Is 11.1 to 10 15.4 to 9 Mt Ps 71 Rom 3 0.1-12: Repent, the kingdom of heaven is at hand!
In those days came John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, "Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." For he is the one of whom had spoken by the prophet Isaiah when he said: "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight make his paths. "
And he, John wore clothing of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, his food was locusts and wild honey. Then Jerusalem, throughout Judea and the whole area along the Jordan went out to him and were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
Seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers! Who made you believe he can escape the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance, and do not think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father. " Because I tell you, these stones God can raise up children to Abraham. Already the ax is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. I baptize you in water for repentance, but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, and I am not worthy to carry his sandals: he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. He holds the shovel and clean up his threshing floor and gather his wheat into his barn, but will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire. "Mt from 3.1 to 12
Homily
of
father Hermes Ronchi
The good news of God near
The central phrase of the Baptist ad goes like this: the kingdom of heaven is near, repent. Are the same words which begin with the preaching of Jesus
God is at hand, good news first. The great Pellegrino walked, consumed distances. For now, only the prophet of God but see the steps "is not the revelation that lingers are our eyes were not yet ready" (E. Dickinson).
Advent is the message that God is near, close to all, the network that gathers together in harmony, wolf and the lamb, the lion and the ox, the child and the snake (the word of Isaiah), man and woman, Arab and jew, Muslim and Christian, black and white, for a new architecture in the world and human relationships. The Kingdom of the heavens and the earth as God's dreams. It has not yet been realized? No matter, the dream of God is our future that calls us. We go from the future called.
The second good news, then my life changed.
What converts heat into the cold is the proximity of the fire. "Stay close to me is to stay close to the fire" (apocryphal Gospel of Thomas), you will never go free from his encounter with fire. The force change people is a strength not a human, a huge force, the divine in us, God who comes, comes in and grows inside. This translates to me is a bit of Christ in me.
Repent! More than an order is an opportunity: change direction, actions, penieri; with me the sky is closer and more blue, the sun warmer, more fertile soil, and there are a hundred brothers, and strong trees, and honey. With me you will live only the beginning. You will live wind and fire.
and good fruit. Life in the revelation that change is always possible that no situation is no exit, by grace.
The third center of the ad John: bear fruit worthy of conversion. Merini Alda writes: faith is a hand / you take the guts / faith is a hand / that makes you give birth. Bear a good fruit!
When God comes to life becomes fruitful, and no longer sterile. God is the center of marine life in it (Bonhoeffer). Reach out and touch the mysterious root of life that keeps us strong rights as trees, despite hopes that allows the rubble, despite the good wheat weeds in our field. Is in the heart of life, passion and loyalty of love, hunger for justice, honesty tenacity, when I am committed to closing the gap between the big dream the prophets and the little we have in his hands. Because sin is not transgress the rules, but break a dream. A dream as big as that of Jesus, as good as that of Isaiah, at the center of life as that of John.
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