The Call of the fishermen
(Mt 4:12-23)
It is not the call of the boss, but the invitation of the Friend, who lives firsthand what he preaches, exposing himself.
To Abraham God says «Go to the land that I will point you to». Jesus does not say «Go», but «Come»: it’s He who risks and goes ahead, offering Himself as Lamb.
Abraham is only an envoy; the disciple of Christ on the way reproposes a Person in relationship and his whole story.
«Fishermen of men»: the meaning of the expression is clearer in Lk 5:10 [Greek text]: our mission is to raise to life those who no longer breathe, suffocate, enveloped by impetuous waves, by forces of negativity.
Pull them out of polluted eddies where one live dehumanizing. To place everyone in transparent water, with values that are no longer those of the folded up and corrupt society of the cunnings.
The Son of God calls us to cut off what degrades the experience of personal fullness. He promotes in each one the dna of God who doesn’t create competition, but communion.
It’s essential to abandon the «nets»: what envelops and prevents, blocks. Even the «boat», that is, the way of managing work.
And the «father», who in the family passed on the tradition, customs which risked blurring the new Light.
All jerseys to be broken. It means: a new approach, even if you continue to carry out the previous life.
Values are no longer static and banal [seeking consensus, settling down...]: fatuous glitters, that inculcate external idols, regulating and uniformizing.
To give these new impulses, Jesus flies over the court palaces, from which nothing would have been born.
Nor does he designate anyone with the title that belongs to Him alone: «Pastor».
We need attention, not directors and leaders who judge, or binaries that do not concern us; nor unnecessary mental patterns.
The woman and the man of all times need only wise support; traveling companions who help discover their hidden sides, unknowns, secrets, that can flourish.
The Person dimension is essential.
Of course, we must distract the mind from the known, and take the Way of the "farther": no shortcut free of unknowns.
Road traveled on foot, which changes one’s own and other people’s mental atmosphere; wich flies over the custom, used, whatever, external way of seeing things.
Here, standing in our Call and naturalness, we’ll be all-round ourselves. And we will be surprised.
This in the gamble of unpredictable Love: only in this way can one contact one’s own deep states, to know each other; thus realizing unexpected dreams of open and complete life, by activating dormant energies.
And like Jesus, able to put into action anyone who we meet - recovering the opposite sides and eccentricities, for a total ideal.
Special trait: to turn to all the earth, even the enemies. Without presumption, without any foreclosure.
In Christ, there is no more imperfection, mistake or unfirm condition that can keep us distant.
Each is indispensable and precious. Everyone is legitimized. No one should atone.
Openness, not effort.
[3rd Sunday in O.T. (year A) January 25, 2026]
