{"id":111056,"date":"2014-12-29T21:53:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T20:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vincentians.com\/?p=111056"},"modified":"2016-07-11T13:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T11:25:28","slug":"second-sunday-after-christmas-jose-antonio-pagola-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vincentians.com\/en\/second-sunday-after-christmas-jose-antonio-pagola-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Sunday after Christmas (Jos\u00e9 Antonio Pagola)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcoming God<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus appeared in Galilee when the Jewish people were going through a deep religious crisis. They had been feeling for a long time God\u2019s remoteness. The heavens were \u201cclosed.\u201d Some sort of an invisible wall seemed to hinder God\u2019s communication with his people. No one was able to hear God\u2019s voice. There were no more prophets. \u00a0No one spoke, driven by God\u2019s Spirit.<\/p>\n

The hardest was the feeling that God had forgotten them. He no longer cared about Israel\u2019s problems. Why was he remaining hidden? Why was he so far away? Surely many remembered the fervent prayer of an ancient prophet who prayed thus to God: \u201cOh, that you would rend the heavens and come down.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first to listen to the gospel of Mark must have been surprised. According to his account, when Jesus came out of the waters of the Jordan after being baptized, he \u201csaw the heavens being torn open\u201d and experienced \u201cthe Spirit coming down upon him. Finally, encounter with God was possible. A man full of God\u2019s Spirit was walking the earth. His name was Jesus and he came from Nazareth.<\/p>\n

This Spirit that descends on him is the breath of the God who creates life, the force that renews and cures the living, the love that transforms everything. That is why Jesus is committed to liberating life, curing it and making it more human. The first Christians did not want to be mistaken for the Baptist\u2019s disciples. They felt they were baptized through Jesus with his Spirit.<\/p>\n

Without this Spirit everything is extinguished in Christianity. Trust in God disappears. Faith is weakened. Jesus ends being reduced to a character from the past, the Gospel becomes a dead letter. Love grows cold and the Church does not get past being just one more religious institution.<\/p>\n

Without Jesus\u2019 Spirit, freedom is strangled, joy is quenched, celebration becomes habit, communion cracks. Without the Spirit, the mission is forgotten, hope dies, fears increase, the following of Jesus ends in religious mediocrity.<\/p>\n

Our greatest problem is our forgetfulness of Jesus and the neglect of his Spirit. It is a mistake to try to attain, with organization, work, devotions or various strategies, what only the Spirit can give birth to. We need to return to the root, to recover the Gospel in its freshness and truth, to be baptized with Jesus\u2019 Spirit.<\/p>\n

We should not fool ourselves. If we do not let ourselves be fanned into life and recreated by this Spirit, we Christians have nothing important to contribute to today\u2019s society that is so empty of interiority, so incapable of the love that brings solidarity, and in so much need of hope.<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Antonio Pagola<\/strong><\/p>\n

January 4, 2015
\n2 Sunday after Christmas (B)
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