2. EXISTENTIAL DOUBTMEETING CHRIST CRUCIFIED POOR AND HUMBLE
Texts to deepen
Mc 8, 34-9. 1 Lk 9, 23-27 Mt 10, 38-39 Lk 14, 27, 17. 33 Jn. 12, 25-26
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross and follow me.
For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can a man give in exchange for his life? (Mt 16.24 to 27)
Francisco was a normal man like everyone, with great aspirations, desires fame, thought to have the world at his feet and only lacked one thing: to be an invincible warrior, "to be a prince." You can become famous pro order battlefields for a few feats of arms and conquer by the sword ennobled. Since the dawn of glory shone in his eyes! What would have been him and he, if he had made this dream? Perhaps a powerful of this world. His desire for prestige and dominance, elated by success, he could take to violate many things to achieve their ends.
But in Spoleto, an inner voice summons, questioned him and urges him to return to Assisi. Francisco be convinced and has no other way to backtrack. How ridiculous! What frustration! What a bad name! After all the dreams of grandeur ... This abrupt change was caused astonishment, and rightly so. Imagine the surprise of his friends, his family to see him back. But for some time and yet Francisco was no longer the same, was suffering a lack of meaning in his life, did not know what had come into the world, their existence was meaningless despite the big dreams he had. Despite all appearances was not the same.
The desire for fame, the desire for success and the desire of glory had seized him and dazzled him strongly, but only for an instant. Everything was ephemeral as are fireworks that are beautiful and dazzling look are that: artifice, image, appearance. It was necessary for another breath blew in the life of Francis and invaded to regain the enthusiasm, the joy, the sense of his life.
"Exhausted by long illness, Thomas of Celano tells us he began to think within himself anything other than what it used to." (1C 3). As her strength returned, went back to see the countryside. But behold, this countryside had seen him grow and he loved it, and it meant nothing. He seemed to lose color and fade on arrival. The spell was broken. Whole was broken! Everything left indifferent. He felt cold and withdrew.
Actually this indifference was, indeed, the sign of a deeper disillusionment and that was about all that until then he had seduced and fascinated. All the old values had gone by land. Francisco, the great Francisco discovered the emptiness of his life. An emptiness that nothing in the world can fill. Even the beauty of things.
Francis found himself and his reality. Its empty and terribly distressing reality. He lacked the horizon, lacking joy, lacked the sun shine not only on the countryside of Umbria, but the sun that shone within himself. Francisco begins to sense that something is changing and that what he expected in the war, in the life he led until now was only "vanity of vanities". What to do now, who could tell the way to go?.
Francisco enters within itself, as if it is wrapped in a something that would take more and more true and deep search of its existence. In your search did not find anything but Francisco Someone, or rather he may be found by anyone through Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ is revealed in the guise of the Crucified, is the humanity of God more accurately should say "the humanization of God." For hours francisco contemplates Christ on the Cross. No, that God does not look at all like that of ecclesiastical lordships, not the God of feudal wars or holy wars. Nor is it the God of money. It is not the God of the privileged of the new social order. Nor is the God of the powerful of today, not the God of those who feel good in the style of the Pharisees and the scribes of Holy Writ. God is not a ruler.
Quite the contrary. It is in the deepest of trouble in the world, in each of the small, crushed by society of yesterday and today, you can easily recognize in him is his brother. "And being exceedingly rich, wanted, along with the Blessed Virgin, your Mother, to choose poverty in the world" (2 CTAF 5).
The shared the glory of God and it was above all, deign to be small, with children, the humiliated, the beaten and the marginalized of all time. Francisco in his poverty and solitude, discovers, contemplates the unfathomable humanity of God. Inflamed heart, opens this breath of tenderness that penetrates to the background of the soul. Then arises in him a great desire: to share in the spirit of the Lord, follow the Most High Son of God in the human journey, in his humility and poverty, give up wanting to be above the other to be with them, to reach be one of them, the smallest among them: his brother.
Francisco has found true meaning in life and existence, from now on will not rest until becoming another Christ, Christ in a poor, humble and crucified, just as the Son of God, the Word incarnate.
This is the life of Francis and his relationship with God with a God fully human and fully divine with God. In light of the above I invite you to reflect as follows:
High, glorious God, enlighten the darkness of my heart. Give me true faith, certain hope and perfect charity. Hit and knowledge oh Lord to fulfill your holy and true command. Amen.
1. What are my greatest aspirations in life?2. What is more I struggle so?3. Where does God in my life and in my plans?4. What I have picture of Jesus Christ?5. Am I willing to transfigurarme another Christ, poor, humble and crucified?
Praise GodAuthor: Saint Francis of Assisi.You are holy, Lord God alone, you do wonders.You are strong, you are great, you are very high.Almighty King You are, You are Holy Father, King of heaven and earth.You are Three and One, Lord God, all good.You are good, all good, supreme good, Lord God, living and true.You are charity and love, you are wisdom.You are humility, you are patience, You are safe.You are quiet, You are joy and gladness.You are justice and temperance.You are all our riches to satisfaction.You are beauty, You are meekness.You are a protector, guardian and defender Thou art.You are strong, you are refreshing.You are our hope, You are our faith.You are the great sweetness ours.You are our eternal life, great and wonderful Lord, God Almighty,
Merciful Savior
Pray three Our Fathers and three Hail Mary and Glory Be.
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