
I
asked one day to a child: " How do you like the Priest to be? ".
"I like him smiling and good."
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I
asked one day to a child:
«How
do you like the Priest to be?».
«I
like him smiling and good."
«If
you won't convert yourself and won't become as these children, you won't enter
the kingdom of the skies» (Mt 18,3).
«……
their Angels in the sky always see the face of My Father who is in the skies»
(Mt 18,10). The verbum Dei is the embodied Christ and the verbum Christi is
the innocent through which the word of the Divine Teacher comes to each of us,
expressed in ways and different similes, but always sincere, simple, loyal,
deep, endless. We need to come back to children to be as them, smiling and
good.
What
a splendid answer: first smiling, and then good. Goodness doesn't exist
without smile.
The
smile is the communication of the grace, it is the mirror of life, it is
the
encouragement to live well, to suffer well, to accept well, to die well.
It is the thought of a blessed eternity, it is the certainty not to be
alone, it is the communion, communicated with the most spontaneous mean,
easier, surer, more profitable. Priest, smile and you’ll be good. If you
don't succeed in smiling it is because you are not good, it is because you are
still busy a lot of walk before reaching the goodness; it is because you are
complicated, shaken, sad, radically dissatisfied, dissatisfied.
Seriousness
doesn't mean contrariety to the smile. It is not necessary the mouth to smile,
but a Priest's eyes in grace are not able not to smile.
It
is to them that the baby looks, and observes the way with which he looks at
him, almost trying to scrutinize his thought, his way of acting and living; in
his attitudes he studies him, and decides whether to listen to him or to leave
to lose him.
The
science of Christ for the most part reaches the man through the channels of
the very little way: innocence. If the children don't look for you, you have
to reflect: you have to make a deep examination of conscience and convert
yourself, if you want to earn the kingdom of the skies. «Let the children
come to Me» (Mc 10,14). «Who welcomes in My name one such child as this,
welcomes Me» (Mt 18,5).
And
here a little boy that says: «I have greeted a Priest, he has turned on the
other side and he has not stopped». The little boy continued: «It is all
right that he is Priest, but I have also been baptized!». Priest you are, and
you have to be such. The gift that you have received is sacred, and really for
this you have to welcome what it goes out of the mouth of God.
«If
anyone should cause one of these little ones to lose his faith in me, it would
be better for him to have a large millstone tied round
his neck and be drowned in the deep sea”(Mt 18,6).
The
small ones easily scandalize themselves. Smile and you will walk sure through the
flowers and the wild beast. Also the wild beast become tame to the smile of a
man in grace.
Jesus
talked with the small, even if He was a great one, even if Teacher He was
called. The great ones then who are? They are those people who know how to
make themselves small as the small ones.
Mother