by Carlo Maria Martini · Sal terrae · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429309294
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"Why were you searching for me? Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?" This is how Jesus answers his parents when, after three days of anxious searching, they find him in the temple in the midst of the doctors. These are the first words Jesus pronounces in the Gospel of Luke, and therefore they cannot but suppose a programmatic connotation of the entire life of Jesus of Nazareth. It is a wonderful synthesis of the Christology of Luke: Jesus is the one who "has to be" in the things of the Father, because he has come to fulfill his will, to carry out his project. In light of the above, the Christian also sees described in this episode his fundamental connotation: his life is, in short, a vocation, a joyful and free adherence to a project that concerns him and that even gives reason for his existence. In this sense, the pages of Cardinal Martini are reflections on the vocational option. The Christian vocation is seen, at its root, as the revelation of a concrete idea of man and woman destined for an existence that is not a solitary and aimless journey, but the search for a previous and greater project. "Being in the things of the Father" is the program of an existence in faith capable of opting with radicality.
Carlo Maria Martini was an Italian Jesuit and Biblical scholar. He served as Archbishop of Milan from 1980 to 2002 and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1983.
