People of Relationships - the Other and the others

WORD 2day: Wednesday, 2nd week in Easter time

April 30, 2025 - Acts: 17-26; John 3: 16-21

The call to get going, from the part of the Risen Lord, is to become people of the Spirit; the people of the Spirit are those who are characterised by humility, by courage and relationships that determine their identity. The Word today elaborates the last element of the affirmation... that is, the relationships that determine our identity. 

The apostles in prison, never felt isolated... they were accompanied by the Lord and not just that, they were accopmanied by the faithful who were constantly praying for them and sending them the spiritual sustenance. This is one of the characteristic traits of the people of the Spirit, who are people of relationships.

The relationship begins with the Other - faith, which is essentially a relationship with the Father who has created, saved and continues to love the children. The Other becomes the foundation of the life, of spiritual meaning, and of the sense of life. A faithful can never feel alone, can never feel abandoned, because the Father has not spared anything, not even the only Son, that we may have life, life to the full. 

The relationship gets its completeness, in the other! The brothers and sisters in faith, give the completeness of life and vocation that we have as faithful, the life as children of God and the vocation as disciples of the Risen Lord. In joys and in sufferings, in trials and in triumphs, we remain united in the other, inspired by the assurance of the Other. 

We are people of relationships, let us never feel isolated, always in communion of love, with the Loving Other and the beloved others.