Thursday, December 28, 2017

Be a Perfume of Christ and Breath the Scent of Life !!!!!!!!

 If He, Jesus Christ, has grown in us, we can still say with the Word of God that we are "the perfume of Christ". It is a suggestive expression to indicate how the Spirit of Jesus gives us inner fruits that spread, making us capable of beautiful relationships that give us mutual joy. 
The first joy is for the One who is in us and wants to grow with us. In fact, the Word says: "Let us give thanks to God, who makes us participate in his triumph in Christ and spread through us the fragrance of his knowledge in the whole world! For we are before God the perfume of Christ among those who are saved and among those who are lost "(2 Cor 2: 14-15). 

 Living as Christians capable of beautiful relationships, we can make others feel in us the "perfume of Christ", that our life already speaks for itself. If one is truly Christian, one "feels" him: he evangelizes with his mere presence. This is the the task of every ordained minister and of all those who bear the good news. The joy proposed to those who live the Gospel is not for self-complacency or self-realization that lead to indifference towards the suffering of others. Instead it is Easter joy, accompanied by suffering in observing the many situations contrary to the Gospel. By making us compassionate towards them, there is the ferment of solidarity that brings consolation even in the most dramatic situations, both personal and social.

 The great risk, which today also concerns us and our Church, is sadness: "The individualistic sadness that springs from the comfortable and miserable heart, from the sick search for superficial pleasures, from the isolated consciousness. When the interior life is closed in its own interests, there is no more room for the others, the poor no longer enter, the voice of God is no longer heard, the sweet joy of his love is no longer enjoyed, the enthusiasm of do good. Believers also run this risk, certain and permanent. Many fall into it and become resentful, discontented, lifeless people "(EG, 2).


 We, in our Baptism, become "the perfume of Christ" which then, with the other two Sacraments of the Christian Initiation, the Confirmation and the Eucharist, reaches its highest fragrance. This is the gift that precedes our every response, which is given to us free with life. Those who loved us wanted to be part of the whole gift of Jesus Christ who, with the price of his life-death-resurrection, engages us in him.

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