The Kingdom of God - project No 1

Mt 13.44-52 draws our interest into the message about the Kingdom of Heaven,
who is near at hand (KoG). For every baptized person the KoG is project No 1;
it means: all his/her activities are determined to build up the KoG here and now.
In reality (Ithink) the most of all baptized people they have the KoG in mind only
on Sunday (if they go to Church). Today the KoG is rather a forgotten diamont.
The Church is not the KoG but only a medium to realize it.

How to explain the KoG ?
a hidden treasure = a wondefull girl somewhere = a heart operation
someone has found =  I discovered her               = I see it as my life-aim
he hides it again =  I keep it for me                     = I ponder about this in my mind
goes off happy =  I'm very happy                          = I feel well by this meditation
sells everything =  I do all to date her                 = I study very hart
buys the field = I decide she belongs to me          = it's my profession

What a dynamic process, an occurrence, a course of action, a creative event,
a happening. The KoG is not a quiet landscape but an cultural evolution;
full of up's and down's, full of challenges and joys, disappointments and pleasure.

a) All over the World there are innumerable "hidden treasures". Not only gold-mines but also the cultural heritage, the healings, the good-deeds...
b) To find one of these treasures you must open your senses: to see... to hear...
to smell... to touch... to tast...  the senses are the chance to discover!
c) let it be first your secret, your guiding star, to discover how much you are fan of
d) you have found a new belonging, you are not lost, an enrichment,
a real participation in the fullness of life.
e) and now go public, tell everybody: this treasure is my life, my destiny,
my project No 1
Discovering the beauty, the goodness. the holyness of the creation
is at the start of the search after the KoG.
There are prople they have found a treasure: the Holy Mass as shower of GRACE.
Or they have found a friendship, a group to belong to, a life-aim - so many are the
entrances into the process of the KoG.

HOLY MASS: the shower of GRACE

Sometimes Ailly informs me: "I take a shower". And I confirm: "Yes, that's good for you". On Sunday's we are invited to take a shower of GRACE.
1) As I go there, I get a Community! (I'm not alone!) I get a welcome! And I get
the assurance: "The Lord be with you" (That's the CREATOR of Heaven + Earth).
2) In this frame of GRACE I get a clear definition of my constitution and
I confess it: I'm a sinner, I'm not perfect, I'm depending on God, Cosmos and Humanity! I lay down the cloak of self-justification - I'm naked for a moment - and
I get the cloak of mercy: I get the forgiveness of all my sins.
3) The joy about such a redeeming gift of mercy is expressed in our song of glory.
4) The Cairperson (Cp) reveals before God our presence (oration / official prayer)
5) Now we open four times the tap - and we get a fall of drops (hot and cold words):
    first: a waterfall with the flavour of Abraham until Mary / We dry up by a song.
    sec:  a waterfall with the flavour of Jesus / we dry up with Alleluja
    third:   waterfall with the flavour of joy (Gospel)
    fourth: waterfall with the flavour of today (Homily) (at least I hope so !)
After this great gift of the one redeeming word we get the gift of decision again (like at the Baptism): Yes ! I accept God, Jesus and his Spirit (Creed).
6) In the "prayer of the people" we get the chance to lay out our concrete situation
7) We bring our contribution as gifts and lay on the table the gift of bread + wine.
8) We get the gift of change: together we change the bread and our Community
into the "Body of Jesus Christ for our time". / into the Bread of life for the World.
9) We get Jesus Christ (his life-style + intention) as spiritual nourishment and
Christian refreshment. We get the feeling: we are together all over the world  a world-changing Community; we are conscious of our contribution to the evolution
of world and culture. "In your Body Lord we are one".
10) We get info's about our Community-Life "here and now".
11) We get the blessing of God (God declare his creation as good)
and we get the empowerment to perform a Christian Life (ite - missa est).

After so much GRACE (like a hot and cold but refreshing shower) we need to relax
this is Sunday. And after God has given into our hands his CREATION and his Word as GRACE, as GIFT - HE will disappear - maybe traces remain visible, audible...

Where is the rich soil ??? / Mt 13.1-23

This parable is a very general one: 
"Imagine a sower going out to sow...the seed fell on the hard path, on the clean rock, among thorns, on rich soil... "
the consequences are evident; it's natural wisdom; nobody will not understand!

But Jesus knows: the message behind this clear parable is not understood by everyone because there are people they look without seeing, listen without hearing (understanding). That's the situation in the time of Jesus but also in the time of
Isaiah as well as today 2014!

"their ears are dull of hearing; they have shut their eyes for fear...
but they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts - and be converted, and be healed by me"

Who is today the addressee of this prophesy ? The Church, the bishops...
will they discover the flowers on the rich soil ??? sorry it's not the case:
a) they have introduced a Missal / English not to understand - destroying
    the Liturgy...   (the heartbeat of the Catholic Church)
b) they will decide over Christian-Family-Life and have any own Family-Life-
    experience...   but proclaiming "Family is the domestic Church".
c) They speak about corruption in politics but don't make public their own
   Diocesan "settlement of accounts".   transparency ?
d) they don't see why the Cath. Church is more and more empty...
e) they keep the baptised people begging: God may interfere...  instead of
   encouriging to tackle the problems with their own hands and hearts.

The seed is Jesus Christ - the whole Church knows this. And it's clear some
people are very rich soil - they actualize Jesus for our time...  but they are
not recongnized, not discovered - mabe only after death, to get the honour
of canonization / but to late for the actual Church !

The rich soil brings flowers and fruits in abundance...they are in the other garden...

What a self-consciousness !

A) The message Mt 11.26 Jesus prays:
"Yes, God, for that is what it pleased you to do:
Everything has been entrusted to me by God."  He is Administrator not Owner.

B) This is the self-consciousness of Jesus: Jesus knows and he is convinced,
that all is given into his hands: to administer, to distribute it, to us it rightly.

C) This is also the message of the Sundays before:
look at Pentecost: The Spirit of God is given.  to implement it all over...
look at Trinity:       The Son is given.                to acualize him...
look at Corpus Christi: The Bread of Life for the World is given. to share it...
look at Peter + Paul:    The Revelation is given.   to ackknowledge it...

D) Who ever follows Jesus is invited to take over his self-consciousness.
Every baptised Christian may get the conviction: God has already given
to the mankind all: Himself, his Spirit, his Son, his Creation, his Grace...
God is not only giving - He is given

E) Out of this conviction, Jesus (living out of the fullness of Life already given)
was able to give his own Life for the Administration of the fullness..
Jesus also is not only giving - He is given

F) After such a message, we may respond: "sorry, my experience is an other one.
Yes Life is given - but not in full." In fact, you are right. Not all is given to you,
but to the mankind as a whole. And you personnally are one, only one of seven
billiones. You are called to participate with the given fullness of Life. It means:
we have to share, to administer this fullness of Life in favour of all.

G) We are not called to begger, to collect as much as possibel for myself.
We are called to see the reality, to live out of the fullness given and to share,
to distribute this fullness. This means: engagement in politics, economy,
science, civil society...  engagement also in the Church to implement the
consciousness of Jesus.