Living the Word, as
a response to Love, determines the presence
of Jesus in those who love Him and trust in Him.
And in this lived
reality, Jesus approaches the people and the people rediscover the
joy of meeting Him.
The Word must be so
well known and announced, but - because the
word of God that has the smell of the earth and the taste of heaven -
is first and foremost welcomed, loved and lived. Then it will give
its fruits!
For this reason,
believers have no reason for worry and
anxiety. Our pains, unforeseen calamities, absurd diseases can remind
us of Jesus' cry, "My God, why hast
thou forsaken me?".
“Let us try, then,
to recognize Jesus in every hardship, the constrictions of life, in
all the darkness, the personal tragedies of others, sufferings of
humanity that surrounds us. It is He,
because He has made them His own.
It will be enough to tell Him with faith:
"It is You, Lord, my only good"; it will be enough to do
something concrete to relieve "His" suffering in the poor
and unfortunate, in order to go beyond the door, and find beyond a
joy never felt, a new fullness of life”(Chiara Lubich).
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An Experience of Life:
We are a group of
boys from a small town in northern Italy, and for
a good bit of time we have decided to commit ourselves to live the
new commandment of Jesus, that is to love each other as He has loved
us, in order to build among us a little piece of a united world. So,
every two weeks, we meet in my house to spend some time together as
well as to share with each other how each one of us has tried in the
last two weeks to love and to live the words of the Gospel.
Communicating
the experiences is very important to us; it helps us, in fact, to
strengthen the unity among us and to overcome some of the difficult
moments. Trying to put into practice the words of the Gospel, we
discover how beautiful it is to love whoever passes by us: the
elderly person to whom you give your seat in the bus; the immigrant
who you meet at the traffic light, the classmate who is unable to
resolve a problem or is going through a difficult time, the friend
who seems too domineering, and the brothers and sisters with whom you
share the room, and, it seems strange, but also the teachers that are
not so pleasant.
Of course these
experiences will not be mentioned in the history books. But the joy
of unity that is created between us which
we want to bring to so many other boys, reciprocates 100 times all
the effort that sometimes we may encounter in building it.
Mirco, Alex, Mario and
Vincenzo
