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FRIARS OF THE ORDER OF PREACHERS MASS OF THE JULY 27
They would always get together at the same place, at the same time. Each day they took time together to discuss the evolution of the world. Present were: the god of the internet, the god of the cell phone, the god of email, the god of the computer, as well as the god of television, the latter being older than the others. Their get together were obviously, presided by the god of electricity. Two gods were absent, however, because they were so busy elsewhere: it was the god who ran after time, and the god who was frantic after money. On that day, in a plenary session, the god of electricity had a heart attack. Nobody managed to save him. He died right there and then, followed by the other gods who existed through him, except obviously the two gods who were always absent, who on that day continued to run after their own divinity. In an instant, due to an eternal rupture of electricity, the earth had lost almost ah its gods. The people were consternated. They did not know anymore to which saint they should turn. It continued for so long that they became slaves of these different gods. However, after a few days, several had the sentiment to recover a certain freedom of not having to tie their lives to such ephemeral divinities. To believe in Jesus Christ, the only God revealed to us in three Persons, is for each one of us a unique opportunity to tie one’s life to only one God. To believe in the God of Jesus Christ makes us, free beings, profoundly free because we accept that it is following him and only him that we walk on the road of our life. To believe in the God of Jesus Christ we allow ourselves therefore to live our lives in the rhythm of the Gospel which always proposes to us a road that leads us to the divinization of our actual humanity. Is there anything greater than the experience of freedom? I don’t think so. Besides, from the moment of Creation God made us “good soil” for seeds. It is true that with the unexpected turn of events of life, certain painful moments, moral agony, flaws of the soul, our personal soil lost perhaps some of its original richness. In certain places of our heart, weeds have grown, in other places, the soil has become drier, rockier, but there is always a place where the soil has kept its original vitality. It consists of God’s place. It is for us to find it, to rediscover it if necessary. We only need to search the road marked in us by the Son in the Spirit. In following him, we rediscover, therefore, not the divine shadow, but the presence of the Father, and more profoundly, our being. A presence, which is not satisfied with only an intimate meeting, but which expects us to understand the mission which was divulged in the fulfilment of the Kingdom of God. By definition, the Father marked the world by the abundance of seeds. He sows in all winds and in all places. But this Word offered cannot close itself on itself. It is there to be shared and lived in the manner in which we let love enter the heart of our lives. In fact, in the first reading, Moses suggests to us the proposals and exhortations like a good General Chapter. As for Jesus, he invited us to listen to the Word and to understand it, that is to say, to live it. The Word of God invites us to become “philographs.” For those who have not yet come across this word, rest assured, I invented it and brought it to this celebration. Here is its definition: “philography” is calligraphy of the heart when our faces shine with all that which we have looked al that is beautiful in our most inner being. Philography is an art offered to all humans on the basis of simply being human. Each one of us is called to being a Philographer, that is, people who are ready to walk on the on the road of their destiny having as a sole objective to lose themselves, but to lose themselves in God because they have acquired this deep conviction that ah that is hived is hived in love, forever engraved in the heart of the beloved and the lover. The art of Philography rejoices in the illumination of our tenderness, in the transparency of the looks we exchange in truthfulness. Philography is the most beautiful scripture that could be given to us to live because love is this marvellous feeling that never stops multiplying itself with encounters al the rate of 100 or 60 or 3 to I. God created us above all to love and to be loved. Nothing is more important than love offered and love received and with the same heart to love our own communities which at times seems quite difficult to achieve. This experiences leads us in such a way to discover the importance, to see the necessity, to place humility, a quality typically Dominican, at the heart of our humanity. We are, therefore, called to be humble, that is, to have a high esteem of ourselves - that should not be too difficult - but by recognizing that each human is like ourselves. Humility, therefore, does not consist in crushing oneself, to belittle oneself, but to always be attentive to bring out the best in those whom we meet in our hives as Preachers. In acting this way, we write the Word of God forever in the depth of hearts. May we never forget it, everyone, we are the “good soil” of God, called to become Phonographs for eternity. Amen. |
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Capítulo General 2007 - ORDEN DE PREDICADORES |
