The atypical version of the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

 

Come Holy Spirit enlighten us and guide us in our faith.

Teach us to learn how to live a life inspired according to the Gospel.

Let your action bring us closer to the knowledge of a faith that is echoing.

This we pray in Jesus' name.

 

 

The common understanding of the Kingdom of heaven is something unreachable or if one has to desire it, he should effort to live an impeccable life. A flawless morality with no sin at all. Such thought belies the Kingdom of heaven that Jesus has taught.

 

Let us listen to the gospel of Matthew …

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 13,44-46.

Jesus said to his disciples: “The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls.
When he finds a pearl of great price, he goes and sells all that he has and buys it".

 

 

Two interesting similitudes Jesus had used in order to explain the Kingdom of Heaven. It’s not the paradise that we usually imagine, the garden with a lot of beautiful stuffs.  The Kingdom of Heaven that He taught is different to the imaginary representation of the artists and religious visionaries. First it's not a place reserved exclusively to the unblemished religious people, who often somehow lived a judgmental and a boring existence. Second, the Kingdom of Heaven has to do with an interior ATTITUDE.

 

Decisiveness to abandon everything, all that are not essential, i.e. obtuseness (apathy); materialistic attitude that brings to feeble-mindedness; hatred and animosity.

 

The reign of God is not obvious and showy. The search of a blatant God that many people want. To have a kind that can really do explicitly and openly miracles, saving the people from Pandemic and Poverty; a powerful God who could punish the bad politicians and leaders who have caused so much injustices and crimes.

 

Let us pray:

Lord Jesus, we glorify you for the Kingdom of Heaven that you are opening to us. Allow us to comprehend and to be emerged to this unfathomable beauty of your reign. We adore you together with the Heavenly Father and the Holy Spirit.

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The darkest moment hides hope

 Negative experiences usually cause discouragements, but little people know that it's the most extraordinary time where a Christian experience will come to a new level. The pessimistic vision may only reveal the bitter part of the story of these mournful moments.  He who knows the experience of Mary Magdalene in the gospel of John (20:1-2.11-18) can be opened up to an another attitude regarding the doleful circumstance. Mary on the death of Jesus was totally lost and disoriented. 

For Mary Magdalene, the Master was everything, her Lord and Saviour - Ieshua : in aramaic: God saves. So for her going to the tomb was the only way to feel the memory of the Lord. But the worst of what she had not expected was the "empty-tomb". She could have had accepted the tomb with the enclothe dead-corpse rather than finding the clothe-folded in one side with no cadavere.

 

Many times we too behave like Mary Magdalene, we love to keep the most sad moment as a memory of our defeat. We love to repeat it a million times and we somehow dwell to these memories.

 

So Jesus called Mary, His voice awakened her from desperate state. the "voice" of Jesus that was so familiar to her because many times she had "contemplated" His teachings. Mary! - Rabbouni! or Teacher! 

 

Knowing Jesus as a teacher is very important during the darkest moment. Being the Teacher and being the Light are two important characteristics of the Lord. Being a Teacher He always have taught of Eternal Life and being the Light, He dispels the darkness. Therefore, the sepulcher could no longer be the dwelling but the rendezvous with the Resurrected, the Beloved and the Master.