But do not follow their example

23 AUGUST (Mt 23,1-12)

Jesus wants every one of his disciples to be a true master in the transmission of the Word of God. However, his chair must never be but the book, taken in the hands, read with the eyes of flesh, interpreted with an eye of sin, transmitted with a depraved intelligence. He must teach the Word using another chair, the one that is of the perfect exemplariness of his life. It changes everything terribly.

He will have to take the book in hand, eat it, by making it become his flesh, his blood and his daily life. He is asked to teach what he lives. However, having to give every man the whole divine Word it is more than urgent that he is in all the Word, and not in a single part. The exemplariness in him not only must be perfect in part, in those things he is able to live, it must be total, toward every Word of God. Nothing must be left by him, not even the most little, the smallest precepts of God’s law.

When teaching is offered from the highest, universal exemplariness with the Word of the Lord, when the disciple of Jesus is the living Gospel, the Holy Spirit is in his heart and from he attracts many more souls to the Word. The perfect exemplariness makes us be teachers and missionaries by attraction. The Holy Spirit that is in us is not hindered in any way. Rather, He is given all freedom to be able to act always according to his eternal and divine wisdom for the conversion of many hearts.

Today, in the Church of God a serious danger meanders. Many want the legalization of sin, vice, trespass and disobedience to God and His commandments. This legalization is impossible to be able to happen. The Church exists on earth for only one purpose: teaching from her perfect exemplariness the way of the Lord. If the Church teaches from the legalized scandal and transgression, the kingdom of God which she embodies, although still not fully, goes to shatters.

If the Church wants to act according to the truth of Christ the Lord, she must liberate herself of the number and every affiliation. She must remember only her constitutive and founding truth. She by divine law is the salt of the earth and light of the world. The salt and light must stay forever. If she loses her flavour, she will be trampled on by men. If she loses her light, all men will fall into darkness. The sun is one and it heats the whole earth. Only one true Christian is needed to give light to the whole world.

Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees have taken their seat on the chair of Moses. Therefore, do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you, but do not follow their example. For they preach but they do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens (hard to carry) and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they will not lift a finger to move them. All their works are performed to be seen. They widen their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels. They love places of honour at banquets, seats of honour in synagogues, greetings in marketplaces, and the salutation ‘Rabbi.’ As for you, do not be called ‘Rabbi.’ You have but one teacher, and you are all brothers. Call no one on earth your father; you have but one Father in heaven. Do not be called ‘Master’; you have but one master, the Messiah. The greatest among you must be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Jesus wants every one of his disciples to teach from the last place. The last place is his chair, his studying, his university, his gym and his high school. For this reason, it is urgent to put on a great humility. Everyone must be considered useless tool in the hands of his Lord and God to give the world a new light that is not the truth that the Christian heralds, but it is his life is transformed in the truth proclaimed by Christ Jesus. One is a servant, but not to be of need himself to others, but to give every man the purest truth of our God, but not drawing it from just the Book, but becaming we the book of the living Lord. The word to be transmitted must be given in the manner of God, always pulling it from the personal heart and soul.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints give always the last place.