Do not think that I have come to abolish

WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH (Mt 5,17-19)

If one wanted to write a Law for humanity greater than the one written by Jesus for every man, he would consume all his energies in vain. Not only could he not he would not even have the mind to be able to write it. Every man is a created mind. His wisdom is through the participation of Divine and Eternal Wisdom. Instead, not only is Jesus the Eternal and Divine Wisdom, but from the Eternal and Divine Wisdom of the Holy Spirit he is moved, led, inspired and taken by the hand. Moreover, no man has received like Him the wisdom of the Spirit as a gift. Not only wisdom, but every other divine gift, so that he would not only give the greatest splendor to the Law and to the Prophets, but would bring to completion, in his body, every Word of the Father. Thus in the Second Letter to the Corinthians: “For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed to you by us, Silvanus and Timothy and me, was not “yes” and “no,” but “yes” has been in him. For however many are the promises of God, their Yes is in him; therefore, the Amen from us also goes through him to God for glory” (2Cor 1,19-20). Instead the prophet Isaiah announces that the Christ of God comes with all the power of grace and truth of the Spirit of the Lord: “But a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: a spirit of wisdom and of understanding, A spirit of counsel and of strength, a spirit of knowledge and of fear of the Lord, and his delight shall be the fear of the Lord. Not by appearance shall he judge, nor by hearsay shall he decide, But he shall judge the poor with justice, and decide aright for the land’s afflicted. He shall strike the ruthless with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked. Justice shall be the band around his waist, and faithfulness a belt upon his hips” (Is 11,1-5). After Christ has spoken, nothing might be added to the Word of the Father anymore. It has been given in all its divine splendor and eternal beauty. After Christ died and rose again, ascending to heaven and sitting at the right hand of the Father, as Judge and Lord of the universe, every prophecy, oath, promise and word of the Father has become history, reality and life in Him. God will no longer have to accomplish anything. Without Christ Jesus the Old Testament is a dead word. A Word that is read, but does not find life in history. All those who read the Old Testament, but deny Christ Jesus as the Person in whom everything was fulfilled, have a dead Word of God.

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus not only came to fulfill the Law and the Prophets, he asks every man to give him too, first passing from the Old to the New Covenant and then from the Word of the Law and of the Prophets brought by Him in their fullness of truth, light and eternal life; life even to the smallest precepts. It is not enough not to kill. Life must be given to the Father for the salvation of every man. It is not enough not to commit adultery. One must be with a pure and chaste heart, without any stain. Even the eyes must be kept with great prudence and wisdom. Whoever wants to be a true man and grow in his human truth must also give life to the least precepts. Who wants to be a sketchy man, can stop at the great precepts. Jesus is a very true man and has also lived the unspoken desires of the Father. Jesus wants his disciples with the highest morality, because he wants them to be witnesses of his very high humanity. That man today has expired in humanity, that he is becoming not only less of a man, but even a non-man, all the transgressions that he makes of the greatest precepts of the Lord attest to this. We have come to the abominable disfigurement of human nature and its nefarious manipulation. A life is destroyed through hatred against God and the Church. We are builders of inhumanity and not real humanity. Whoever wants to build himself as a true man must begin with the smallest precepts of the Law. The universal truth.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, make the disciples of Jesus builders of true humanity.