Latest / Vitamina O: Evangelio dominical comentado / T1.E184| Juan 20, 19-31: "Dichosos los que no han visto, y han creído"
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- 0:04Frozen foods, to isband the best selection of pre- cooked and ultra-
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- 0:24this space of vitamin or prayer, together with Francis hermengold a few brief spiritual
- 0:30Bible thought capsules that entertain, teach and lift the soul. Good morning,
- 0:39second Sunday of Easter and we read chapter twenty of the Gospel of St John.
- 0:45On the evening of that day, on the first day of the week,
- 0:51the disciples were in a house with the doors closed for fear of the
- 0:56Jews, and Jesus entered into this and stood among them and said peace to
- 1:03you and saying this, he showed them his hands and his side, and
- 1:08the disciples were filled with joy. Seeing the Lord Jesus repeated peace to you,
- 1:15as the Father has sent me. Thus also I sent you, and
- 1:19having said this, blew upon them, and told them to receive the holy
- 1:25spirit. Those who forgive sins are forgiven. Those of you who stop them,
- 1:30they' re held back. Thomas, one of the twelve, called
- 1:34the twin, was not with them when Jesus came and the other disciples told
- 1:41him. We' ve seen the gentleman, but he answered them. If
- 1:45I do not see the sign of the nails in his hands, if I
- 1:49do not put my finger in the hole of the nails and do not put
- 1:52my hand in his side, I do not believe that in the eight days
- 1:57they were again inside the disciples and Thomas with them came Jesus, being closed
- 2:02the doors, stood in the middle and said peace to you. Then he
- 2:07said to Tomás, bring your finger. Here are my hands, bring your
- 2:12hand and put it in my side and do not be unbelievers, but believers.
- 2:17Thomas answered, my lord and my God, Jesus told him why you
- 2:23saw me. You have believed happy those who have not seen and have believed
- 2:30many other signs that are not written in this book Jesus made in the sight
- 2:35of the disciples. These have been written so that you may believe that Jesus
- 2:38is the Messiah, the son of God, and so that believing, you
- 2:44may have life in his name the apostle Thomas, nicknamed the unbeliever by Jesus
- 2:53himself, embodies the difficulty that we all feel in believing in the event of
- 3:00Jesus' resurrection. To think that Christ has risen is something so out of
- 3:05all logic that only the experience of personal and real encounter with the risen can
- 3:12bring about change. To accept the resurrection is not, of course, a
- 3:16conclusion to which one comes after logical reasoning. I think there are only two
- 3:23alternatives. Either it is an unsuspected personal encounter, as is the case with
- 3:27the apostles in the gospel we have read, or it is a leap of
- 3:32faith as it is for us. Hence the phrase of Jesus to the most
- 3:37blessed. Those who have not seen have already believed. Today I want to
- 3:44share a current example of what this leap in faith implies in the lips of
- 3:49someone who does not speak from victory, but from pain and from mourning,
- 3:53believing without having seen and I mean French Torralba. Torralba is a university professor,
- 4:01he is a Spanish intellectual. He has no more and no less than
- 4:05four doctorates. He is a Doctor of Philosophy, a Doctor of Theology,
- 4:12a Doctor of Pedagogy and a Doctor of Art History. If I had already
- 4:15admired this man for his wisdom and communicative ability, now he appreciated him even
- 4:20more for his personal testimony, for his painful but at the same time Paschal
- 4:26testimony. On August 14th of two thousand and twenty- three, French went
- 4:33out with his twenty- six- year- old son Oriol on a journey
- 4:40through the peaks of Europe and on this excursion Oriol lost his life accidentally rushing
- 4:45into the void. He explains to Frenchc in an interview in the Vanguard newspaper,
- 4:49that it was a circular journey of thirty kilometers, a star excursion of
- 4:56the summer. Oriol, the son, was the one who planned and discussed
- 5:00it through small narrow paths, although if there was unevenness the route itself was
- 5:06not at any particular risk. The problem was that they got lost back to
- 5:12cónnu says Torralba. Moreover, the GPS did not work, there was no
- 5:17coverage and at that time of uncertainty, Uriol was distressed, felt responsible and
- 5:24then we began to look for the right path with erratic movements up and down
- 5:30and at a given moment, he turned down a small curve that presented no
- 5:33apparent risk. And that' s when I heard a very strong blow at
- 5:40our feet down was the River Cares. After several hours of waiting for the
- 5:45ransom, the bad news was confirmed. Uriol had died because of the fall
- 5:49and French, the father, had to telephone his wife, Uriol' s
- 5:55mother, to give her the sad and tragic news. The death of a
- 6:00loved one is tragic, because French explains it with these magisterial words. The
- 6:08human being is unique and unrepeatable. It can' t be replaced by anyone.
- 6:15An object, you can replace a phone, a car, a furniture,
- 6:19a house clothes whatever you want, but a human being doesn' t.
- 6:25The human being is him irreplaceable by definition and the idea that you will
- 6:30never again be able to establish a dialogue with that person can generate great despair
- 6:38without faith, what antidote despair has. There are substitutes, remembrance, being
- 6:45reminding that person of resignation. Stoic is life like this and you have to
- 6:51pull forward, evoke your memory periodically. But the only news that can somehow
- 7:00compensate for the radical absence of death, Torralba says, is confidence in a
- 7:06final reunion. Danish existentialist philosopher Soren Kirkegar of the 19th century said that faith
- 7:16is the only antidote to despair. For Torralba, the only thing that somehow
- 7:23gives her hope is faith in a final reunion with her son. Theologically,
- 7:30it is based on the resurrection of Christ and the fact that everything is possible
- 7:33for God. Faith is not a logical conclusion, it is not a conquest
- 7:41of the mind, but a free gift. Just as Jesus breaks into the
- 7:46cenacle, when the closed doors enter where there was no access, the gift
- 7:50of faith can break into our closed souls, where he dominates the idea that
- 7:56death has the last word event, like the death of a loved one,
- 8:01makes everything totter and rethink, everything gets disordered, sleep, hunger and even
- 8:07one' s own beliefs. Some refer to an atheism of rebellion or indignation,
- 8:16to a radical denial of the existence of God, because as it may
- 8:18exist and allow this evil and is very understandable. But there is also another
- 8:26possibility to put in crisis our own mental representation of God and realize that God
- 8:31transcends us, that he goes far beyond our mind and so, without obviating
- 8:37the pain, one can find a source of peace. Torralba says, because
- 8:46such a thing refers to the death of a loved one and especially that of
- 8:48his son, it is not overcome. I speak says of acceptance, not
- 8:54of overcoming, because I believe that this last word overcoming is not the most
- 9:00suitable to talk about such an event. I still have faith, yes,
- 9:05but I ask in my prayer, when the fact has already occurred, to
- 9:09have the inner strength to be able to assume it, to maintain serenity and
- 9:15to remake life. Faith also helps to think about that final reunion. Such
- 9:20a final reunion would be impossible if Jesus had not been resurrected. Those loved
- 9:26ones who have passed away and who are already with God no longer have FAITH.
- 9:31They don' t need it. They have no Faith because they already
- 9:35have knowledge of God, a personal experience of God. We, who are
- 9:37in this ephemeral stretch of our existence, do need FAITH. Therefore, happy
- 9:45those who have not seen and have believed that God blesses you enjoy the ideal
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