2024-04-24 04:32:03
This passage from the Gospel of John (cf. Jn 12, 44-50) shows us the intimacy that exists between Jesus and the Father. Jesus did what the Father told him. That is why he says: “He who believes in me, he does not believe in me, but in him who sent me” (v. 44). He then concretizes his mission. “I, the light, have come into the world so that whoever believes in me will not remain in darkness” (v. 46). (…) It is the mission of Jesus: to bring the light. And the mission of the apostles is to bring the light of Jesus. Illuminate. Because the world was in darkness. But the drama of the light of Jesus is that it has been rejected. John says it clearly at the beginning of the Gospel: “He came to his own, but his own did not receive him. They loved darkness more than light” (cf. Jn 1,9-11). Get used to darkness, live in darkness: they do not know how to accept the light, they cannot; They are slaves of darkness. And this will be the continuous struggle of Jesus: to illuminate, to bring the light that makes things see as they are, as they are; It makes us see freedom, it makes us see the truth, it shows the way to go, with the light of Jesus. (…) Jesus himself, the light, says: “Have courage: let yourself be illuminated, let yourself be seen by what you have inside, because it is I who carry you forward, to save you. I don’t condemn you. I save you” (cf. v. 47). The Lord saves us from our interior darkness, from the darkness of daily life, social life, political life, national and international life… There is many interior darkness. And the Lord saves us. But he asks us to see them first; have the courage to see our darkness so that the light of the Lord can enter and save us. (Santa Marta, May 6, 2020)
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