Blessed are you who are poor

1 Cor 7,25-31; Ps 44; Lk 6,20-26
12 SEPTEMBER
The poverty of man, which is spiritual, physical and material, is the loss of God as his true Father. Providence, Truth, Life, Blessing and Charity. But that of man is not the poverty of the moulded clay without the breath of life and not even that of man alone among the animals without the help that was corresponding to him. With sin, poverty is infinitely greater. Man is lacking the source of everything, which is his Lord and Creator. He misses the tree of life. Man cannot annul this poverty. No man can create himself a God and no one can plant himself a tree of life. Only God can annul the poverty of sin, erasing and forgiving sin and giving himself to man as his principle of eternal life.

Here is then what Jesus says to man. Blessed you, man that are poor. Blessed you, man that are hungry. Blessed you, man that are thirsty. Blessed you, man that cry. If you believe in me, welcome my Word, convert yourself to my Gospel, let your sins be forgiven, make me fill you with eternal life, you will feel full, quenched and full of joy. You will never miss anything because you have me that I am your everything and everything for you. In truth it is so. Jesus says so. The Father has constituted him the universal Mediator between Him and humanity. He is the universal Mediator because the Father gives himself entirely through him and also because every man who wants to receive the Father as his gift must believe and accept Christ the Lord. God does not know other Mediators. He has not constituted others of them.

At that time Jesus said in reply, “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him. “Come to me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your selves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light” (Mt 11,25-30).

But Jesus also says: Woe to you, man that are rich. Woe to you, man that are satisfied. Woe to you, man that laugh. You are living your life in the great lie and in a deception that will lead you to eternal death. These things are not life, because life is only my Father and He is eternal life. You have life only for a few moments. Then there will be eternal death for you. If you want to enter into the true life, you have to get converted to my Gospel, welcome my Word and believe in me as your only truth and life. Getting converted to me and living in me, with me and for me, for you all the things of this world will become trash. If you want them not to be rubbish, you must transform them into almsgiving, charity and instruments of love for your brothers. Then you will be truly be converted. Then you will believe in me. Then you can say you love me.

And raising his eyes toward his disciples he said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours. Blessed are you who are now hungry, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who are now weeping, for you will laugh. Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice and leap for joy on that day! Behold, your reward will be great in heaven. For their ancestors treated the prophets in the same way. But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. But woe to you who are filled now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will grieve and weep. Woe to you when all speak well of you, for their ancestors treated the false prophets in this way.

Here either one believes or does not believe. There are no middle ways. The poor is not saved because he is poor. He is saved because he accepted Christ in his life. The rich is not lost because he is rich. He is lost because he has not accepted Christ in his life. The poor is saved if he transforms his poverty into wealth. On the other hand, the rich man if he makes it become great poverty.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, give us the true faith in poverty and riches.