CUVÂNTUL ACUM PE CITITURILE DE MASĂ
pentru joi, 3 septembrie 2015
Memorialul Sfântului Grigorie cel Mare
Textele liturgice aici
"MAESTRU, am muncit din greu toată noaptea și nu am prins nimic. ”
Acestea sunt cuvintele lui Simon Petru - și cuvintele probabil pentru mulți dintre noi. Doamne, am încercat și am încercat, dar luptele mele rămân aceleași. Doamne, m-am rugat și m-am rugat, dar nimic nu s-a schimbat. Doamne, am plâns și am plâns, dar se pare că există doar liniște ... la ce folosește? Care este scopul??
But He replies to you now as He did to St. Peter:
Puneți-vă în apă adâncă și coborâți plasele pentru o captură. (Evanghelia de astăzi)
Acesta este, “Trust in Me. What is impossible for man is possible for God. I can make all things work to the good if you but love and trust in Me.”
Yes, now is the moment to do the ridiculous, or rather, radical: to put out into the deep waters of contradiction and the seemingly impossible and cast the net of faith: Iisuse, am încredere în Tine. It is to go to Confession one more time with that same sin. It is to offer yet one more Rosary for the unbelieving spouse or child for whom you’ve been interceding for years. It is to forgive the one who has hurt you for the seventy-seventh times seven time, yet one more time. For now—well beyond the shores of feelings and common sense—you are casting your nets into the deep where you cannot feel nor see the bottom with your understanding. This is the moment of raw faith. And faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains—or fill nets.
“…at your command I will lower the nets.” When they had done this, they caught a great number of fish and their nets were tearing. When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at the knees of Jesus and said, “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.”
It was true. Simon Peter was a sinful man. And yet, Christ filled his nets.
Now, you might be saying that God’s favor is no longer with you, that the moment of blessing has passed, that you have blown too many opportunities and—though He still loves you—He has moved on. Well, Peter left his nets and followed Jesus for three years as one of His closest friends, only to deny Him, three times. And what does Jesus do? He fills his net yet din nou.
…and [they] were not able to pull it in because of the number of fish. (John 21:6)
Dacă nu reușiți să profitați de o ocazie, nu vă pierdeți pacea, ci smeriți-vă profund înaintea Mea și, cu mare încredere, cufundați-vă complet în mila Mea. În acest fel, câștigi mai mult decât ai pierdut, pentru că se acordă mai multă favoare unui suflet umil decât cere sufletul însuși ... - Iisus la Sf. Faustina, Mila divină în sufletul meu, Jurnal, n. 1361
The key to having your nets filled by God, then, is to “put out into the deep”—to abandon yourself to Him totally and utterly, despite everything that has happened and everything that you have done to that point. It is precisely in this way…
…that you may be filled with the knowledge of God’s will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, so as to be fully pleasing, in every good work bearing fruit and growing in the knowledge of God, strengthened with every power, in accord with his glorious might, for all endurance and patience, with joy giving thanks to the Father, who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of the holy ones in light. (First reading)
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