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septembrie 2, 2025

Les amis du Ressuscité dans le siècle des menaces et de la solitude

In a global context marked by the pervasive threats of armed conflict, pandemics, and environmental depletion, the proclamation of Jesus’s resurrection demands linguistic and conceptual frameworks capable of rendering its message both audible and theologically resonant. This study proposes an interpretation of the Resurrection beginning from the premise that the disciples’ encounter with the Risen Christ was shaped, in part, by the relational intimacy cultivated during their shared experience of friendship with Jesus in his public ministry. The Gospels’ resurrection narratives reflect traces of this personal proximity, suggesting a continuity between historical companionship and post-resurrection revelation. By engaging these narratives through the hermeneutical lens of friendship – augmented by speculative theological insights – this article seeks to delineate conditions under which contemporary individuals might approximate an experiential encounter with the Risen One. Such a theological approach offers renewed possibilities for engaging Christ relationally in a world beset by alienation and solitude. The spiritual appropriation of this relational dynamic is posited as a potential response to the existential afflictions of fear, disorientation, discouragement, and defeatism endemic to modernity.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/OSLA8337

Dialog 56-5 Budău

iunie 22, 2025

L’amitié avec Jésus dans les Évangiles. Une interprétation

This article offers a theological and exegetical examination of the relational dynamics between Jesus, his disciples, and the broader public, through the conceptual framework of friendship. Integrating a close reading of scriptural texts with speculative theological reflection, it contends that Jesus – fully human and fully divine – formed authentic friendships and remains open to friendship with every person. Central to this inquiry is the polyvalent Greek term „philos”, which conveys both “friend” and “beloved,” revealing deeper dimensions of relationality within Christology. This exploration posits that perceiving Jesus through the lens of friendship enriches the spiritual life of the believer and strengthens both personal and communal communion with God. On a psychological level, such a friendship can serve as a source of consolation, hope, and healing amid experiences of fear, alienation or loneliness. Ultimately, the article proposes that cultivating a lived friendship with Christ provides a meaningful pathway into the mystery of the Resurrection and an experiential entry into divine life.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/TYQA2914

Dialog 55-9 Budău

decembrie 20, 2024

L’apostolo Paolo: un buon “compagno di viaggio” per Martini

In this article, I would like to present how Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini considered the Apostle Paul a good ‘travel companion’, to come closer to Christ and to live with Him, in facing trials and on the way to the magis. The experience of weakness leads Paul to a greater trust in the presence of the Lord who works with the power of grace in his life and consoles him in tribulations and suffering. By walking the path of weakness, Paul grows in the awareness of his participation in Christ’s death and resurrection. The difficulties that Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini experiences in his life lead him to greater trust in God to the point of abandoning himself in the hands of the Lord, as he is increasingly aware that power comes from the hands of God.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/BLDW8487

Dialog 54-3 Imbrisca

iunie 29, 2024

La debolezza è la mia forza: meditazioni su 2Cor

The correlation between weakness and strength starts from the meditations on the Second Letter to the Corinthians given by Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini to a group of Jesuits. Cardinal Martini chose this letter, noting how well the Apostle Paul manages to live through difficult moments in confrontation with the community of Corinth. We analyze how Cardinal Martini explains the fact that the power of God is revealed in weakness (cf. 2Cor 12,1-10). Some considerations and reflections capable to indicate the way towards a solid and secure ministry will conclude our analysis.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/DVTJ5336

Dialog 53-8 Imbrisca

ianuarie 3, 2024

Ionut Eremia Imbrisca: Nella debolezza il Cardinale Carlo Maria Martini sperimenta di più la fiducia in Dio

Many people see weakness as synonymous with failure and humiliation, linking it to a deep sense of worthlessness. Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini contradicts this thinking, stating that God’s love makes itself felt above all in weakness. It is precisely in our weaknesses that God manifests his help and love for humanity in an eminent way. The experiences that Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini experiences in his life (on a personal level, in his ministry, in his relationship with the Church, in his illness and old age) lead him to a greater trust in God to the point of abandoning himself into the Lord’s hands, as he is increasingly aware that power comes from God’s hands.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/TAFM6132

Dialog 52-3 Imbrisca

 

 

ianuarie 3, 2024

Ionut Eremia Imbrisca: Il dono di Dio nella vita del Cardinale Carlo Maria Martini

In the first part of the book Night Conversations in Jerusalem, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini emphasises the fact that throughout his life, God has guided him. He gave him a good path and placed many people at his side, who instructed and supported him and needed him. Thus he felt more and more loved and accepted by God. Starting from this statement we have tried to identify Martini’s path by retracing the most significant stages of his life (the child, the Jesuit, the professor, the pastor and the elderly man) his personal encounter with people and realities that led him to the awareness of being increasingly loved and accepted by God.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/CMKP2829

Dialog 51-1 Imbrisca

 

 

februarie 6, 2023

Marius Sabău: Dimensions of faith in the life of St. Therese of Lisieux

In the history of the Church there are many examples of true and strong faith in Jesus Christ. Amidst them there is St. Therese of Lisieux. Despite her short life, her example of faith went long down in history. But before the history of her faith and spirituality, there is the history of their growth. In this paper there is pointed the long road from a childhood mind toward a pillar of faith. It begins with a troubled childhood marked by the loss of parents. Then follows the sensitive period of a teenager fearing especially of being abandoned, continuing with youth, a time of growing and developing not only a strong faith, but also a fiery love for God. These stages, step by step, lead to a maturity of faith, a maturity that she achieves at a very young age, considering the fact that she was only 24 years old when she died.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/EZIU7538

Dialog 50-7 Sabau

februarie 6, 2023

Ionut Eremia Imbrişcă: La debolezza di Paolo e la grazia di Dio nella Seconda Lettera ai Corinzi

The experience of his own weakness leads Paul to a greater trust in the presence of the Lord who works with the power of grace in his life and consoles him in tribulations and suffering. By walking the path of weakness, Paul grows in the awareness of his participation in Christ’s death and resurrection. The synthesis of the theology of the cross, which we find in Paul’s letters, shows how God acts in his life through weaknesses and leads the apostle to express his trust in the God of consolation and mercy.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/MWVP5098

Dialog 50-4 Imbrisca

februarie 6, 2023

Ionuţ Eremia Imbrişcă: Forza nella debolezza in 2Cor 12,1-10

The topic of weakness often emerges in Paul’s letters; in the Second Letter to the Corinthians, however, it is presented as a “confession”. Our analysis will begin with a description of Corinth and, above all, with an examination of the relationship that Paul had with the Christian community founded in this place and to which he addressed two of his letters. The introduction to the Second Letter to the Corinthians will help us, later, to approach the topic of the apostle’s weakness, a concept that is “confessed” to the Corinthians and which reaches its climax with the statement “for when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Cor 12:10).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/CMST3430

Dialog 49-6 Imbrisca

ianuarie 17, 2022

Ionuţ Eremia Imbrişcă: Per amore di Cristo Paolo affrontò con coraggio tutte le prove nel suo ministero apostolico

Many times in his letters, Paul testifies how he experienced at every step the reality of his own weakness during the apostolic ministry. In the sufferings, difficulties, persecutions and pastoral failures, Paul reflected on his own weakness and on the grace he received from God that helped him to live peacefully in the midst of the storms of his life. In his own lived weakness, Paul experienced that God did not abandon him, did not leave him alone, but precisely in that precise difficult context, he perceived how weakness became support and strength for him. The tribulations experienced by Paul could have had led him to despair and abandonment. But, on the contrary, in his life, the tribulations led him to be aware of the presence and grace of God.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/CHBS1567

Dialog 48-2 Imbrisca