The paradigm of every Christian mission
God entered
human history through the mystery of the Incarnation of the Eternal Word. The
Father sent His beloved Son to save humanity in a way so simple and yet so
profound that it leaves us perplexed: the Creator became a creature; the
Almighty became dependent; the Eternal became mortal.... This is the way God
carries out His mission. This is the
paradigm of every Christian mission: thirty years of silence, of listening, of
learning, of meditation, in order then the expound the deep mysteries of God
through gestures and simple words or examples of everyday situations that could
be understood by all. And he "spoke with authority".
Francis of
Assisi understood that the mystery of the manger taught us a project of life
and mission. That is why he "liked so much to remember the humility of the
incarnation" and wanted to "see with his own eyes" and without
embellishment the minority of God, in order to adapt himself to it.
The
Incarnation must illuminate our missionary project. Whoever contemplates with
the eyes of faith the humility of God, knows that the mission demands first to
become incarnate, to "subject oneself to every human creature", to
learn... and then to find the right moment and the right way to open the
treasures of revelation.
May Francis of Assisi help us to contemplate in the manger with our own eyes, the prototype of the Friar Minor who accepts to live the Christian mission in this world. Pax et bonum.
