Anointed the feet of Jesus

HOLY MONDAY 6 APRIL (Jn 12,1-11)

If we read the whole Gospel, we must confess that it is humanly impossible to find the reasons for only one word of Jesus or one of his miracles. Times, moments, places, meetings, dialogues and works; everything is wanted by the Eternal Wisdom of the Holy Spirit in him. We must also add that what Jesus did and taught was the only way to bring true salvation to the earth. He is from the Wisdom of the Spirit, for this reason all his works and words can be understood only from the Wisdom of the Holy Spirit, participated to the disciples of Jesus. Without the participated Wisdom, one remains in the human and never is elevated to the divine. Since today there is a strong detachment from Christ by Christians, there is also a strong separation from the Holy Spirit and his Eternal Wisdom. Since this is no longer  participated because of detachment from Christ, the Christian sees everything from his human wisdom which is foolishness and insipidity and kills the Son of God again, sacrificing him on the cross of his immanence, worldliness, sin, hardness of heart and idolatry. That is how Saint Paul teaches: “Yet we do speak a wisdom to those who are mature, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who are passing away. Rather, we speak God’s wisdom, mysterious, hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory, and which none of the rulers of this age knew; for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written: “What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him,” this God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God” (1Cor 2,6-10). Judas is in sin. He speaks from the hardness of his heart, from his foolishness and insipidity. He does not know that the gesture of Mary is the purest motion of the Holy Spirit. The reasons for that anointing are not in the heart of the woman who gives it effect, but in the Spirit of the Lord. The Spirit reveals them through the mouth of Jesus. That ointment must not be sold. It must be kept in view of his burial which is be now imminent. A few days are just left.

Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him. Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair; the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. Then Judas the Iscariot, one (of) his disciples, and the one who would betray him, said, “Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days’ wages and given to the poor?” He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief and held the money bag and used to steal the contributions. So Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Let her keep this for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.” (The) large crowd of the Jews found out that he was there and came, not only because of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. And the chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus too, because many of the Jews were turning away and believing in Jesus because of him.

The motions of the Holy Spirit must be understood from the Holy Spirit. However, the man of sin always thinks according to categories of sin. The poor is not a universal category of thought. There is the poor who lacks material things, but there is also the poor who is devoid of spiritual things. There is the poor man who lacks bread. But there is also the poor person who lacks in God. It is the Holy Spirit who tells us which poor person to serve. Humanity is all in the greatest poverty. It is in all kinds of poverty. Which poor to serve? Which good to offer? In his Eternal Wisdom, the Holy Spirit predisposes everything. But the poor man must also let himself be served by the Father. How? Seeking the kingdom of God and his justice. This too is a motion of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit moves. If the poor person enters the Gospel, his father will always serve him with all abundance. Judah thinks from the world going even beyond the thought of the world. His is a satanic thought, because it is the thought of a thief, who uses the name of the poor for one of his particular profits. The poor in substances is not the only poor in the earth.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that we always let ourselves be moved by the Holy Spirit.