{"id":3346,"date":"2008-03-10T08:46:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T07:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aomoi.net\/blog\/arkiv\/1147"},"modified":"2008-03-10T08:46:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T07:46:10","slug":"pave-benedikt-om-oppvekkelsen-av-lasarus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/2008\/03\/pave-benedikt-om-oppvekkelsen-av-lasarus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pave Benedikt om oppvekkelsen av Lasarus"},"content":{"rendered":"

I g\u00e5r var mange tusen mennesker samla p\u00e5 Petersplassen og h\u00f8rte pave Benedikts betraktninger om dagens tekst; oppvekkelsen av Lasarus – det siste store tegne Jesus gjorde f\u00f8r sin egen d\u00f8d og oppstandelse. Her er en engelsk oversettelse av hva han sa (fra zenit.org<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
\nIn our Lenten journey we have arrived at the 5th Sunday, characterized by the Gospel that narrates the resurrection of Lazarus (John 11:1-45). This is the last great \u201csign\u201d worked by Jesus, and after it the high priests will convene the Sanhedrin and will decide to kill him; it is also decided that Lazarus himself will be killed. Lazarus was the living proof of Christ\u2019s divinity and Christ is the Lord of life and death. In reality this Gospel passage shows Jesus as true Man and true God.<\/p>\n

In the first place the evangelist insists on his friendship with Lazarus and the sisters Martha and Mary. He emphasizes that \u201cJesus loved them very much\u201d, and for this reason wants to work the great prodigy. <\/font><\/i> \u201cOur friend Lazarus has died, but I am going to awaken him\u201d. This is how he spoke to the disciples, expressing God\u2019s view of physical death with the metaphor of sleep: God indeed sees it as sleep from which one can awaken. Jesus shows an absolute power in the face of this death: One sees it when he gives life back to the young son of the widow of Nain (cf. Luke 7:11-17) and to the 12-year-old daughter (cf. Mark 5:35-43). Of the young girl he says, \u201cShe is not dead but sleeping\u201d (Mark 5:39), provoking the derision of those present. But in truth this is precisely what it is: The death of the body is a sleep from which God can awaken one at any moment.<\/p>\n

This lordship over death does not impede Jesus from experiencing sincere compassion for the sorrow of parting. Seeing Mary and Martha crying and, along with those who had come to console them, Jesus too \u201cis deeply moved and disturbed\u201d and in the end \u201che wept\u201d. Jesus\u2019 heart is divine-human: In him God and man have perfectly met, without separation and without confusion, he is the image, indeed, the incarnation of the God who is love, mercy, paternal and maternal tenderness, of the God who is Life. This is why he solemnly declares to Martha: \u201cI am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, he will live; whoever lives and believes in me, will never die.\u201d And he adds: \u201cDo you believe this?\u201d<\/p>\n

It is a question that Jesus addresses to each one of us; a question that certainly overwhelms us, it overwhelms our ability to understand, and it asks us to entrust ourselves to him, as he ha s entrusted himself to the Father. Martha\u2019s response is exemplary: \u201cYes, O Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world\u201d. Yes, O Lord! We too believe, despite our doubts and our darkness; we believe in you, because you have the words of eternal life; we want to believe in you, who gives us a trustworthy hope of life beyond life, of authentic and full life in your kingdom of light and peace.<\/p>\n

We entrust this prayer to Mary Most Holy. May her intercession strengthen our faith and our hope in Jesus, especially in the moments of great trial and difficulty.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I g\u00e5r var mange tusen mennesker samla p\u00e5 Petersplassen og h\u00f8rte pave Benedikts betraktninger om dagens tekst; oppvekkelsen av Lasarus – det siste store tegne Jesus gjorde f\u00f8r sin egen d\u00f8d og oppstandelse. Her er en engelsk oversettelse av hva han sa (fra zenit.org): Dear Brothers and Sisters, In our Lenten journey we have arrived […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-katolsk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}