GIUSEPPE lectio
(Gen 37,3-8.18.21-22.26-36.45,2 - 9.46,1-7)
37, [3] Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, and had a coat of many colors. [4] His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his sons, hated him and could not speak peaceably. [5] Now Joseph had a dream and told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. [6] he said unto them: "Hear this dream that I did. [7], we were binding sheaves in the field, when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright and your sheaves came around and bowed down to my" . [8] They told him his brothers: "You want to rule over us or maybe we want to dominate?". And they hated him even more because of his dreams and his words. [18] They saw him afar off, even before he came near them, they conspired to kill him. [21] And Reuben heard it and wanted to save him from their hands, saying: "Do not togliamogli life." [22] And he said unto them, Shed no blood, cast him into this pit that is in the desert, but do not hit it with your hand "and he wanted to save him from their hands and bring him back to his father. [26] Then Judah said to his brothers: "What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood? [27] Come on, sell him to Ishmaelites and our hand is against him, he is our brother and our flesh ". His brothers listened to him. [28] passed by Midianites merchantmen, they pulled up and pulled out from the tank and Joseph for twenty pieces of silver sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites. And Joseph was brought down to Egypt. [29] When Reuben returned to the tank, here Joseph was gone. Then he tore his clothes, [30] returned to his brothers and said: "The boy is gone, where shall I go?". [36] Meanwhile, the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard. 45, [2] But he gave a cry of wailing and all the Egyptians heard, and it was well known in the house of Pharaoh. [3] And Joseph said unto his brethren: "I am Joseph my father still alive?". But his brothers could not answer, because at his presence. [4] And Joseph said unto his brethren "Come to me". They approached and said: "I am Joseph your brother whom you sold into Egypt. [5] But now do not be grieved and angry with yourselves you sold me here, because God sent me before you to preserve life. [6] for two years because there is a famine in the land again for five years there will be neither plowing nor harvest. [7] God sent me here before you, to ensure your survival in the country and to save you the life of many people. [8] So it was not you who sent me here, but God and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house and ruler over all the country 'Egypt. [9] Hurry up from my father and say: Thus says your son Joseph: God hath made me lord of all Egypt. Come down here with me and do not delay. 46, [1] Israel, then raised the curtains with possessions and came to Beersheba, where he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. [2] God said to Israel in a night vision: "Jacob, Jacob." He replied: "Here I am." [3] He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you a great nation. [4] I will go down with thee into Egypt, and I am sure I will come back. Giuseppe will close your eyes. " [5] Jacob rose up from Beersheba and the children of Israel did rise their father Jacob, their children and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry. [6] They took their cattle and all the goods they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt with Jacob that he and all his descendants, [7] his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters, all his offspring he brought with him to Egypt.
The story of Joseph (Gen 37.39-50; Ex 1.1 to 7) is inserted between copies of the stories of those who experience God "They were just in the eyes of God, looking flawless all the way commandments and precepts of the Lord " (Lk 1:6). But the story of Joseph has in it a meaning deep. It looks like a complete story, unlike the other stories that precede it.
In this story everyone can read their story, because the person of Joseph with his story is very symbolic, especially with facts about the passion of Jesus Christ
The text begins by saying: "Israel loved ..." (37.3 ), are full of words all the love of a father to his son, as if the only-begotten. Joseph was the son of old age, his stick. Jacob had placed in him, perhaps, hopes so much from him a coat of many colors, endowed with the most beautiful things.
But in this story there is also the idea of preference for the child of God (cf. Abel to Cain, and Jacob to Esau). This attitude towards
Jacob Joseph brought hatred against it and in particular the strange dreams that Joseph was telling.
How many times in the scenes of family life, even today, we find these disagreements, the children, siblings through this ... but perhaps there is a God's plan? In the background of this biblical scene, there is a pat-a gift from God that we can not perceive, because we are in a scenario of hate and dreams, that is in a dark scene.
Perhaps the Word tells us nothing, but something is about to be born in every heart, but it's night and we can not see and read the signs: our eyes and our hearts do not have that ability to go into the light to life, as Joseph's brothers who grew up with him death threats and nothing else.
In this passage also the person of Jacob is significant, on the one hand he accuses Joseph, perhaps gently, on the other hand, sought to understand (v. 8) with the acuity that the Lord had given him.
Even Mary, the mother of Jesus, trying to figure out the facts in his heart that every day was meeting (cf. Lk 2:51), recalling the pat-gift of God in his life.
So let us also pause to understand the text with the spiritual acuity that become more refined, so that now every word, line, sentence, fact, the character of the text, we can see Jesus Christ, breaking the shell of the nut to eat the contents (cf. St. Jerome, Letter 58.9 ).
Here we have a history of hatred and violence, where the words behind each reads his story, read the facts of every day that somehow lead him to life, led him to encounter the Lord of history and life.
Joseph and threatened with death as Jesus, Joseph is threatened with death as Don Giuseppe Diana († 19.03.1994), Father Pino Puglisi († 09.15.1993. E 'in its ongoing process of beatification as a martyr: already completed the diocesan phase, The documentation is now before the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in the Vatican) and many others like them, for the life choice they have made. But their blood has led other shoots of hope in the hearts and lives of many people, just like the famous phrase of Tertullian says "The blood of martyrs is the seed of new Christians."
The way of life goes on, but sometimes you have to stop to understand this phrase of the Psalmist: "The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone, is this is the marvelous work of the Lord" (Ps 118.22 -23). Jacob
old in this story stops and retraces its history. In memory of having misled his brother, now her children refer to the same story deceiving him into believing that the bride's favorite son, died devoured by a wild animal.
How many times we hide behind a wild beast, to say the truth, not to do the Truth! Here too we can read the story of God who walks with us, calling us to serve him, even in a strange way because his love is great and boundless. Indeed, the sacred author notes discreetly that Joseph is everywhere God is with him, that of forgiveness from the heart continues to call many to follow.
In fact, in this experience which is inspired by the whole affair, the one that inspired Joseph to his brothers, is the law of forgiveness, the heart of every story.
This story is the story of Jesus, is the prolongation of Joseph is the son refused, crucified, which becomes "The firstborn from the dead" (Rev 1.5).
In this story God, as Jacob urges us to put on the road (Gen 46.1-7) on unfamiliar roads, foreign and new.
In everyday life we \u200b\u200balso have to say yes to God, we must leave and start over. The story does not present the following age groups, it can even seem to escape with Gen 46.4 recounts an episode of the Apostle Peter "Verily, verily, I say to you when you were young you girded yourself and walked where you wanted, but when you are old, stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not want. "He said this signifying by what death he would glorify God said this:" Follow me ""
When we were children, the questions we used for adults was obtained this answer: "when you are older you'll understand."
Joseph too, even though chosen by God waited through tribulation to see that behind her dreams, behind the his eyes were seeing, there was the work of God and therefore could say: "So it was not you who sent me here, but God (45.8).
Perhaps, we too, like Joseph, at this time we do not understand the concept of God, we can not see his plans to us, but "In the Bible, as in life - Kierkegaard writes - walking forward and back covers.
In this long story of Joseph, we can see the transformation that God works in us, when we walk with Him
God overturns any story because it lives behind and within our history to give us life, it does not enjoy the Lord of our death, but of life (cf. Ez 18.32).
on this journey with the Lord is born to life, we are the new men, who slowly learns that "the elect, called to struggle against any kind of famine, to go meet the real life.
The life of Joseph, who comes out of a dark situation (the tank) is the symbol of light and salvation for all, that is the new man which responds positively to the call, it gathers, collects driven by love, under a single tent : "Living in the land of Goshen ..." (Gen 45.10), that is "the best part of the country."
Joseph is the man who refused to be saved is saved and becomes the savior is the one who starts to give hope and life to a people.
And you ...?
question
1. Have you ever reflected on the destructive power of hatred and jealousy, feelings that grow mainly in the context of family relations?
2. Have you ever tried to understand who God is in your life?
3. let you turn from God's love for his instrument, or continue to succumb to evil?
4. Do you feel more saved or savior? Why?
prayer
The strong crush the weak, the clever tricks that the simple, the rich man who starves the poor, the man who dominates the man: this is the Lord of history. But you, O Lord, art in history and every day, from the inside, flip my history, transformation and renewal through the power of Love your constantly calls me to love.
actio
tries to reflect in your life with the words of a wise "My eyes have seen the salvation which you have prepared" (Jn 21.18-19).
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