presents to our readers a Reflection on Lent dell'Archimandita Marco V. Sirchia.
Lent is eminently intense time of conversion and return to God in the liturgy emerge continual references to the Christian sense of sin, humble prayer in which he asks forgiveness, to charitable works (fasting and alms) which expresses the desire for conversion.
Enhance this time is to be aware of the constant call to rediscover together is the memory of his baptism, and the memory of the mystery of Christ's Passover and Easter combined with our lui.In attention this time of grace turned to Christ and man and the mystery of Christ which illuminates the fate of man. Faith and the Church's theological reflection capture the incarnation, passion and resurrection of the Son of God the key to interpreting the history and lived humanity. Just think of the last Sunday in which the Church has led us to the desert with Cristo.Abbiamo saw Christ in those who have tried the typical three temptations of humanity: sex, money and success.Given Augustine that Christ was tempted and tried in the man Christ winner of the temptation, the man won the demonio.Una once and for all Christ has saved the world by bringing the creation to the full liberation, and the man of faith can now look at the first of Christ in him and the time after his death and resurrection as the space for understanding the extraordinary richness and depth to which we have Easter and Lent sperare.La where then is the time for introspection, in-depth examination of conscience to know our misery and mercy of God, our sin and grace, our poverty and wealth, our weakness and his strength, his wisdom and our foolishness, our darkness and its light, our hell and its regno.La Lent is the time to look at some spiritual principles as strong as iron bars to which the men must cling to stay firmly rooted in good soil, where they must bear fruit, but also that they must pick up as clubs to strike at the roots and the ancient evil ontic always ready to render unnecessary and ineffective action by the grace of God
. In this meditation we will discuss three pillars of spiritual life:
a) Knowing our own wretchedness to know God better
b) Praying
c) Fasting
always helps us as the Desert Fathers with their wonderful sayings.
a) Knowing our own wretchedness Dio.Tre friends to know better after having embraced the monastic life, had questioned whether to continue the experience. Two decided to stop to look first to reconcile the people who did not agree, the other to visit the sick, but the third had decided to stay in deserto.Dopo some time, the first two disappointed by the hermit returned from work and told him the disillusionment and disappointment felt . The hermit, having been taken a little in silence and threw a bucket of water, and then invited the two to look at himself in it. At first, because water is shaken, the two could not mirror, but when the water was still, they could see clearly the traits of their volto.L 'hermit said this symbolic action with these words: "He who is immersed are stuck in turmoil in the world, can not see their sins, but if it remains in loneliness, can see himself and go from self-knowledge to knowledge of God. "It may seem that the hermit wants to desert the other two from the life of service, but it is not. The hermit knew that the first obeyed the Lord's words: "Blessed that sows peace" (Mt 5:9), and the second word: "I've been sick and you visited me" (Mt 25: 36 ). But these jobs evangelical lacked data that could only make the Gospel: the union with God, that Christ had established as the best part that only Mary had chosen. In other words, these occupations had proved wasteful because the two hermits had dimenticato la propria fragilità e la propria miseria.Mi ricordo la parola di un padre spirituale che un giorno disse: "Come è possibile curare gli ammalati senza che prima non ci siamo fatti curare dal nostro medico, senza cioè essere stati immunizzati, non dal dolore altrui, ma dall'essere sopraffatti dal dolore altrui?".In questo campo ateismo, orgoglio e presunzione vanno di pari passo. Ecco la necessità in quaresima di rientrare dentro noi stessi per scoprire che Dio può essere visto nella misura in cui l'uomo prende coscienza dei suoi limiti. Ecco la necessità dell'appartarci, non tanto per sfuggire ai nostri doveri, ma per compierli meglio, grazie al silenzio, al raccoglimento, alla salmodia, alla prayer and lectio divina.
b) To pray for the Fathers was essential that the prayer was true: they wanted to say that there was a perfect match between private and external acts provisions with the statements and attitudes of preghiera.Abba Irenaeus said: "Many men, praying, do not pray, because their hearts and their lives are not in harmony with your prayers. This was one of the biggest pains of the Fathers, Abba Silvanus said: "Woe to the man who bears a name of his greatest works," which has the name of Monaco, religious beliefs, a man of God, without having vita.La the prayer in other words must flow from the heart before exiting lips, requires soul and body voted to God and not the world, demands conformity to the will of God works, sometimes does not involve any movement of the lips, but require more pure and authentic religious fervor of cuore.Essere implies harmony between life and prayer. The work of the religious is to be fire, a fire that penetrates where, consuma.Ad a brother who was complaining because he was burdened with many passions, Abba Poemen said: "The passions, my son, are but thistles and thorns, put the burning fire of prayer and love of God and will burn completely. "and Abba Evagrius said to those who are discouraged in prayer so that they could not pray as they wished," If have not yet received the charism of prayer or chant stubborn and receive it. "Another monaco, very zealous in prayer, he had fallen asleep. The devil sat at his bedside, said that she looked good from the alarm clock because that Monaco, once awake, he would immediately have to praise God and the hunted. Satan fears the prayer of the monks and the devout Christian, he knows he can cancel his azione.Senza afraid to make mistakes we can apply to the men what the desert fathers of the monks said: "Prayer is the mirror of Monaco", the his heart, his life, his work. If the monaco not pray God to say that does not bother him. If runs but does not pray, his work has already lost or will soon lose the imprint worshiper is necessary because a work of the Church, spiritually constructive.
c) Fasting Fasting, which can be practiced in forms old and new, is a sign of conversion, penance and mortification and staff at the same time, union with Christ crucified and of solidarity with the hungry and sofferenti.Prima to undertake his mission in the world, the Lord himself fasted for forty days and has taught the exercise of fasting. In the New Testament fasting is a means of abstinence, repentance, spirituale.Già elevation at the time of the Apostles, the Church has proclaimed the importance but did not propose a fixed law, as this spiritual practice is directly proportional to the ability of the penitent to bear. "Make sure no one will divert from this path traced by the doctrine ... if you can bear all the yoke of the Lord is perfect, if you can not do what you can do. As for fasting Watch it according to your strength "(Didache 6.1 to 3).
Authentic fasting is intimately linked to prayer and sincere repentance. "Fasting, as the term indicates, it means abstaining from food, but the food they have never made any more right or more unjust," said Clement of Alexandria, underlining that the true value of fasting is to be able not to become slaves of the passions and the world. Fasting from food is a board ascetic, asceticism, and a proposal is not a law, but fasting from sin, yes that is the law that must be put in pratica.Voglio end this meditation with the words of S. Clement of Rome, which we heard in the office of readings on Ash Wednesday: "We are firm in this line and adhere to these commandments. Always walk with all humility in obedience to the holy words ...
Firmly gaze on the Father and Creator of the world and sincerely aspire to his wonderful gifts and its unparalleled benefits " him the praise and glory of His Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever and ever. Amin.
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