Because he has anointed me

1Jn 4,18-5,4; Ps 71; Lk 4,14-22a
10 JANUARY
If the disciple of Jesus wants to understand himself, he must acquire the science and perfect knowledge of his Master and Lord. As the moon shines with the light that the sun reflects, so it is said of every disciple of Jesus. He lives of the purity of light that is reflected to him by the face of Christ the Lord. If the disciple alters, modifies and transforms the light of Christ into darkness, even his light will be transformed into darkness. If he changes the mission of Jesus, his mission will also be modified. If he changes the features of the Lord’s face, the features of his face will also be changed. Every alteration of the Gospel becomes an alteration in the disciple. Every variation in the truth of grace becomes an alteration in the life of the disciple. Only one truth denied of Christ the Lord and the whole truth of the disciple is denied. The Christian is not light, is not truth and is not a grace separable from Christ. It is not the source. He draws and gives. If he draws falsehood, he gives falsehood. If he fills the heart with lies, he will teach lies. Unfortunately, this simple, elementary and basic principle is trampled by everyone.

Jesus is full of the Holy Spirit. From him he is perpetually moved and guided. Jesus is full of grace and truth. He comes into the world to make his heart pour grace and truth for every man. To the poor he must bring the good news that they are no longer poor. God has decided to make them his sons of adoption in his Son. To the prisoners of Satan and his kingdom he must proclaim liberation. They can no longer be slaves to sin and death. They can taste the freedom that comes from faith in his Word. To those who do not see God in his light of truth, justice, love, redemption and salvation, Jesus must give the sight. To those who do not know how to distinguish the way that leads to perdition from the other that leads to eternal salvation He must open their eyes. To those who are oppressed by sin, by falsehood and by deception, he must give the refreshment of the freedom of the true sons of God. To all those who cannot pay the debt of their sin and are hopeless because they know they can never make it, He announces the year of grace and the year of the great jubilee. Jesus came to fulfil their redemption. Here is the mission of Jesus: removing man from the realm of sin, evil, darkness, injustice, all spiritual slavery, all blindness and weakness of the flesh and lead him into the kingdom of God, placing him under the full government of the Spirit Holy.

He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.” Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him. He said to them, “Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” And all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth.

Someone might object: but man is also a body. He needs material things. Who gives the body what the body needs? The answer is given by Jesus in the Gospel according to Matthew. The salvation of the whole man is the work of the Blessed Trinity, that is, it is the work of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. What the Father must do must be left to the Father. What the Son must do must be left to the Son. What the Holy Spirit must do is to be left to the Holy Spirit. The Son must go and look for every sheep of the Father. He searches for the sheep and nourishes them in the soul and in the spirit and nourishes them with grace and truth. Then the sheep are given to the Spirit so that it is He the one who will lead them from grace to grace and from truth to truth. The Father, Eternal Providence, takes care of everything that belongs to the body. As He feeds the birds of the air and dresses the lilies of the fields, so he will nourish all those who seek the kingdom of God and its righteousness and let themselves be sought and saved by Jesus the Lord. This same law applies to the body of Christ. Every member in it must deal with what is asked of him by the specific sacrament received.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that in the Body of Christ the Law of the body is lived.