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Voilà ce que nous proclamons et voilà ce que vous croyez

Posté par diaconos le 14 septembre 2022

La résurrection de Jésus donne sens à l’histoire

La résurrection de Jésus donne un sens à l’histoire

De la première lettre de Paul aux Corinthiens

Frères, je vous rappelle la Bonne Nouvelle que je vous ai annoncée ; cet Évangile, vous l’avez reçu ; c’est en lui que vous tenez bon, c’est par lui que vous serez sauvés si vous le gardez tel que je vous l’ai annoncé ; autrement, c’est pour rien que vous êtes devenus croyants  Avant tout, je vous ai transmis ceci, que j’ai moi-même reçu : le Christ est mort pour nos péchés conformément aux Écritures, et il fut mis au tombeau ; il est ressuscité le troisième jour conformément aux Écritures, il est apparu à Pierre, puis aux Douze ; ensuite il est apparu à plus de cinq cents frères à la fois, la plupart sont encore vivants, et quelques-uns sont endormis dans la mort,  ensuite il est apparu à Jacques, puis à tous les Apôtres.

    Et en tout dernier lieu, il est même apparu à l’avorton que je suis. Car moi, je suis le plus petit des Apôtres, je ne suis pas digne d’être appelé Apôtre, puisque j’ai persécuté l’Église de Dieu. Mais ce que je suis, je le suis par la grâce de Dieu, et sa grâce, venant en moi, n’a pas été stérile. Je me suis donné de la peine plus que tous les autres ; à vrai dire, ce n’est pas moi, c’est la grâce de Dieu avec moi. Bref, qu’il s’agisse de moi ou des autres, voilà ce que nous proclamons, voilà ce que vous croyez. (1 Co. 15, 1-11)  

Les témoins de la résurrection de Jésus-Christ

Paul  recommença à faire connaître aux Corinthiens l’Évangile qu’il leur avait annoncé et par lequel seul ils purent être sauvés. Il leur rendit le témoignage qu’ils l’eurent reçu, qu’ils s’y tinrent fermes jusqu’ici, mais déjà il jeta un regard inquiet et triste sur l’erreur qu’il attaqua relativement à la résurrection. De là, cette restriction conditionnelle : si vous le retenez… non seulement tel, mais  selon la parole par laquelle je vous l’ai annonce. Paul opposa la certitude et le contenu de cette parole divine aux objections des adversaires, qui, tout en retenant l’Évangile, le faussèrent. De là, pour eux, le danger d’avoir cru en vain. 

Rien n’est plus frappant, relativement à l’autorité divine des Écritures, que le soin avec lequel Jésus-Christ et ses apôtres en appellent sans cesse à cette autorité, même lorsqu’il s’agit d’un fait dont ils sont eux-mêmes les témoins, comme ici la mort et la résurrection de Jésus. Quant aux douze apôtres, ils le virent très souvent après sa résurrection (Jn 20, 19 ; Lc 24, 36  ; Ac. 1, 3). Ils n’étaient plus que onze ; mais cette dénomination les douze était devenue si habituelle, qu’elle resta même après la chute de Judas.

Cette apparition à plus de cinq cents frères à la fois n’est pas rapportée par les évangélistes, elle eut lieu sans doute en Galilée (Mt 28, 10, où Jésus avait plus de disciples que partout ailleurs. Ces témoins vivaient encore au temps de Paul, il en appela à eux, malgré la certitude divine de son propre témoignage. Il n’est aucun fait de l’histoire plus inébranlablement confirmé que celui de la résurrection de Jésus-Christ. Le terrible souvenir d’avoir persécuté Christ dans les siens, accompagna Paul durant toute sa vie comme une cause d’humiliation et de tristesse (Ép. 3, 8 ; 1 Tm 1, 13) ; mais aussi ce souvenir même, joint au sentiment de la miséricorde immense dont il fut l’objet, devint en lui un motif  de consacrer ses forces et sa vie, jusqu’à son dernier soupir, à l’avancement de la sainte cause qu’il avait méconnut. C’est ainsi que la grâce de Dieu transforme en bien même l’erreur et le péché.

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Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time in the year C

Posté par diaconos le 14 septembre 2022

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time in the year C dans La messe du dimanche parable-unjust-steward

This is the story of the steward, who is in charge of managing the property of a rich man. When the steward learns that he is to be dismissed for « wasting his property », he calls all those who owe his master money and settles their debt for a fraction of what they owe. He did this to win the favour of these men so that he could find a job once he was dismissed.

# The Unfaithful Steward is a parable of Jesus Christ written in the Gospel of Luke. It relates, among other things, the non-attachment to earthly goods. According to Gaudentius of Brescia, one must be attached to sharing: « The Lord Jesus is the true teacher who teaches his disciples the precepts necessary for salvation. He told his Apostles of that time the parable of the steward to exhort them, and all believers today, to be faithful in giving alms. 1 This venerable man does indeed say that one should not spend by wasting, and that one should live as a Pilgrim on earth.

The believer must attach himself to heavenly goods, concludes the saint. The parable of the faithful and wise steward is another parable of Jesus in Luke, which is also found in Matthew. It is an image of trust, respect, faithfulness and prudence. Through these ethical values, it comes close to the cardinal and theological virtues. For the Doctor of the Church John Chrysostom, the faithful bursar is the one who knows how to dispense the divine word and miracles with generosity, like the pastors of the Church.

John Chrysostom, in his study of the Gospel according to St Matthew, says that the title of bursar also refers to the powerful of the world, the kings who must help the people. The saint reminds us that we are only dispensers of spiritual and material wealth, not the true owners. The archbishop also says that punishment hangs over the nose of the miser.

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Luke

At that time Jesus said to his disciples : « A rich man had a manager who was reported to him as squandering his property. He called him in and said to him, ‘What do I hear about you? Give me an account of your management, for you can no longer be my manager. The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master has taken away my management? Work the land? I don’t have the strength. Beg? I would be ashamed. I know what I am going to do, so that when I am dismissed from my management, people will welcome me into their homes’. So he called in, one by one, those who were in debt to his master.

He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master ?’ He answered, ‘A hundred barrels of oil. The manager said to him, ‘Here is your receipt; quickly sit down and write fifty. Then he asked another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred bags of wheat. The manager said to him, ‘Here is your receipt, write down 80′. The master praised the dishonest manager because he had acted skilfully; for the sons of this world are more skilful among themselves than the sons of the light. But I say to you: Make friends with dishonest money, so that when the day comes that it is no longer there, these friends will welcome you into the eternal mansions.

He who is trustworthy in the smallest thing is trustworthy in the greatest. He who is dishonest in the least is dishonest in the greatest. If, then, you have not been trustworthy in dishonest money, who will trust you with true good? And if you have not been trustworthy in what belongs to others, who will give you what is yours? No servant can serve two masters: either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money at the same time.  (Lk 16, 1-13)

The parable of the unfaithful steward

A rich man had a steward whose misdeeds were brought to his attention. He called him to account and removed him from his post. The bursar considered the various courses of action open to him and decided that the best was to secure friends who would receive him into their homes. He sent for his master’s debtors and told them to write new notes, on which their debts were reduced in various proportions. The master praised the skill of his steward. Jesus set this as an example to his disciples and pointed out to them that they were inferior to the children of this age in prudence.) His master knew everything, so he sent for him, asked him for an account of his administration and announced his dismissal.

« I know what I will do, so that when I am dismissed from the administration, they may receive me into their homes » (Lk 16, 4)  This monologue is admirable in its precision and finesse. The bursar did not let himself be troubled, he thought about it, spoke to himself, weighed and rejected the means he did not want; then, suddenly, he exclaimed : . His thoughts fell upon certain people whom he referred to only as they, who could be of use to him. What gave him so much knowledge and energy was that he had taken seriously the announced dismissal: « When I am dismissed, they will receive me into their houses. One hundred measures of oil : this is the Hebrew bath, equal to the Attic metrete, which contained about 40 litres. The discount of fifty baths (2000 litres) was therefore considerable.

This oil had been bought several times by the debtor, who traded in it and left a note in the hands of the bursar. The bursar returned the note to the debtor, inviting him to change the figure or rather to make a new note. All this was done immediately. The horn, a measure for dry goods, was equivalent to 10 baths. The bursar reduced this value by twenty per cent, to the benefit of the debtor. The difference he made between the latter and the former showed that he had regard to the circumstances of fortune in which these men, whom he knew perfectly well, might find themselves. Everywhere the same skill was shown.

The master of the parable praised his steward for the injustice, with irony, of his skill. These last words are a reflection of Jesus, showing how he heard the praise of the master of the bursar. This is why Jesus was able to propose his conduct to the imitation of his disciples. In the same way, elsewhere he recommended that they be as careful as snakes, and he invoked the example of a selfish friend or an unjust judge. In all these cases, the essential thing was to understand the point of comparison.

Jesus motivated his exhortation to prudence by a consideration which the experience of all times confirms, alas! It was that his disciples were far from exercising the same prudence in their eternal interests as the worldly people did in their earthly affairs. He called by a well-known Hebraism, sons of this age, or of the present economy, or of this world, those who were born in it and who behaved according to the spirit and the maxims which reigned in it; and sons of the light, those who were enlightened, penetrated, and regenerated by the divine truth.

Deacon Michel Houyoux

Links to other Christian website

◊  Loyola Press : klick here to read the post →  Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, year C

◊ Benedictine Abbey : klick here to read the post →   Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C 

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Jeudi de la vingt-quatrième semaine du Temps Ordinaire de l’année C

Posté par diaconos le 14 septembre 2022

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De l’Évangile de Jésus Christ selon Jean

Près de la croix de Jésus se tenaient sa mère et la sœur de sa mère, Marie, femme de Cléophas, et Marie Madeleine. Jésus, voyant sa mère, et près d’elle le disciple qu’il aimait, dit à sa mère : «Femme, voici ton fils.»   Puis il dit au disciple : « Voici ta mère. » Et à partir de cette heure-là, le disciple la prit chez lui. (Jn 19, 25-27)

La tendresse filiale de Jésus

« Près de la croix de Jésus se tenaient sa mère et la sœur de sa mère, Marie, femme de Clopas, et Marie-Madelaine.» (Jn 19, 25)   À cette scène de brutale indifférence dans laquelle des soldats romains furent les acteurs, succéda un détail que Jean seul conserva et qui nous permet de plonger un regard dans l’exquise délicatesse et le tendre amour qui remplissaient l’âme de Jésus, même au sein de son agonie. C’est une perle dans l’histoire de la Passion.

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