And how I wish it were already blazing!

Rm 6,19-23; Ps 1; Lk 12,49-53
24 OCTOBER

The Psalm reveals that the Christ of God has only one desire in his heart: doing the will of the Father. This is the truth of Jesus. He makes his own the will of the Father. The gift of life to death by the cross is the will of the Father, but also the will of Jesus. The Father gives it for the salvation of the world. He lets himself be given. He wants to be donated. This is perfect obedience: transforming God’s will in personal will and desire.

I waited patiently for the Lord; And He inclined to me and heard my cry. He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God; Many will see and fear And will trust in the Lord. How blessed is the man who has made the Lord his trust, And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood. Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done, And Your thoughts toward us; There is none to compare with You. If I would declare and speak of them, They would be too numerous to count. Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired; My ears You have opened; Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required. Then I said, “Behold, I come; In the scroll of the book it is written of me. I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your Law is within my heart.” (Ps 40 (39) 1-9).

In the Gospel according to John Jesus reveals to his disciples that his food is to do the will of his father and carry out his works. In front of the harvest that is already golden, we should not linger. It is urgent to get a hand on the sickle and walk towards the cross.

Meanwhile, the disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.” So the disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought him something to eat?” Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say, ‘In four months the harvest will be here’? I tell you, look up and see the fields ripe for the harvest. The reaper is already receiving his payment and gathering crops for eternal life, so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together. For here the saying is verified that ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the work, and you are sharing the fruits of their work” (Jn 4,31-38).

The Letter to the Hebrews reveals to us that by offering one’s body to the Father, sin is atoned for once and for all. For the obedience of Jesus, the Father purifies the earth from all fault and pain. This is possible for those who get converted, believe in the Gospel, let themselves be baptized in order to be born to new life of Holy Spirit and water.

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats take away sins. For this reason, when he came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; holocausts and sin offerings you took no delight in. Then I said, ‘As is written of me in the scroll, Behold, I come to do your will, O God.'” First he says, “Sacrifices and offerings, holocausts and sin offerings, you neither desired nor delighted in.” These are offered according to the law. Then he says, “Behold, I come to do your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second. By this “will,” we have been consecrated through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all (Heb 10,4-10).

The baptism of Christ is the one he lived on the cross. There he was baptized, immersed in his blood. He was immersed in the water of the Spirit that came out of side, there. Every other man must let himself be baptized in this water and in the blood.

“I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three; a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

The Gospel obliges. You choose it, you must stay in it. This is the division. The Gospel separates who is in it from those who are outside it. We are in two different places.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints  make us understand that peace is only in obedience.