CHILDREN WERE BROUGHT TO HIM

Ez 18,1-10.13b.30-32; Ps 50; Mt 19,13-15
18 AUGUST
Before man is still conceived, he is of the Lord, because he is the fruit of his eternal thought. Not only is he of the Lord; he “creates” him for a special, particular mission, which in the will of his Creator it is always to work the greater good in favour of every other man. This truth is attested beginning with the First and the Second Chapters of Genesis. The Creator and Lord of the universe is also Providence. He arranges everything so that each of his creatures through the other creatures reaches the end for which it was created.

Then God said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground.” God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them, saying: “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth” (Gen 1,26-27).

The Lord God said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him.” So the Lord God formed out of the ground various wild animals and various birds of the air, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each of them would be its name. The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of the air, and all the wild animals; but none proved to be the suitable partner for the man. So the Lord God cast a deep sleep on the man, and while he was asleep, he took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. The Lord God then built up into a woman the rib that he had taken from the man. When he brought her to the man, the man said: “This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of ‘her man’ this one has been taken.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body (Gen 2,18-24).

The apostles limit themselves to reproach those who lead and present the children to Jesus Christ. They do this in order to keep the truth of their Master in their judgment. The future king of Israel must take care of much more demanding things. He cannot think of caressing or blessing children. The current world against children exercises highly nefarious and abominable actions. First of all, as soon as they are conceived, it removes them from life by making them come out of the mother’s breast with a violent, ruthless and cruel action. Among those who are not mowed down by this inhuman nonsense, many are condemned to live in the most extreme poverty and do not reach adulthood. Many others are abused by the impurity of adults. Not few are those who are trained for war. If we wanted to enumerate all the sins of man against the fruit of his womb, we would really be horrified. They are the new crucifixes of humanity. Jesus says it: what you will have done to one of these my younger brothers, you will have done it to me. Every cross carried by children, starting with the suppression of life, is the cross of Jesus.

Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked them, but Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” After he placed his hands on them, he went away.

This is the worst of the consequences of sin: it makes the man blind, deaf and dumb. He does not see these millions and millions of “martyrs”of civilization, of progress and of the right that from time to time man builds to give his sin regular and legal permission to nest in his city. Today there are two other “martyrdoms”, they too by now legalized: condemning a child to live with two people of the same sex, as if it were a real family; snatching a baby from the natural mother to be bought by a customer. Not to mention all the other multiple disorders related to the very conception. To all these misdeeds human hypocrisy gives the name of “social policies”.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, help us to see in every child a gift from God.