Dt 7:13-14; Ps 92 (93); Ap 1:5-8; Jn 18:33b-37

The Lordship of Jesus, who this Sunday urges us to consider, is radically different from the realms of this world. Indeed, it disputes their logic, as Jesus reminds Pilate: “My kingdom is not of this world.” Affirmation, this, which also disrupting so many of our false expectations and hopes, placed in a powerful Messiah in words and deeds, such as to authorize us also to assume dynamics of power and superiority. That of Jesus a different lordship: it is realized not in the form of who oppresses and subdues, but in the mode «of the one Who loves us» – as the Apocalypse says – and loves us to donate life for us. Moreover, it is qualified not by the logic of power, but of freedom, of trust, of Reliance, that Jesus synthesizes in that beautiful verb, so fundamental in the Biblical and spiritual tradition: to listen. “Whoever is from the truth, hears my voice.” Jesus, says the apocalypse again, makes us a kingdom. Instead of submitting, as the mighty of the earth do, calls us to reign with him. This means, however, to assume the same way of being, in the dynamics of love, of the gift, of the offered life. There is the truth that he testifies and that we must listen.

Commentary by Comunità di Dumenza

Translation by f. Mark Hargreaves, Prinknash Abbey