Jesus is betrayed by Judah. In the via crucis with christians LGBT+
Meditazione di Serena del Ford young people proposed in the Via Crucis "i believe in this love"Held in the church of San Carlo al Lazzaretto in Milan on Friday 11 April 2025
The first station of the Via Crucis immediately puts us in front of the betrayal. Jesus, just when he is freely delivering himself to his father's design, is betrayed by one of his most intimate friends, Judas, with a gesture that we all associate with love: a kiss.
Betrayal can also be interpreted as an inverted act of love. Often the most violent betrayals arise from love, or rather from the desperate need for recognition that is not answered. Judas does not betray for pure hatred, but because it cannot support the relationship with a master who escapes possession, to total understanding.
Furthermore, the real master is never completely grasped: he is one who escapes, who does not let himself be imprisoned in the categories of the disciple. Jesus is not the political messiah or land that Judas perhaps wanted. And then a love anger is born, a desire to punish what cannot be controlled. In this sense, the kiss is not only hypocrisy, but tragic ambivalence.
Yet that kiss is also a gesture of Love. a love not understood, distorted, but perhaps authentic in his Despair. i like to think that even when we fall, even when we betray, deeply remains a tension towards forgiveness, a desire to be loved despite everything.
Perhaps, like Judas, we continue to aspire to love, even if in the most wrong way. And so we fall, kiss, fall and rename, in the silent wait to be collected from the ground, including, and - who knows - perhaps also forgiven.
What can we do then?
We can try to stop without judgment with ourselves, welcoming us for what we are and asking for the grace to win all our fears/fragility in order to be more and more resembling the one, who, even if betrayed, will always have the last word of mercy for us.
He who loves us, who takes us next to us, who becomes intimately kissing even in the most painful experience or that of death.
