{"id":4032,"date":"2023-11-27T09:27:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T09:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torino2024.equipes-notre-dame.com\/invisble-not-absent\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T09:49:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T09:49:49","slug":"invisble-not-absent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torino2024.equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/invisble-not-absent\/","title":{"rendered":"Invisble, not absent…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I turned my back, like Cl\u00e9opas and his friend. I too have sometimes turned my back on God, on what happened in Jerusalem: on the gift of Life that conquers death, on the possibility of new beginnings when all seems over. Black thoughts clogged my heart, and I got troubled. I resemble the two dark spots in this painting. I have walked through ups and downs of life just like them, folded and sad. I have become a lament. <\/p>\n

Yet, You are there and join me on the paths of my remoteness. You are invisible, not absent. I glimpse You, sense You at the bottom of my distances. You seek dialogue. “What are you discussing?” (Lk 24:17), you ask me. And you listen to me, you give me time. You care about my story, my side of the story, even those I don’t understand. You tell me yours, “then he said” (Lk 24:25). I listen to you. Your Word helps me to reread my life. The Law and the Prophets are a map that helps me decipher the mystery that I am, the Mystery that you are in me. “You pause to stay” (Lk 24:29). You are a solid Presence. You offer me your shoulder. My right hand finds you. You are reliable. I lean on you. I trust and walk with You. Indeed, it is You who walks beside me. Now the heart sees You, even though You vanish from my sight (Lk 24:31). <\/p>\n

Leaning on you I become reliable too. And then I too can offer my shoulder, as does the disciple in the center. I can make myself present. Others will lean on me leaning on you. And I realize the many times when I was not the one who first noticed You. I live supported by the faith of others. By that of men and women who recognize You nearby on the seesaw of life and abandon themselves in You. I am continually the disciple in the center and the one on the sidelines. And You, Lord, make no one lack support. Of this I become the story (Lk 24:35).<\/p>\n

Fr. Michele Roselli, Episcopal Vicar for Formation Diocese of Turin<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Janet Brooks-Gerloff<\/b> \"The Disciples of Emmaus\" 1992. Abbey of St. Cornelius, Aachen<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,94],"tags":[],"evidenza":[],"giorno":[],"class_list":["post-4032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","category-spiritual-walks-in-art"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torino2024.equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torino2024.equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torino2024.equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torino2024.equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torino2024.equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/torino2024.equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4034,"href":"https:\/\/torino2024.equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions\/4034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torino2024.equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torino2024.equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torino2024.equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torino2024.equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4032"},{"taxonomy":"evidenza","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torino2024.equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/evidenza?post=4032"},{"taxonomy":"giorno","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torino2024.equipes-notre-dame.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/giorno?post=4032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}