And no one knows the Father except the Son

Ex 3,1-6.9-12; Ps 102; Mt 11,25-27
17 JULY

These words of Jesus should be engraved on every stone of our churches and on the doorposts of every door of the houses where the disciples of Jesus dwell. The commandment given by God to the children of Israel is worth much more for all the Christians who are in world.

“These then are the commandments, the statutes and decrees which the Lord, your God, has ordered that you be taught to observe in the land into which you are crossing for conquest, so that you and your son and your grandson may fear the Lord, your God, and keep, throughout the days of your lives, all his statutes and commandments which I enjoin on you, and thus have long life. Hear then, Israel, and be careful to observe them, that you may grow and prosper the more, in keeping with the promise of the Lord, the God of your fathers, to give you a land flowing with milk and honey. “Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone! Therefore, you shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. Take to heart these words which I enjoin on you today. Drill them into your children. Speak of them at home and abroad, whether you are busy or at rest. Bind them at your wrist as a sign and let them be as a pendant on your forehead. Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates (Dt 6,1-9).

Today it is a time of great temptation for the disciples of Jesus. Satan has decided to decapitate the faith, depriving it of its head and its heart, which are Christ Jesus, in his eternal, divine and human truth, of only Redeemer and Saviour of the human race and his Word, as the one and only Word in which there is truth and life, light and holiness and the justice and peace of every man. Being a Christian today without his supernatural head and his divine and eternal heart, the whole world for his fall is condemned to darkness. Everything is from the true faith of the Christian in Christ and in his Word. If the Christian falls from the true faith, with him he drags the whole world into falsehood and lies not only with regard to God, but also to man, to all creation, in time and eternity. Every Christian crisis is a crisis in the world. Every Christian elevation is the elevation of the world. Every victory of the Christian is victory for the world. Every Christian fall is the fall of the world into increasingly dense darkness. Jesus puts this truth at the heart of the Sermon on the Mount. The Christian is constituted the light of the world and salt of the earth. He loses the light and the wisdom, the whole world remains without light and without wisdom. Christ is the light and wisdom of the world.

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light; but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness. And if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be (Mt 6,22-23). “You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lamp stand, where it gives light to all in the house. Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father (Mt 5,13-16).

We can paraphrase the truth proclaimed by Jesus with these words: “No one knows the Christian except Christ and no one knows Christ except the Christian and he to whom the Christian reveals him”. Whom must the Christian reveal Christ to? To the whole world.

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.

The Christian is not responsible only for his soul, but for the soul of every man who comes into this world. If he loves Christ, he will also love the truth of Christ, he will give Christ the truth and light, grace and life to every man. But if the Christian loses Christ in his truth, he will be a diffuser of darkness. With his darkness he will lead the world to ruin.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that Christians feel the weight of their responsibility.