Snubbing for consent? No, there is a great destiny of Oneness

(Lk 12:1-7))

"Meanwhile, as the crowd had gathered in myriads, to trample on one another"... the Lord's criticism of the religious authorities who were putting on unbearable external theatrics appears profound, ruthless.

But Jesus' call against the hypocrisy or "theatricality" of official religion is "first to his disciples" (v.1).

Paraphrasing the encyclical Brothers All, the Master's call aims at immediately dropping "the trick of those stereotypes" with which we disguise our "ego, always concerned with image [so that there may emerge] that blessed common belonging from which we cannot shirk: belonging as brothers" [no.3].

In every age, Christ is opposed to those who play a role, lose their nature, and become artificial, using God to be feared and respected - imagining that he is grabbing the masses, the irresistible approval he craves.

Instead, the heart of the Most High is "boundless, capable of going beyond distances" [3] and any manipulation.

All humanity is devoted to the freedom of being; it proceeds with passion towards what it desires - spontaneously and simply. It does not move to chronicle external 'cultural' situations that do not make us find the Way.

Even in one's relationship with God, it is important not to stifle one's own inclinations: there is no dialogue of friendship or love, nor wonder and joy, without respect for one's own natural, multifaceted exceptionality.

Thus He does not like anyone copying (even today, e.g. the great saints or certain models of the ecclesial paradigm), losing his own essence and personality - and in them the call to his global, unrepeatable mission.

Conformism to the socially narcissistic, or devout and circumstantial paradigm, does not allow the soul and the world to be given the turning points that unlock and activate.

This is far beyond the options of conformist nomenclature - and would make us fly, even for rebirth from crisis.

In the gospel passage, people seem abandoned to themselves (v.1). The very attempt [out of fear] to queue up and imitate, attenuates and distorts us.

After all, the official leaders showed no interest in the realisation, the full joy of the little people: for them only a necessity of the audience, and everything else a nuisance.

Thus, in order to keep the masses on a leash, they gladly inoculated them with unnecessary turmoil of conscience.

Sometimes, in order to strike one and educate a hundred... here were violent restrictions and personal or social blackmail (v.4).

The Gospel of Mk identifies the "leaven of the Pharisees" with the ideology of power.

Lk, on the other hand, speaks of it to denounce the emphasis and inner duplicity of the captains of religious, community office; a combination that overturns both principles and appearances.

The evangelist fears the insidious attitude of incoherence, hidden by catwalks [albeit of a pious character] that enchant the simple. By trickery, they can in fact take root in the life and style of the leaders of the first communities of believers.

Women and men of Faith are in Christ already empowered and at the centre of their own essence; they must not bend to chase after artificial voices from the world outside: they do not bring Eternity.

Rather, they yearn to be transparent, clear, sincere.

A non-negotiable principle is not to hide the truth. This from one's own innate inclination - a character that comes before the secondary task assigned by others.

And the 'leaders' must encourage so that each one can find his or her way, giving a foretaste of the value, the destiny of the unrepeatable as a person - not being a great insider, with an entirely different purpose.

That is why, in churches resurrected in Christ, all the masks that cling to people with little energy, out of the loop, last in line, marginalised, misunderstood, 'inadequate', lonely, must fall.

No one has the power to kill another's soul.

Nor can one subjugate one's own - without losing the truly pure vocational seed, imbued with a priceless name; albeit in a pitiful, tiny guise.

The recovery of dignity, and the concern for the spiritual human advancement of the least, of everyone, flows into the ideal of the Kingdom with its doors wide open: the 'open fraternity' and frankness of which the aforementioned social encyclical speaks at length.

Conversely, "the 'every man for himself' will quickly turn into 'all against all', and this will be worse than a pandemic" (n.36).

In short, it is necessary to remember that 'we are all in the same boat' [as Francis prayed in the deserted St. Peter's Square] including the distant, the weak and those considered inconvenient.

Even the scene of the spontaneous examples that Jesus draws from nature - an echo of the conciliatory life dreamt for us by the Father - introduces us to the Happiness that makes us aware of existing in all personal reality.Indeed, the Gospel passage shows the value of genuine, silent, unremarkable things, which nevertheless inhabit us - they are not 'shadows'. And we perceive them without effort or cerebral commitment.

In the time of epochal choices, of emergencies that seem to checkmate us but intend to make us less artificial - such awareness can overturn our judgement of substance, of the 'small' and the 'great'.

Indeed, for the adventure of love there is no accounting or clamour.

It is in God and in reality the 'place' for each of us without lacerations.

The hereafter is not imprecise.

One does not have to distort oneself for consent... least of all for the 'Heaven' that conquers death.

The destiny of oneness does not go to ruin: it is precious and dear, as it is in nature.

One must glimpse its Beauty, future and already present.

Once immediate gain [any social guarantee not pertaining to the value of littleness] is marginalised, there will no longer be any need to identify with the skeletons of established or fashionable thinking and manners.

Nor will it matter to place oneself above and in front: rather in the background, already rich and perfect, in the intimate sense of the fullness of being.

So we will not have to trample on each other (v.1)... even to meet Jesus.