Automatic translation from Italian, under review.
We are called to live in communion with God, with ourselves, with one another, with creation, with all of humanity of every age, with the angels.
God, and in him Mary, the martyrs, the saints, our dead, live in us and we in them: this is the Church!
The greater the love, the greater the experience of mutual presence, of feeling ourselves within one another in Christ. “That they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us” (Jn 17:21).
The saints desire us to be with them in heaven... we are awaited in Paradise. They love us with unspeakable tenderness, they have a heart of mercy for our weakness and our sins... and we can welcome them into ourselves; all that remains is to take them with us, into our home, living with them.
When in the Our Father we ask God that his name be glorified, it is in us that we ask him to become present; in himself he is complete in all things and is not enriched by the glory that humanity can offer him; in the same way the saints are glorified in us, by our welcoming them within us. They subsist eternally in Christ the Lord, they live forever; through their definitive participation in the Trinitarian communion, in the incarnate Word, they are in communion with God, with us, with creation. Ineffable mystery of the Trinitarian perichoresis among the holy men and women of heaven and between them and us! They are in us and we in them: together with them we are in Christ, who makes us one, joining heaven and earth in a wondrous fellowship of love.
Hell is the shadow destined for ever to make the light stand out, to bring into relief the greatness of Christ's love, of the ineffable mystery of his blood poured out freely for all humanity, in absolute respect for the freedom of each one.
In Christ Jesus our spirits mysteriously communicate with those who have gone before us, as we await the experience, in the body as well, of the Trinitarian perichoresis of the Parousia. We are already together in Christ, in the bosom of the Father, with the whole of creation finally set free, but what we are has yet to be revealed through the saving journey of time.
In Christ the Lord, those we love, even if dead, live in us and we in them: death has fixed their life in God, freeing it from the contingency of time, and for this reason there is no longer any possibility for them to grow in love. This helps us understand the preciousness of a single hour of our life, of a single present moment.
One instant is enough to die and live eternally, one instant is enough to abandon ourselves with trust to God and consent to salvation.
In Christ the Lord we share in the divine nature, a wondrous vocation that carries us above the angels, into the clear heavens of the eternal Trinity, until one day we savor the vision of God even with our glorified body. Everything in us tends toward this full enjoyment of God, which will involve our bodiliness as well. While we groan in the expectation of the resurrection, faith and hope, in the crucible of purification, prepare us for the possession of God and for sharing in his life, which, in Christ Jesus, God-Man, will also be “bodily,” that is, human.