Please confirm, if you accept our tracking cookies. antonvil.codina@gmail.com. Being heard, in the fullest sense Fr Vanhoye emphasized this would mean "he was redeemed from death", however not for the moment, for that moment, but for ever, in the Resurrection: God's true response to the prayer to be saved from death is the Resurrection and humanity is saved from death precisely in the Resurrection which is the true healing of our suffering and of the terrible mystery of death. Only in Christ is this need, this prerequisite of mediation fully brought about. However, the Author of the Letter to the Hebrews discovered a citation which until then had gone unnoticed: Psalm 110 [109]: 4 "You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek". This is an unpopular word in our day. Yet, on considering this problem closely, we see that these two things go together: Christ's obedience is the conformity of his will with the will of the Father; it is bringing the human will to the divine will, to the conformation of our will with God's will. The criteria are: worshipping God Most High, the Creator, fostering righteousness and peace and venerating God in a pure way. This is the same prayer that we find in the Synoptic Gospels: "all things are possible to you... your will be done (cf. Heb 7: 1-3; Gn 14: 18-20). He is a mysterious figure who enters Sacred History in Genesis 14. One should choose a place free of distraction and a posture that is comfortable but conducive to prayer. And not only the history of the Chosen People, which is the true preparation desired by God, in which is revealed the mystery of Christ, but also in paganism the mystery of Christ is prepared, paths lead from it toward Christ who carries all things within him. ©2021 - Chiesa del Santissimo Nome di Gesù all'Argentina - Roma - In the Roman canon after consecration we have the prayer supra quae that mentions certain prefigurations of Christ, his priesthood and his sacrifice: Abel, the first martyr, with his lamb; Abraham, whose intention is to sacrifice his son Isaac, replaced by the lamb sent by God; and Melchizedek, High Priest of God Most High who brings out bread and wine. Rabu (H) • Why. Heb 5: 8-9). 5: 7). God created us and we are ourselves if we conform with his will; only in this way do we enter into the truth of our being and are not alienated. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. Yet at the same time he bore the whole being, the whole of human suffering entered the Passion. And Jesus, who is the true subject of the Psalms, truly bears this cry of humanity to God, to God's ears: "help us and hear us!". Hall of Blessings Thursday, 10 March 2011 . And with this key it can reinterpret the Old Testament and show precisely that also the religious law abolished after the destruction of the Temple was actually moving towards Christ. Thus, as the local Church of Rome but also as the universal Church, we can start out on this essential journey … Si prega di abilitare JavaScript per visualizzare questo sito web. In Christ himself everything is recapitulated, purified and led to its term, to its true essence. 06.697001 - Per inviare un e-mail. We must always return to the Sacrament, to this gift in which God gives me what I will never be able to give; participation, communion with divine being, with the priesthood of Christ. Thank you. L'important, però, no és el mètode, sinó aconseguir fer una «lectura orant» de la Paraula. This aspect of divine giving, of divine precedence, of divine action that we ourselves cannot bring about and our passivity being chosen and taken by the hand by God is a fundamental point we must enter into. Lectio divina as one of the classic form of Christian Spirituality has been coming out from cloister to the common life of Christians. And then even more forcefully "In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard for his godly fear" (5: 7). 06.697001 - Per inviare un e-mail Torna su Questo sito utilizza i cookie per analizzare il traffico a fini statistici ed in forma anonima . We, as priests, are called to be ministers of this great Mystery, in the Sacrament and in life. Another brief word, at least about Melchizedek. No one can become a priest by himself; God alone can attract me, can authorize me, can introduce me into participation in Christ's mystery; God alone can enter my life and take me by the hand. This uncommented and somewhat incomprehensible event appears only in Psalm 110 [109] as has been said, but it is clear that Judaism, Gnosticism and Christianity then wished to reflect profoundly on these words and created their interpretations. Hence it was not really abolished but renewed, transformed, so that in Christ all things might find their meaning. Facebook. Practicing Lectio Divina. Lectio Divina adalah sebuah kalimat bahasa Latin untuk "pembacaan Ilahi" dan mewakili sebuah teknik monastik awal dari doa yang berlanjut dalam praktik di dalam kehidupan dan perutusan. Lectio Divina 23.12.2020 – Ia Dinamai Yohanes Puncta 24.12.20: Dream of Me RIP Romo Heinrich Bollen SVD, Pernah Jadi Pastor Komunitas Katolik Berbahasa Jerman di Jakarta Of course, his Heart was always fixed on God, he always saw God, he was always in intimate conversation with him. 06.697001 - Per inviare un e-mail Torna su Questo sito utilizza i cookie per analizzare il traffico a fini statistici ed in forma anonima . It is said that by means of this obedience Christ is made perfect, in Greek teleiothèis (cf. Indeed, obedience, namely, conformity to God, the truth of our being, is true freedom, because it is divinization. Rather, he offered himself and made this offering of himself with the very compassion that transforms the suffering of the world into prayer and into a cry to the Father. The Fathers stressed that he is one of the holy pagans of the Old Testament and this shows that even from paganism there is a path that leads to Christ. http://www.pitturalectiodivina.com L'esercizio costante della Pittura, nello Studio di Laura Grosso. Lectio Divina As Carmelites We live our life of allegiance to Jesus Christ and to serve Him faithfully with a pure heart and a clear conscience through a commitment to seek the face of the living God (the contemplative dimension of life), through prayer, through fraternity, and through service ( diakonia ). We know that throughout the Torah, that is, in all religious legislation, the word tèleion, used here, means priestly ordination. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. Let us now look at the individual elements concerning the priesthood as best we can. Finally the Letter to the Hebrews sums up all this compassion in the word hypakoèn, obedience: it is all obedience. This is what the Letter to the Hebrews says: "Our priest... is seated at the right hand of the throne... in the sanctuary, the true tent which is set up... by the Lord" (cf. Misalnya, mengingat pernyataan Yesus dalam Yohanes 14:27: "Damai sejahtera Kutinggalkan bagimu.Damai sejahtera-Ku Kuberikan kepadamu" pendekatan analitis akan fokus pada alasan pernyataan tersebut selama Perjamuan Terakhir, konteks Alkitab, dll Tapi di Lectio Divina … These aspects are not to be regarded as differentiated stages, but as viewpoints of a single act which is at once simple and complex: simple, because it is basically an attempt to respond to God’s Word with all my heart; complex, because it is basically an attempt to respond to God’s Word with all my heart. Pokoknya karena Roh Kudus adalah jiwa Kitab Suci, maka Roh itu juga harus menjadi jiwa lectio divina (S.A. Panimolle [editor], Ascolto della Parole e Preghiera: La “Lectio Divina”, 81-103, 187-211 dengan sangat baik menguraikan tentang peranan Roh Kudus dalam lectio divina baik menurut Kitab Suci maupun menurut Vatikan II). After Abraham's victory over several kings, Melchizedek, King of Salem, of Jerusalem, appears and brings out bread and wine. MEETING WITH THE PARISH PRIESTS OF THE DIOCESE OF ROME, "LECTIO DIVINA" OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI, Hall of Blessings Thursday, 18 February 2010. At a first level the Greek text may be translated as: "he was redeemed from his anguish", and in this sense Jesus is heard. This would therefore be a hint of what St Luke tells us: an angel strengthened him (cf. In fact the Letter to the Hebrews says that "he offered up prayers and supplications", "loud cries and tears" (5: 7). God has instructed us in the Bible not to perform “special kinds of process[es]” or “formula[s],”11 as Thomas Keating calls lectio divina, to induce mystical experiences (see Deuteronomy 18:9-11); thus, we believe ample warning about lectio divina is warranted. Lời Chúa nuôi dưỡng tương quan cá vị với Thiên Chúa … For Heaven is open and people do not offer some thing, rather, the human being becomes one with God and this is true worship. Lectio divina is still exists after more than fifteen centuries. Being a servant of the Eucharist is, therefore, a depth of the priestly mystery. Thứ Năm 15 Tháng Mười, 2020. Continuing our reading, a sentence of difficult interpretation follows. Tel: 06 69 70 01 (centralino) - 06 69 91 653 (emergenze), Il Papa al Gesù nella festa di S. Ignazio. We say, rightly, that Jesus did not offer God some thing. The humanity of the priest does not correspond to the Platonic or Aristotelian ideal which claims that the true man is the one who lives in contemplation of the truth alone and so is blessed happy because he only has friendship with beautiful things, with divine beauty, while "the work" is left to others. Let us also make this reality a practical factor in our life: if this is how it is, a priest must really be a man of God, he must know God intimately and know him in communion with Christ and so we must live this communion; and the celebration of Holy Mass, the prayer of the Breviary, all our personal prayers are elements of being with God, of being men of God. "Father, save me from this hour... Father glorify your name" (cf. God has instructed us in the Bible not to perform “special kinds of process[es]” or “formula[s],”11 as Thomas Keating calls lectio divina, to induce mystical experiences (see Deuteronomy 18:9-11); thus, we believe ample warning about lectio divina is warranted. Jn 1: 14). Pinterest. The Author of this Letter introduced a new way of understanding the Old Testament as a Book that speaks of Christ. Thus, with these fundamental elements, paganism too is on its way to Christ, and in a certain way, makes Christ's light present. This would be being heard in the sense that God gives him the strength to bear the whole of this burden and so he was heard. We learn two things from the Law, from the priesthood of Aaron, the Author of the Letter to the Hebrews says: if he is truly to be a mediator between God and man, a priest must be man. Yet this is a solution that is not an exegesis but rather a betrayal of the text. It is the divinization of the human being, hence the redemption of the human being, because God's will is not a tyrannical will, is not a will outside our being but is the creative will itself; it is the very place where we find our true identity.