But you do not always have me

Is 42,1-7; Ps 26; Jn 12,1-11
15 APRIL

Every man every day is faced with decisions to be made. Which is the right one? Which one is the holiest and the least holy? Which is the real one and the fake one? The one that can be done and the one that must never be done? The Law of the Lord to the negative is perfect. There are Ten Commandments and many other precepts that place an insurmountable limit for every man. Who crosses it is in death. What God says cannot be done, it must not be done. If we do it, the damage we cause to our nature and to creation is irreversible. Today, by a diabolical temptation, we want to declare the decree of God null with precepts that come from men. God says do not kill. Never. Man declares that by right of self-determination one can kill, out of respect for the dignity of man one can take life away. In this way, he also decides and establishes that one can divorce, fornicate and fulfil every other immorality. Today he is deciding that even the law of the nature of man in his gender difference can be abolished and the way is being paved for tomorrow to arrive at the abolition of the difference in species. All these aberrations of the perverse will of man are the ones that do nothing but to inject a serum of death into the chromosomes of humanity with disastrous irreversibility.

But there is the law of the Lord on the good to be done. Being good infinite, eternal, universal, towards everyone, according to what quantity must it be done and to whom? The Law of the Lord is also perfect concerning the good to be done. Both the Old and the New Testaments establish that love is the most pure obedience to the Word of Jesus. The Sermon on the Mount establishes all the good to be done even in the smallest details. Before good, a universal infinity opens up for us, which obliges to a choice, necessary due to our finite nature, which cannot love everyone, always and in the same way. Jesus sends his disciples all over the world. The world is immense. The disciple is finite. Where must he direct his steps, on the right or left? Who is the Gospel announced to this or that other people? True good is done neither from our mind nor from our will. It must always be done by motion of the Holy Spirit. In his eternal wisdom he knows how to transform our good into redemption, salvation and peace.

 Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him. Mary took a litre of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair; the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. Then Judas the Iscariot, one (of) his disciples, and the one who would betray him, said, “Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days’ wages and given to the poor?” He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief and held the money bag and used to steal the contributions. So Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Let her keep this for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”  (The) large crowd of the Jews found out that he was there and came, not only because of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. And the chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus too, because many of the Jews were turning away and believing in Jesus because of him.

Mary, moved and conducted in thought, heart and will by the Spirit of the Lord, makes a prophetic gesture towards Jesus. The perfume is not wasted. The money is not wasted. Money and perfume are used according to the most holy modality existing on earth and in the heavens. Who can understand this consecration of Jesus to crucifixion, passion and death? Only who is in the Holy Spirit. In a particular way, Judah, who is not in the Holy Spirit, but under the government of Satan, judging sinful the action of the Holy Spirit accomplished through Mary, screams out his indignation. There is a world full of poor people to feed. You cannot afford the luxury of wasting three hundred coins. The outrage of Judas is not a cry of truth, but of falsehood. It comes from the heart of a thief, who steals everything that is put into the apostolic treasury. When an action is good in itself, no one must ever dare to judge the Holy Spirit.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints arrange that our good deeds are the motion of the Spirit.