José: a simplicity that acolhe or Mystery
When José agrees with me, he goes as the old man of
the Senhor orders him and takes his table away from home (Mt 1:24).
Never again will you enjoy the image of São José.
Austere and silent day, strange day. Always those who Maria wants something
better. Traditionally, based on apocryphal text, it presents José as an ideal
and living pair of six sons (four men and two men). In our modern times, she
was accused of pedophilia, seeing as how Maria lived for two years in the old
age. As I said, José's silence in the New Testament is amazing. The Gospel of
Marcos, which, according to tradition, is most ancient, does not make a direct
reference to José, and indeed Jesus is remembered as the son of Mary. No Gospel
of João, the images and images of Jesus are mentioned, but not even a vestige
of José. Somente our Gospels of Mateus and Lucas have some reference to José,
but he never does it, or so, no word is attributed to him. Why so much silence?
Isn't he foreign? Or what is it that I have already said?
By seeking answers in texts from other sources, such
as Judaica, it is possible to make assumptions that we are dismantling and
deconstructing established constructions in other places. Pirké Avot 5:23 we
said that, in the Jewish tradition, the house was marked for a rapaz in the
last year, as for a moça, aos doze. Therefore, following this line of fish,
José was a young gentleman loved by Maria. Honestly, I prefer this version
because it is more realistic and because, in a certain way, it returns to the
history of Maria and José more authentically. Instead of the story of a
stranger forced between an idyllic home and a young man, it contains a story
imbued with the true feelings that constitute our stories of love. Além said,
thinking about José as a young man of three years allows us to better
understand Maria's perplexity about the proposal made by me. While listening to
God's words about returning to my Senhor's mother, Maria did not escape from
the perspective of her home with an idyllic home, but instead a voice of
authentic love, vivid in a different and original way like her young
José.
This doesn't end here. It is possible to take another
significant step in the deconstruction of a tradition which, in order to
"save" the virginity of Mary, alters the historical facts which, in
reality, bind us to a more human and authentic José, conferring even greater
value on the figure of Mary. In fact, José is represented by the tradition of
the New Testament as a just home, whose loyalty stemmed from his loyalty to the
tradition of his country. However, carefully reflecting on this tradition, if
José were completely faithful to his wife, there would be such a reason for
Maria's assassination. According to the tradition of the Old Testament, Maria
must have died because the son she was carrying was not her future husband, and
José, if he had just no sense of faith in tradition, must have publicly
repudiated her. But no. As we know, these things we meet in a different way,
because José desobedeceu, rebelou-se against her of his country, who queriam
that his future wife was apedrejada. Just at that moment, I saw your heart,
your feelings, once again from her, that he, a young, loved one, felt through
Maria. And love opens its heart to mercy, leaving the side of the sacrifice,
anticipating that as a young child it will ever be pointed out as an authentic journey
by those we love or Pai: "That mercy, more than that sacrifice." It
was the rebelliousness of José who allowed the Holy Spirit to enter the history
and, moreover, we gave ourselves to the mother of that Salvador's birthplace:
Maria. Obrigado, José!
I am gold and I implore a good degree to a José as he
is:
O São José, may I desobedecest you of the Fathers who
queriam Maria apedrejada até to death.
I implore you:
Give me strength to rebel against all your injustices.
Help me to radically reject the religion I have.
Let me, in all the circumstances of life, to place in
the first place, as you would imagine, the love for her and the appreciation
for tradition.
Impress my mind with strength, so that I am not
helpless in conflict situations that seem difficult to resolve.
Help me, enfim, to look into life with serenity and
trust, like a wonderful sun of a Pai who longs for us, our sons, who we follow
the logic of mercy, and instead of obedience we follow the traditions, which we
call.
Amém
Not silent from the sacred history, José emerged as a
common home, deeply extraordinary. His life unfolds through the ancient streets
of Nazaré, in the spirit of his workshop and in the most discreet manner of his
prayers, but in his heart he carries a sound that transfigures everything. It
is a song that is born not from personal ambition, nor from the pursuit of
greatness, but from the humility and spirit of a voice that whispers in one's
heart. Let us believe that the presence of the Mystery is not as forceful as an
outward one, but it is revealed that life is flowing, that we are capable of
accepting every fall like an inexperienced goddess.
Joseph lives immersed in the simplicity of small
gestures. All the hands, the opening of his workshop and his hands, marked by
the work, move like the wisdom of his predecessors. Ele aplaina, serra, pray: o tempo da
transformationação da madeira acompanha seus dias. He doesn't seek the exceptional, he doesn't pursue or
succeed; Again I said, meet the extraordinary not the ordinary, in beauty no
honest work. Even in the synagogue, with the warmth of the community and the
ancestral voice of the Scriptures, it is a place of learning and learning.
Joseph knows that faith is nourished by perseverance, that prayer is entwined
with labor, that hope is nourished by the ever-humbling details of life.
On days that happen, always bad and always new, José
cultivates seeds of conscience. Each gesture, as soon as it appears, becomes an
opportunity to learn to love the reality as it presents itself, without asking
to mold it to one's own desires. Your conscience is born from silence and from
listening: a heart that must be educated by the rhythms of life, which is open
to what you know, can never resist. It is in our details, that part of the
conversation, that gaze turned towards Maria, that is cared for by Menino, that
José has built a just conscience, that he cannot master the medium or the
doubt, but that he enters, with simplicity, into the bond of the Mystery that
guides everything.
Filling the Mystery means giving space to the
unexpected, allowing revelation to penetrate the mundane substance of everyday
life. Joseph says discreetly, without warning: don't look for extraordinários
sinais, you'll be surprised by the presence of the Mystery in the entrelinhas
from day to day. My son is not an escape from reality, but a new perspective on
his own reality. In every encounter, in every effort, I perceive an echo of the
mystery that transforms simple things into the sinais of eternity. Like, or
labor, or afeto, or suffering and joy return to places of revelação, wherefore
the divine approaches and life acquires a more profound meaning.
For many centuries, José remains a shining example of
someone who knows how to embrace life with a strong and grateful heart. His
justification is not formalism, but rather at the disposal of being molded by
the mystery that manifests itself at the same time and, above all, in most
simple people. His story tells us that true faith changes not through
spectacular gestures, but rather through a loyalty obstinate to reality, lived
as a man and a man should. By following these steps, we will learn that conscience
is formed in everyday gestures, that the beauty of life is hidden in simplicity
and that the Mystery can only be encountered by those who, like José, embrace
us every day with admiration and silent affection.
. A history of Elizabeth
They were not sons, because Isabel was estéril and
both were of advanced life (Lk 1:6).
The theme of sterility goes all the way through
the Bible and, once in a while, it's worth addressing it.
It is difficult to pass from despair to sterility of
all the spouses of the three first patriarchs, Sara, Rebeca and Raquel, spouses
of Abraão, Isaac and Jacó, respectively. These biblical facts are returned to
other parts of the Scriptures, instead of indicating that it is God who gives
life and is not at home, sublining that he is not the man who always fulfills
the promises. In truth, it's God that Sarah, Rebeca and Rachel come back and
are capable of conceiving a son and don't care about their husbands. Or what is
in the game is not so much the authority of the homens who, as we know, were
pais due to the polygamous structure of the current culture, but to the
motherhood of the women whom God sought to fulfill His promises. From the
beginning, a divine promise relativizes family ties and pai-filho
relationships, breaks with patriarchal success and establishes the home of
Israel through the multitudes, offering us an equal structure.
Together with this, there is in the Bible a strongly
symbolic theme of the eeriness of the desert which is transformed into plain,
with streams of water (Is 35; Is 40).
There is a mystery, profound and silent, that
permeates the essence of our existence: or of hope that endures even within the
limits of rationality, of faith that dares to believe why everything seems
intransparent. The story of Isabel and Zacarias emerges as a dark story,
telling us that the impossible could, in fate, be possible again. It is a story
of expectations consumed over time, of desires buried in everyday poetry, but
also of unexpected turns that subvert all human expectations. Meditating on this
history helps us to recognize the inestimable value of hope, the ability to
restore the feeling and a future that everything seems irremediably lost.
Isabel and Zacarias live in foreignness and speed,
conditions that, in the culture of the time, represented the definitive
impossibility of descent, of a land without sands and of a love without
promises. No condition, no hope is not a passing feeling, but a
silent companion that creeps into the corners of two days and weighs on the
sounds . Isabel's spiritual womb is a metaphor for all human
situations in which hope seems to be destined for friendship: broken
relationships, failed plans, expectations that are transformed into residence.
The coming day of the same time represents a life that approaches twilight, so
that the hope for a thousand things seems almost miraculous.
It has a deep and useful message that we share with
Isabel and Zacarias: to embrace our own fragility , to accept our own
identity and that it is different from ours, not to escape from losing our
sins, but to remain there with courage . Learning to live with the
symptoms of death, whether solidity, disappointment, sorrow or vainness, means
remaining faithful to ourselves, even when the surrounding circumstances seem
to give us all hope. The apex of life, even in times of trial, is an act of
faith: I do not wish or hope for the last word , but I continue to
turn my heart towards those who are already invisible and can surprise me.
Elisabeth personifies, with humility and
firmness, the silent force of those who have never left . His faith
is not ostensive nor shouted, but whispered every day, a perseverance that he
does not fear for a long time. Despite the critical criticism of society,
despite the weight of her own doubts, Elisabeth does not lose her dignity even
in the strength of her heart. Your courage remains open to the sun, and can
only be cultivated when everything indicates that it must be rejected. Nela, or
thousand from the confiança inabalável comes true, a light that burns under the
chinzas of habit.
Suddenly, the wind of Mystery shakes the curtains of
his house: so that before it has dried up, now life flourishes; whereby the
silence returned, now it was filled with joy. Elizabeth's suffering is
transformed into a song, her belly into a new hope. The realization of an
impossible dream is not enough to satisfy a person's desire, but a sign that
the Mystery of Life can surpass and subvert all human predictions. The
happiness that brota is born from heartfelt hope, from constant vigilance even
when the noise seems to stop.
This story reveals the paradoxical logic of the
Mystery: love manifests precisely where the shadows seem more dense, the
life of the desert, the grace insinuates itself into the breach of our
vulnerability . In favor of Elisabeth and Zacarias there is no obstinacy,
but an opening confiding in the unexpected. It is the light of a Love that
cannot be sold by trevas, which transforms darkness into dawn. This light
reminds us that the profound meaning of life is not understood through human
calculations, but is revealed to those who know how to hope and embrace it.
The story of Elisabeth and Zacarias encourages us
to rediscover the value of silent prayer, of meditation that brings forth
the depths of heart and open space to the Mystery . It is a meditation
that we learn the art of smelling or that whispers to us in life, to
distinguish in voice from the hope of the middle one. The spiritual journey is
not an escape from reality, but rather a deeper immersion in it, the point of recognizing
a greater level of awareness. Rezar is to confide in one's wounds in the Mystery,
to meditate is to decide to mold oneself for the certainty that, even when one
is not there, something is already brooding.
The story of Elisabeth and Zacarias returns to the
prophecy and provocation: we believe that we believe in the possibility, that
we do not fear our inner deserts, that we do not give up when everything
indicates that we must abandon our hope . In the world many times
dominated by the efficiency and logic of results, the spirituality seems to us
that life flourishes precisely where we learn to hope, to trust, to be
superior. That Isabel's courage is our example: in the noise, the light just
hopes to be cooled. And sometimes, when everything seems lost, the Mystery
surprises us again, allowing us to glimpse that the impossibility is the space
in which hope dwells.
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