June 1, 2025.
“Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of these things.” (Luke 24, 46-48)
The liturgical celebration of the Ascension of the Lord to heaven gives us, each year, the moment to remember that we have reached legal adulthood. Jesus’ passage through our world was doing good works. He did his part and he did it perfectly. However He neither can nor wants to do all on the basis of his miracles. He wants all of us to collaborate with Him on the construction of the Kingdom of peace and of justice which He came to establish. In a way, he needs us. He needs that we are “witnesses of his love”, his witnesses in middle of the world. He needs that we behave as adults and that we be a prolongation of his life on earth so that his work continues. To feel this way, to try to live this way, as his witnesses, is the goal of the word off life of this week.
To do so, in each circumstance we will have to ask ourselves: How would Christ act? What should I do so as not to leave a bad mark on his name, because everyone knows I am a Christian?
There will be times when we will have to be quiet and keep in check our character, our desire to scream. On other occasions, on the contrary, we must speak to not conceal our faith or to defend those who are being oppressed. At times we will have to let go of our activities, even apostolic, to care more for our family, on other occasions we will have to take on more responsibility to serve our fellow man or the church. But, always, always, we must love, in such a way, that to see us, those around us say: “There goes a Christian, a “living Christ”, a true follower of Christ”.
Intention: Outline at every opportunity what Christ would do if he were in my place and act in such a way as to leave very well the name of Christ and the name “Christian”.