Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel

10 JULY (Mt 10,1-7)

The tribes of Israel were twelve. Today the New Israel of God is born. The Apostles are twelve. They are the patriarchs of the new humanity. From their faith in Jesus Christ the new life of the whole world must be born. Divided humanity will return to be one family from their charity. A perennial Pentecost, a daily outpouring of the Holy Spirit must be lived on earth through them. However, they will not generate children according to the flesh, but according to the faith. They will generate them to God by water and the Holy Spirit, through the word of faith, to which will have believed those who let themselves be baptized.

Since you have purified yourselves by obedience to the truth for sincere mutual love, love one another intensely from a (pure) heart. You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and abiding word of God, for: “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the field; the grass withers, and the flower wilts; but the word of the Lord remains forever.” This is the word that has been proclaimed to you (1Pt 1,22-25).

Rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, insincerity, envy, and all slander; like newborn infants, long for pure spiritual milk so that through it you may grow into salvation, for you have tasted that the Lord is good. Come to him, a living stone, rejected by human beings but chosen and precious in the sight of God, and, like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it says in scripture: “Behold, I am laying a stone in Zion, a cornerstone, chosen and precious, and whoever believes in it shall not be put to shame.” Therefore, its value is for you who have faith, but for those without faith: “The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” and “A stone that will make people stumble, and a rock that will make them fall.” They stumble by disobeying the word, as is their destiny. But you are “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises” of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were “no people” but now you are God’s people; you “had not received mercy” but now you have received mercy (1Pt 2,1-10).

The Apostles and their successors are the Creators, in the Holy Spirit, in the gift of the Word, of the new humanity. Never must they lose this truth that is the essence of their office and therefore of their very being in Christ Jesus. As God turned the dust of the ground into a living being with his vital breath, a breath that was breathed from his heart, from his most intimate being; so must they transform man according to the flesh, dust of sin, tired of the good, dejected in hope and suffocated in the good, into a new being; into an entirely spiritual being, exhaling and breathing from their hearts, from deep in their hearts the Holy Spirit of God. Their every word, their breath must be inhalation and breath of the Holy Spirit. This mission is only theirs. It does not belong to anyone else. If they instead of missionaries will be non missionaries, they will not give the Holy Spirit, they will not exhale it, the world will remain in its spiritual death. No one else might make up for this mission.

Then he summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John; Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus; Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him. Jesus sent out these twelve after instructing them thus, “Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town. Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’

Having the Apostles to be the “Breathers” in the world of the Holy Spirit, Jesus asks them to abandon the world to the world, the dead to the dead, the things to things. They must only take care of things that pertain to God. They must leave the things that concern men to men. It is a matter of truth, of their truth.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints make us of purest truth.