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FRIARS OF THE ORDER OF PREACHERS MASS OF THE AUGUST 7
Dear brother and sisters We can make a parallel reading of the two texts of the Scriptures that we finished to listen to see what the divine wisdom teaches us in this morning. The letter to the Hebrews interprets the passage from the book of Numbers in a Christological sense: Moses who is trusted the house of Israel is a prefiguration of Christ. Nevertheless Moses was just a servant; Christ, in his quality of Son, surpasses him in dignity and in glory being at the head of the House of God. The Biblical text says of Moses that he was very humble, the humbler man than the Earth is well-known. He showed his humility praying by his sister after being humiliated by her. The prophet did not want punishment to his sister but her treatment: “Moses shout towards the Lord: “My God I request you, treat her!” If Jesus Christ surpasses Moses in dignity and in glory, He himself, who is the Son of God, also surpasses him in humility: “though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross.” (Phil 2: 6-8) Jesus proves his humility praying. As his condition of being man, He can effectively pray and he prays. When the man prays, he expresses his dependency in relation to God. It is good for all men this attitude to incline in front of the Lord! At the moments of praying, in the encounters of friendship in the Arch of the Alliance, Moses contemplates the image of the Lord. In the mountain “Jesus, separated from his disciples, raised the mountain to pray” and he speaks with Him face to face. What difficult is for us to drill the depth of the pray of Jesus, when he spoke with his father, with whom he is One. Jesus not only gives sample of his humility praying, but also in his relation with his disciples. Peter, seeing Jesus to walk on the sea, put him on approval as if he had had the right to do that with his Master: "Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water." (Matt. 14:28) Jesus accepts this proposal humbly and lets Peter walk on waters. When Peter no longer can take the weight of the proving that he himself had proposed, Jesus shows his humility again extending his hand to save him. The humility of Jesus is the source of our courage to act. In the asking of Peter there is enough daring and perhaps a little of ingenuous, but what we found here it is mainly a great inequality: Jesus, the Son of God, and Peter the man of little faith. The humility of Jesus unites the both extremes. The humility of Christ is the bridge thanks to which Peter can get to confess: “your are truly the Son of God”. How many times our action is looked like the asking of Peter? How may times our projects are enough dared and perhaps a little ingenuous, without experience and nevertheless inspired by a sincere desire of not running after a mirage! Between this initial desire that arises from us and the firm confession “you are truly the Son of God”, who given to us, is a long-haul ranging by our lack of faith. Christ in his humility is ready to accompany and help us to surpass our lack of faith. |
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Capítulo General 2007 - ORDEN DE PREDICADORES |
