"I chose you"
It 's a phrase apparently uncomfortable. Almost to be rejected. We could easily challenge it and say that we choose. We choose what to do, where to go, what to play, what to study, that friends attend, what to do with time. There's a truth in this assertion, but understand that we can not stop at this superficial consideration. There is something more subtle, deeper down.
We took two particular (bearing in mind that they are words that Jesus speaks against the apostles) that highlight the phrase and on which we ask and think
1) What if we are chosen, it is because we loved each other, it is because there is someone who sees us in a unique beauty.
And the "you" gives us the awareness that we all have an objective beauty and personal.
2) What if we are chosen, it is because we in some way a mission, a calling, a service that we are led, and that gives us the opportunity to build on our beauty, a beauty to get even bigger .
In these years of service to the Festival of Youth, as a committee, we felt this combination of strong and closely related interest / service and want to share with you that can be a source of joy and of choice for many.
"Jn 15, 12 - 17"
This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing, but I have called you friends, for everything I've heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and I that you should go and bear fruit, fruit that will last; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. This I command you: love one another.
We are at the Last Supper, one of the moments of friendship and love of Jesus with the highest apostles.
Give them a commandment, which is repeated twice. As if this commandment, was the most precious thing, the key to something beautiful. And, as on other occasions, Jesus speaks with authority, as if to oblige the Apostles. This is to give importance to what is going to say. It 's a vital truth that you are saying. If you want to be his friends, so there's that or anything else.
There is no escape. It might seem like a big restriction of freedom to the apostles, as violence.
In reality tells us something fundamental: the beauty with a capital and there is one. The Lord chooses us for this beautiful and everyone has a way of expressing it. It remains an inescapable certainty:
beauty is one, is objective, is called friendship with Jesus, is called love for one another.
Traces for reflection
1) The beauty
The Lord will choose. Why are we asking for?
Why a person chooses another person to be together? Why choose a coach to field certain players? Why do some guys choose delegates for certain tasks?
All these choices are derived from a truth that is inherent in every human being, that every man has the good within himself, has certain gifts, certain gifts. Every man has the beauty within.
is not always easy to see. Sometimes it seems that some friends do not count for anything because they are, as we call them, the "unlucky", or friends that we believe are unnecessary or uncomfortable because they are a hindrance for what we do and how we think.
Well, they may not have beauty within them?
Or maybe I see the good in others depending on how I see it according to my ideas?
That is, it's nice just what I feel good, or what is generally considered good in general, can be beautiful or something that is far from my thinking and my way of seeing things?
The fact is that everyone has something beautiful in himself, and is called to see him.
Sometimes it seems that some people just do not have anything nice, or not notice, exaggerated his faults.
Jesus speaks of "YOU". There is a reason. We are called together. We are called to help us discover the beauty that our friends have. But why do we ask? We are often aloof from friends, as if it were a problem the other, as if I did not have enough problems.
But can I ignore the friend that I close? Or maybe I was placed next to some people because in some way we can help? We can pretend that there is next to those who do not care at all?
Yes we can. But we are careful. The Lord does not ask us that. In a sense we do not trust Christ.
And as if professing Christians we do not believe? As we ignore the people around Jesus tells us that if we come together to help us discover the beauty that is in us and help it grow to live a life full of beauty that not even imagine?
Perhaps it's best to think twice before labeling, before excluding, marginalizing first, before judging the people with whom we live and which we encounter every day?
We could not even through our bad behavior to a person denied the opportunity to mature and grow? Or better restrain his way to it is called?
2) The service
Why go to the beauty service?
We said that everyone has within himself the beauty, the gifts.
Well, each of us is called to respond in the face of such gifts.
can ignore them, pretend not to see them, can use them for your convenience, you can use them for anything.
For us the answer to these beautiful gifts is service.
service that can manifest itself in many ways: to be a delegate, be a player, coach, be, being a student, be polite, be friendly, be a child ... are all expressions of beauty that is in us.
expressions that enhance the time to be placed at the service, are shared, have lived together with our friends, people we have around.
It 's like the beauty of each join, to put them together and then form an even greater beauty. For us, this is service. E 'relationships with others, you help us together to grow the gifts, the gifts of everyone, to live an even greater beauty, which is spoken of in the Gospel of Jesus above.
E 'we ask ourselves how important we believe the quality we have. It 'important because it is an opportunity to live a life that tends to perfection, the best things, the most beautiful things. And that makes life so desirable, makes it desirable to co-create with God's heaven on earth.
E 'John Paul II tells us that we are called to be co-creators, authors of a masterpiece that can be our life. John Paul II continues: beauty is the visible expression of the good.
is then that our vocation is a call to beauty, our vocation is service to beauty for beauty.
In our attempt to spend on the Youth Day we have experienced this thrill of being and working together for one purpose. The hope is that everyone, with friends, can find the expression of beauty that suits him more, that the Lord in a way which he thought for all of us. It 's definitely a struggle. But on balance we have two objects and we have the opportunity to choose where to unbalance the weight: either from the life of a masterpiece with friends in ongoing research or part of a mediocre life that is content. It all depends on what we intend to do and where to put the weight.
provocations, inspirations, reflections various
- What is beauty? If beauty really is and we have a thousand ways to express it through What is our person that we often say that beauty be? Is not it a taste, an opinion or a personal pleasure? What is beauty for you? There is really an objective?
- before a service because we find it hard to accept? What are the reasons? Laziness? Afraid that does not lead to anything? Not wanting to get involved and make trouble? There are compelling reasons at stake if there really is best for me and my friends?
- We believe that a service from a desire by our taste, to be a concern, by a feeling of being worn. And we believe that if you do not experience a service if they can not enjoy the beauty. The call we do is: try it! Try it together!
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