As we are on our way as pilgrims of friendship towards the joyful celebration of life, we constantly enlighten the course of our existence and revive in our hearts the love and the gratitude towards the people whom we cared so much and to Christ who offered himself for his love to us.
We are called in order to love and loving without reserve and expecting any return – this is a mystery, a mystery of life which worth celebrating. Loving is always effectively connected with our life, with our destiny and with our relationship to one another. We cannot decapitate love away with our friends’ lives. Love, therefore, finds its foundation in this great announcement: the greatest expression of love is to die for the sake of our friends. Our participation of this calling makes us somehow more invulnerable and more enamoured with one another.
The mystery of friendship is enamoured with our true love to the person whom we cared much and to one another. This is the mystery of having – a true communion. I am called to love, and this makes me whole: what is being made in me is shared to you and if I give the assent and the response of this love, the destiny of my friend will become my own. Too deep too understand, there are no minds that could fathom this relationship but one could only understand when it is expressed in deeds through living with him.
We are immersed into this mystery of love and there is always a need of a journey, of an exodus for the passage from our selves, forgetting who we are and forgetting what we want, thus, sometimes we need to forget what we love most and what we really want most in life, from exile to our own home, from death to a new life. This constitutes our daily journey towards loving and renewal in order to obtain the everlasting joy with one another.
The penitential journey of loving is surely reviving in the depth of our heart - this truth of calling to the full conformation to what is a true love which is set by Christ. This calling to love one another is a mission that induces us at the same time seriously reflects on the personal life and consequently on the society of our time that abandons the main way of loving.
As far as the personal situation we are concerned and we are called to verify if we are faithful to those we loved. And aside from this realm of our existence we may ask ourselves “Am I living the true essence of friendship, which perfectly embraces the life of sacrifices? Am I of help or a hindrance to the one I love? Is my daily journey refuse or improve the ascent towards my friend’s happiness and contentment?
Considering in our cultural and social context in which we renounce all kinds of sacrifice, pursues the way of the profit without considering if it is honest and just. Man as we are, is always incline to obsessive quest for the “easier” and the “more comfortable” and supports more our instincts than the precepts of the reason and the ethics and thus at any rate attempts to put down our own burden and forgetting and leaving behind our friends if we already gotten what we want and what we need.
The anchor of our life is to remain faithful to what we believe that is true and believe our selves and remain true to ourselves and hang on to our ideals. We cannot leave behind a person who needed much attention and our care. From whatever perspective, we may put ourselves the centrality of the Love to our friends, which always emerges in all its force: of giving what we have in our pocket even a single coin for him to live and to continue enjoying in this what we called life.
This is what we want and what we wish for, which each person may become an authentic expression of the everlasting novelty of the true meaning of friendship.
