Monday - Is 2, 1-5; Sal.121; Mt 8: 5-11.
The escaped of Israel.
In the Responsorial Psalm encouraging and nice to have an invitation: Come meet the Lord with joy! The advent of the Savior can not fail to bring joy and peace to the hearts of man. On the other hand also Liturgy of the Word invites us to open our hearts to joy. This bud of the Lord, which blooms from the root of David, comes to give life and to reconstruct and gather the children of Israel scattered in the deportation to Babylon. But this joy is even greater and more secure because we see the Savior in action in favor of mankind, healing the centurion's servant. It is not his son, is a slave and yet the same centurion moves to seek his salvation. He, despite being charged, he believes that Jesus has the power to heal from a distance. In his humility is deemed unworthy to receive it at home. This bud is already working and brings salvation. The servant is healed and the Lord drew the attention of his disciples in the great faith of the centurion. Bello the praise that he weaves this military: "... I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith" that praise may sound like a reproach to our lack of faith coma it was for the contemporaries of the Lord, but also as an invitation to grow in the near messianic confidence of Christmas, despite the circumstances of humiliation in which the world is the Redeemer, He is the son of the living God. It is not easy to recognize in extreme poverty one who governs all things and through whom everything exists. It could not be precisely this reason poverty of faith? Who created the world is not looking for her wealth, but one that lasts forever, the souls. From the cradle to announce that his kingdom is not of this world as repeated Pilate. Before this model of freedom of every human condition arises in us the desire to get rid of everything that keeps us trapped in the earth and affects us in our choices. MBS
Journal "A Sua Immagine" - comment by Msgr. Francesco Ruppi
beginning of Advent brings us the Gospel of Matthew the beginning of Jesus' teaching page now is truly exemplary, but is also indicative for our lives. If we have faith we can get everything from the Lord. The episode of the centurion who asks Jesus for the grace of healing of the servant, is very moving. Jesus replied that he will go home her to heal, but the centurion says a word that has passed into history and we, first communion, we pray always, "you do not need you to come to my house, but 'only a word and my servant will be healed. " The Son of God is impressed by this word and says
"no one has such faith in Israel of all.
The miracle does not request, do not do the words, and even the candles, flowers and offerings, but only the faith: those who have faith in God is never wrong, and he who has faith in God never loses.
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