but I tell you not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God's throne;
or by the earth, because is the footstool of his feet, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king. Do not swear by your head, because you do not have the power to make one hair white or black. Let your speech be yes, yes; no, no more than this comes from evil.
COMMENT
COMPLETION
A clock disassembled and reassembled. A gear, small, microscopic, forgotten. Finished somewhere. A stopped clock that just will not move. Fixed at that time that has nothing to do with the right one. So is our life's mutilated something, someone . Even small, seemingly insignificant. So are our lives oblivious to some moment; those times, these actions and those placed in brackets, maybe thrown in some trash. And slowly, the life, its rhythms, his moments, his face began to lose its meaning. Flow time and we are not tuned. The time that mark our hands is not the "real" and authentic history. They look like a battered ship between the waves, hoping for an unexpected landing. Yet none of us is secondary. None of our life is less important. Everything is holy. Everything is given to us to be done. Filled, according to the literal translation from the greek word of Jesus ("finished", "filled trabocchevolmente).
Our life is a law of holiness. Every moment is like a iota, the smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet, yet important. Decisive to define the meaning of many words often similar, important to illuminate the meaning of sentences. The Yod (iota in Hebrew) is essential to express the future, and it is often necessary to tell the past. However, a past full of the future. A past that awaits fulfillment. "There are two ways to express the past or the verb without the prefix Yod, the task, or the verb with the Yod, all'incompiuto, preceded from another area code that changes made in the unfinished. Why not simply say the task? In order for the past also contains the letter of the future, to indicate that the story is definitely not finished, and that the past contains the seeds of hope "(Marie Vidal, A jew called Jesus , Naples 1998, pag.86). So is our life, a collection of fragments that run on the path of salvation given by God and thought, traces of Yod scattered between the hours of that flow, pregnant for the fulfillment that only Jesus can bring.
And he has to fulfill the thirst for our lives, want every moment of our life, every aspect, even the sins, yes, even those, and the bitterness and suffering, and despair, and anguish. The failures. Jesus thirsts for our vinegar, dell'asprezza of our lives. Of all our lives. On the Cross, drank the vinegar, he bowed his head, he made every word. Last yota, the most bitter, the murderess. He drank. And he died flooding of His Spirit, filled it with his love, whispering "it is finished." This Spirit is the fulfillment . Our lives are for His love. There is nothing to throw. Everything is holy, every event, person, everything is important. Clean the house, studying that matter unbearable, yet another diaper change, the acrid smell of the bus teeming with zombies morning, the boss, the traffic unbearable, economic insecurity, the pain of teeth, lunches, dinners, lunches, the cellulite, height, our eyes, defects, character, everything . Yod Each of our lives can be decisive, and change the course of existence . At any time you hide the mercy of God, His loving face is revealed at any moment and the moment becomes more routine in a source of salvation and joy. He does all of the and makes our lives a symphony of love.
Living life fully is to accept the profound sense that he delivered to all of our time. Even the most painful, the last one that is given to us. Taught us the Pope John Paul II the Great in the Kingdom of Heaven, why did not overlook anything in their lives, no time, no pain. In God showed him how to live, to the end, life, living simply every moment full of Jesus, teaching men, from the chair of the Cross, love God's immense His commandments are His love . It is attentive to every detail, leaving nothing to chance, is concerned about every moment of every aspect of our lives. The eye of God on our lives is evidenced by the seriousness of the road that puts us first, his commandments, the words of life and freedom that span every inch of our existence. His commandments are His own loving look that comes to us moment by moment, situation after situation. Observe, in the pure grace of a life abandoned to the breath of the Holy Spirit, let us in Jesus fulfilled every commandment, and forsake not really mean anything of our lives. Observe way of life of the precepts is our sanctification. The world, this company, lives in a sort of existential illiteracy. Every aspect of life where everyone is an atoll, like Robinson Crusoe, he must learn to live, to set rules, but also must try to eat, enjoy the best possible and that there is satiate. The island of sexuality. The island of labor. The island of money. And then that of family, friends, your body and so on. Everything is disconnected, the days pile up on old galleons in search of life, navigating the island and another, and in each a different face, a different way of being, of understanding. There are too many languages \u200b\u200bto learn, at the end you can not talk anymore. The Babel of pride has confused everything under the brutal dictatorship of relativism. That is God's precepts, attention to particular because the unit is preserved in general are the only salvation, the only possibility for man. " In view of the Old Testament believers, the law itself and the concrete form of grace. For the grace is to know God's will know the will of God is to know oneself is to understand the world, is to know where you go. It also means that we are freed from the darkness of our endless questions, which came to light, without which we can not see and do. "No other people have expressed your will" (J. Ratzinger, The new alliance. On the theology of the covenant in the New Testament in J. Ratzinger, The Church, Israel and the world's religions , San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo, 2000, pagg.27-48).
The fulfillment of which Jesus speaks to us today is precisely the realization of perfect unity within the human life through the fulfillment of the Shema on the Cross. Nailed and pierced Jesus will perform the Torah, even the tiniest fragment of the Law will find its perfect realization. The smaller sign will be made in the smallest drop of blood shed. The Cross is thus fulfilled the Torah. E 'is complete and the creation of man, its beauty is found in integrity of a life that from the fragmentary succession of days and hours dissociated and lost in the mists of a relativism of ideas and options located in the Crucified Christ its axis, the light in which everything finds meaning and fulfillment. "Characteristic of the Messiah, as new and greater Moses, is the fact that he bears the ultimate interpretation of the Torah, upon which the Torah is renewed, because his essence is now fully revealed and the character of grace is undoubtedly as reality. Schlier says about H. in his comment letter to the Galatians: "The Torah of the Messiah Jesus is in fact an" interpretation "of the Mosaic law [...] an" interpretation "by the Cross of Jesus Messiah." His authority "reveals the concept as a key word, as the original appeal, instigator of life, the one who has fulfilled ... The Torah of the Messiah is the Messiah himself, Jesus is thus refers to him the invitation, "you have to listen to him." Thus the "Law" becomes universal, so it is grace, so he founded a people becomes a people just by listening, and translation. In this Torah, which is Jesus himself, what the stone tablets at Sinai is really essential and permanent member now appears in the living flesh: the dual commandment of love, which finds expression in "feelings" that were in Jesus (Philippians 2 , 5). Imitate, follow, and then observe the Torah, he found that in its definitive fullness "(J. Ratzinger, ibid.).
To love God with all your heart and with all your might, with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself: this is the law, it shall be recorded in smaller signs, because love covers all, believes all things, hopes all things. Nothing is forgotten love. Love is not distracted, he also knows the number of hairs on our heads. Loved by such love, crucified with Christ, his feelings and his gaze inscribed within us. Nailed amazing love of Him who loves us unconditionally, as we are. The fulfillment of the Law is our fulfillment . Immersed in mercy, love-soaked, the look and the thought of Christ go at any time, dall'incompiutezza completion. The joy of a life renewed, intact and solid to be lived in fullness. With Him, to eternity.
JUSTICE
justice of the Pharisees was something that depended on themselves. A climb to heaven, and works without the Spirit. The Pharisees of which the Lord speaks to us of living rules set by men to make themselves worthy of God . For this reason they could not accept Jesus, God made man to make man worthy of Him .
God sought out man, until his flesh fell most corrupt to make it a reflection of his glory. The Righteousness of God is to make right the wrong . By sheer grace. For this reason in the words of Jesus seems to emerge on the absurd: a thought you have touched, and how to kill a man. A paradox to mean the poison flowing in the human heart.
If we can not think well do good as we could reach for the sky? The only think we can be good, better with his own forces alone is folly. Worse, it is a heresy, Pelagianism. The truth is that we are sinners and even our righteous deeds are like filthy rags Isaiah warned.
Beggars love , blind side of a life arrabbattata and defeat. Just take a look at our hearts to the Gospel of superimposing today to believe. Masses, prayers, words, advice, look humble, but the heart? What happened to the condominium, the mother-in-law, of that fellow? Killed in the heart, buried and forgotten. And not only that.
The Lord speaks of someone who has something against us. Not necessarily because we've done something wrong. No, "if someone has something against you" clear words. Words that show a watermark, the heart of Christ. We all had angry with him, we nailed to a cross. And he had not done anything, indeed, we had simply loved. But he has left gift to the altar of the Temple, and was made the same offer him, his body as the new Temple, its cross the new altar. He has reminded us all that we had something against him, for that illness, the pain, for that failure.
E 'this is the Righteousness of God, which surpasses the Pharisaic casuistry, the good rules of respect and with which to defend themselves and feel fine.
The Righteousness of God is offered to the enemy, who would not tolerate it, those who slander us, who wants to see us dead. At work, at home, at school, everywhere. It 's a justice that goes beyond the flesh and the law of men. It 's the heart of God who offers himself for love, to undo the wrong, to forgive and rebuild, to stop the hate. And 'God that goes beyond the natural religion of commandments, duties, fear and slavery, and the religiosity that beatific nature and human justice absolutizes believing God. A bit 'of holy water on their criteria on their own righteousness, offering the temple to certify the goodness of their beliefs and their actions. A Mass and then resentful silence at home, so the wife or the husband understands the error. A mass, and then connects the despised and deleted. Volunteer to help elderly and handicapped, and resentment "perfectly right" for the brother or cousin who has stolen one hundred euro legacy of that relative. Handouts, and a case with this building which has dragged on for a lifetime.
All this has nothing to do with Christianity. And 'righteousness of the Pharisees, hypocritical, carnal, murderous soul.
The words of Jesus, the cross is some madness in the eyes and minds carnal. How to kneel Dinaz who betrays us, slander us, sue us. How to ask for forgiveness for what he did not commit. If we apply these words of Jesus to the point where it ends? For it is not worldly wisdom, and has nothing to do with the laws of any state. And 'the Spirit of God's family, the life of the children of God, the cristiani.E' Grace of the Kingdom.
God sought out man, until his flesh fell most corrupt to make it a reflection of his glory. The Righteousness of God is to make right the wrong . By sheer grace. For this reason in the words of Jesus seems to emerge on the absurd: a thought you have touched, and how to kill a man. A paradox to mean the poison flowing in the human heart.
If we can not think well do good as we could reach for the sky? The only think we can be good, better with his own forces alone is folly. Worse, it is a heresy, Pelagianism. The truth is that we are sinners and even our righteous deeds are like filthy rags Isaiah warned.
Beggars love , blind side of a life arrabbattata and defeat. Just take a look at our hearts to the Gospel of superimposing today to believe. Masses, prayers, words, advice, look humble, but the heart? What happened to the condominium, the mother-in-law, of that fellow? Killed in the heart, buried and forgotten. And not only that.
The Lord speaks of someone who has something against us. Not necessarily because we've done something wrong. No, "if someone has something against you" clear words. Words that show a watermark, the heart of Christ. We all had angry with him, we nailed to a cross. And he had not done anything, indeed, we had simply loved. But he has left gift to the altar of the Temple, and was made the same offer him, his body as the new Temple, its cross the new altar. He has reminded us all that we had something against him, for that illness, the pain, for that failure.
E 'this is the Righteousness of God, which surpasses the Pharisaic casuistry, the good rules of respect and with which to defend themselves and feel fine.
The Righteousness of God is offered to the enemy, who would not tolerate it, those who slander us, who wants to see us dead. At work, at home, at school, everywhere. It 's a justice that goes beyond the flesh and the law of men. It 's the heart of God who offers himself for love, to undo the wrong, to forgive and rebuild, to stop the hate. And 'God that goes beyond the natural religion of commandments, duties, fear and slavery, and the religiosity that beatific nature and human justice absolutizes believing God. A bit 'of holy water on their criteria on their own righteousness, offering the temple to certify the goodness of their beliefs and their actions. A Mass and then resentful silence at home, so the wife or the husband understands the error. A mass, and then connects the despised and deleted. Volunteer to help elderly and handicapped, and resentment "perfectly right" for the brother or cousin who has stolen one hundred euro legacy of that relative. Handouts, and a case with this building which has dragged on for a lifetime.
All this has nothing to do with Christianity. And 'righteousness of the Pharisees, hypocritical, carnal, murderous soul.
The words of Jesus, the cross is some madness in the eyes and minds carnal. How to kneel Dinaz who betrays us, slander us, sue us. How to ask for forgiveness for what he did not commit. If we apply these words of Jesus to the point where it ends? For it is not worldly wisdom, and has nothing to do with the laws of any state. And 'the Spirit of God's family, the life of the children of God, the cristiani.E' Grace of the Kingdom.
Christ became sin, like a silent lamb that before its shearers. It has been charged with any crime, is innocent is offered to the gallows. Who belongs to him, those who have experienced the mercy and liberation from the yoke of sin can understand these words of the Lord. Why has experienced in its life, a heavenly justice, a love that no one can offer. It has also experienced this love, that justice has the power to justify, to heal, to recreate, to give evidence, where there was hatred, malice, slander, lies, that same love that bears all, believes all things, endures all things, everything forgive. The charity of Christ, agape that embraces the cross, every man.
We have experienced this justice in our lives? It is not committed to building a new world is, simply, be reconciled with God in Jesus Christ crucified Justice His Justice, the one that shines on the Cross is the only salvation. The only access road to the Kingdom of Heaven. And if we are justified in His mercy, we will of course we look at the many that have erased, forgotten, wounded. To reconcile. This is the Righteousness of God, forgiveness. Always. Without conditions. The sky finally made an agreement with the land. So let our hypocrisy with which we offered to reset the heart. Let us be reconciled in the merciful justice of God in it there remember the many who have it with us, and in Christ who offered himself completely to us, we give ourselves what we offer pleasing to God, kneeling in front of all those who, not knowing the love of God, biting our lives. In all of us will recognize the justice of God and see heaven open wide for a new life, reconciled, pacified. Hold their own positions, close to the mercy of God would be unforgivable, the imposition of a harsh prison, to pay to the last penny.
We run today to reach agreement then, to let crucify by those to whom, the devil has stolen our hope. we have the right to love experienced. It is not something one day. It 's a way a go by, an experience of God's love, insights, generate love and mercy. And 'our way in the Church of God of Justice hungry to show the world a love that surpasses all imagination. The love of God prepared for us today.
LOOK
gaze rises from the heart. That 's where lurks the repository of poisons that cause us suffering. Malizia. Lust. Passion. Eyes and hands are the tools of the heart. They realize that inspires the heart to the mind. Cut, cut the evil motions of the heart. Our struggle everyday. The price is freedom ol'asservimento corruption of dead works. The slavery of sin. A great pagan poet, Sophocles, it depicts the destructive power of 'eros when someone takes over and sweeps away even the righteous: "O Love, you are invincible in battle, or Love, thou that human resources destroy (...) You also drag the souls of the righteous, unjust you make them to their ruin "(Sophocles, Antigone , 781-799). desire to possess, just a glance. How many stained eyes, peek through the windows of the car of sin, from the office desk. Even watching television. And we stumble on the unexpected, anger and nervousness before the winds. A look unclean spot one day. Everything becomes heavy, try the patience and do not find it. And they are paying for wives, husbands, children, colleagues, friends. And all for a look, a chance of stumbling which lets us see the whole life upside down. And divorce, adultery consumed or just thinking. Love infidelity, rejection of the cross. For a look. Just one. Small acts of repudiation of who is beside us, his character, his thinking, his actions. Our hearts are sick. Only treatment, cut, prune, only medicine nails soaked love of the crucified Lord. Let love, pierced by mercy. The cut, the circumcision of the heart and mind, the eyes and the flesh. His Cross. Our cross, today, the cut that gives us life. The new life redeemed, liberated, saved.
OATH
We have one certainty: the love of God 'that the "oath" that takes our whole life.
The simplicity of those who feel love shines through his language. The order of a life based in the infinite love of God shines in a sober talk, according to the admonitions of wisdom literature. Yes or no, without compromise. These are always the evil one, the more that weighs down and lose our lives. The always try to put back the pieces, to bend the story and people with the power of words and their own reasoning.
The simplicity of those who feel love shines through his language. The order of a life based in the infinite love of God shines in a sober talk, according to the admonitions of wisdom literature. Yes or no, without compromise. These are always the evil one, the more that weighs down and lose our lives. The always try to put back the pieces, to bend the story and people with the power of words and their own reasoning.
Not so the Son of God in him, says St. Paul, there was an unequivocal yes to the will of the Father. From this, yes, that certainty is granite, so the stem of his brothers, and live the same Spirit. The "yes" to the story that God is preparing every day, not what is opposed.
This is Christ who does not need and can not swear, because his life is already linked, for eternity, to a covenant of love. On the Cross, Jesus has already sworn by all of us infinite and eternal love. Not going back. Penalty of eternal misery. And these things do not mess up.
today then wallow in the goodness of God, defuse all the weapons with which we would like swearing to ourselves and the world the goodness of our choices, our words, our projects. Let us allow God to lead our lives, and throw ourselves with love and trust in Jesus, yes, in his obedience he can do, today and every day of our lives is a miracle of praise, joy and peace.
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