Bread of the Life. Mysticism of Vision and Faith
(Jn 6:35-40)
At the end of the first century, churches felt the risk of collapse. The obtuse gaze of the environment around the first fraternities tended to close the Mystery.
But contrary to the First Testament (Ex 33:22-23) by Faith one now ‘sees’ God ‘and’ lives, without fear (Ex 3:6).
He who «sees» the Son «has» the same Life as the Eternal (v.40).
The Vision of Faith, the Vision of the Son, the Vision of the glorious outcome of the One who was rejected by the religious authorities and considered accursed by God, makes one become One with Him.
It is resurrection today, even in the fast and heavy experience of dispersive existence.
The Image that was considered impossible and could not be held, gives way to a process of interpretation, action, rearrangement, which attracts the future.
It gives path to the completeness of God's humanizing and diverse world.
The shift in gaze breaks the web of appearances, of banal, inherited or à la page beliefs.
In short: ‘grasping’ Him becomes the engine of salvation, the foundation that surpasses the pre-human.
Perceiving Him becomes Encounter; in the proper and perennial dimension. Principle of blissful eternity.
According to believers in Jesus, the Source of full and indestructible life [«Life of the Eternal»: v.40 Greek text] is not material bread.
Already on this earth, for each one all-encompassing Food does not lie in any trivial certainty.
Rather, it’s necessary to «See the Son» (v.40): to grasp in the Master a story that does not end in failure.
Despite the rejection of the leaders, the outcome of His-our story is the indestructible Glory.
And «Believing in Him» (v.40) does not depend on a shared cultural background or social standing, but on an unrepeatable elaboration.
‘Seeing’ and having Faith is to trust in the luminous [it seems absurd] Vision that is communicated in the most intimate fibres and from the very first 'Birth'. Certain of the full attunement and realisation in that super-eminent Figure.
It is a Faith-Vision that reads the meaning and enables direct appropriation: it flies over insurmountable obstacles.
A Faith-Gesture that gushes out, a Faith-Action that becomes a ferment of expansion, because it has already aroused acumen, global attention, intimate consensus.
We do not adhere because of enthusiasm or initiatives [the “Church of events”].
Life of the Eternal within us begins in the eye of the soul; an echo of primordial Dream.
It enters into grasping the Father's trajectory. He wants for His minimums a fullness of imprint and character, without conformity.
Only thanks to the Gift in which we recognize ourselves from our roots and in essence, we perceive joyful consonances that identify desires, words, actions and the journey’s type of the Risen One Himself, pulsating inside us.
The Person of Christ is the only Food without homologation.
Sustained by the Bread-Person we can avoid both the search for false security and the craving for supports, preferring Broken Bread.
The nourishment of the earth preserves physical life, but it cannot make us revive through uniques personal Genesis, nor open a way trough death.
This gives value to each moment.
To internalize and live the message:
What does it mean for you ‘to see’ the Son and ‘believe’ in Him?
[Wednesday 3rd wk. in Easter, May 7, 2025]
