IWhat you are going to do, do quickly

Is 49,1-6; Ps 70; Jn 13,21-33.36-38
16 APRIL

n the Gospel there are clear truths and hidden truths. All the truths hidden in words must always be captured from the evident truths, with the help of the Holy Spirit. That is why it is necessary that we always ask the Spirit of the Lord that He be our wisdom, knowledge, science, intellect and fear of the Lord, both so that we do not transform the obvious truths into falsehoods and so that we can put the hidden truths that are the true bone structure of revelation in the purest light. All of Scripture carries within it a mystery of which one part is visible and the other invisible. The Holy Spirit helps us to see visible truth well, according to full light. From the visible truth observed and captured in its truth, he will always have to lead us to grasp the invisible mystery and bring it into full light. Let nobody hope to grasp the invisible mystery if he damages, alters, declares null, transforms and changes the visible mystery. For example, who says that hell does not exist, while it is a visible, evident and clear mystery in all of Revelation, becomes incapable of bringing to light all other mysteries, both visible and invisible. Whoever maintains that God is only most pure mercy, but not fidelity to his Word, makes of the Holy Scriptures a mass of lies and falsehoods. But we do many of these things if we are not in the most pure light of the Holy Spirit, as Jesus says to the scribes and Pharisees of his time. Today all of Scripture has been reduced to lies and falsehood. Who is in the Holy Spirit? Only he who abides in the Law of the Lord, in the Word of Christ and in right morality. Sin and Holy Spirit can never live in the same heart. Either the heart is given to the Spirit, giving it to obedience to the Word, or it is given to Satan, giving it to sin and the transgression of the Law of the Lord.

When he had said this, Jesus was deeply troubled and testified, “Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” The disciples looked at one another, at a loss as to whom he meant. One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at Jesus’ side. So Simon Peter nodded to him to find out whom he meant. He leaned back against Jesus’ chest and said to him, “Master, who is it?” Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I hand the morsel after I have dipped it.” So he dipped the morsel and (took it and) handed it to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot. After he took the morsel, Satan entered him. So Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.”  (Now) none of those reclining at table realized why he said this to him. Some thought that since Judas kept the money bag, Jesus had told him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or to give something to the poor. So he took the morsel and left at once. And it was night. When he had left, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.  (If God is glorified in him,) God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him at once. My children, I will be with you only a little while longer. You will look for me, and as I told the Jews, ‘Where I go you cannot come,’ so now I say it to you. Simon Peter said to him, “Master, where are you going?” Jesus answered (him), “Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, though you will follow later.” Peter said to him, “Master, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Amen, amen, I say to you, the cock will not crow before you deny me three times.”

Jesus gave his heart to obedience to the will of the Father. Judah gave his heart to Satan. Jesus must live the Law of the Father. Judas the law of Satan. Between the two laws there cannot be communion, agreement and dialogue. Judas can only be converted to the will of God, but for this he will have to abandon sin, vice, concupiscence and adoration of money. Here is the hidden mystery of Jesus and Judas. Jesus says to Judas: your betrayal might never prevent me from obeying the Father. Even if I know that you will betray me tonight, I will have to obey only the Law of the Father and I will do what the Father will command me through his Holy Spirit. So that you can also obey your law of sin and death. Rather, you can do it soon, as soon as possible. I will walk on my way. I will observe my Law. If the disciples of Jesus brought their life into this mystery, they would have a new vision of their vocation and mission. Instead almost always they live in contrast. They wish that sin did not live the law of sin. You, Christian, live your Law. Let sin live his.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, help us to understand the great mystery of our life.