DO YOU ALSO WANT TO LEAVE?

Gs 24,1-2a.15-17.18b; Ps 33; Eph 5,21-32; Jn 6,60-69
26 AUGUST
God and his eternal truth are one. Never might they be separated, never divided. Thus also man, who is made in the image and likeness of God, is one with his truth. If he separates himself from his truth, he is no longer a man. It is in death. Man’s life is his truth. He abandons the truth, chooses falsehood and surrenders to death. He might never again return by himself into the truth, because the truth is a gift that must always come from the heart of the Father. From eternity and for eternity, the truth of the Father is the Son. If man wants to return to his truth, he must always draw it from Jesus the Lord, but he might also live it only in Christ the Lord, in his body.

Christ Jesus and his truth are one, inseparable and indivisible thing in eternity. If Christ separated himself from his truth, he would no longer be the Only Son of the Father, he would no longer be from the Father, he could no longer give the truth to man. This was the purpose of every temptation of Satan: separating Christ Jesus from his truth. Jesus and the Eucharist are one. One truth. They are inseparable and indivisible forever. If Jesus separated from the Eucharist he would no longer be the Christ of God. But if he is no longer the Christ of God, it is of no use to man going after him. He would only lose his time. He would follow a person who might never do anything so that he returns to his truth.

What is the use of following Jesus without his truth? Here then is the meaning of the question that Jesus asks his disciples: “Do you want to go away too?”. You can. But if you remain, you must welcome me according to my truth which is my flesh and my blood, that you must eat and drink to have eternal life. The disciples can all leave, leaving Christ Jesus alone. But he must never renounce his truth. If he renounced, he would no longer be the Christ of God. He would no longer be of benefit to man. It would no longer be of benefit because he separated from his truth. Truth obliges forever.

This same principle applies to every disciple of the Lord. Every sacrament, charisma, ministry, vocation, mission, power and grace received give man his own special, personal truth. The salvation of the world is in the faithfulness of the Christian to his personal truth. He must never separate from it. Whether the world listens or does not listen, accepts him or does not accept him, the Christian, if he wants to remain Christian, must never be separated from the truth that is his new being in Christ Jesus, created in him by the Holy Spirit. This law is universal and concerns the Church of God: pope, bishops, presbyters, deacons, confirmed, baptized and married people. The Christian is her truth.

Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?” Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, “Does this shock you? What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you who do not believe.” Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him. And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father.” As a result of this, many (of) his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him. Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?” Simon Peter answered him, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.”

Today every Christian, from the pope to him who is baptized in this instant, finds himself faced with the same choice of Christ: renouncing his truth to be for man according to man, or living in his truth and losing man? If it is stripped of its truth, it is useless to be for man according to man. If he remains in his truth, he will always serve man, because he will show him a truth in which he too can return. Who separates himself from his own truth is in death. He is useless to God and to men.

Mother of Jesus, Angels and Saints, do not allow us to separate ourselves from our truth.