Don Divo Barsotti (1914 - 2006)
God revealed Himself to us in Christ. What does it mean that God revealed Himself to us in Christ? Not only now we cannot have doubts about a personal God, about a personal God who personally loves us, that this personal God is present in our humble life, but we cannot doubt that this personal God, who is present in our humble life, gives us less than Himself. He gave a nation to Israel, saved a people and gave a law, but at the bottom he did not give Himself. Here the love of God, the intervention of God is a fully and completely divine intervention: God does not give anything; He gives Himself. God does not love only giving you a land or a town. He promised to Israel only this: He will give them a land. Do you remember about Abraham? It is the same for Israel through the way of the Exodus. But now God does not give any land, does not give anything, He gives Himself. What do you give, when you live your wedding? What did Sarah give to her husband when she got married? Herself. She did not give him lands or buildings: she gave him herself.
(Translation by Marina Madeddu)