EXPERIENCE TO MAKE INVISIBLE
(Mt. 17.1 to 9)
On this Second Sunday of Lent we move from the temptations of the desert to the mountain of transfiguration: "... and led them up a high mountain. And he was transfigured before them. " The story states that the event of the transfiguration place in a 'one side', this means that such an experience can only be understood in the cozy and quiet contemplation, for which we are invited to overcome the size of the chatter and curiosity of superficial elements that often characterize our way of being. The Transfiguration is not an experience but a visionary statement translated into narrative language of faith, that is, a story that wants to make clear and understandable a divine revelation according to which Jesus is the Son of God, so with his transfigured body shows his disciples his true and eternal essence. But Jesus is both Son of Man because it speaks of the need to deal with the passion and death, with which the disciples themselves and show the world his body disfigured. Finding whole crowds on the faith of visionary experiences is easy at all times and in all latitudes of religion, but to find followers willing to believe in the resurrection, through the passion and death, it is more difficult. Does not mean only be willing to hope that there will be a resurrection on the last day but believe that the resurrection has already impressed in a direction incontrovertible human history and placed the seal of a promise which awaits only the final consummation. Believe in the resurrection leads to the certainty that what belongs to the invisible can become visible to the eye experience of those who believe, without assuming the need for extraordinary gifts. Peter's words still express a very low level of faith: "Lord, it is for us to be here! If you want I'll have three tents, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah. " Peter does not really have a complete view of things, content with little, and therefore would be able to stop time.
However, we must affirm that no faith is possible until the Son of man is raised from the dead: "Tell no one the vision, before the Son of man is raised from the dead." The real rock of faith is accepting the passion and death as Jesus did not exist when the true faith, in times of suffering, cursed rather than invoking God's help, a prayer with humble and filial and total abandonment. The words that Jesus addressed to the disciples frightened by everything that was happening to reassure us: "Get up and do not be afraid."
On this Second Sunday of Lent we move from the temptations of the desert to the mountain of transfiguration: "... and led them up a high mountain. And he was transfigured before them. " The story states that the event of the transfiguration place in a 'one side', this means that such an experience can only be understood in the cozy and quiet contemplation, for which we are invited to overcome the size of the chatter and curiosity of superficial elements that often characterize our way of being. The Transfiguration is not an experience but a visionary statement translated into narrative language of faith, that is, a story that wants to make clear and understandable a divine revelation according to which Jesus is the Son of God, so with his transfigured body shows his disciples his true and eternal essence. But Jesus is both Son of Man because it speaks of the need to deal with the passion and death, with which the disciples themselves and show the world his body disfigured. Finding whole crowds on the faith of visionary experiences is easy at all times and in all latitudes of religion, but to find followers willing to believe in the resurrection, through the passion and death, it is more difficult. Does not mean only be willing to hope that there will be a resurrection on the last day but believe that the resurrection has already impressed in a direction incontrovertible human history and placed the seal of a promise which awaits only the final consummation. Believe in the resurrection leads to the certainty that what belongs to the invisible can become visible to the eye experience of those who believe, without assuming the need for extraordinary gifts. Peter's words still express a very low level of faith: "Lord, it is for us to be here! If you want I'll have three tents, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah. " Peter does not really have a complete view of things, content with little, and therefore would be able to stop time.
However, we must affirm that no faith is possible until the Son of man is raised from the dead: "Tell no one the vision, before the Son of man is raised from the dead." The real rock of faith is accepting the passion and death as Jesus did not exist when the true faith, in times of suffering, cursed rather than invoking God's help, a prayer with humble and filial and total abandonment. The words that Jesus addressed to the disciples frightened by everything that was happening to reassure us: "Get up and do not be afraid."
Don Pietro
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