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Foto: Pixabay<\/p><\/div> Jesus is the poor person whose life began in a manger and ended on a cross<\/strong>. When he, a carpenter\u2019s son, began his public life, he had nowhere to stay, nowhere to lay his head, nothing to eat. His actions don\u2019t touch upon human suffering and emptiness or from the outside; he personally enters into them, carries our burdens and bears them all the way to abandonment and death. He doesn\u2019t destroy his enemies with a powerful lightning-bolt from the sky; he lets himself be scourged and taunted\u2014 and he forgives those who hurt him. He doesn\u2019t turn the stones into bread to satisfy his hunger, but raises in us a hunger for the Word of God, a hunger for life, justice, and truth much greater than those things which fill us up with a momentary sense of wellbeing. Whenever he encountered the small, the poor and suffering, Jesus never passed on by because he had more important things to deal with than helping them. The child, the sick, the sinner, the grieving mother\u2014they upset his plans and programs. They touched his heart. Jesus doesn\u2019t have hidden interests, he doesn\u2019t harbour something mysterious behind the scenes . . . he is totally forthright and transparent. Whoever sees him, sees the Father in total transparency. Before the sin of the world, before our misery, Jesus never says: \u201cAh, look at that!\u201d He takes it all on himself and, in this way, establishes peace in his own blood. Jesus doesn\u2019t run away from contradictions, but bears them to the very end\u2014he, \u00a0the first in the infinite human chain of persecuted and disinherited human beings. That\u2019s Jesus, and people who follow him feel an immediate freedom, a joy and a depth in their own humanity that they find nowhere else and have never found before. (From a homily on November 1, 1979) <\/em> \u00a0<\/em> Klaus Hemmerle \u2013 La luce dentro le cose \u2013 Citt\u00e0 Nuova 1998 pp. 49-50 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lent is a time for reflection. We offer some thoughts by Klaus Hemmerle (1929-1994), regarding the earthly journey of Jesus, who in taking upon himself the emptiness of the world revealed the depths of our human nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}