Tutto ciò che esiste è dono di Dio ed esiste solo per far conoscere e gustare la paternità di Dio, per fare della vita dell’uomo una comunione con Dio. Il frutto e l’acqua, il latte e la carne, l’aria e il sole sono l’amore divino fatto nutrimento e vita per l’uomo.
Tutti gli other animals eat and live to serve mankind, to possibly be his food. This is the sense of the solemn presentation of Eden where it is for Adam to name to every creature, that is to take possession as a gift from God (Gen 2:19). ...
The man eats from the hand of God: There is nothing better for man to eat and drink and enjoy it in its labors, but I realized that this fact comes from the hands of God who can eat and enjoy without him? (Eccl 2:24-25).
The Lord's is the earth and its fullness, the world and its inhabitants (Ps. 24:1). La riconoscenza, il ringraziamento, il vivere in eucaristia è la maniera più naturale di vivere per chi sa che il mondo è dono di Dio.
Dio ha benedetto il mondo, l’uomo e ogni creatura per l’uomo. Ha riempito tutto ciò che esiste con la sua bontà; ha fatto ogni cosa molto buona per amore verso l’uomo. Alla manifestazione dell’amore di Dio che sgorga nella creazione e nella storia umana rispondono normalmente il ringraziamento e la lode dell’uomo. Dio si rivela creando meraviglie; l’uomo risponde benedicendo il Dio delle meraviglie. Questa è l’eucaristia.
Benedizione ed eucaristia hanno praticamente lo stesso significato: azione di grazie, ringraziamento.
It is no coincidence that the biblical representation of the fall is centered on food. The man and woman ate of the tree, they bite the forbidden fruit: the image of an economic world in which God is not recognized, in which the food is received as a gift from God, in thanksgiving, in 'Eucharist. It is the sin of many men who see the world as something dull and not crossed by the presence of God to many, unfortunately, it seems natural to give thanks to live without - without Eucharist - the gift that God has given us of eating and drinking and life of which they are the root daily. Error of those who, on Sunday, preferring to work for food, rather that offer the Eucharist to one who gives life.
We know that food is life and that the whole world has been created to feed the man. Sunday mass is man's first to offer his life to God through the nourishment that it is the symbol of expression. Take the whole world in his hands as he takes an apple, but not to steal or eat in the rebellion or indifference, but to offer it in gratitude to Him from whom all we have, the one who is the rightful owner. It is the gesture that Adam was not able to do. It is the gesture of sacrifice (= do something sacred, human action is addressed to God, an offering to God). The sacrifice should be the act natural man. The pagans have found themselves spontaneously in the street. The sacrifice is love: thanks to God and sharing with others.
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