Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Br. Erik - preaching a Recollection

Padre Pio introduced Br. Erick...





He began saying that Recollection is to collect together everything you have heard, debated, experienced and prayed upon...put all in deep relationship with Lord of life who gives meaning to our life....The parable of worker hired at a last minute...kingdom of God compared to a landowner...tells us about God and men...Landowner goes out in the morning...ordinary and every morning...at the dawn of history...God looking out men for his vineyard...God has been looking for me...Adam where are you...Pope Francis went to Israel...repeated God's cry Adam where are you...God is looking every human person to offer life giving covenant ...go out and work for the vineyard...God has some expectations...placing trust in the men...Francis there is sculpture where God creates Adam...Christ is reshaping the face of Adam...the head of Adam resting on the lap of God...who is re-shaping the face...God recognizing his images and future of His own son....the dignity human beings have....
The punishment of work does show the aspect of work full of toil...many people experienced...work came before the fall...a normal activity in Eden....God takes man and places him in garden to work and to take care....Adam as priest and worker.....work is worship of God...work is Liturgy....Adam works for God...Man re-produces the outline the divine creation....work of man beings about the growth of Gods creation...
After the fall God expelled Adam so that he could cultivate in the garden.....carried out in toil, soil and tears...God is not cursing work.....God has given power to the man over creation...soil resists....disharmony between man and earth....disharmony leads to destruction and un - creation....God blesses the work of mans hand...Ps 1-2....you will feed the work of your hands...blessedness....our work whether outside or outside....should repair the disharmony....ourselves and with whom we work...re-creation...
Gospel tells that God expects of us....to participate with him and create harmony....at any hour he calls...what matters is our response to the call....put all energy in the work...make us associates and participants....
The Landowner agrees with each of them about the payment.....at every hour he goes...he finds still other people hanging around....nothing to do...no one has hired us....you go into the vineyard too...
Testament: i worked with my hands and i desire brothers to work...those don't know how to work should learn...avoid idleness....recourse to the table of the Lord...May the Lord give you peace
what kind of work Francis did......not for economic reasons asking friars to work....there is a value and dignity in work....human person who gives that dignity to work....work is to be done to avoid the idleness...work helps to help us to build up and take away laziness.....work hard....dont work then don't eat.....lazy people are ridiculed....Francis gives us example....giving of our whole person to the work...doing the best we can....the whole person should be involved....work with the competence....well done says Bible....work is one of the fields sin employs its power over man...something divisive....Francis wants us to be peace makers....Francis insists on work not for payment ......
Mathew Gospel....one denarius.....a payment for a daily worker....those who are hired also get fair wages....the value of work is not question of buying and selling but question of justice....which makes us to give to person what is his due.....Benedict: work is contrast based on trust and justice...hirer trust the workers....those who are hired too have trust in the hirer,,,,in many places trust is damaged...how can we encourage the people to rebuild the trust....
No utilitarian level takes away the real sense of work...Francis ; work as sign of humility.....the people of Assisi wanted to see friars working....they trusted in the brothers.....could the friars still be humble and simple.....
Late comers: received one DENARIUS and those who came early murmured....master replies,,,,,i am not unjust to you....we agreed for one denarius....have right to do what is mine...grumble because i am good.....
Every parable is discovery of the meaning of life....going deep....one meaning of parable.....in strange way....not his own intelligence and strength that made him to work...but it was God who made to work....they failed to appreciate and recognize the face of reason....the wages of resurrection...totally wrong about him and his brothers who were hired at the last moment....failed to see the work of God...falls in jealousy....God was there in working in us...through our hands....
Big surprises....the distribution of resurrection....it was the Lord who was working in our hearts and not realized....this threatens us...jealousy of ourselves...which fails to see the goodness....the hands of God in us
Francis: Almighty just and good Lord...we are nothing...poor....
3 stages of God coming looking for man; God recognizes the face of Jesus Christ, God entrusts work to the man......response is not in measure of production.....work is response of re-creation....response is that we are accepted us we are....the parable focuses that Gods' work we need to see....God's work to share....
Rule Chapter 5: brothers work faithfully and devoutly......
6CPO" it is not idleness but hyper activity....is to be tackled....avoid that which extinguishes our prayer and devotion.....trust in the working of the holy spirit....God's work is being fulfilled....same question: external activity and sprit of devotion and prayer.....Christian perspective work without prayer and action is not the sign of God's kingdom....
work refers to some activity ...production....
Francis: not to neglect the spirit of prayer and devotion in work....he encourages us that we experience the presence of the Lord...it will enliven everything...our relationship....maintain contact with the creator....do his will.....remain in contact with Jesus...who was in Nazareth working...our life is like work of giving birth.....labour room in France is called a work room....giving birth is a hard work...our whole life is giving life.....new life...
Human identity goes from one birth to another.....give birth to child of God that we are....sonship of Jesus to be embodied in our human life...

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