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- Greater works.
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"He who believe in me will also do the works that
I do, even greater works because I go to the Father"
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Since the coming of Jesus nothing is as before. He turned every
thing upside down, and not only the tables of the merchants of
the Temple. The "most little" among us, such as a child
with no name who does not speak, is "the greatest"
for him (Luke, 9, 48).
The wealthier, the most educated, the most mighty, even the most
holly, or dedicated person is not the greatest for him. That
can discourage all our efforts and make Lent seem hopeless.
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And again:" For who is the greatest among you takes the
seat of the smallest and who leads serves " (Luke 22, 26).
Can it be a political programme and the law of our cities? |
Clearly our rationality is useless to understand the personality
of Jesus, are our generosities of any help to get his message
across? We have tried every thing, school of prayer, spent money
on retreats, stayed in monasteries, lit candles on oratories,
written pious sentences, and still we did not find God.
Finally we gave up, and looked inside our selves, and then we
recognized that" God is greater than our own heart"
(1 John 3, 20).
We finally understood that the "great works" that Jesus
did, we do them also: because where we are, he is there, it is
why the lame can walk, the blind can see and the deaf can hear,
through our faith in Jesus communicated to all of us.
Considering the "greater works" as his disciples, today,
we go further away than Palestine, till the end of the world,
and we bring his words of life till the end of the time. They
are also his works, and they are "greater" because
they follow his action in our self.
What we are doing today, it is a harvest greater than the
seed, a tree greater than its seed, in which the birds can nest,
a Kingdom in which justice has to be built every day, a humanity
which has to be reconciled with itself.
Jesus makes us responsible of that. He has inaugurated a Kingdom
when he was living with us; we have to achieve it under the impulse
of the Holy Spirit he sent to us. |
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