Everything written about me must be fulfilled

At 3,11-26; Ps 8; Lk 24,35-48
25 APRIL

On the way to Emmaus, Jesus starts from the explanation of the Scriptures on the Christ of God and then reveals his identity in the house. The Crucified, that is the Risen One, that is Jesus, is the true Anointed of the Lord. In the Cenacle, on the evening of Easter, another great mystery takes place, similar, but not identical to the one that took place on the way. Here first Jesus makes Himself be seen. The vision alone is not enough to identify the Crucifix with the Risen One, the Risen One with the Crucifix. They think they see a ghost. To the vision, the structure of the mind and heart must be changed, but first passing through the mind and then reaching up to the heart. In the Upper Room Jesus does not explain the Scriptures, he says that all of them were accomplished in him, in his person. To the Twelve the Lord grants a particular grace: he opens their mind to understand every prophecy, oracle, oath and promise made by the Lord. Nothing of what is written on him in the Law, in the Prophets and in the Psalms must be unknown and not even badly understood by them.

At this point we need a careful reflection in order to highlight today’s thought of many disciples of Jesus. If the vision of risen Jesus was not sufficient to create the light in the heart of the Twelve, but it was necessary to open their mind to the wisdom of the Scriptures, can the disciples today think of being able to know the Christ of God, his truth and his mission, not only not knowing the Scriptures, but also deliberately ignoring them, despising them, declaring them off courses and saying that they can no longer build the edifice of faith on them? Is it possible to know the Anointed of the Lord, the Redeemer and the Saviour of the world, if every truth of Scripture about Him is ably, with satanic science and art, substituted with the thought of the earth? Can we still preach Christ and his salvation if this truth has been erased, because today by the children of the Church and by the disciples of Jesus it is taught that every way is good to go to God, for the salvation of man? If the Gospel no longer serves for the salvation of others, it is no longer necessary for the salvation of those who still believe in Christ. Here then is the logical conclusion. If it does not help others, we do not need it either. It can be done without it. It is right that it is no longer declared the principle and foundation of our faith. By now, not even reason, a time useful to man to separate good from evil, serves anymore. Today everything is resolved with the will. Today it is the personal will of everyone that, without any supernatural reference, says good and evil by itself.

Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread. While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. Then he said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.” And as he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed, he asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of baked fish; he took it and ate it in front of them. He said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures. And he said to them, “Thus it is written that the Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.

It is urgent to convince oneself and immediately. If the children of the Church deprive themselves of the truth of the Scriptures – the ways to free themselves from them today are manifold, innumerable – the truth of Lord Jesus is lost instantly. Having lost the truth of Christ, the first truth that is lost is that of the Father and of the Holy Spirit. Immediately after, the truth of the Church is lost, and the truth of the Church is that of the Pope, of the Bishops, of the Presbyters, of the Deacons, of the Confirmed, of the Baptized, of the Married and of those who approach the sacrament of Penance and of the Eucharist. Having lost these truths, it is the truth of the man that is lost, together with the truth of things, of time and also of eternity. Of the building of truth Jesus is the Cornerstone. Christ is taken away, the whole building collapses. A pile of falsehoods remains.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, help us to put Christ back as the foundation of truth.