The interpretation theological. liturgical of the desert, of the villages and of the valleys in the Gospel E-Book

Cinzia Randazzo

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint Self-Publishing
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

In this study the author outlines the areas desertic, flat and rural of the Palestine, detectable directly from an analytical reading of the Gospels, limited to the historical period relative to the advent of the incarnate Word until his resurrection. In the respective chapters are identified the traits theological and liturgical of the areas abovementioned in a span of time very precise: from the sermon of John the Baptist until the resurrection of the Truth incarnate, including in its inside the key lines of the anthropic theurgy of the Master, in strict interrelation with liturgical forms of the crowd, of the destitutes and of the disciples.

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Cinzia Randazzo

THE THEOLOGICAL-LITURGICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE DESERT, OF THE VILLAGES AND OF THE VALLEYS IN THE GOSPELS

Title | The interpretation theological- liturgical of the desert, of the villages and of the valleys in the Gospels

Author| Cinzia Randazzo

ISBN | 9788893217880

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INDEX

First chapter

1. The desert

1.1. Position geographical 

1.2. Meaning theological-liturgical

Second chapter

2. The villages

Third chapter

3. The valleys

3.1. Positions geographical 

3.2. Meaning theological-liturgical 

INTRODUCTION

The idea to not only turn a particular attention toward the arid zones and steppose of Palestine, but also toward the basins and the rural agglomerations that are disseminated inside this great earth of importance plurimillenaria, it is dictated by the fact that specific studies don't exist, that focuses their theological-liturgical meaning.

Beginning from such picture we propose, through an accurate analysis of the evangelical texts, to underline the specific sense that springs from these places; referable sense tightly to the protagonists, to their actions and theological-liturgical expressions properly: Jesus, from a side with the disciples, the insane one and the paupers from the other.

Under this aspect the theological-liturgical lines will specifically be individualized that spring from the actions of the single protagonists that are found to act in the succitatis places, from which the search will depart, in narrow interrelation with the attitudes, the visual and oral expressions of Christ, of the disciples, of the insane one and of the needy ones.

First chapter

1. THE DESERT

1.1. Position geographical

According to the testimony of Mark the desert is the place that gives hospitality to John the Baptist: "It presented oneself John to baptize in the desert, preaching a baptism of conversion for the pardon of the sins" (Mc 1,4).

The desert, to which it refers to Mark, it seems to be situated in Judea, because it ran from the Baptist all those people who lived in Jerusalem and those who were in the Judea: "It ran to him the whole region of Judea and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem" (Mc 1,5).

The strip of the desert where it preached and it baptized John it was adjoining to the river Jordan, ever since John baptized in the expanse of river that was close to the Judea: "And were baptized from him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins" (Mc 1,5). The desert, to which Mark refers to, is very probably the one which is extended next to the Dead sea:

The desert of the Judea, above all next to the Dead sea, it presents also zones semiarid; in great part of its extension, however, it offers a suitable ground, in certain periods of the year, to the pasture of the sheeps (.). Along the bank of the Dead sea there are tall precipices from 100 to 200 ms, that almost reach to touch lightly the waters in some points.1

The desert of Judah or of the Jordan, so denominated,2 as the other deserts of the Palestine not are almost never deserts of sand but of limestone, or of stones or salt. The desert of Judah that we see here is one of the Palestinian zones more tormented. It's strongly engraved by the little ones but violent rainwaters and only in the fund of the walloons, where the water is collected for brief time, it can be there pastures thin or small fields. The desert is the country of the nomad, of the hermits, the thirst's kingdom, of the hunger, of the fear. Not being a desert of sand but of limestone, if the man brings there water it becomes however earth fertile and productive.3

Ever since in Mark the Baptist's preaching in the desert it precedes the baptismal practice of the same in the river Jordan, it is to deduce that the point where the Baptist preached in the desert of Judah it comes to be that one adjacent to the mouth of the Jordan in the Dead sea, for the fact that really in this point the baptism in the river Jordan it came "practised by groups of Hebrews as the Essenes, who lived to Qumran".4 In fact around the Dead sea, whose waters are rich of salt and of asphalt,5 "the desert reigns and every trace of animal and vegetable life almost it disappears".6 This is more precisely the place where the river Jordan, falling in a great pit, named Ghôr, it descends always more until to flow in the Dead sea. And it is really this the Jordan's expanse, where John baptized; whose expanse of river was close to the desert that takes the same name of the pit, coming in this way named the desert of the Ghôr, as we can admire in the image under brought:

That one of the Ghôr it a desert from the lunar aspect, where the valleys sink as immense sinkholes, as craters of cosmic explosions. Difficult the installation in places as this, remained for centuries depopulated and inhospitable. Also the desert of the Ghôr was center of nucleuses of resistance to the Roman dominion, resistance extended for a long time and conducted by fighting escaped to the capture to Jerusalem.7

1.2. Significance theological-liturgical

The desert, first of all, in the Gospels it is the liturgical-baptismal place of prelude of the preaching relative to the conversion of the heart: "it presented oneself John to baptize in the desert, preaching a baptism of conversion for the pardon of the sins" (Mc 1,4).

Just in the desert it has origin, for work of the Baptist, the baptismal liturgy of the "conversion of the heart". In the desert bursts out the Baptist's voice, tense to found the first subjective stadium of the baptismal liturgy: that one of the conversion of the heart, from which it follows of it as his intrinsic effect, the second stadium, that one objective of the pardon of the sins; pardon that happens with the baptismal liturgy of the water, through which John forgives the committed sins.

Under this aspect the desert is the place where it has origin the baptismal liturgy of the "conversion of the heart"; stadium that precedes that one of the pardon of the sins that the Baptist fulfils in the river Jordan.8 The two stadiums of the baptismal liturgy, both that one subjective of the conversion of the heart and that one objective of the pardon of the sins, have their beginning with the Baptist, the first one in the desert and the second in the Jordan.

To the light of this the desert comes to be the womb where the preaching of John is welcomed; preaching that, relative to the baptismal liturgy of the "conversion of the heart", it discloses its character anticipating of the announcement that will have its conclusion with the coming of Christ, who gives to the man, with his immortal spirit, the power of the conversion in the shrine of the conscience and the consequent remission of the sins.

Always in reference to the Baptist, the desert has been the place of the ascent of the Baptist, since in the desert it ends his walk ascendant of fortification in the spirit: "The little boy grew and strengthened himself in the spirit. He lived in desert regions until the day of his show to Israel" (Lc 1,80). The desert is the place suitable that allows John the Baptist to progress in his walk ascendant, where all his components (both psychic and somatic) were implicated during the ascent; such components were intent on their progressing to meet with the Word of God, who "Word of God went down on John, child of Zachary, in the desert" (Lc 3,2).

From such outline the desert comes to be the point of meeting of the Word of God, because from such meeting and from the progressive growth of the Baptist, happened in the desert, he could cross the desertic region that is extended around the Jordan, desertic region that comes to be identified with the Ghôr,

preaching a baptism of conversion for the pardon of the sins, as written in the book of the oracles of the prophet Isaiah: «Voice of one who shouts in the desert: Prepared the street of the Lord, straighten his paths! 5. Every canyon be filled, every mountain and every hill be lowered; the tortuous footsteps be right; the flattened impervious places. 6. Every man will see the salvation of God! (Lc 3,3-6).

The baptismal liturgy of the conversion of the heart, preached by John along the desert that is close to the Jordan, it consists in the fulfilling "works worthy of the conversion" (Lc 3,8), which works are identified in the realizing actions stamped to the charity and to the correct equilibrium in the relationships interpersonals of the ones towards his neighbor: