Hello, dear brothers and sisters,
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for this last meeting
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that we have together
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in this month of the Sacred Heart
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when the Church celebrates
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the martyrs of Rome.
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Today I offer you
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a kind of
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very simple biblical recapitulation .
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We have come
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a long way
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with different themes,
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including The Old Testament
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in the New Testament.
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Yesterday we really ended up
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with Heavenly Jerusalem.
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Now, I suggest that you
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project us exactly
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to the other extreme, that
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is to say at the very beginning,
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to the creation story,
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because there is already
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mysteriously , in an extremely implicit
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way and which fall under the
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purely Christian
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interpretation ,
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and perhaps even a little personal …
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There is already an announcement
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from the open heart of Jesus
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who welcomes us for redemption.
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Do you remember
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the creation story?
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First book of Genesis,
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first chapter
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of the book of Genesis:
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God decrees.
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He gives orders: “Let there be light
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and there was light.”
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It suffices that he say and that is,
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they are decrees.
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He orders that there be a firmament,
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that there are continents,
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that there are seas,
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lights, etc.
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Let there be grass,
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trees, water, fish,
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birds, etc.
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Each time, it’s “God said
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he is this and that,
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and so it was.”
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Did you notice the difference
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with the creation of man?
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Verse 26 of the first chapter
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of Genesis.
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There, there is no longer a decree.
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It does not say that “God says man is”
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not at all
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God says.
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“And now,”
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first person plural,
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“Let’s make man in our image,
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in our likeness.”
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First person plural,
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and for us
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Christians,
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our Jewish brethren have
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another interpretation.
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But for us Christians,
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we can see it as
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a kind of interior conference
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of the three persons of the Trinity
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as before the creation of man,
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which is a
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particular moment of creation.
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Even the path of creation visible
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as if the three people
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were withdrawing between them to deliberate
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and say together
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“let us make man in our image.”
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A kind of model
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of what happens in the couple,
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husband and wife.
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At one point, they decide.
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They retire to their room
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and say:
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“Here we are, we are going to do what it takes
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to have a child,
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let’s give life to a child.
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Well this creation
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of man
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is more a birth
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than a creation. ,
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in any case not analogous
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to the creation of the other elements.
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And therefore, God
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created man in his image,
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in his likeness,
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therefore, as a sacred being.
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But in doing so,
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you can see that God is taking a risk,
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we We will see
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it all too well in chapter 3 of Genesis.
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Love does not impose itself.
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It proposes itself.
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By creating man
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in his image, man and woman
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in his likeness.
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He gives him attributes,
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he gives him attributes …
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Freedom,
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choice, understanding, etc.
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Man is therefore free to choose
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against God, and God,
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therefore, and mysteriously,
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he makes himself vulnerable.
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He opens himself.
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He is not vulnerable. in his being.
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No, of course, the Triune God
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is absolutely impassive.
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He is not reached in his being,
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but he is reached in his Love,
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in his passion of love. ur man.
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And see the image
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of Rublev of the Trinity.
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The three people
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are not
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closed in on themselves.
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They are open.
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There is a fourth place that is empty …
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It is the one that we are invited to occupy.
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This opening of the Trinity
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announces to us something
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very distantly
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from the opening of the heart of Jesus
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to welcome all humanity into him
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and make it return,
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after the straying of original sin,
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into the house of the father
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and into the fire of the Holy Spirit.
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This is how we now end
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our meditation,
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our meditations for the month of June.
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I wish you very good fruits
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following this month of Sacred Heart.
Source: Fr Kars, see video below