A cloud came and cast a shadow over them

Gen 15,1-12.17-18; Ps 26; Phil 3,17-4,1; Lk 9,28b-36
17 MARCH

Faith is born of listening. In faith, listening turns into obedience. Faith never comes from a previous understanding. It is not I understand before and then I believe. But first I believe and then I understand. Understanding occurs only when one is in faith, never when one is out of faith. Does understanding help faith? It certainly helps so that one perseveres in the faith, but never can you ask for it initially to believe. One believes, listens, obeys, asks the Lord to help us understand his Word in order to lend it a purer, holier, more intelligent and more perfect faith. Jesus opened the disciples’ mind to the intelligence of the Scriptures to understand his mystery only after his glorious resurrection. When the mystery was fulfilled in its fullness of death and resurrection. He asked them for their faith before. But the disciples at this obedience were always hard of hearing and late of heart. A Crucified Messiah was inconceivable, unthinkable and unimaginable, for them in spite of the fact that Scriptures, in the Law, the Prophets and the Psalms, they spoke of the suffering Just always wrapped in this twofold mystery. Not even on the Mount Jesus gives an understanding of his mystery. Towards Golgotha ​​we must walk only by pure faith in the Word.

Jesus manifests his glory. That is, he shows the eternal light that is his very essence. If He is God in his Person, he does not need any glory from men. Glory belongs to him by deity and eternity. Moses and Elijah, the Law and the prophets, confirm all the statements of Jesus. The true Messiah is the Crucifix. He who will be delivered by the chief priests and by the elders of the people to the pagans to crucify him. No explanation of the mystery. It is simply stated. Does the Father perhaps explain it? Neither does he. The Father declares Jesus his Son, the Son of his love, his Messiah and his Christ. What does he ask of the disciples? To trust every Word of his Son. The truth is in the words of Jesus, not in their thoughts and not even in the words and thoughts of the religious world in which they live. This rule applies to every time and every man. The Word is given, one believes in it, he builds his life on it. Understanding will always come later. At the beginning the Holy Spirit convinces on the truth of the Word heard. Faith to the Word is granted by conviction, never by understanding. Repealing this rule is erasing faith in the Word.

About eight days after he said this, he took Peter, John, and James and went up the mountain to pray. While he was praying his face changed in appearance and his clothing became dazzling white. And behold, two men were conversing with him, Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glory and spoke of his exodus that he was going to accomplish in Jerusalem. Peter and his companions had been overcome by sleep, but becoming fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men standing with him. As they were about to part from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good that we are here; let us make three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” But he did not know what he was saying. While he was still speaking, a cloud came and cast a shadow over them, and they became frightened when they entered the cloud. Then from the cloud came a voice that said, “This is my chosen Son; listen to him.” After the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. They fell silent and did not at that time tell anyone what they had seen.

Today we no longer believe in the Word of the Gospel. Everything is subjected to the test of the human mind. What the mind approves can be accepted. What the mind does not approve of is rejected. Since without faith, the mind belongs to the flesh and not to the Spirit, it approves the works of the flesh, it rejects the fruits of the Spirit. Thus operating, the mind is declaring null, useless and harmful all the mysteries of God and of man that are contained in the Word of God, for us become the Word of Christ the Lord. The mind does not understand the mystery of the Trinity, of the mediation of Christ, in the necessity of the sacraments. Today it is not even able to understand the most basic mysteries of human nature and other things anymore. For not understanding everything is being sent for pulping. In this disgrace program, much responsibility is due to Christians. They are the most ardent destroyers of the mysteries of faith. Faith is born of the Word heard.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that Christians do not demolish the mysteries of faith.