I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God
Ct 3,1-4a opp. 2 Cor 5,14-17; Ps 62; Jn 20,1-2.11-18
22 JULY
The true God, the one true God, the true Father, the only true Father, is the God and the Father of Jesus of Nazareth, his only Son, his Christ, his Saviour and Redeemer, his grace, truth, light and eternal life, given to every man for his eternal redemption. When does the God and Father of Jesus become our God and Father? When we become one body, one life, one truth and one obedience with Christ. All the Father has given himself to Jesus. All Jesus gives himself to us, on condition that we give ourselves to Jesus. If there is separation from Jesus, there is separation from God. If there is unity with Jesus, there is it is unity with God. If there is obedience to Jesus, there is obedience to God. Without Jesus it is eternal nothingness.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him. In love he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with the favour of his will, for the praise of the glory of his grace that he granted us in the beloved. In him we have redemption by his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, in accord with the riches of his grace that he lavished upon us. In all wisdom and insight, he has made known to us the mystery of his will in accord with his favor that he set forth in him as a plan for the fullness of times, to sum up all things in Christ, in heaven and on earth. In him we were also chosen, destined in accord with the purpose of the one who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will, so that we might exist for the praise of his glory, we who first hoped in Christ. In him you also, who have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and have believed in him, were sealed with the promised holy Spirit, which is the first instalment of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s possession, to the praise of his glory (Eph 1,3-14).
Therefore, all those statements that put Christ Jesus aside and indicate other Gods, other Redeemers, other Saviours, other Mediators, other ways, other truths, other lights, other paths to go to God must be declared a-scriptural, a-theological, amoral, a-spiritual, a-ecclesial and a-missionary; they are devoid of any revealed truth. The Father has established one Mediator, Saviour, Redeemer, Truth, Way and Life and one remains with Him forever. Men can also subvert every Law of God, but God will never legalize falsehood and lies against His Son as truth before Him.
On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.” But Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been. And they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken my Lord, and I don’t know where they laid him.” When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” She thought it was the gardener and said to him, “Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni,” which means Teacher. Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'” Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and what he told her.
Nobody is allowed – if he wants to be honest intellectually and scientifically – to affirm in the name of God what God has never said. It is a sin against the second Commandment. The name of God is named in vain. But it is also a sin against the eighth Commandment. They say false testimonies against Jesus Christ and also God. Not only that. One also sins against all hagiographers. They are declared deaf to the voice of the Holy Spirit. We sin against the Church. She is declared despot and tyrannical, centralizing a truth that does not exist. The holy tradition is sullied with foolishness.
Mother of God, Angels and Saints, do not allow Christians to sin against the truth.