FOR MY SAKE AND FOR THE SAKE OF THE GOSPEL

1Pt 1,10-16; Ps 97; Mk 10,28-31
29 MAY
The Gospel is a pact between Christ Jesus and every man who wants to sign it. Conditions are immutable over the centuries. Here are the invariable terms: Jesus gives to the underwriter himself and in him he gives him the Father and the Holy Spirit and every other spiritual and material gift, including the blessed eternity in his Paradise. The underwriter undertakes to give Christ his whole life in time, living every word contained in the Gospel, according to the teaching that the Holy Spirit offers him day after day. The covenant lasts until death. If it is broken and we are found outside at the time of death, there will be no reception in the eternal tent of God for us.

The Creator and Lord of man established the same covenant at the beginning of time, even if under different conditions,. “You, man, do you want to stay in the life I made to you? You must walk in my will that always shows you the way of death and the way of life. If you come out of my will, if you disobey my command, you will proceed from death to death.” There is no relationship with the Creator, nor with Christ Jesus, except in the covenant. You are in it, you live, you get out of it and you die. It is valid for every Word of the Lord, every commandment and every prescription. You obey the Creator, you live. You disobey and you die. It is a universal, immortal and timeless law, invariable over the centuries.

Today both the man and the Christian have decided to break the pact: a pact of creation, an evangelical pact, a sacramental pact, a vocational pact, an amicable pact and a filial pact. So far it belongs to the will of man. Everyone can choose the path of death on earth and eternal perdition in the afterlife. The real misdeed is not the choice of death, but it is the affirmation that by following paths of disobedience one reached equally to the covenant. I can work on earth to sow massacres, to destroy the family, society, the Church, nature, all of humanity and the end result is eternal life with God. This is aberration. It is against all historical evidence. Only obedience produces life.

The rich man closes himself in his riches. Jesus says that a rich man will hardly enter the kingdom of heaven. The idolatry of riches leads to death. Peter tells Jesus that He and the other disciples have left everything and followed him. Jesus reminds them of the terms of the covenant with Him. You have given me everything and I give you everything on earth and in eternal skies. You gave up one thing, I give you a hundred of them. You have renounced a field for me, I give you a hundred fields. Not materially understood. He will give so much joy to the heart as if it materially enjoyed of a hundred fields and a hundred mothers. Following Christ involves persecution from the world. But every suffering endured for him produces eternal joy in his paradise. The persecution fully enters the pact. It must be accepted and offered for the salvation of the world.

Peter began to say to him, “We have given up everything and followed you.” Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age: houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come. But many that are first will be last, and (the) last will be first.”

Let us observe well. The baptized person leaves the covenant and dies as the true son of God. He acts as a pagan. The confirmed person leaves the pact and becomes incapable of any testimony. He is a witness of Satan, not of Christ the Lord. The married man goes out of the covenant, generates spiritual death in his family. Life no longer blooms in it. The ordained minister violates the covenant and no longer converts anyone to Jesus. He no longer builds up the kingdom of God, rather he conforms to the thoughts of the world and decrees the surrender of the Christian to sin. Even those who receive the Eucharist; he does not receive it in the covenant and becomes incapable of living for Jesus. That the Word of God and of Christ are true, is witnessed every day by our history. We have decided to cancel Christ and his covenant, we have all become death-givers.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints make us true observers of the covenant.