(…)All
one! It’s a goal to reach. It’s a mandate: a mandate from the One to whom every
person should joyfully surrender oneself, God who is our Father. If the heavens
were to open and he were to speak, looking at each of us, he would tell us: “Be
one! You are brothers and sisters, therefore, be united!”
One
day heaven did open up, because the Word became flesh and grew up. He taught,
performed miracles, gathered disciples, founded the Church and, before dying on
the Cross, said to the Father: “May they all be one.”
He
did not address human beings: perhaps they would not have understood. He turned
to the Father, because God is the bond of this unity, and he obtained the grace
for us to be one among us.
Now
we Christians talk a lot about the unity of the mystical Body and of the
Church, but we often fall in the absurdity of knowing things, of being familiar
with them, but not of living them.
We
know that we are brothers and sisters, we know that a link binds us, but we do
not act as brothers and sisters. We pass by each other without looking at one
another, without loving each other. But then, of what does our fraternity
consist?
Yes,
if we are in the state of grace, God already binds us, but this is not all that
he wants from us. He wants that we open our eyes and look at each other, that
we help and love each other. He wants that we love others as ourselves, precisely
like this: as ourselves.
But
who does this nowadays? So why did Jesus say it? Is it possible that only the
saints live the Gospel? And what do Christians do? They try, as much as
possible, not to do evil and, when they want , to do just a bit of good.
This
is not what Jesus wanted.
If
you walk through a pagan city, you almost don’t realize that you are not in a
Christian city. That’s because in a Christian city, one can no longer see
authentic Christians, people who bear witness to their God.
This
is our fault; we have forgotten about what is essential. Our eyes are clouded
by material goods, different activities, sentiments, personal ideas and egoism.
We don’t set aside anything to give priority to God.
God
does exist; yes, there is also God, but he is one of the many things. We
remember him in certain moments, especially when we need him.
As
Christians, we should live differently. We must put God in the rightful place
in our lives and all the rest is secondary.
And
He will teach us how we should live and will repeat his words to us: “Love one
another.”
This
is everything.
If
each of us translate these words to life and love everyone around us as Jesus
would, then we’ll spark a Christian revolution. This revolution compels with
love all people to recognize one another as brothers and sisters.
Then
many things will change. Humanity will be my family, as Jesus said: "My
mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God."
And
passing through this world, we will realize that people are not just persons,
but they are children of God.
All
one!
Let’s
make the world just one family, where the rule of every rule is Love.
Let’s
make of every city a new city.
This
is our goal.
If
we don’t work for this, we could call ourselves failed Christians. (…)
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