David’s pebbles for rebirth

Here are some points of reference for a renewal of personal, ecclesial, but hence also social and civil life. It’s not about doing everything right away, but it can be about gifts, seeds, great help.

1) Jesus lived 2000 years ago but, especially in the fundamental settings of his concrete divine and human discernment, he is ahead of us. Returning again and again to the gospel is a continuous discovery of a thousand things that can be seen in a new way precisely by realizing how Christ lived them. Return to personal and community listening, in dialogue, of the Scriptures and especially of the Gospel in journeys of faith, not in eternal meetings, catechesis and so on. Let Jesus take us to the beyond of the kingdom of heaven: knots that untie, roads that open. He knows how, when, to make us discover new clues in himself, adequate answers…

2) True synodality arises from the point above, as maturation and participation in the faith. Outside of this path, it can be about mere doing, fashions of the moment. As often happens on these routes, situations which are variously, sometimes even rigidly controlled from above. Strengthening the dramatic unique thinking of this time

3) These paths feed attention to the authentic ways of integral growth of each one. Formation in light: of religious, philosophical identity, freely sought; and in distinct moments of the exchange with seekers of other views. These are paths that stimulate lived integral research and its not closing itself in schemes because the exchange helps to search for the human. So we tend to be able to get out of rationalism, of technicality, which are emptying society leading it to collapse. The solidarity of mere doing without stimuli to the free integral maturation of each one empties isolated consumers lost in an anonymous mass. Ready for the remote control of a few powerful people and their devices. In this case, the robot becomes the winning competitor over man instead of favoring his growth.

4) In this return to the Gospels, overcome the double-petal formalism. It is one thing to be liable to penal sanctions and another to have experienced troubled moments and/or mistakes which then instead became in divine mercy springboards for a profound and persevering conversion. St. Peter denied Jesus, St. Matthew was a publican, St. Paul persecuted Christians, St. Augustine was a womanizer… So get out of the manipulations of single thought in the hands of a few powerful people on earth.

5) Thus a reform of the papacy is necessary. No longer absolute monarch but help in the development of charisms.