Episode 4 – Jabbok: the struggle and the blessing
In the footsteps of Scripture
The fourth episode of the podcast In the footsteps of Scripture: a travel diary in Jordan between the Old and the New Testament, brings us to the Jabbok stream, in the north of Jordan. Here, in a lush and green setting, the pilgrims sit on large rocks along the riverbank to pray and meditate on the episode of Jacob’s struggle with God and his subsequent reconciliation with his brother Esau. Father Francesco Giosuè Voltaggio explains that in our catechesis we recalled that I can go to meet my opposing brother — even an adversary or an enemy — "limping." “Only after encountering the radiant face of God, can I see, in the face of my brother, the very face of God. This is Penuel, which means ‘the face of God.’” The episode also features the voice of the youngest pilgrim, nine-year-old Francesco Di Carmine, and of Claudio D’Auria.
About Podcast
The podcast is written and produced by Debora Donnini, with the collaboration of Father Francesco Giosuè Voltaggio, professor of Sacred Scripture at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum and the Studium Theologicum Galilaeae, and director in Jerusalem of the Domus Bethaniae.
Editorial supervision is provided by Fabio Colagrande and Benedetta Capelli. We thank the Neocatechumenal Way for allowing us to use some songs of Kiko Argüello, and Pierfelice Bernacchi for reading the biblical passages. - Podcast - Radio Vaticana - Vatican News