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00:00How are you, my dear brothers? It's so good to see you again in this, well, I don't know what
00:24It may seem that way to you, but honestly, since I wrote this text, it seems to me
00:31Truly, as a friend says, spectacular, I find it incredible, fantastic, I don't know if
00:41I hope it's helping you, I did it with a lot of love, I'm doing it
00:45With much affection, but what it means for me to remember all this, the beginnings of my
00:49Christian life, and also remembering the foundations that have guided my entire life
00:55As a pastor in the community, trying precisely to generate these communities, trying to achieve
01:01In the parish groups, this synchronicity, as we discussed in our previous chapter,
01:08In love, yes, it represents quite a challenge, but it's a challenge that's easy to overcome, when
01:16Your people are truly evangelized when they genuinely have Christ as their center and driving force.
01:21of their life, that's why the first thing is to know and accept Jesus as Lord of life, to renew
01:30our baptism to enter in a personal way, that is, with a decided intention
01:36of following Jesus, and all this opens us up to the new dimension of the church, as we were saying
01:43Previously, the dead in Christ. Okay, we're still on this topic, and well,
01:51I would like to speak now as Paul did in his letter to the Romans, referring to unity not only to
01:58love and joy that all those inside experience through this joy that God generates through
02:05of the Holy Spirit, the joy we all have and through Christ, not only in his sufferings but also in his sufferings
02:15in which he himself expresses this synchronicity even in suffering, because we are united.
02:23We read in Romans 8:17 the following, and if we are children, we are heirs, heirs of God
02:34and co-heirs, that is, heirs together with Christ, for if we now suffer with Him, we will also have
02:42It's a part with Him in His glory. It's a part, a very important part, very important, isn't it?
02:53Because we enter into this synchronicity, this text, if we were to see it in Greek, would be as follows,
03:02If you look closely, the word "without" will appear.
03:26Sinodox tamenen, sin paskomen, sin cronomoi, yes? Then, it is continually, if really
03:41We are in, I mean, what does the apostle Paul want to tell us? If we are
03:47Truly in sync, look, how beautiful, right? When you smell it directly
03:51In Greek, if we are in sincronomoi, menteu, that is, if we are in sync with
03:59God, we're going to be able to synchronize. So, the first synchronicity we have
04:05What we need is synchronicity with God, synchronicity with God that is achieved through Christ in
04:11the Holy Spirit. Therefore, we note the participation of all Christians who
04:17We are united as in a single body that shares the heritage, the sufferings and finally
04:24The glory of Christ being one with Him. We are in sync, and that sync includes death.
04:33and their sufferings. That is why our spirituality depends on our shared participation.
04:41with Christ, from the synchronomoi with Christ, how we are synchronized with Christ. And this
04:49This makes it impossible for Paul to think that one can be a Christian in isolation. It doesn't exist.
04:58It can't be. That's why today we have so many problems with people who convert and don't find love.
05:06With whom—I'm going to use this word—with whom to synchronize. I'm talking to a non-Christian,
05:14with someone who hasn't made this choice for Christ and I don't know how to synchronize, right?
05:21Especially the newly converted, of course; me, with my pastoral experience and all, well,
05:25You're looking for certain elements of synchronicity, but it's difficult. I mean, when you understand,
05:31Oh, wow, the theme of synchronicity with Christ is what synchronizes me with others.
05:34Then we all become synchronized because this one is synchronized with Christ.
05:38I am in sync with Christ, the other is in sync with Christ, we are all in sync.
05:41synchronized. A little clock ticking, ticking, ticking, ticking, and you see them in large
05:46How they all move. Each one smaller, bigger, thinner, moves at speed
05:51faster, more, but they all move and they all move in perfect synchronicity.
05:56In other words, there can be no synchronic community, because either one is in Christ or one is not a Christian. And if
06:06We are all in Christ; this gives a clear idea of what the church is. One body in Christ.
06:14Christ, the body of Christ, who enters into that perfect synchronicity as our body, all
06:21That's how the universe is, everything synchronized, everything hormonally driven. For Pablo, then, it's clear that
06:28Baptism is truly a life-dividing moment for a person, Jews, Gentiles, men
06:36and women, to become one body in Christ, true brothers and sisters who love one another in the new life
06:45that Christ has given them. That is why he continually uses the expression, you were formerly, but
06:53Now. Before, if we go back to the topic of synchronicity, before we were not synchronized, now we are.
07:00We have synchronized with Christ. That is a terrible before and after. Imagine a gear
07:04It's missing a few teeth. It doesn't synchronize and ruins the whole mechanism. We have to
07:11to be synchronized. With this, he reminds his listeners of his new condition, his new
07:19identity as Christians, their new family. Truly for Paul, baptism and relationship
07:31The bond established among all its members is the beginning of heaven. That is why we speak of a
07:38A community of heaven here on earth. And this is precisely the new life brought
07:44Through Christ. Whoever does not live this way is not a Christian. They have not entered into this community.
07:50from heaven. Regarding this, Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity, who is one of the saints, said
07:57that fascinate me. I was saying, one day while I was praying, I discovered that Christ lived in my heart and
08:04that I no longer needed to die to go to heaven, because heaven had already begun in my heart,
08:12It had already begun in my heart. And this is, or should be, the reality for every baptized person.
08:21discovering that heaven isn't something that begins when I die, but when I discover that Christ
08:27It lives in my heart. That's why in theology we always speak of one church, divided
08:36in three. The Church Militant, here on earth. The Church Suffering, which is in the
08:42Purgatory, she is already in heaven, but she is finishing her purification. And the triumphant church,
08:47The one who is already in heaven. One single church. I think this referred to Jesus.
08:56When he spoke to us about heaven. And he gave so many examples. Reality is inexplicable, unthinkable.
09:10But it is livable. And those who live it could hardly express what it truly is in words.
09:17It will necessarily have to be with life, with joy, with peace, with the happiness that one experiences.
09:25And what can others see? And what is the church? Well, this. The church doesn't take away our...
09:31Our identity, our race, our color. It simply makes us one with Christ. We will continue to be diverse.
09:40That's how God made us. He made us diverse. Some women, some men, one of one color,
09:46of race, etc. The experience of Pentecost speaks to us of this identity in the diversity of
09:53nations and languages. There were gathered Parthians, Medes, Elamites, peoples who came from
09:59point, etc. It tells us that there were people in that place, well, we could practically say, from all walks of life.
10:06well-known places in the world at that time. But they were all united by a single language.
10:13the language of the Spirit. They heard them speaking in their own language, but they all spoke one language. The church
10:22It is a unity that maintains its diversity, where unity lies in love and in new life.
10:30Christ. They all live the same, think the same, feel the same. They have the same feelings.
10:38If we, if we check the documents, we will realize how in the letter, in the book
10:47From the Acts of the Apostles, we will find this reality, where we are all, therefore, united in
10:58Christ. And this makes life completely different. That's why we think the same, we feel the same,
11:07We relate to each other in the same way. Why? Because we have the same feelings in Christ. Not just the book
11:14from the Acts of the Apostles, but we have already spoken of him, he is always spoken of in this, of the
11:21letter from, from the letter of Ogneto, which is another of the great testimonies of this unity that lives the
11:28Christians. Where they could have been born in different places and have different traditions,
11:35But they were all united in strictly following the life proposed by Jesus. Each one
11:43I had to change certain things; those who came from one culture changed some things, those who came from another
11:47other cultures. But all of us, to unite in Christ, must renounce certain ways of life that
11:53we had from our past and to synchronize ourselves in the new life that the Lord has proposed to us.
12:00And this, then, was Paul's great challenge. And it remains the challenge for each and every one of us today.
12:06and of our communities. To ensure that the church is understood as a unity, as a body. It is not
12:14It's easy because we have to enter into this synchronicity. And to enter into this synchronicity, we have
12:21We must let go of the things that throw us off, things that were once part of our lives. We must remember that
12:29We are a synchronized body, acting as our own body, all in service to Him. Everyone pulls together.
12:40With courage, knowing that we all need each other. And that this reality is unity, this new reality.
12:49The life we live in is a synchronous unity where we truly recognize ourselves as disciples of Christ.
12:55For that, as I was saying earlier, well, sometimes we have to give up many things, right?
13:04But that's how it is. Now, this community, God is going to endow it with charisms, right? I mean, because, well, even though we talk
13:16of this diversity, and well, we'll talk a little more about this later, I'd like to see with you now
13:24This very important topic, which stems from the previous one, is charisms, which are not
13:31other than a special grace that God grants to us Christians, to
13:36to be able to build community. These gifts or charisms, God continues to give to the church.
13:44Yes? They are not just a thing of the early church. Gifts and charisms continue.
13:50God continues to give them to the church. But as in the past, they are not always understood.
13:57They know exactly what they are and what they're for. And they end up being, as happened, for example, with the Corinthians,
14:05cause of envy and frustration from why some brothers have and I don't have
14:11And why, for two days, God doesn't love me, He loves you more, I don't know. That's why it's important.
14:16Since we're discussing this topic of unity, let's also talk a little bit about
14:20This, right? Because it's important that now that you're starting your spiritual journey, you know
14:26that God may give you, or perhaps has already given you, some special charism
14:32for the community and so you know how to use it correctly and, well, enhance it so that what you
14:42God has given me the opportunity to serve our entire community. But we'll talk about that in the next video.
14:48I'll wait for you in a few moments. Until then.
15:02Thank you.