{"id":15931,"date":"2015-02-18T01:01:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T06:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=15931"},"modified":"2015-02-07T06:22:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T11:22:27","slug":"bold-like-john-the-baptist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2015\/02\/18\/bold-like-john-the-baptist\/","title":{"rendered":"Bold Like John the Baptist"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Today’s entry comes from Fr. Fabricio Andrade who is preaching to musicians, this is from a retreat for musicians at Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova the weekend of February 7 2015.ed<\/em>]<\/p>\n

The person who is bold is used by God, the one who dares not be used is just in the dark.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Today’s psalm helps us to understand how the light is bold.<\/span> However great the darkness the smallest light has dared to dispel the darkness.<\/span> Any darkness can be undone by the boldness of light.<\/span> I do not say darkness, but gloom.<\/span> A\u00a0“little light,” it\u00a0dares to dispel the gloom.<\/span><\/p>\n

Start talking about the light to enter the Gospel.<\/span> King Herod heard of Jesus, whose name had become known.<\/span> Many did not know for sure who Christ was.<\/span> Some said that he was Elijah, others that he\u00a0was a prophet.\u00a0L<\/strong>ight bothers you when you want to stay in darkness.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

John the Baptist was bothering him.<\/span> When a light is visible\u00a0it attracts those who want to be light and repels those who want to be of darkness.<\/span> It causes discomfort, so either I choose to\u00a0hide allow myself to be seen. When one\u00a0chooses to live for the approval of others he enters darkness.\u00a0<\/span>Herod had arrested John the Baptist because of Herodias.<\/span> The light bothers darkness, so she [Herodias] was feeling troubled by John the Baptist.<\/span><\/p>\n

The light is bold, it shines not only for one.<\/span> The sun shines not only for one, it shines for everyone.<\/span> The light of John the Baptist began to bother many by revealing the truth.<\/span> Often when we are bothered, we want to eliminate those who bother us.<\/span> We have marginalized, family and friends because the truth bothers us.<\/span> But did you ever stop to think that behind that discomfort\u00a0there is a call for change?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Herod had no identity, he was what others wanted him to be.<\/span> His ministry was to be what others wanted.<\/span> He ordered the arrest of John the Baptist because his audience was Herodias.<\/span> He was afraid of John, he did not want to be bothered by this light that told her the truth, a light that was holy and just.<\/span> Herod protected that prophet, but because of the other sent him to martyrdom.<\/span> When light resolves solves to play with darkness and it sells itself and loses strength.<\/span><\/p>\n

Herod did not have the courage to be himself,\u00a0he prostituted his identity.<\/span> Whoever lives in darkness never knows his entire being and whoever settled in twilight or darkness becomes afraid of the light.<\/span> Whoever is afraid of the “little light” always lives in the half full and is never full.<\/span> The person has no identity if it is according to the audience that he or she\u00a0has.<\/span><\/p>\n

Light is light, you can not ask for it to be half light.<\/span>\u00a0The\u00a0Younger learn from the older, if older are not whole younger also will not be. If<\/strong> father and mother are not whole, neither will their children\u00a0be.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Father<\/a><\/p>\n

Where’s your courage?<\/span> When I do not see my worth, this is prostitution.<\/span> One of the things that undermines the boldness of a minister of music is when he\u00a0does not reject what others want, but denies\u00a0himself.<\/span> When you sell yourself, you deliver the head of whom?<\/span> Of your ministerial colleagues, your parish?<\/span> This happens when you do not have the heart to refuse a request to play something inappropriate,<\/em>even playing it in the church.<\/span> And not\u00a0refusing to play that song because of the person who asked for it is to prostitute yourself and thus your gift.<\/span><\/p>\n

Boldness is the act of daring, it is not poetry.<\/span> Boldness is not an article to be kept.<\/span> Boldness is not rude, it is not stupid. Boldness is doing or saying something that most people would not dare to do or say.<\/strong> Bold is to be innovative, bold and brave.<\/span><\/p>\n

John the Baptist was holy, just, bold and paid the price for it.<\/span> You may think, “. It is better to make a music that does not bother anyone,” The root of the boldness of your\u00a0ministry is not the amount of CDs you sell, boldness is the courage saying what is the\u00a0light.<\/span> Who knows that he or she will not be abandoned by God is bold.<\/span> The Bible is full of accounts of men who were bold, who had the courage to be light, knowing they would not be abandoned.<\/span> Keep well this phrase:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Be to God as a bird that feels the shaking branch and continues to sing, knowing you have wings” (Don Bosco).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

It is true that several times in your\u00a0ministry you felt the “branch” shake?<\/span> You had what gave security and suddenly it disappeared you did not have it. <\/span>By losing the security run the risk of selling my identity.<\/span> How many times without realizing it, in exchange for the applause you did what you had to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

This bird is bold and continues to sing, because he knows he has wings.<\/span> Let us return to our first love, to the time when we knew we had wings, at the time we did not need the applause to play.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suddenly we were getting scared, because the “branch” has been shaking and we were closing our beaks, because we have forgotten that we have wings.<\/span> God is calling you\u00a0to get back in the boldness of the beginning, when there was not much structure.<\/span> God promises that He will never leave you.<\/span> Every time that you forget that, you run the risk of prostituting your gift.<\/span><\/p>\n

Would be good if you went back to the boldness of the beginning of time when they called you crazy, fanatic, because you lived the radicality of the Gospel.<\/span> I am not speaking of nostalgia, but remember that you have wings.<\/span> It’s ridiculous when the bird forgets that he has wings and crawls!\u00a0<\/span>Boldness is to have discernment.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Fr. Fabio Andrade<\/p>\n

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