2023-10-18 02:00:00
In particular, it is in Nazareth that he understands that he has to be trained in the school of Christ. She lives an intense relationship with Him, spends long hours reading the Gospels and feels like his little brother. And knowing Jesus, a desire to make him known is born in him. This always happens like this, when each of us knows Jesus more, it is born from the desire to make him known, to share this treasure.
When commenting on the passage of the Virgin’s visit to Saint Elizabeth, he makes her say: “I have given myself to the world… take me to the world.” Yes, but how? Like Mary in the mystery of the Visitation: “in silence, with example, with life.” With life, because “our entire existence – writes Brother Carlos – must shout the Gospel.” So many times, our existence screams worldliness, it screams stupid things, strange things, and he says “no,” our entire existence must scream the Gospel.
Then he decided to settle in distant regions to shout the Gospel in silence, living in the spirit of Nazareth, in poverty and in hiding. He goes to the Sahara desert, among non-Christians, and arrives there as a friend and brother, bringing the meekness of Jesus-Eucharist. Carlos lets Jesus be the one to act silently, convinced that the “Eucharistic life” evangelizes. In fact, he believes that Christ is the first evangelizer. Thus he is in prayer at the feet of Jesus, in front of the tabernacle, for about ten hours a day, sure that the evangelizing force is there and feeling that it is Jesus who brings him close to so many distant brothers and sisters. And we, I wonder, do we believe in the power of the Eucharist? Does our going towards others, our service, find there, in worship, its beginning and its fulfillment? I am convinced that we have lost the sense of worship. We must recover it, starting from us, the consecrated people, the bishops, priests, nuns, all the consecrated people. “Wasting” time in front of the tabernacle, recovering the sense of worship.
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