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«From Mine»: the dramatic and happy experience of the origins

(Jn 16:2-15)

 

«He will receive from what is Mine and will proclaim to you [...] He receives from Mine and will announce you» (vv.14-15).

The teaching imparted by Jesus with his life was not incomplete, but a Germ that traced fundamental options, guidelines.

The magisterial insufficiency in the detailed case studies is significant. Christ is not a cast and dead model, but Motivation and Drive.

And God is not a predictor of the future, nor a reassurer - but a vital Presence. Even when in adverse events there seems to be a lack of air.

Indeed, in the right time, crises turn into the spelling of love; into opportunities to experience needs and relationships differently - even paradoxically, for genuine change; from within, natural.

Thus and in that spirit, the disciples began a journey of understanding the facts of Easter, discovering step by step that the story of Christ would embrace all the secrets of God.

In short, the first fraternities noted the “extraordinary” things of living following and ‘inner guidance’.

By living the Master's teaching in the most varied circumstances [favourable and joyful, or sad and at a loss] He made Himself close in the soul; and He manifested Himself, taking the step of the brethren.

A different Light - no longer neutral, standardized, whatever - animated the lives of the faithful and their coexistence.

They experienced a new Birth, like an unceasing Creation.

From the hearts of the believers in the Son of Man - even the formerly maligned ones - gushed forth an unseen Source of reconciliation and harmony of opposites.

A Wisdom of things unknown to the world of empire and other beliefs was emerging.

The Spirit of the Risen One made it possible to understand the critical fruitfulness of the Cross [«the burden»: v.12], thus expanding the solutions and orientations of the conventional competitive life.

Of course there were falls, due to natural precarious conditions, and the fact that it was not immediate to understand the logic of the Crucified One.

But the Action of the Spirit of the «Truth» [God's Faithfulness] illuminated, guided and stimulated a deeper interpretation of the Word of the Lord: not a deposit of crystallized statements.

The sons discovered: that Recall was living, inexhaustible in its meanings and in the possibility of understanding things.

Truth about the Eternal and about humanity, pregnant with existential implications.

Those reborn of water and the Spirit began to perceive it as ‘force’ of events, a real and overwhelming power.

Its intelligence was enriched in history, through assembly events, experiences, dialogues, reflections.

The Spirit of the wounded and Living Christ internalized that Call that renewed women and men, and their relationships.

People who did not even have self-esteem were put back on their feet. The profiteer was becoming righteous, the doubter more confident; the unhappy person was regaining hope.

Everyone in helping each other realized that they could live happily.

The assistance of the total and mystical divine Spirit, even today, guides the access and fullness of facets of the Truth; and is a stimulus for an innovative, democratic, multifaceted, personal understanding.

Banish insecurity.

We can still be in the most acute, energetic and contemplative frankness; in a fidelity of integral reading-interpretation of the Gospels that eschews all accommodation (vv.14-15).

 

 

[Wednesday 6th wk. in Easter, May 13, 2026]

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Giuseppe Nespeca è architetto e sacerdote. Cultore della Sacra scrittura è autore della raccolta "Due Fuochi due Vie - Religione e Fede, Vangeli e Tao"; coautore del libro "Dialogo e Solstizio".

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