XXVIII Sunday in Ordinary Time / C
Lectio divina on Luke 17.11-19
"Get up and go ', your faith has saved you."
Lectio divina on Luke 17.11-19
"Get up and go ', your faith has saved you."
Invoking
Lord, even while you walk through our land, you stop here and you came to my village in my house in my life. Do not you have not disdained the deep sickness of my sin, and indeed the more you loved me. How do I stop the lepers away. I raise my voice and call you, to show you the wound of my soul. Please, heal me with your Holy Spirit ointment good, give me the true medicine of your word, there is nothing else that can heal, if not You, Love. Amen.
Read
11Lungo the way to Jerusalem, Jesus passed through Samaria and Galilee.
12Entry in a village, he was met by ten lepers, They stopped at a distance 13th said aloud: "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us." 14Appena saw them, Jesus said to them: 'Go and show yourselves to the priests. " And as they went, they were purified. 15Uno of them, realizing he was healed, came back, praising God with a loud voice, 16th bowed down to Jesus at his feet to thank him. He was a Samaritan. 17th Jesus said: "There have been ten cleansed? And where are the other nine? 18Non has found that no one would come back to give glory to God except this foreigner? ". 19E said: "Get up and go ', your faith has saved you." A moment of
meditative silence so that the Word can enter into us and enlighten our lives.
useful steps to meditation
Lk 4.27, 5.12 to 14, 7.50, 8.48, 17.6, 18, 42, Mt from 8.2 to 4, 9, 22, Lev 13 -14; 1 Kings 19.1-8, Mk 9:24; 10.52.
Understanding
This song just Lucan, which shows the famous doctrine of Jesus miraculous and puts our feet in the third stage of the journey that Jesus is making towards Jerusalem, the goal now is near and the teacher calls with even greater intensity to his disciples, that we, to follow him, to enter with him into the holy city, the mystery of salvation, love.
The transition is accomplished only through faith, fueled by intense prayers, incessant, insistent, confident, we see him going over the chapters preceding and following this story (17.6, 17.19, 18.7 to 8, 18, 42).
These words invite us to identify with the lepers, who become children (see Luke 18.15-17) and the rich who repents and receives salvation in his house (Luke 18.18 ff.) If we accept and really the case so as to put them into practice, we can finally get ourselves in Jericho (19.1) and from there begin to rise with Jesus (19:28), to embrace joy with the Father.
This page of the Gospel, as well as telling us that "Jesus Hello, "there also indicates a mode. Salvation is "the street" and at the same time, recognizing that it comes from God, that's his gift, and we are given through the person of Christ. This is what shows the gesture of the Samaritan who "praise God and thank Jesus for healing obtained. Not a gesture of allegiance or despair, but a sign of gratitude becomes the "recognition" of a God who can always save and - certainly - always welcomes us. Not a gesture disembodied from reality "pilgrimage" of man, but a sign of salvation "concrete", able to wait for the man, letting him make his own path of life and research.
Meditation
v. 11: Along the road to Jerusalem, Jesus passed through Samaria and Galilee. Our life is dismayed by many vicissitudes. The Word shows us a path, and is a long way to go with all his labors. A long but full of hope and that leads to glory. What matters is to dare again because there is a gap, a challenge, a project to be undertaken. The initiative of God in this way there is the passage of Jesus Nothing He leaves not visited, no touched by his look of love and mercy.
vv. 12-13: When entering a village, he was met by ten lepers, which stood at a distance and said aloud: "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us."
Jesus entered a village, enters the life of every day when he meets all the needy in particular. The entry of Jesus in the biblical sense, is entering the deep, which means sharing and participation. There she meets the lepers. The leper
according to Lev 13, 45-46, is a person who, wounded, beaten, something he has achieved with violence, with strength and made a sign of pain, a wound. He is a person in mourning, in great pain, as evidenced by his clothes torn and his head bare, is one that should cover your mouth, because it has no right to speak, nor hardly breathe among the others: it is like a dead man. It is one that can not worship God, can not enter the temple, or touch the holy things. It is a deeply wounded person, an outcast, an outcast, a left apart, in solitude. For all this, the ten lepers who encounter Jesus, stop at a distance and from a distance, speak to him, crying out their pain, their despair.
They turn to Jesus by name, as if they had known for some time: "Jesus, Master," "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us."
These ten lepers only tell him: "Have mercy on us. " Do not dare ask for healing, but only pity. For them it had to be better to die than to live as seeing their dead body inexorably consumed.
The looks that cross these lepers admitted to the banquet of intimacy with Jesus at the wedding feast of salvation. After them, only the blind man of Jericho (Lk 18, 38) and the thief on the cross (Lk 23, 42) repeat this invocation with the same familiarity, the same love Jesus! Only those who recognize sick, needy, poor, criminal, becomes a beloved of God
also calls it "master". Epist: a person endowed with great wisdom and authority. The term "teacher" (ἐπιστάτης, epistàtes; in epistaxis and vocative) is a term Lucan;
which means more properly 'the one who is above' (also means "master") and we find the mouth of Peter, when the boat was called by Jesus to follow him (Luke 5, 8) and he is a sinner. And here we are at the heart of the truth, here is revealed the mystery of leprosy as a disease of the soul: it is sin, is separation from God, the lack of friendship, this communion with Him is our soul wither and makes it die slowly.
v. 14: When he saw them, Jesus said to them: 'Go and show yourselves to the priests. " And as they went, they were purified. There is a view, a vision of Jesus he did not drive away the lepers for fear of taking the infection, but they sound. He heals them by virtue of his divine power, hunting, with the power of His Word, the evil from their tormented flesh and festering. Indeed, at another time, Jesus can touch with his own hand, a leper who turned to him to be healed. Then he concludes with a NVITATION. In fact, already presupposes the miracle that he is about to give in that only after one has recovered from an illness such as leprosy, can present themselves to priests - according to the custom (cf. Lv 14) - because, when we saw the successful healing can be new officially reintroduced in the community, without risk of being expelled. The fact that we obey the words of Jesus clearly shows their faith: hence they are recovered while still on their way.
vv. 15-16: One of them, realizing he was healed, came back, praising God with a loud voice, and bowed down to Jesus at his feet to thank him. He was a Samaritan.
One back. It is a Samaritan points at the end of the verse in the Gospel, as if to indicate something special, as if to unite all under the mercy of God. His back is not a simple exercise, a change of direction and running but rather a real revolution in the inner depths. 'Return' is the verb of the conversion, the return to God to change something into something else (Rev. 11, 6), is the return home (Luke 1, 56, 2, 43), after having moved away, as did the prodigal son, lost in sin. So does this leper change his illness a blessing, its strangeness and remoteness from God in friendship, a relationship of intimacy, as between father and son. Change, because change is left by Jesus himself, is left to reach his love. The Samaritan
thanks, makes his Eucharist! He sits at the table of mercy, where Jesus was left hurt and wounded before him; where he became the cursed, the outcast, thrown out of the camp to collect the rest of us in his heart. The Eucharist is his joyous, festive clothes and mourning.
vv. 17-18: Jesus said: "There have been ten cleansed? And where are the other nine? You have not found anyone who would come back to give glory to God except this foreigner? ". Jesus is amazed because only one back. Jesus is not about physical health, targeting this Samaritan returned to him, but it speaks of salvation, the salvation that comes from faith, because the Samaritan does not come back to thank the healer, but to give thanks to God, in Christ, saved him in body and spirit.
v. 19: And he said, "Get up and go ', your faith has saved you." Two verbs conclude this episode. The first is an invitation of Jesus, Arise, Arise ie!. It's the new life after death, the day after the night. For Saul, on the road to Damascus, has echoed this call, this command of love: "Arise!" (At 22,10.16) and was born again, from the womb of the Holy Spirit has come back to see, he resumed eating, he received the baptism and the new name. His leprosy was gone.
The second verb is that of saving, which is recorded in the name of Jesus Christ in Hebrew means God saves. And, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church, his name "... it means that the Name of God is present in the person of His Son [cf Acts 5:41, 3 Jn 1.7] made man for the universal and definitive redemption of sins. It is the name of God which alone brings salvation [cf John 3:18, Acts 2.21]. (CCC, 432). The Samaritan
, healed in body and totally liberated and renewed in spirit, has experienced salvation through the work of Christ has reached the faith, the faith that knows no barriers, because no man is a stranger in the eyes of God that every man is a son who has in itself the image of the Father, that nothing can destroy, and that Jesus has shown, with his sacrifice and his word, to its original splendor.
The Gospel in the mind of the Church Fathers
"There were ten to be healed, and where are the other nine?" (Luke 17:17). I think to remember that these are the words of the Savior, who complained of the ingratitude of those nine. We can see from the text have been able to pray well as those who said: "Jesus, son of David, have mercy on us" (Lk 18:38), but missed the other thing mentioned by the Apostle (1 Timothy 2:1) , Thanksgiving, why not return and give thanks to God
Even today we see many pledged to ask what they know they need, but we see very the few who bother to thank them for what they have received. And is not that bad crave, but the force remains to be ungrateful to the question. And maybe it's a stretch to deny clemency to the ungrateful for asking. It does not happen to us to be more accused of ingratitude, the higher the benefits we have received. It is therefore a part of mercy, in this case, deny mercy, as a sudden show of anger mercy, that mercy of which certainly speaks to the Father's mercy through the prophet, saying: "Let mercy to the wicked, and he not learn to do justice "(Is 26.10) ...
see, therefore, not it should all be cured of leprosy conversion socialite, whose sins are known to all, but some incur a greater evil, that of ingratitude, which is the worse evil, what is inside ...
Lucky Samaritan, who recognized that he had nothing he had not received, and therefore returned to thank the Lord. Lucky him that every gift, back to the one in whom is the fullness of all graces, because when we show ourselves grateful for what we received, we make room in ourselves to an even greater gift. The only ingratitude inhibits the growth of our relationship with grace, as the employer, by estimating lost what has been a thankless one then looks good to lose so much more, as it gives an ingrate. Lucky because the one who, believing foreigner spends himself in gratitude for the smallest favor, and is conscious and states that it is a great gift that you give to an unknown stranger. We, however, miserable, though at the beginning, even when we feel strangers, we're pretty cautious, humble and devoted, then so easily we forget how we got everything free, and as presumptuous of our familiarity with God, we do not care who deserves to be told that the enemies of God are his own family (Matt. 10:36). The easily offended, as if we were not to be more severely judged for our sins, as we read in the psalm: "If my enemy had cursed me, I would also born" (Ps 54.13). Therefore I beseech you, brethren, more humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God and do everything to keep us away from this horrible vice of ingratitude, so that working with a full heart in gratitude, we grab the grace of our God, alone can save our souls. And we show our gratitude not only in words but in deed and in truth, for our Lord, who is blessed forever, does not want so many words, as acts of grace. Amen. (Bernard Chiarav., De diversis , 23, 5-8).
The Lord Jesus praises those who thanked him, complains that the ungrateful in the skin healed, but still lepers in the heart. What says the apostle? "Speech faithful and worthy to be received" (1 Tim 1.15 s). What is speech? "Jesus Christ came into the world." What to do? "To save sinners." Who are you? "I am the chief of sinners." Who says he's not, or not being a sinner, is ungrateful to the Savior. No man in this mass, which comes from Adam, no man is free from any disease at all, no one is cured without the grace of Christ. What should I say children, sick to their descent from Adam? They too are brought the Church, if they can not go there with their feet, you go with the feet of others, to be healed. The Church accommodates their feet than others, because you come, the hearts of others, they may believe, the language of others, because they profess the faith, just because I'm sick, because another has sinned ...
Do not despair. If you are sick, approach him and be healed, if you are blind, approach him, and be illuminated. If you are healthy, thank them, if you are sick, run to him for healing. Tell everyone: "Come, let us adore him prostrate on his knees before the God who made us" (Ps 95.6) and men saved. If he made us men, we're there without prejudice: we did better him. It is better, in fact, except a man who just a man. Therefore, if God has made man, and you have become a good man, what did you do it better. But do not believe most of God down, worship, bow down to the man who brought you: no one recreates, if not the one who creates, no one follows, if not the one who made you. We read in another Psalm: "He made us, we were not made by us" (Ps 99.3). Of course, when you did, you could not do anything, now that you are, you too can do something, you can go to the doctor, you can call him and he is everywhere. And why they call it, awakened your heart and gave you the opportunity to invoke it. "Why does God work in you and you makes them capable of and willing to work "(Ph 2:13). Just because you had the good will, he called you before. cries:" The grace of my God I can help "(Ps 58.11). The His mercy has prevented you, because existed, felt and he agreed. He'll have all prevented, prevents you somehow his anger. How? declares that all the good you have, you have from God, and that all evil is from you. Do not despise what you have for good, not praise yourself. I do not acknowledge your iniquity, not to excuse yourself. He who will have prevented many goods, and you will see your gifts and your evils and look like you'll be served with his gifts. Since he has prevented you in all these goods, see a little 'how you can prevent it from coming. Feel the psalm: "To prevent his meeting." Renditelo propitious, before it gets; placalo before he's here. Do you have a priest through whom you can appease your God, and he, together with the Father is God for you, He who became man for you. So sing the psalms, preparing you to receive and your confession. Rejoices with the psalms, professing his love, accusing yourself. Praising him, that made you, and blaming yourself, it will be him who died for you and you rise again. The doctrine
changeable and fickle is the leprosy of the mind. Keep it securely. No new contributions, no one does the leper. A doctrine inconstant, changing color, is a sign of mental leprosy: this also cures the Christ. Maybe you had followed some news, we riflettesti and you returned to the doctrine best, and what had changed, only one color. I do not give credit to yourself, not to be one of those nine who does not thank the Lord. Only one thanked him. The others were all Jews. That was a foreigner, it symbolized the Gentiles, and he, the tenth of lepers, with that number, paid tithes to Christ. To him, indeed that we exist, that we live, we have intelligence, if we are men, if we are good, if intelligence is right, we owe it to him. We have only our of our sins. What's wrong, that did not receive? (1 Cor 4:7). You, therefore, above all, you understand that what you hear, pick up the disease from heart healed, purified from the temptations of novelty, and thank God. (Augustine, Sermo 176, 2.5).
Some questions for personal reflection and comparison
Jesus is always passing from our lives, we are ready to accept it? I would call him by name?
I have the courage to lay bare my bad, my sin, which is the real disease?
The Psalmist says that I repay the Lord for me? ... Preparing to say thanks, to sing the new song of my love for Him
Praying Together we praise the Lord healed the Samaritan with the words suggested by the Psalmist (Ps. 30):
I will extol you, Lord, why have you revived,
have not allowed my enemies to rejoice over me.
Lord, my God, I cried to you and you have healed me.
Lord, you have brought up my life from hell, you made me relive
why not come down into the pit.
Sing to the Lord, O you his saints,
celebrate the memory of his holiness,
For his anger lasts a moment, his goodness
for life.
host the evening and the morning is the tears of joy.
I said in my safety:
"I will never waver."
In your goodness, O Lord,
I had put on my mountain secure
you hid your face, and fear came over me.
I cry to you, Lord, I ask the Lord pity
"What gain from my death,
if I go down into the pit? You can thank the dust
and proclaim your faithfulness?
Hear, O Lord, have mercy on me,
Lord, come to my aid. "
You changed my mourning into dancing,
I've removed the sack dress, you clothed me with joy, because
sing you my heart, not to mention;
Lord, my God, I will give thanks forever.
contemplative act
The Gospel ends with a call: Get up and go '. It is the active listening of the Word. After this experience I can not sit still, shut up in my world, my peaceful bliss and forget all. I have to get up, get out, get in way.
welcome here the words of Mary turned to the servants at Cana: "Do whatever my son tells you" (Jn 2:5). Yes, Lets have faith in Jesus ... Let us trust in his Gospel and do what He tells us, the healing will be on the road and will therefore not be immediate, but will have its time. But we must learn to cry out to Jesus who heals us, having compassion us, because he only heals the wounds and diseases that we will present (cf. Mk 10:51).
repeat: Behold, Lord, open my heart, my life ahead of you ... Look at me, interrogami, heal.
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