But they did not understand this saying

Zc 2,5-9.14-15a; C Jer 31,10-13; Lk 9,43b-45
28 SEPTEMBER

Obedience requires no understanding. It must always be given to the Lord, in listening to his Word, voice, Law and Precepts. While obeying or disobeying, the fruits of both obedience and disobedience are gathered and it is understood why the Commandment was given. Hell and Paradise are eternal but different understanding. The damned will know why it was a good thing to obey. Those of Paradise will know why it was right not to disobey. For those who obey there is also an additional prize. The more one obeys, the more the Lord grants the gift of knowledge of Him and of understanding many things. Those who want to know God must remain in the Word of Jesus for all the days of their lives.

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it. But you know it, because it remains with you, and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me, because I live and you will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.” Judas, not the Iscariot, said to him, “Master, (then) what happened that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; yet the word you hear is not mine but that of the Father who sent me. “I have told you this while I am with you. The Advocate, the holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name – he will teach you everything and remind you of all that (I) told you (Jn 14,5-26).

The works of God are all of them good; in its own time every need is supplied. At his word the waters become still as in a flask; he had but to speak and the reservoirs were made. He has but to command and his will is done; nothing can limit his achievement. The works of all mankind are present to him; not a thing escapes his eye. His gaze spans all the ages; to him there is nothing unexpected. No cause then to say: “What is the purpose of this?” Everything is chosen to satisfy a need (Sir 39,16-21).

The things of the Lord are difficult to understand, they go beyond our mind; can we understand what Christ says? Jesus does not ask his people to understand what is not immediately understandable, but to believe in his Word. Thinking that we can understand the mystery hidden in every Word of Jesus is impossible even for the Angels of God. Only the Holy Spirit possesses the Church of science and of knowledge of the full truth of Christ the Lord. However, obedience must always be given, because faith is listening and not understanding. If Jesus wants to give signs of credibility on the certainty and truth of his Person, they are welcome, otherwise his Word is heard, one believes in it and obeys it. Listening, faith and obedience. This is the only possible relationship with the Word of Jesus and his Will.

While they were all amazed at his every deed, he said to his disciples, “Pay attention to what I am telling you. The Son of Man is to be handed over to men.” But they did not understand this saying; its meaning was hidden from them so that they should not understand it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

What must every disciple of Jesus welcome today? Faith in his passion, death and resurrection. Not only must he accept this Word, he must give it the adhesion of mind and heart. He will have to set his life on it. For this it is necessary to remove from the mind and from the heart all other thoughts, ideas, desires, false doctrines and things of the kind. Saint Paul says that before the sublimity of Christ he considered rubbish all his previous life. We must consider everything that does not conform to the Word of Jesus to be junk. A Messiah in the human manner is garbage. An non-Crucified Messiah is garbage. I do not understand. I believe.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints arrange that we believe in every Word of Jesus. It is life for us.