"Ask and you will get, why your joy is full" (John 16: 23-28)
Biblical reflections by Mauro Leonardi*, priest and writer
Jesus speaks to us here of prayer, understood not as a formal relationship of request or rendering of graces, but as an intimate and daily relationship based on trust and love that you want to conform, day after day, to the relationship of the father with the Son. This Jesus came to testify and this wants to give us.
From the Gospel according to John 16: 23-28
At that time, Jesus said to his disciples:
«In truth, in truth I tell you: if you ask the father something in my name, he will give you. So far you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will get, for your joy to be full.
I gave you these things in a veiled way, but it comes the time when I will no longer tell you in a veiled way and openly I will talk to you about the father. On that day you will ask in my name and I do not tell you that I will pray the Father for you: the Father himself in fact loves you, because you loved me and you believed that I came out of God.
I came out of the father and came into the world; Now I leave the world again and go to the Father ».
* Mauro Leonardi (Como 1959) has been a priest since 29 May 1988 and has been inhabited in Rome since then. He spends many hours of his day to make the priest and prefers to build bridges rather than raising walls. For years he has been writing stories, articles, essays and books that revolve around the relationship between man and God. Author of the blogLike Jesus. Abelis (Lindau) is his latest novel. The volunteers of the Gionata project thank him for sharing these reflections on the word with us.
