For my yoke is easy, and my burden light

29 APRIL (Mt 11,25-30)

The Letter to the Hebrews treats with divine wisdom the difference between the mediation of Moses and that of Christ Jesus. Every other mediation must be abandoned. Every other man must give way to Lord Jesus. Who remains a mediator between God and man, after Jesus, does not love his brothers, because he deprives them of all heavenly truth and grace.

Therefore, holy “brothers,” sharing in a heavenly calling, reflect on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was “faithful in (all) his house.” But he is worthy of more “glory” than Moses, as the founder of a house has more “honor” than the house itself. Every house is founded by someone, but the founder of all is God. Moses was “faithful in all his house” as a “servant” to testify to what would be spoken, but Christ was faithful as a son placed over his house. We are his house, if (only) we hold fast to our confidence and pride in our hope. Therefore, as the holy Spirit says: “Oh, that today you would hear his voice, ‘Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion in the day of testing in the desert, where your ancestors tested and tried me and saw my works for forty years. Because of this I was provoked with that generation and I said, “They have always been of erring heart, and they do not know my ways.” As I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter into my rest.”‘” Take care, brothers, that none of you may have an evil and unfaithful heart, so as to forsake the living God. Encourage yourselves daily while it is still “today,” so that none of you may grow hardened by the deceit of sin. We have become partners of Christ if only we hold the beginning of the reality firm until the end, for it is said: “Oh, that today you would hear his voice: ‘Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion.'” Who were those who rebelled when they heard? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt under Moses? With whom was he “provoked for forty years”? Was it not those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert? And to whom did he “swear that they should not enter into his rest,” if not to those who were disobedient? And we see that they could not enter for lack of faith. (Heb 3,1-19).

Jesus Christ is the only mediator in all things: knowledge, truth, grace, holiness, comfort, relief, joy, peace, love, eternal life, law, word and Gospel. He was constituted to give all God and all of God to man. He came to present to the Father the whole man and whatever is of a man. Even the most secret sigh of the heart must ascend to the Father through Jesus Christ. His mediation is total, global, universal; it concerns every man, always and in every corner of the world.

At that time Jesus said in reply, “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him. “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your selves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”

As Christ Jesus put everything in the hands of the Father through His humility and meekness; so it must happen through ever one of his disciples, every man who wants to be in him an instrument of mediation of grace and truth. He has to learn everything from Lord Jesus who is meek and humble at heart. He does all the will of the Father even in the most atrocious suffering, not seeking justice, but entrusting his cause to God.

Whoever welcomes the mediation of Jesus, even inasmuch as physical and spiritual, soul and body relief is concerned, and learns from him; he comes into the possession of his human truth. On the contrary, who rejects the mediation of Christ the Lord, remains in his war, poverty, misery, vanity, nonsense, worthlessness, hopelessness, anxiety, inconsistency, insatiable thirst, always new hunger, dissension, division and death. Christ is the solution to every human problem. Until the disciple of Jesus does not give to the world with his life a sure sign of the authenticity of the Mediation of Jesus, the world will remain in its chaos.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints make us true disciples of Jesus.