that meal with friends at the heart of the story of Brother
Del Pietro Agostino, guardian of the Virgin of Locarno Sasso_
In every person's life there are events of major importance. The meeting with a certain person, a particular job interview, or simply participating in a given event may mark deeply the lives of each of us. Then the desire to make absolutely certain things, to live intensely at times, do not miss at all to a given event can grow and intensify in each of us especially when we are faced with incisive or carried out in stages of our lives: a change of address a departure on a long journey, but especially the approach of evening of our day. This kind of desire, deeply human, it was also of Jesus: "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you ..." Luke 22, 15. Sharing the Passover was and is certainly one of the most significant acts of domestic worship of the Jewish religion. Year after Jesus would have eaten this meal year so full of religious significance, but also in history and tradition, first in the circle of his family and then, later, his disciples. Who knows how many good memories of previous dinners have brought Easter in his heart and his mind, our Lord. Memories of his childhood, his adolescence and to maturity, we can only guess, for them there is no canonical source word. Memories that will surely also contributed, on the eve of his last supper, to feed him in the ardent desire to eat the Passover again, reliving one last time, the circle of his intimate friends, a tradition so important and significant. But his eyes were just turned nostalgically to the past, to a personal life full of happy events and significant, and resulted in a tradition rooted in the holy, glorious and venerable? Or even Jesus turned his eyes to the future? "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer, for I tell you not to eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." In the heart and mind of Jesus burning desire to share that last Passover meal because he knew that this would be a rendezvous with history, the history that preceded it, but even more, the story in front of him. In that last meeting with his disciples, Jesus builds a bridge between past, present and future. In the evening the Apostles become the prototype of endless generation of disciples who, not only from year to year but from week to week, day by day, hour by hour will renew in Jerusalem first, and then to the ends Earth inevitable that appointment with history. A story that began on the banks of the Nile, which will have its fulfillment in the Promised Land.
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