Spirit of truth , sent by Jesus to lead us into all truth, open our minds to the Scriptures. You who overshadowed Mary of Nazareth, you've made good ground where the Word of God was able to germinate, purify our hearts from everything that puts resistance the Word. Fa 'as we learn to listen with her heart good and perfect God's Word speaks to us in life and in Scripture, and produce good fruit through our perseverance .
Spirit of truth , sent by Jesus to lead us into all truth, open our minds to the Scriptures. You who overshadowed Mary of Nazareth, you've made good ground where the Word of God was able to germinate, purify our hearts from everything that puts resistance the Word. Fa 'as we learn to listen with her heart good and perfect God's Word speaks to us in life and in Scripture, and produce good fruit through our perseverance .
Spirit of truth , sent by Jesus to lead us into all truth, open our minds to the Scriptures. You who overshadowed Mary of Nazareth, you've made good ground where the Word of God was able to germinate, purify our hearts from everything that puts resistance the Word. Fa 'as we learn to listen with her heart good and perfect God's Word speaks to us in life and in Scripture, and produce good fruit through our perseverance .
Spirit of truth , sent by Jesus to lead us into all truth, open our minds to the Scriptures. You who overshadowed Mary of Nazareth, you've made good ground where the Word of God was able to germinate, purify our hearts from everything that puts resistance the Word. Fa 'as we learn to listen with her heart good and perfect God's Word speaks to us in life and in Scripture, and produce good fruit through our perseverance .
There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night , and said: " Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, and no one can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him . Jesus replied: "Verily, I say to you, unless one is born anew, he can not see the kingdom of God. " Nicodemus said to him: "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? ". Jesus replied: "Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he can not enter the kingdom of God That which is born of the flesh is flesh and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. not be surprised when I say: You must be born again. The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the voice, but do not know where it comes from and where it goes So it is with everyone born of the Spirit. "
Nicodemus replied: "How can this happen?". Jesus said "You are the teacher of Israel and knowest not these things? Verily, verily I say unto thee, We speak that we know and testify what we have seen, but you do not accept our testimony. If I have told you earthly things and ye believe not, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except the Son of Man who descended from heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. "
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the Son of God, and this is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness to light, because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes to light, it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God
John from 3.1 to 21
After the description of the relationship between Jesus and the Jews, the gospel introduces the character who is the typical representative: Nicodemus (see John 3.1 to 8).The encounter between Jesus and Nicodemus shows two things are inseparable: the gift of heavenly life through the death and resurrection of Jesus, and the purchase of the salvation of all men through baptism.The evangelist called Nicodemus " authority among the Jews," that is a member of the Sanhedrin. It is not only a devout Jew, well versed in the law is above all a "master of Israel" . He has for us, with this authoritative person, a "night" which is actually through the night each of us. Nicodemus is in fact a man in search , that did not passively accept the rejection of Jesus as the other Jews of his group. For this want a personal meeting, wants you to watch in the eye and ask him those questions that has soul, especially after seeing the miracles performed by the Master.
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G esu anticipates the answer to this desire: the indispensable condition for the salvation is born "again " . Nicodemus is embarrassed in front of the "born again". Jesus speaks of a "born again .us and Nicodemus, Jesus wants to teach that the birth "of water and the spirit " is the sacrament of Baptism already made, but also and more from surgery for a lifetime. He intends us out of our thought patterns, indicating the path of the Exodus, the eradication of the exchange, but the dialogue does not always take off! ...
That night, our night. We, as Nicodemus did not see "a new light " when we are before God in a 'plaster', locked up in our ideas and our concepts. We too in our calm, the new frightens us.
Looking to the One who " has made all things new " we are more frightened than enlightened.
That night, the words of Jesus became flesh in quell'anziano Pharisee and gave new life and energy.
Receive, O Lord, our fears and turn them into
trust.
Receive our suffering and transform it into
growth.
Receive our crisis, and turn them into
maturity.
Receive our tears and turn them into
prayer.
Receive our discouragement, and turn it into
faith.
Receive our loneliness,
and transform it into contemplation.
Receive our expectations, and turn them into
hope a.
Receive our death, and transform it into
resurrection!
trust.
Receive our suffering and transform it into
growth.
Receive our crisis, and turn them into
maturity.
Receive our tears and turn them into
prayer.
Receive our discouragement, and turn it into
faith.
Receive our loneliness,
and transform it into contemplation.
Receive our expectations, and turn them into
hope a.
Receive our death, and transform it into
resurrection!
Nicodemus went to Jesus by night, through fear, and while fear is the courage to listen and get back on path. Always go through many nights wrestling with the fear and increasingly attracted the words:
'born again'. to Nicodemus, in the full realization of his human and religious - is a ruler of the Jews, is the teacher of Israel, is one that know - and meet Jesus is a destabilizing event that the root causes its assurance that its security worries as an adult in the faith, which blends the features of the face of a sure God considered known.
Nicodemus must take the whole Gospel parable to rediscover the true face of God and his true identity and new, as if it rose up again from below, from the darkness of a womb sure into which the Word pierces the veil of ignorance and opens the gate to the light.
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Teso between fear and desire, and seeking the withdrawal, Nicodemus is discovered, gradually, almost unconsciously, from the Jesus, even to openly take up the defense. ( Jn 7, 50-51 )
What it means to be born again Nicodemus perhaps understand it and experience it is just where the extreme point of 'darkness and weakness: the death of the Son of God is still hidden, for fear, he does welcome and housing the lifeless body of Jesus, who became the inner vision of light. ( Jn 19, 38-42 )
It is from this experience of death and life that Nicodemus, as any disciple, became a believer nell'arrendersi Love won, learning how to expose and deliver their "nothing to lose."
does not say much about the history of Nicodemus. After the interview the night meets in two other points of the Gospel that hint a gradual evolution in the faith. It is as if his figure were walking on the edge, close to the story of Jesus, but from a distance and enjoying the ambiguity, confusion, doubt Can a man enter a second time into his mother's womb?, And leaving ring vibrate in the memory and the words heard in the flesh: "If a man be born again ...». (Jn 3, 3 )
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