WHOEVER LOVES FATHER OR MOTHER MORE THAN ME

Is 1,1 0-17; Ps 49; Mt 10,34-11,1
16 JULY
By now, between the Gospel and the word or thought of the overwhelming majority of Christians we must affirm that the difference is so abysmal that there is no longer any point of contact. It seems to be in front of two parallel lines. There is no chance that they can meet. Neither the Gospel with the thought of Christians, nor Christians with the thought of the Gospel. It is even as if there was an occult, mysterious, arcane rule which, playing on words, is all aimed at giving meaning according to man to every Word that has come out of the mouth of Christ the Lord. All ancient biblical language can be translated into a new, modern and current language. But the condition must be one, only one: the truth of yesterday will have to be the truth of today and so the Christ of yesterday must be the Christ of today. Truth might and must grow, because it is proper to the truth to grow. But what until yesterday was sound doctrine and defined faith of the Church must never be replaced by falsehood, lie, deception and negation of. It is up to those who are ministers of the Word to ensure that this does not happen. The responsibility lies with every minister. If a minister betrays the Gospel, the other must multiply his commitment so that it is preserved and professed in its truth. Instead, one gets the impression that everyone competes at disfiguring, transforming, altering and giving it totally different meanings. In doing so, it is the disintegration of truth.

Today we are talking about a strict law and morality. Morality is just morality. The Law is Law and that’s it. Do not kill is do not kill. Do not adulterate is do not adulterate. So do not mention the name of God in vain is do not mention the name of God in vain. There are no grounds for killing, for adulterating, for naming the name of God in vain. There is no reason to transgress the Law of the Lord. Jesus tells us today that He asks for fidelity to his Word and to his person up to the gift of blood. He says that love for Him must overcome every other love for any other person on earth. He says that He did not come to create a fictitious peace. He came to separate. His Word separates those who welcome it from those who reject it. Those who take the path of good and those who take the path of evil cannot walk in the same direction. There is no communion of life between those who think according to Christ and those who think according to the world.

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man ‘against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s enemies will be those of his household.’ “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. “Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever receives a righteous man because he is righteous will receive a righteous man’s reward. And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple – amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward.”

It is evident that Jesus does not demand that one reaches these heights of obedience to his Word in a day. The ancient masters of asceticism proposed a journey of three stages. The first was that of overcoming mortal sin. Thus one enters the permanent state of sanctifying grace. Then we start the second stage that must lead us to the elimination of every venial sin, even of unwanted thoughts. The third stage is the journey of perfect conformation to Christ the Lord in his offering to the Father of his whole life. Today the aim to be reached has been removed from modern asceticism. There is the legalization of the cohabitation of sin and grace. A morality that does not aim at full conformation with Christ is not a true morality.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that the Christian and the Gospel are one.