All things have been handed over to me by my Father

1 Jn 1,5- 2,2; Ps 102; Mt 11,25-30
29 APRIL

The Church lives with the Word. She lives letting herself be generated perennially by the Word. She lives by generating new children to God with the proclamation of the Word and through faith in it. If the Church separates herself from the Word, she separates herself from her essence, from her truth and from her life. Everything is for the Word, from the Word and in the Word. The Gospel is the life of the church. The Word is one, not two. The Gospel is one, not two. The truth is one, not two. We cannot separate between Word and Word, between the Gospel and the Gospel, between Truth and Truth and between Light and Light. A Word cannot be true in one part and false in another part. The Gospel cannot reveal the will of God in one part and in the other result not to be the will of God. Either it is entirely Gospel and Word of God or it is not. This truth also applies to Christ Jesus. Either he is all true in his every Word, or he is false in all his Word. He cannot be partly true and partly false. The Word of Jesus cannot be true when it is pronounced in the sacraments and then false when it reveals the other truths of salvation.

Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her to sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word, that he might present to himself the church in splendour, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish (Eph 5,25-27). Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the last times some will turn away from the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and demonic instructions through the hypocrisy of liars with branded consciences. They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected when received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the invocation of God in prayer (Eph 5,15-17). Since you have purified yourselves by obedience to the truth for sincere mutual love, love one another intensely from a (pure) heart. You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and abiding word of God, for: “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the field; the grass withers, and the flower wilts; but the word of the Lord remains forever.” This is the word that has been proclaimed to you (1Pt 1,22-25).

If the Word of Jesus is all true, it must necessarily be true that he is the universal Mediator of all the Father and of all the Holy Spirit, of the essence of the Father and of the Holy Spirit. But not in the manner of a seller in a supermarket of religion. You enter it, ask what you need, take what you have bought and leave the store. The mediation of Christ is threefold: with Christ, for Christ and in Christ. For the faith in his Word, in his every Word and in all his Gospel. A single Word of the Gospel not believed places us outside the mediation of Lord Jesus. The Church announces the whole Gospel, without adding anything or taking anything away from it. She announces it with the power of the Holy Spirit. She preaches it full of the Holy Spirit in her heart, in her soul and in her Spirit; the Word and the Spirit regenerate the Church. The Word and the Spirit will always add new members to the community of believers.

At that time Jesus said in reply, “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him. “Come to me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your selves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”

If this Word of Jesus is declared false, even Jesus is declared false, because in this Word there is the whole truth of revelation, redemption, salvation, eternal life, consolation, comfort and hope for every man. Christ Jesus is the irreplaceable in the relationship between God and humanity. Man will never know God and never might he save a single man without Christ. Christ is the only bridge, he is the only God in the flesh, in whom and through whom God saves the man.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, do not allow faith to be lost in the Word of Jesus.