You make him a child of Gehenna twice as much as yourselves

25 AUGUST (Mt 23,13-22)

The man of sin always thinks from the sin that is in his heart. Never might he think according to the Spirit of the Lord. The flesh has always thoughts according to the flesh. On the contrary, the spiritual man has always thought according to the Spirit. If a person wants to have thoughts according to the Spirit he must become a spiritual being, that is he must let himself be entirely transformed in the depths of his heart. That is, he must ask the Spirit of the Lord to take away from his chest the heart of stone and in its place put a heart of flesh, the spiritual heart, able to love God and his Word, able to see God in the letter of his Word and in the reality of his brothers.

The heart of sin closes the doors of the kingdom of heaven in front of people. He closes them because they are already closed for himself. If he is out of the kingdom of heaven, if he lives in the kingdom of the prince of this world, never might he think of owning the keys to life. He only has the keys of death and he opens up the realm of death for every man with them. To possess the keys of life, it is urgent that we first are in the realm of life. The doors are opened not from the outside, but from within. Who is in sin attracts and drags to sin. Whoever is in life, grace and truth he attracts and drags to life, grace and truth. From the inside of the truth and grace he opens their doors to every man.

There is a pastoral from sin and one from grace. That from sin produces fruits of sin. It is made from the flesh and cannot but generate the works of the flesh. Never might it bear fruit according to the Spirit. It is from sin and it is not from the Holy Spirit. One enters the grace, he walks in the truth, he lives the Gospel and dwells in it; from the Gospel and the truth he attracts every other man. Only this pastoral produces fruits of conversion, justification and sanctification. Doing things according to the flesh and doing things according to the Spirit are not the same thing. The fruits are not the same. The pastoral of Jesus, made from the fullness of the Holy Spirit, is quite different than that of the scribes and Pharisees. The one of Jesus is a pastoral of salvation. The other is of perdition.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You lock the kingdom of heaven before human beings. You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You traverse sea and land to make one convert, and when that happens you make him a child of Gehenna twice as much as yourselves. “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘If one swears by the temple, it means nothing, but if one swears by the gold of the temple, one is obligated.’ Blind fools, which is greater, the gold, or the temple that made the gold sacred? And you say, ‘If one swears by the altar, it means nothing, but if one swears by the gift on the altar, one is obligated.’ You blind ones, which is greater, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? One who swears by the altar swears by it and all that is upon it; one who swears by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it; one who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who is seated on it.

Today, a new pastoral is invoked by everyone. It is wanted new in contents, new in modes, new in witnesses, new in its every expression or manifestation. However, we forget that it is always the Spirit the one that must make it. Now the Spirit is not from the pastoral. It is from the person. The Spirit does not come from any provision or set rule. He comes from the heart of who is committed to work to open up the kingdom of God to every one of his brothers. But if this person is in the realm of darkness, he might also observe all the endless rules that are suggested him for his pastoral to be updated, new, ultra-modern; the results will always be the same.

It is not the laws, regulations, rules, openings that make the pastoral true, holy and vital. Instead, it is the heart of a man, the result in him of a constant work of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of the Lord makes the man new. The new man does things concerning God always in a new way, not because there are new laws. Every law is already old at the time of its promulgation or writing. He is from the new pastoral because his heart, his mind, his feelings and his will are always inspired by God.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints make us new in the Holy Spirit.