Arhivele lunare: decembrie 2020
In anul in care am împlinit 75 de ani…
Mi-au placut, de-a valma, Jerusalema, Kookoalam, interviul lui Nikola Tesla de acum 110 ani, o sumedenie de arhive INA, desene de-ale fiului meu, scurte mesaje de amor de la nipotina N pe whatsapp, si sumedenie de alte lucruri. Inclusiv primul „confinement” in care am putut gusta in liniste înaintarea primaverii. Fireste, cel mai mult am gustat, apreciat si iubit întâlnirea cu ai mei, din luna august când s-a petrecut fatidica intrare oficiale in partea de doua a anilor incepând cu 70, cea mai apropiata de anii celor optezeci.
Davidovici 2020, Covid times
Pentru noi, pentru cei care avem nevoie de el ca de pâine… — Prea târziu te-am iubit…
„Noi devenim mai buni numai primind iubirea sa neobosită, care nu se schimbă, ci ne schimbă. Numai iubirea lui Isus transformă viaţa, vindecă rănile mai profunde, eliberează de cercurile vicioase ale insatisfacţiei, supărării şi plângerii”… „Nesătui de a avea, ne aruncăm în atâtea iesle de vanitate, uitând de ieslea din Betleem. Acea iesle, săracă în toate şi […]
Pentru noi, pentru cei care avem nevoie de el ca de pâine… — Prea târziu te-am iubit…
Genius and beauty. Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla is considered one of the most innovative and mysterious men who ever lived on Earth…
He was a man way ahead of his time and is responsible for most of the technology we use today.
In fact, if Tesla hadn’t invented and researched everything he did in his time, our technology today would be considerably worse.
Tesla’s inventions went far beyond electricity. He made groundbreaking discoveries such as wireless radio communications,turbine engines, helicopters (although it was Da Vinci who first had the idea), fluorescent and neon lights, torpedoes and theX-ray among others. By the time of his death, Tesla held nearly 700 worldwide patents.
https://awaken.com/2017/02/nikola-teslas-most-extraordinary-interview-hidden-for-116-years/
In this article we take a look at a very RARE interview, hidden for nearly 116 years.
Journalist: Mr. Tesla, you have gained the glory of the man who got involved in the cosmic processes. Who are you, Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: It is a right question, Mr. Smith, and I will try to give you the right answer to it.
Journalist: Some say you’re from the country of Croatia, from the area called Lika, where together with the people are growing trees, rocks and starry sky. They say that your home village is named after the mountain flowers, and that the house, where you were born, is next to the forest and the church.
Tesla: Really, all it true. I’m proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian homeland.
Journalist: Futurists say that the Twenty-and Twenty First Century was born in head of Nikola Tesla. They celebrate conversely magnetic field and sing hymns to Inductions engine. Their creator was called the hunter who caught the light in his net from the depths of the earth, and the warrior who captured fire from heaven. Father of alternating current will make the Physics and Chemistry dominate half the world. Industry will proclaim him as their supreme saint, a banker for the largest benefactors. In the laboratory of Nikola Tesla for the first time is broken atom.
There is created a weapon that causes the earthquake vibrations. There are discovered black cosmic rays. Five races will pray to him in the Temple of the future, because they had taught a great secret that Empedocles elements can be watered with the life forces from the ethers.
Tesla: Yes, these are some of my most important discoveries. I’m a defeated man. I have not accomplished the greatest thing I could.
Journalist: What is it, Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: I wanted to illuminate the whole earth. There is enough electricity to become a second sun. Light would appear around the equator, as a ring around Saturn.
Mankind is not ready for the great and good. In Colorado Springs I soaked the earth by electricity. Also we can water the other energies, such as positive mental energy. They are in the music of Bach or Mozart, or in the verses of great poets. In the Earth’s interior, there are energy of Joy, Peace and Love. Their expressions are a flower that grows from the Earth, the food we get out of her and everything that makes man’s homeland. I’ve spent years looking for the way that this energy could influence people. The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.
Life has an infinite number of forms, and the duty of scientists is to find them in every form of matter. Three things are essential in this. All that I do is a search for them. I know I will not find them, but I will not give up on them.
Journalist: What are these things?
Tesla: One issue is food. What a stellar or terrestrial energy to feed the hungry on Earth? With what wine watered all thirsty, so that they can cheer in their heart and understand that they are Gods?
Another thing is to destroy the power of evil and suffering in which man’s life passes! They sometimes occur as an epidemic in the depths of space. In this century, the disease had spread from Earth in the Universe.
The third thing is: Is there an excess Light in the Universe? I discovered a star that by all the astronomical and mathematical laws could disappear, and that nothing seems to be modified. This star is in this galaxy. Its light can occur in such density that fits into a sphere smaller than an apple, a heavier than our Solar System. Religions and philosophies teach that man can become the Christ, Buddha and Zoroaster. What I’m trying to prove is wilder, and almost unattainable. This is what to do in the Universe so every being is born as Christ, Buddha or Zoroaster.
I know that gravity is prone to everything you need to fly and my intention is not to make flying devices (aircraft or missiles), but teach individual to regain consciousness on his own wings … Further; I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air. There are the main sources of energy. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened.
No empty space on this planet, nor in the Universe.. In black holes, what astronomers talk about, are the most powerful sources of energy and life.
Journalist: On the window of your room in hotel “Valdorf-Astoria”, on the thirty-third floor, every morning, the birds arrive.
Tesla: A man must be sentimental towards the birds. This is because of their wings. Humanshad them once, the real and visible!
Journalist: You have not stopped flying since those distant days in Smiljan!
Tesla: I wanted to fly from the roof and I fell: Children’s calculations could be wrong. Remember, the youth wings have everything in life!
Journalist: Have you ever married? It is not known that you have affection for love or for a woman. Photos from the youth show you were handsome man.
Tesla: Yes. I did not. There are two views: a lot affection or not at all. The center serves to rejuvenate human race. Women for certain people nurtures and strengthen its vitality and spirit. Being single does the same to other people. I chose that second path.
Journalist: Your admirers are complaining that you attacking relativity. The strange is your assertion that the matter has no energy. Everything is imbued with energy, where it is?
Tesla: First was energy, then matter.
Journalist: Mr. Tesla, it’s like when you said that you were born by your father, and not on you.
Tesla: Exactly! What about the birth of the Universe? Matter is created from the original and eternal energy that we know as Light .It shone, and there have been appear star, the planets, man, and everything on the Earth and in the Universe. Matter is an expression of infinite forms of Light, because energy is older than it. There are four laws of Creation. The first is that the source of all the baffling, dark plot that the mind cannot conceive, or mathematics measure. In that plot fit the whole Universe.
The second law is spreading a darkness, which is the true nature of Light, from the inexplicable and it’s transformed into the Light. The third law is the necessity of the Light to become a matter of Light. The fourth law is: no beginning and no end; three previous laws always take place and the Creation is eternal.
Journalist: In the hostility to the theory of relativity you go so far, that you hold lectures against its Creator at your birthday parties..
Tesla: Remember, it is not curved space, but the human mind which cannot comprehend infinity and eternity! If relativity has been clearly understood by its Creator, he would gain immortality, even yet physically, if he is pleased.
I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and think. Thinking of it means my sixth sense. Particles of Light are written note. O bolt of lightning can be an entire sonata. A thousand balls of lightning is a concert.. For this concert
I have created a Ball Lightning, which can be heard on the icy peaks of the Himalayas. About Pythagoras and mathematics a scientist may not and must not infringe of these two. Numbers and equations are signs that mark the music of the spheres. If Einstein had heard these sounds, he would not create theories of relativity. These sounds are the messages to the mind that life has meaning, that the Universe exists in perfect harmony, and its beauty is the cause and effect of Creation. This music is the eternal cycle of stellar heavens.
The smallest star has completed composition and also, part of the celestial symphony. The man’s heartbeats are part of the symphony on the Earth. Newton learned that the secret is in geometric arrangement and motion of celestial bodies. He recognized that the supreme law of harmony exists in the Universe. The curved space is chaos, chaos is not music. Einstein is the messenger of the time of sound and fury.
Journalist: Mr. Tesla, do you hear that music?
Tesla: I hear it all the time. My spiritual ear is as big as the sky we see above us. My natural ear I increased by the radar. According to the Theory of Relativity, two parallel lines will meet in infinity. By that Einstein’s curved will straighten. Once created, the sound lasts forever. For a man it can vanish, but continues to exist in the silence that is man’s greatest power.
No, I have nothing against Mr. Einstein. He is a kind person and has done many good things, some of which will become part of the music. I will write to him and try to explain that the ether exists, and that its particles are what keep the Universe in harmony, and the life in eternity.
Journalist: Tell me, please, under what conditions Angel adopt on the Earth?
Tesla: I have ten of them. Keep good records vigilant.
Journalist: I will document all your words, Dear Mr. Tesla.
Tesla: The first requirement is a high awareness of its mission and work to be done. It must, if only dimly, exist in the early days. Let us not be falsely modest; Oak knows that it is oak tree, a bush beside him being a bush. When I was twelve, I have been sure I will get to Niagara Falls. For most of my discoveries I knew in my childhood that I will achieve them, although not entirely apparent … The second condition to adapt is determination. All that I might, I finished.
Journalist: What is the third condition of adjustment, Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: Guidance for all the vital and spiritual energies in labor. Therefore purification of the many effects and needs that man has. I therefore have not lost anything, but just gained.
So I enjoyed every day and night. Write down: Nikola Tesla was a happy man… The fourth requirement is to adjust the physical assembly with a work.
Journalist: What do you mean, Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: First, the maintenance of the assembly. Man’s body is a perfect machine. I know my circuit and what’s good for him. Food what nearly all people eat, to me it is harmful and dangerous. Sometimes I visualize that chefs in the world are all in conspiracy against me … Touch my hand.
Journalist: It was cold.
Tesla: Yes. Bloodstream can be controlled, and many processes in and around us. Why are you frightened young man?
Journalist: It’s a story that Mark Twain wrote a mysterious stranger, that wonderful book of Satan, inspired by you.
Tesla: The word “Lucifer” is more charming. Mr. Twain likes to joke. As a child I was healed once by reading his books. When we met here and told him about, he was so touched that he cried. We became friends and he often came to my lab. Once he requested to show him a machine that by vibration provokes a feeling of bliss. It was one of those inventions for entertainment, what I sometimes like to do.
I warned Mr. Twain as not to remain under these vibrations. He did not listen and stayed longer. It ended by being, like a rocket, holding pants, darted into a certain room. It was a diabolically funny, but I kept the seriousness.
But, to adjust the physical circuit, in addition to food, dream is very important . From a long and exhausting work, which required superhuman effort, after one hour of sleep I’d be fully recovered. I gained the ability to manage sleep, to fell asleep and wake up in the time which I have designated. If I do something what I do not understand, I force myself to think about it in my dream, and thus find a solution.
Tesla: The fifth condition of adjustment is memory. Perhaps in the most people, the brain is keeper of knowledge about the world and the knowledge gained through the life. My brain is engaged in more important things than remembering, it is picking what is required at a given moment. This is all around us. It should only be consumed. Everything that we once saw, hear, read and learn, accompanies us in the form of light particles. To me, these particles are obedient and faithful.
Goethe’s Faust, my favorite book, I learned by heart in German as a student, and now it can all recite. I held my inventions for years ‘in my head “, and only then I realized them.
Journalist: You often mentioned the power of visualization.
Tesla: I might have to thank to visualization for all that I invented. The events of my life and my inventions are real in front of my eyes, visible as each occurrence or the item. In my youth I was frightened of not knowing what it is, but later, I learned to use this power as an exceptional talent and gift. I nurtured it, and jealously guarded. I also made corrections by visualization on most of my inventions, and finish them that way, by visualization I mentally solve complex mathematical equations. For that gift I have, I will receive rank High Lama in Tibet.
My eyesight and hearing are perfect and, dare to say, stronger than other people. I hear the thunder of a hundred fifty miles away, and I see colors in the sky that others cannot see. This enlargement of vision and hearing, I had as a child. Later I consciously developed.
Journalist: In youth you have several times been seriously ill. Is it a disease and a requirement to adapt?
Tesla: Yes. It is often the result of a lack of exhaustion or vital force, but often the purification of mind and body from the toxins that have accumulated. It is necessary that a man suffers from time to time. The source of most disease is in the spirit. Therefore the spirit and can cure most diseases. As a student I got sick of cholera which raged in the region of Lika. I was cured because my father finally allowed me to study technology, which was my life. Illusion for me was not a disease, but the mind’s ability to penetrate beyond the three dimensions of the earth.
I had them all my life, and I have received them as all other phenomena around us. Once, in childhood, I was walking along the river with Uncle and said: “From the water will appear the trout, I’ll throw a stone and it is cut.” That’s what happened. Frightened and amazed, his uncle cried: “Bade retro Satan’s!” He was an educated and he spoke in Latin …
I was in Paris when I saw my mother’s death. In the sky, full of light and music floated are wonderful creatures. One of them had a mother’s character, who was looking at me with infinite love. As the vision disappeared, I knew that my mother died.
Journalist: What is the seventh adjustment, Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: The knowledge of how the mental and vital energy transform into what we want, and achieve control over all feelings. Hindus call it Kundalini Yoga. This knowledge can be learned, for what they need many years or is acquired by birth. The most of them I acquired by birth. They are in the closest connection with a sexual energy that is after the most widespread in the Universe. The woman is the biggest thief of that energy, and thus the spiritual power.
I’ve always knew that and was alerted. Of myself I created what I wanted: a thoughtful and spiritual machine.
Journalist: A ninth adjustment, Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: Do everything that any day, any moment, if possible, not to forget who we are and why we are on Earth. Extraordinary people who are struggling with illness, privation, or the society which hurts them with its stupidity, misunderstanding, persecution and other problems which the country is full of a swamps with insects, leaves behind unclaimed until the end of the work. There are many fallen angels on Earth.
Journalist: What is the tenth adaptation?
Tesla: It is most important. Write that Mr. Tesla played. He played the whole of his life and enjoyed it.
Journalist: Mr. Tesla! Whether it relates to your findings and your work? Is this a game?
Tesla: Yes, dear boy. I have so loved to play with electricity! I always cringe when I hear about the one also the Greek who stole fire. A terrible story about studding, and eagles peck at his liver. Did Zeus did not have enough lightning and thunder, and was damaged for one fervor? There is some misunderstanding…
Lightning are the most beautiful toys that can be found. Do not forget that in your text stand out: Nikola Tesla was the first man who discovered lightning.
Journalist: Mr. Tesla, you’re just talking about angels and their adaptation to the Earth.
Tesla: Am I? This is the same. You could write this: he dared to take upon himself the prerogatives of Indri, Zeus and Peron. Imagine one of these gods in a black evening suit, with the bowler hat and wearing white cotton gloves prepares lightning, fires and earthquakes to the New York City elite!
Journalist: Readers love the humor of our paper. But you confuse me stating that your findings, which have immense benefits for the people, representing the game. Many will frown on it.
Tesla: Dear Mr. Smith, the trouble is that people are too serious. If they were not, they would be happier and much longer would have lived. Chinese proverb says that the seriousness reduces life. Visiting the inn Tai Pe guessed that he visits the Imperial Palace. But that the newspaper readers would not have frowned, let’s get back to things which they consider important.
Journalist: They would love to hear what your philosophy is.
Tesla: Life is a rhythm that must be comprehended. I feel the rhythm and direct on it and pamper in it. It was very grateful and gave me the knowledge I have. Everything that lives is related to a deep and wonderful relationship: man and the stars, amoebas’ and the sun, the heart and the circulation of an infinite number of worlds. These ties are unbreakable, but they can be tame and to propitiate and begin to create new and different relationships in the world, and that does not violate the old.
Knowledge comes from space; our vision is its most perfect set. We have two eyes: the earthly and spiritual. It is recommended that it become one eye. Universe is alive in all its manifestations, like a thinking animal.
Stone is a thinking and sentient being, such as plant, beast and a man. A star that shines asked to look at, and if we are not a sizeable self-absorbed we would understand its language and message. His breathing, his eyes and ears of the man must comply with breathing, eyes and ears of the Universe.
Journalist: As you say this, it seems to me like I hear Buddhist texts, words or Taoist Parazulzusa.
Tesla: That’s right! This means that there is general knowledge and truth that man has always possessed. In my feeling and experience, the Universe has only one substance and one supreme energy with an infinite number of manifestations of life. The best thing is that the discovery of a secret nature, reveals the other.
One cannot hide, there are around us, but we are blind and deaf to them. If we emotionally tie ourselves to them, they come to us themselves. There are a lot of apples, but one Newton. He asked for just one apple that fell in front of him.
Journalist: A question that might be set at the beginning of this conversation. What was Electricity for you, Dear Mr. Tesla?
Tesla: Everything is Electricity. First was the light, endless source from which points out material and distribute it in all forms that represent the Universe and the Earth with all its aspects of life. Black is the true face of Light, only we do not see this. It is remarkable grace to man and other creatures. One of its particles possesses light, thermal, nuclear, radiation, chemical, mechanical and an unidentified energy.
It has the power to run the Earth with its orbit. It is true Archimedean lever.
Journalist: Mr. Tesla, you’re too biased towards electricity.
Tesla: Electricity I am. Or, if you wish, I am the electricity in the human form. You are Electricity; too Mr. Smith, but you do not realize it.
Journalist: Is it thus your ability to allow fails of electricity of one million volts trough your body?
Tesla: Imagine a gardener who is attacked by herbs. This would indeed be crazy. Man’s body and brain are made from a large amount energy; in me there is the majority of electricity. The energy that is different in everyone is what makes the human “I” or “soul”. For other creatures to their essence, “soul” of the plant is the “soul” of minerals and animals.
Brain function and death is manifested in light. My eyes in youth were black, now blue, and as time goes on and strain the brain gets stronger, they are closer to white. White is the color of heaven. Through my window one morning, landed a white dove, which I fed. She wanted to bring me a word that she was dying. From her eyes the light jets were coming out. Never in the eyes of any creature had I not seen so much light, as in that pigeon.
Journalist: Personnel in your lab speak about flashes of light, flames and lightning that occur if you are angry or into kind of risk.
Tesla: It is the psychic discharge or a warning to be alert. The light was always on my side. Do you know how I discovered the rotating magnetic field and induction motor, which made me became famous when I was twenty-six? One summer evening in Budapest, I watched with my friend Sigetijem sunset.
Thousands of fire was turning around in thousands of flaming colors. I remembered Faust and recited his verses and then, as in a fog, I saw spinning magnetic field, and induction motor. I saw them in the sun!
Journalist: Hotel service telling that at the time of lightning you isolate into the room and talk to yourselves.
Tesla: I talk with lightning and thunder.
Journalist: With them? What language, Mr.Tesla?
Tesla: Mostly my native language. It has the words and sounds, especially in poetry, what is suitable for it.
Journalist: Readers of our magazine would be very grateful if you would interpret that.
Tesla: The sound does not exist only in the thunder and lightning, but, in transformation into the brightness and color. A color can be heard. Language is of the words, which means that it is from the sounds and colors. Every thunder and lightning are different and have their names. I call some of them by the names of those who were close in my life, or by those whom I admire.
In the sky brightness and thunder live my mother, sister, brother Daniel, a poet Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj and other persons of Serbian history. Names such AsIsaiah, Ezekiel, Leonardo, Beethoven, Goya, Faraday, Pushkin and all burning fires mark shoals and tangles of lightning and thunder, which does not stop all night bringing to the Earth precious rain and burning trees or villages.
There is lightning and thunder, and they are the brightest and most powerful, that will not vanish. They are coming back and I recognize them among the thousands.
Journalist: For you, science or poetry is the same?
Tesla: These are the two eyes of one person. William Blake was taught that the Universe was born from the imagination, that it maintains and it will exist as long as there is a last man on the Earth. With it was a wheel to which astronomers can collect the stars of all galaxies. It is the creative energy identical to the light energy.
Journalist: Imagination is more real to you than life itself?
Tesla: It gives birth to the life. I have fed by my taught; I’ve learned to control emotions, dreams and visions. I have always cherished, as I nurtured my enthusiasm. All my long life I spent in ecstasy. That was the source of my happiness. It helped me during all these years to bear with work, which was enough for the five lives. The best is to work at night, because the stellar light, and close bond.
Journalist: You said that I am, like every being, the Light. This flatter me, but I confess, I do not quite understand.
Tesla: Why would you need to understand, Mr. Smith? Suffice it to believe it. Everything is light. In one its ray is the fate of nations, each nation has its own ray in what great light source we see as the sun. And remember: no one who was there did not die. They transformed into the light, and as such exist still. The secret lies in the fact that the light particles restore their original state.
Journalist: This is the resurrection!
Tesla: I prefer to call it: return to a previous energy. Christ and several others knew the secret. I am searching how to preserve human energy. It is forms of Light, sometimes straight like heavenly light. I have not looked for it for my own sake, but for the good of all. I believe that my discoveries make people’s lives easier and more bearable, and channel them to spirituality and morality.
Journalist: Do you think that time can be abolished?
Tesla: Not quite, because the first feature of the energy is that it transforms. It is in perpetual transformation, as clouds of Taoists. But it is possible to leverage the fact that a man preserves consciousness after the earthly life. In every corner of the universe exist energy of life; one of them is immortality, whose origin is outside of man, waiting for him.
The universe is spiritual; we are only half that way. The Universe is more moral than us, because we do not know his nature and how to harmonize our lives with it. I am not scientist, science is perhaps the most convenient way to find the answer to the question that always haunt me, and which my days and nights turned into fire.
Journalist: What’s the matter?
Tesla: How are your eyes brightened!… What I wanted to know is: what happens to a falling star as the sun goes out? Stars fall like dust or seed in this or in other worlds, and the sun be scattered in our minds, in the lives of many beings, what will be reborn as a new light, or cosmic wind scattered in infinity.
I understand that this is necessary included in the structure of the Universe. The thing is, though, is that one of these stars and one of these suns, even the smallest, preserves.
Journalist: But, Mr. Tesla, you realize that this is necessary and is included in the constitution of the world!
Tesla: When a man becomes concuss; that his highest goal must be to run for a shooting star, and tries to capture it; shall understand that his life was given to him because of this and will be saved. Stars will eventually be capable to catch!
Journalist: And what will happen then?
Tesla: The creator will laugh and say: ”It fall only that you chase her and grab her.”
Journalist: Isn’t all of this contrary to the cosmic pain, which so often you mention in your writings? And what is it cosmic pain?
Tesla: No, because we are on Earth … It is an illness whose existence the vast majority of people are not aware of. Hence, many other illnesses, suffering, evil, misery, wars and everything else what makes human life an absurd and horrible condition. This disease cannot be completely cured, but awareness shall make it less complicated and hazardous. Whenever one of my close and dear people were hurt, I felt physical pain. This is because our bodies are made as of similar material, and our soul related with unbreakable strands. Incomprehensible sadness that overwhelmed us at times means that somewhere, on the other side on this planet, a child or generous man died.
The entire Universe is in certain periods sick of itself, and of us. Disappearance of a star and the appearance of comets affect us more than we can imagine. Relationships among the creatures on the Earth are even stronger, because of our feelings and thoughts the flower will scent even more beautiful or will fall in silence.
These truths we must learn in order to be healed. Remedy is in our hearts and evenly, in the heart of the animals that we call the Universe.
Donné à Greccio, au Sanctuaire de la crèche, le 1er décembre 2019
LETTRE APOSTOLIQUE
LE MERVEILLEUX SIGNE DE LA CRÈCHE
DU SOUVERAIN PONTIFE
FRANÇOIS
SUR LA SIGNIFICATION ET LA VALEUR DE LA CRÈCHE
1. Le merveilleux signe de la crèche, si chère au peuple chrétien, suscite toujours stupeur et émerveillement. Représenter l’événement de la naissance de Jésus, équivaut à annoncer le mystère de l’Incarnation du Fils de Dieu avec simplicité et joie. La crèche, en effet, est comme un Évangile vivant, qui découle des pages de la Sainte Écriture. En contemplant la scène de Noël, nous sommes invités à nous mettre spirituellement en chemin, attirés par l’humilité de Celui qui s’est fait homme pour rencontrer chaque homme. Et, nous découvrons qu’Il nous aime jusqu’au point de s’unir à nous, pour que nous aussi nous puissions nous unir à Lui.
Par cette lettre je voudrais soutenir la belle tradition de nos familles qui, dans les jours qui précèdent Noël, préparent la crèche. Tout comme la coutume de l’installer sur les lieux de travail, dans les écoles, les hôpitaux, les prisons, sur les places publiques… C’est vraiment un exercice d’imagination créative, qui utilise les matériaux les plus variés pour créer de petits chefs-d’œuvre de beauté. On l’apprend dès notre enfance : quand papa et maman, ensemble avec les grands-parents, transmettent cette habitude joyeuse qui possède en soi une riche spiritualité populaire. Je souhaite que cette pratique ne se perde pas ; mais au contraire, j’espère que là où elle est tombée en désuétude, elle puisse être redécouverte et revitalisée.
2. L’origine de la crèche se trouve surtout dans certains détails évangéliques de la naissance de Jésus à Bethléem. L’évangéliste Luc dit simplement que Marie « mit au monde son fils premier-né ; elle l’emmaillota et le coucha dans une mangeoire, car il n’y avait pas de place pour eux dans la salle commune » (2, 7). Jésus est couché dans une mangeoire, appelée en latin praesepium, d’où la crèche.
En entrant dans ce monde, le Fils de Dieu est déposé à l’endroit où les animaux vont manger. La paille devient le premier berceau pour Celui qui se révèle comme « le pain descendu du ciel » (Jn 6, 41). C’est une symbolique, que déjà saint Augustin, avec d’autres Pères, avait saisie lorsqu’il écrivait : « Allongé dans une mangeoire, il est devenu notre nourriture » (Serm. 189, 4). En réalité, la crèche contient plusieurs mystères de la vie de Jésus de telle sorte qu’elle nous les rend plus proches de notre vie quotidienne.
Mais venons-en à l’origine de la crèche telle que nous la comprenons. Retrouvons-nous en pensée à Greccio, dans la vallée de Rieti, où saint François s’arrêta, revenant probablement de Rome, le 29 novembre 1223, lorsqu’il avait reçu du Pape Honorius III la confirmation de sa Règle. Après son voyage en Terre Sainte, ces grottes lui rappelaient d’une manière particulière le paysage de Bethléem. Et il est possible que le Poverello ait été influencé à Rome, par les mosaïques de la Basilique de Sainte Marie Majeure, représentant la naissance de Jésus, juste à côté de l’endroit où étaient conservés, selon une tradition ancienne, les fragments de la mangeoire.
Les Sources franciscaines racontent en détail ce qui s’est passé à Greccio. Quinze jours avant Noël, François appela un homme du lieu, nommé Jean, et le supplia de l’aider à réaliser un vœu : « Je voudrais représenter l’Enfant né à Bethléem, et voir avec les yeux du corps, les souffrances dans lesquelles il s’est trouvé par manque du nécessaire pour un nouveau-né, lorsqu’il était couché dans un berceau sur la paille entre le bœuf et l’âne »[1]. Dès qu’il l’eut écouté, l’ami fidèle alla immédiatement préparer, à l’endroit indiqué, tout le nécessaire selon la volonté du Saint. Le 25 décembre, de nombreux frères de divers endroits vinrent à Greccio accompagnés d’hommes et de femmes provenant des fermes de la région, apportant fleurs et torches pour illuminer cette sainte nuit. Quand François arriva, il trouva la mangeoire avec la paille, le bœuf et l’âne. Les gens qui étaient accourus manifestèrent une joie indicible jamais éprouvée auparavant devant la scène de Noël. Puis le prêtre, sur la mangeoire, célébra solennellement l’Eucharistie, montrant le lien entre l’Incarnation du Fils de Dieu et l’Eucharistie. À cette occasion, à Greccio, il n’y a pas eu de santons : la crèche a été réalisée et vécue par les personnes présentes[2].
C’est ainsi qu’est née notre tradition : tous autour de la grotte et pleins de joie, sans aucune distance entre l’événement qui se déroule et ceux qui participent au mystère.
Le premier biographe de saint François, Thomas de Celano, rappelle que s’ajouta, cette nuit-là, le don d’une vision merveilleuse à la scène touchante et simple : une des personnes présentes vit, couché dans la mangeoire, l’Enfant Jésus lui-même. De cette crèche de Noël 1223, « chacun s’en retourna chez lui plein d’une joie ineffable »[3].
3. Saint François, par la simplicité de ce signe, a réalisé une grande œuvre d’évangélisation. Son enseignement a pénétré le cœur des chrétiens et reste jusqu’à nos jours une manière authentique de proposer de nouveau la beauté de notre foi avec simplicité. Par ailleurs, l’endroit même où la première crèche a été réalisée exprime et suscite ces sentiments. Greccio est donc devenu un refuge pour l’âme qui se cache sur le rocher pour se laisser envelopper dans le silence.
Pourquoi la crèche suscite-t-elle tant d’émerveillement et nous émeut-elle ? Tout d’abord parce qu’elle manifeste la tendresse de Dieu. Lui, le Créateur de l’univers, s’abaisse à notre petitesse. Le don de la vie, déjà mystérieux à chaque fois pour nous, fascine encore plus quand nous voyons que Celui qui est né de Marie est la source et le soutien de toute vie. En Jésus, le Père nous a donné un frère qui vient nous chercher quand nous sommes désorientés et que nous perdons notre direction ; un ami fidèle qui est toujours près de nous. Il nous a donné son Fils qui nous pardonne et nous relève du péché.
Faire une crèche dans nos maisons nous aide à revivre l’histoire vécue à Bethléem. Bien sûr, les Évangiles restent toujours la source qui nous permet de connaître et de méditer sur cet Événement, cependant la représentation de ce dernier par la crèche nous aide à imaginer les scènes, stimule notre affection et nous invite à nous sentir impliqués dans l’histoire du salut, contemporains de l’événement qui est vivant et actuel dans les contextes historiques et culturels les plus variés.
D’une manière particulière, depuis ses origines franciscaines, la crèche est une invitation à « sentir » et à « toucher » la pauvreté que le Fils de Dieu a choisie pour lui-même dans son incarnation. Elle est donc, implicitement, un appel à le suivre sur le chemin de l’humilité, de la pauvreté, du dépouillement, qui, de la mangeoire de Bethléem conduit à la croix. C’est un appel à le rencontrer et à le servir avec miséricorde dans les frères et sœurs les plus nécessiteux (cf. Mt 25, 31-46).
4. J’aimerais maintenant passer en revue les différents signes de la crèche pour en saisir le sens qu’ils portent en eux. En premier lieu, représentons-nous le contexte du ciel étoilé dans l’obscurité et dans le silence de la nuit. Ce n’est pas seulement par fidélité au récit évangélique que nous faisons ainsi, mais aussi pour la signification qu’il possède. Pensons seulement aux nombreuses fois où la nuit obscurcit notre vie. Eh bien, même dans ces moments-là, Dieu ne nous laisse pas seuls, mais il se rend présent pour répondre aux questions décisives concernant le sens de notre existence : Qui suis-je ? D’où est-ce que je viens ? Pourquoi suis-je né à cette époque ? Pourquoi est-ce que j’aime ? Pourquoi est-ce que je souffre ? Pourquoi vais-je mourir ? Pour répondre à ces questions, Dieu s’est fait homme. Sa proximité apporte la lumière là où il y a les ténèbres et illumine ceux qui traversent l’obscurité profonde de la souffrance (cf. Lc 1, 79).
Les paysages qui font partie de la crèche méritent, eux aussi, quelques mots, car ils représentent souvent les ruines d’anciennes maisons et de palais qui, dans certains cas, remplacent la grotte de Bethléem et deviennent la demeure de la Sainte Famille. Ces ruines semblent s’inspirer de la Légende dorée du dominicain Jacopo da Varazze (XIIIème siècle), où nous pouvons lire une croyance païenne selon laquelle le temple de la Paix à Rome se serait effondré quand une Vierge aurait donné naissance. Ces ruines sont avant tout le signe visible de l’humanité déchue, de tout ce qui va en ruine, de ce qui est corrompu et triste. Ce scénario montre que Jésus est la nouveauté au milieu de ce vieux monde, et qu’il est venu guérir et reconstruire pour ramener nos vies et le monde à leur splendeur originelle.
5. Quelle émotion devrions-nous ressentir lorsque nous ajoutons dans la crèche des montagnes, des ruisseaux, des moutons et des bergers ! Nous nous souvenons ainsi, comme les prophètes l’avaient annoncé, que toute la création participe à la fête de la venue du Messie. Les anges et l’étoile de Bethléem sont le signe que nous sommes, nous aussi, appelés à nous mettre en route pour atteindre la grotte et adorer le Seigneur.
« Allons jusqu’à Bethléem pour voir ce qui est arrivé, l’événement que le Seigneur nous a fait connaître » (Lc 2, 15) : voilà ce que disent les bergers après l’annonce faite par les anges. C’est un très bel enseignement qui nous est donné dans la simplicité de sa description. Contrairement à tant de personnes occupées à faire mille choses, les bergers deviennent les premiers témoins de l’essentiel, c’est-à-dire du salut qui est donné. Ce sont les plus humbles et les plus pauvres qui savent accueillir l’événement de l’Incarnation. À Dieu qui vient à notre rencontre dans l’Enfant Jésus, les bergers répondent en se mettant en route vers Lui, pour une rencontre d’amour et d’étonnement reconnaissant. C’est précisément cette rencontre entre Dieu et ses enfants, grâce à Jésus, qui donne vie à notre religion, qui constitue sa beauté unique et qui transparaît de manière particulière à la crèche.
6. Dans nos crèches, nous avons l’habitude de mettre de nombreuses santons symboliques. Tout d’abord, ceux des mendiants et des personnes qui ne connaissent pas d’autre abondance que celle du cœur. Eux aussi sont proches de l’Enfant Jésus à part entière, sans que personne ne puisse les expulser ou les éloigner du berceau improvisé, car ces pauvres qui l’entourent ne détonnent pas au décor. Les pauvres, en effet, sont les privilégiés de ce mystère et, souvent, les plus aptes à reconnaître la présence de Dieu parmi nous.
Les pauvres et les simples dans la crèche rappellent que Dieu se fait homme pour ceux qui ressentent le plus le besoin de son amour et demandent sa proximité. Jésus, « doux et humble de cœur » (Mt 11, 29), est né pauvre, il a mené une vie simple pour nous apprendre à saisir l’essentiel et à en vivre. De la crèche, émerge clairement le message que nous ne pouvons pas nous laisser tromper par la richesse et par tant de propositions éphémères de bonheur. Le palais d’Hérode est en quelque sorte fermé et sourd à l’annonce de la joie. En naissant dans la crèche, Dieu lui-même commence la seule véritable révolution qui donne espoir et dignité aux non désirés, aux marginalisés : la révolution de l’amour, la révolution de la tendresse. De la crèche, Jésus a proclamé, avec une douce puissance, l’appel à partager avec les plus petits ce chemin vers un monde plus humain et plus fraternel, où personne n’est exclu ni marginalisé.
Souvent les enfants – mais aussi les adultes ! – adorent ajouter à la crèche d’autres figurines qui semblent n’avoir aucun rapport avec les récits évangéliques. Cette imagination entend exprimer que, dans ce monde nouveau inauguré par Jésus, il y a de la place pour tout ce qui est humain et pour toute créature. Du berger au forgeron, du boulanger au musicien, de la femme qui porte une cruche d’eau aux enfants qui jouent… : tout cela représente la sainteté au quotidien, la joie d’accomplir les choses de la vie courante d’une manière extraordinaire, lorsque Jésus partage sa vie divine avec nous.
7. Peu à peu, la crèche nous conduit à la grotte, où nous trouvons les santons de Marie et de Joseph. Marie est une mère qui contemple son enfant et le montre à ceux qui viennent le voir. Ce santon nous fait penser au grand mystère qui a impliqué cette jeune fille quand Dieu a frappé à la porte de son cœur immaculé. À l’annonce de l’ange qui lui demandait de devenir la mère de Dieu, Marie répondit avec une obéissance pleine et entière. Ses paroles : « Voici la servante du Seigneur ; que tout m’advienne selon ta parole » (Lc 1, 38), sont pour nous tous le témoignage de la façon de s’abandonner dans la foi à la volonté de Dieu. Avec ce « oui » Marie est devenue la mère du Fils de Dieu, sans perdre mais consacrant, grâce à lui, sa virginité. Nous voyons en elle la Mère de Dieu qui ne garde pas son Fils seulement pour elle-même, mais demande à chacun d’obéir à sa parole et de la mettre en pratique (cf. Jn 2, 5).
À côté de Marie, dans une attitude de protection de l’Enfant et de sa mère, se trouve saint Joseph. Il est généralement représenté avec un bâton à la main, et parfois même tenant une lampe. Saint Joseph joue un rôle très important dans la vie de Jésus et de Marie. Il est le gardien qui ne se lasse jamais de protéger sa famille. Quand Dieu l’avertira de la menace d’Hérode, il n’hésitera pas à voyager pour émigrer en Égypte (cf. Mt 2, 13-15). Et ce n’est qu’une fois le danger passé, qu’il ramènera la famille à Nazareth, où il sera le premier éducateur de Jésus enfant et adolescent. Joseph portait dans son cœur le grand mystère qui enveloppait Jésus et Marie son épouse, et, en homme juste, il s’est toujours confié à la volonté de Dieu et l’a mise en pratique.
8. Le cœur de la crèche commence à battre quand, à Noël, nous y déposons le santon de l’Enfant Jésus. Dieu se présente ainsi, dans un enfant, pour être accueilli dans nos bras. Dans la faiblesse et la fragilité, se cache son pouvoir qui crée et transforme tout. Cela semble impossible, mais c’est pourtant ainsi : en Jésus, Dieu a été un enfant et c’est dans cette condition qu’il a voulu révéler la grandeur de son amour qui se manifeste dans un sourire et dans l’extension de ses mains tendues vers tous.
La naissance d’un enfant suscite joie et émerveillement, car elle nous place devant le grand mystère de la vie. En voyant briller les yeux des jeunes mariés devant leur enfant nouveau-né, nous comprenons les sentiments de Marie et de Joseph qui, regardant l’Enfant Jésus, ont perçu la présence de Dieu dans leur vie.
« La vie s’est manifestée » (1Jn 1, 2) : c’est ainsi que l’Apôtre Jean résume le mystère de l’Incarnation. La crèche nous fait voir, nous fait toucher cet événement unique et extraordinaire qui a changé le cours de l’histoire et à partir duquel la numérotation des années, avant et après la naissance du Christ, en est également ordonnée.
La manière d’agir de Dieu est presque une question de transmission, car il semble impossible qu’il renonce à sa gloire pour devenir un homme comme nous. Quelle surprise de voir Dieu adopter nos propres comportements : il dort, il tète le lait de sa mère, il pleure et joue comme tous les enfants ! Comme toujours, Dieu déconcerte, il est imprévisible et continuellement hors de nos plans. Ainsi la crèche, tout en nous montrant comment Dieu est entré dans le monde, nous pousse à réfléchir sur notre vie insérée dans celle de Dieu ; elle nous invite à devenir ses disciples si nous voulons atteindre le sens ultime de la vie.
9. Lorsque s’approche la fête de l’Épiphanie, nous ajoutons dans la crèche les trois santons des Rois Mages. Observant l’étoile, ces sages et riches seigneurs de l’Orient, s’étaient mis en route vers Bethléem pour connaître Jésus et lui offrir comme présent de l’or, de l’encens et de la myrrhe. Ces dons ont aussi une signification allégorique : l’or veut honorer la royauté de Jésus ; l’encens sa divinité ; la myrrhe sa sainte humanité qui connaîtra la mort et la sépulture.
En regardant la scène de la crèche, nous sommes appelés à réfléchir sur la responsabilité de tout chrétien à être évangélisateur. Chacun de nous devient porteur de la Bonne Nouvelle pour ceux qu’il rencontre, témoignant, par des actions concrètes de miséricorde, de la joie d’avoir rencontré Jésus et son amour.
Les Mages nous enseignent qu’on peut partir de très loin pour rejoindre le Christ. Ce sont des hommes riches, des étrangers sages, assoiffés d’infinis, qui entreprennent un long et dangereux voyage qui les a conduits jusqu’à Bethléem (cf. Mt 2, 1-12). Une grande joie les envahit devant l’Enfant Roi. Ils ne se laissent pas scandaliser par la pauvreté de l’environnement ; ils n’hésitent pas à se mettre à genoux et à l’adorer. Devant lui, ils comprennent que, tout comme Dieu règle avec une souveraine sagesse le mouvement des astres, ainsi guide-t-il le cours de l’histoire, abaissant les puissants et élevant les humbles. Et certainement que, de retour dans leur pays, ils auront partagé cette rencontre surprenante avec le Messie, inaugurant le voyage de l’Évangile parmi les nations.
10. Devant la crèche, notre esprit se rappelle volontiers notre enfance, quand nous attendions avec impatience le moment de pouvoir commencer à la mettre en place. Ces souvenirs nous poussent à prendre de plus en plus conscience du grand don qui nous a été fait par la transmission de la foi ; et en même temps, ils nous font sentir le devoir et la joie de faire participer nos enfants et nos petits-enfants à cette même expérience. La façon d’installer la mangeoire n’est pas importante, elle peut toujours être la même ou être différente chaque année ; ce qui compte c’est que cela soit signifiant pour notre vie. Partout, et sous différentes formes, la crèche parle de l’amour de Dieu, le Dieu qui s’est fait enfant pour nous dire combien il est proche de chaque être humain, quelle que soit sa condition.
Chers frères et sœurs, la crèche fait partie du processus doux et exigeant de la transmission de la foi. Dès l’enfance et ensuite à chaque âge de la vie, elle nous apprend à contempler Jésus, à ressentir l’amour de Dieu pour nous, à vivre et à croire que Dieu est avec nous et que nous sommes avec lui, tous fils et frères grâce à cet Enfant qui est Fils de Dieu et de la Vierge Marie ; et à éprouver en cela le bonheur. À l’école de saint François, ouvrons notre cœur à cette grâce simple et laissons surgir de l’émerveillement une humble prière : notre « merci » à Dieu qui a voulu tout partager avec nous afin de ne jamais nous laisser seuls.
Donné à Greccio, au Sanctuaire de la crèche, le 1er décembre 2019, la septième année de mon Pontificat.
François
Marie Noël, „Berceuse de la Mère de Dieu”
Auteur : Marie Noël (1883-1967), de son vrai nom Marie Rouget, a passé toute sa vie à Auxerre. Femme de grande culture, poète, elle exprime dans ses écrits la peine d’une âme troublée par le tragique de l’existence humaine et par le spectacle d’une Création traversée par “ Bien et Mal ensemble ”. Le 31 mars 2017, les évêques de France ont annoncé l’ouverture de sa cause en béatification.
Mon Dieu, qui dormez, faible entre mes bras,
Mon enfant tout chaud sur mon coeur qui bat,
J’adore en mes mains et berce étonnée,
La merveille, ô Dieu, que m’avez donnée.
De fils, ô mon Dieu, je n’en avais pas.
Vierge que je suis, en cet humble état,
Quelle joie en fleur de moi serait née ?
Mais vous, Tout-Puissant, me l’avez donnée.
Que rendrais-je à vous, moi sur qui tomba
Votre grâce ? ô Dieu, je souris tout bas
Car j’avais aussi, petite et bornée,
J’avais une grâce et vous l’ai donnée.
De bouche, ô mon Dieu, vous n’en aviez pas
Pour parler aux gens perdus d’ici-bas
Ta bouche de lait vers mon sein tournée,
O mon fils, c’est moi qui te l’ai donnée.
De main, ô mon Dieu, vous n’en aviez pas
Pour guérir du doigt leurs pauvres corps las
Ta main, bouton clos, rose encore gênée,
O mon fils, c’est moi qui te l’ai donnée.
De chair, ô mon Dieu, vous n’en aviez pas
Pour rompre avec eux le pain du repas
Ta chair au printemps de moi façonnée,
O mon fils, c’est moi qui te l’ai donnée.
De mort, ô mon Dieu, vous n’en aviez pas
Pour sauver le monde O douleur ! là-bas,
Ta mort d’homme, un soir noir, abandonnée,
Mon petit, c’est moi qui te l’ai donnée.
Despre o scrisoare deschisa
De Anca Manolescu în Dilema Veche
https://dilemaveche.ro/sectiune/dilemablog/articol/o-scrisoare-deschisa-spre-cine
„E de înţeles că oamenii credincioşi se simt apăsaţi de măsurile impuse de pandemie. E de înţeles că le lipseşte practica liturgică obişnuită, întrunirea în biserici drept comunitate mărturisitoare. E de înţeles că preoţii vor să slujească, în biserici, în mijlocul credincioşilor. Dar cei mai mulţi acceptă ceea ce acceptăm (aproape) toţi. Ne aflăm – temporar – în condiţii speciale care pun viaţa oricui în primejdie. Pandemia a făcut sensibilă – primejdios sensibilă – o dependenţă foarte concretă. Cei care nu respectă distanţa sanitară nu-şi riscă doar propria sănătate, riscă să-i contamineze pe cei din jur şi pe mulţi alţii, neştiuţi. Nu e nevoie de cine ştie ce luciditate ca să-ţi dai seama de pericol. Împotriva „solidarităţii negative” a bolii nu putem opune, ca societate, decît solidaritatea, responsabilă, a urmării regulilor de precauţie. Majoritatea credincioşilor şi a clerului o asumă. Înţeleg că e vorba despre o constrîngere temporară, că participarea la liturghie – în biserici – poate fi suplinită, temporar, de adaptări ale vieţii religioase. Sensul cultului poate fi interpretat, adîncit, interiorizat chiar în lipsa – temporară – a actualizării lui fizice.
Există însă şi o minoritate – vocală – de adepţi (seculari ori religioşi) ai libertăţilor nelimitate. La aceştia, pretenţia de libertate nemărginită, pentru ei şi grupul lor, se însoţeşte cu indiferenţa faţă de drepturile (inclusiv dreptul la viaţă şi la sănătate) ale celorlalţi. Printre asemenea „absolutişti unilateriali” se află şi clerici. Cel mai strident e arhiepiscopul Tomisului, cu scrisoarea deschisă adresată Guvernului, săptămîna trecută, în care revendica dreptul la pelerinaj de Sf. Andrei. Scrisoarea lui nu e un simplu „fapt divers”. E un discurs religios ameninţător, extremist, adresat de un ierarh ortodox oficialităţilor Statului. Iar, o dată formulat, el rămîne un document public care poate avea influenţă nocivă, care e de judecat, de analizat.
Ca om (adică ins înzestrat cu ceva raţiune), scrisoarea te contrariază. Ca cetăţean, eşti indignat de discursul ei. Iar cele mai întemeiate respingeri i le poate înfăţişa, desigur, credinţa. De altfel, intelectuali ortodocşi cu înalte studii religioase, intervievaţi de Europa Liberă, au criticat sever demersurile ierarhului care au culminat cu scrisoarea în cauză. ÎPS Teodosie încearcă să folosească frustrările pricinuite de restricţiile sanitare pentru „un proiect politic radical” (Teodor Baconschi). E un „apel la insurecţie” de care Sinodul B.O.R. şi Patriarhul trebuie să se delimiteze (Toader Paleologu).
E evident că, în scrisoarea sa deschisă, ÎPS Teodosie făcea (nevoit ori voit?, programatic?) o mulţime de confuzii. Întîi încurca temporarul cu definitivul: limitarea trecătoare a posibilităţilor de cult echivala, pentru el, cu suprimarea libertăţii religioase, cu „călcarea ei în picioare”. Apoi încurca pandemia cu autorităţile Statului, cînd pretindea că nu boala, ci guvernul interzice adunările unui număr mare de persoane. Încurca pînă şi confesiunile creştine cînd ameninţa cu reeditarea (mai amplă!) a rezistenţei dimprejurul pastorului reformat Tőkés, care a declanşat revoluţia din 1989, ceea ce a dus la căderea regimului de atunci. Ba, chiar, măsurile sanitare deveneau, în ochii lui, ofensiva unei crîncene secularizări secondate de o „ştiinţă absurdă” (cea medicală?); dacă nu cumva, se sugera, ţin de un tenebros complot! În cuvintele ierarhului:
„Nu vom îngădui acum, ca dreptul de a-l cinsti așa cum se cuvine, pe Sfîntul Apostol Andrei, cel Întîi chemat, Ocrotitorul României, să ne fie călcat în picioare de cei care nu au frică de Dumnezeu și se închină unei științe absurde, care nesocotește pe om în integralitatea sa: trup, dar și suflet. Ce veți face? Ne veți bate, amenda, aresta și executa pe toți cei care vom merge să ne rugăm la Mănăstirea Peștera Sfîntului Apostol Andrei?!? Veți asmuți justiția și forțele de ordine împotriva propriilor frați și surori pentru a vă atinge scopurile fixate?”
Ca om (adică ins înzestrat cu ceva raţiune), eşti stînjenit să auzi asemenea enormităţi, demne de eroii lui Caragiale. Eşti aproape amuzat… Ca cetăţean, însă, eşti indignat. Căci ÎPS Teodosie încurcă (nevoit ori voit?, programatic?) autorităţile şi statul de drept, pe care încercăm să-l construim, cu o dictatură. În timpul comunismului, călugării se răreau (doar pensionarii aveau ceva drept la monahism), bisericile se dărîmau, pelerinaje nu prea erau. Cei puţini, care aveau curajul să ducă o viaţă spirituală comunitară, cum a fost de pildă grupul „Rugului Aprins”, erau anchetaţi, arestaţi, bătuţi, încarceraţi. Discursul care se potrivea acelei stări trecute îl rosteşte astăzi – liber – ÎPS Teodosie, aplicîndu-l fantasmatic actualului regim. Nu e nici un pericol ca ierarhul să fie „bătut, arestat, executat” pentru asta. Dar a trata statul de drept, cu ordinea lui, drept un închipuit regim totalitar e un pericol. Nu e numai fals, e distructiv: înseamnă că vrei să fragilizezi statul de drept, să-l descalifici, să-l înlocuieşti cu un altfel de regim. Ce fel de regim?
În sfîrşit, din punctul de vedere al credinţei, discursul ÎPS Teodosie e respingător. Cum de-şi îngăduie să declare că pelerinajul organizat de el garantează o moarte care duce drept la ceruri? („Cine vine la sărbătoare, dacă acolo este momentul să plece din viața aceasta, pleacă la Dumnezeu”, a decretat el). E el confidentul lui Dumnezeu? Este el, asemenea radicalilor musulmani, în posesia deciziilor divine?
Şi ce se întîmplă cu ceilalţi oameni, nepelerini la peştera Sfîntului Andrei, pe care acţiunile ierarhului îi pun în pericol de contaminare? Nu poartă şi ei oglindit în suflet chipul lui Dumnezeu? Medicii care îşi fac munca riscantă, bolnavii, oamenii de tot felul care îndură restricţiile, ei nu contează pentru ÎPS Teodosie? Sînt neînsemnaţi, inexistenţi? Valorează ei mai puţin decît realizarea de anul acesta a pelerinajului?
În compoziţia credinţei de tip ÎPS Teodosie nu intră nici fir de grijă faţă de semenii care nu i se alătură. Ce universalitate a creştinismului, ce iubire a aproapelui de orşiunde! Ce atenţie faţă de tot omul, creştin ori necreştin! Astea sînt, pentru ÎPS Teodosie, detalii! Dar nu şi pentru mesajul lui Christos.”
Présentation de Jésus au temple
Par Francine Paquin
Quatrième mystère joyeux
Les parents de Jésus se conforment au rite de la loi : tout premier-né masculin sera consacré au Seigneur. L’enfant Jésus est présenté au Seigneur, au temple de Jérusalem. «Il y avait là un homme juste nommé Siméon qui attendait la Consolation d’Israël. Il avait reçu de l’Esprit-Saint l’annonce qu’il ne verrait pas la mort avant d’avoir vu le Christ, le Messie du Seigneur.» (Lc, 2, 25, 26 )
Siméon reçu l’enfant dans ses bras, et bénit Dieu en disant : «Maintenant, ô Maître souverain, tu peux laisser ton serviteur s’en aller en paix, selon ta parole. Car mes yeux ont vu le salut que tu préparais à la face des peuples : lumière qui se révèle aux nations et donne gloire à ton peuple Israël.» (Lc, 2, 29-32) Siméon s’adressa à Marie, la Mère de Jésus : «Voici que cet enfant provoquera la chute et le relèvement de beaucoup en Israël. Il sera un signe de contradiction- et toi, ton âme sera traversée d’un glaive- : ainsi seront dévoilées les pensées qui viennent du cœur d’un grand nombre.» (Lc, 2, 34-35 )
Le vieillard Siméon reconnaît la suprématie de Dieu, son Maître souverain en qui il a mis sa foi. Il portait en lui une grand espérance, il percevait la lumière de Dieu, aussi, voulait-il voir de ses yeux le Christ Sauveur, le Messie de Dieu, la Lumière du monde avant de mourir. «Tu peux laisser ton serviteur s’en aller en paix, mes yeux ont vu le salut que tu préparais à la face des peuples.» L’Esprit-Saint lui avait révélé la Lumière qui brillerait dans les ténèbres, l’accueil ou le refus de la Lumière, la croix et la gloire du Christ. «Cet enfant provoquera la chute et le relèvement de beaucoup en Israël. Il sera un signe de contradiction»
Nous avons à nous prononcer pour le Christ ou contre Lui. Ce qui fera dire à Jésus lors de son ministère :«Même une famille de cinq personnes sera divisée : trois contre deux et deux contre trois : Le père s’opposera au fils et le fils au père; la mère à sa fille et la fille à sa mère; la belle-mère à l’épouse et l’épouse à sa belle-mère!» (Lc, 12, 52-53) Ces paroles nous interpellent encore aujourd’hui, nous avons à nous décider maintenant, cela presse : sommes-nous pour le Christ ou contre Lui? Choisissons-nous le bien ou le mal, l’amour ou la haine? Ce qui implique que nous aurons à nous prononcer ouvertement devant le monde, recevoir moqueries et humiliations par amour pour Jésus. Sommes-nous prêts à vivre notre appartenance au Christ aux yeux de tous malgré les souffrances et les rejets subits? Comme les apôtres, pourrons-nous dire : «Ils s’en allèrent tout joyeux d’avoir été jugés dignes de subir des outrages pour le Nom de Jésus.» (Act, 5,41)
Marie intimement unie à son divin Fils aura à partager ses souffrances : «Et toi, ton âme sera traversée d’un glaive, ainsi seront dévoilées les pensées qui viennent du cœur d’un grand nombre.» La Parole de Jésus nous affirme : «Si quelqu’un me renie devant les hommes, moi aussi je le renierai devant mon Père du Ciel.» (Mt, 10,33) Suivre Jésus, être touché par la croix à la suite de Marie fait de moi un apôtre de la Lumière. S’il m’est donné de souffrir avec Jésus, de partager les souffrances de mes frères et sœurs, j’entre dans le sillon lumineux de la joie du Christ Sauveur. Le Père me reconnaît en son Christ, là où sa Parole s’étend de par l’univers pour rejoindre les âmes par la grâce salvatrice du Christ, Lumière du monde.
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