He and his whole household came to believe

MONDAY 23 MARCH (Jn 4,43-54)

God has always helped man so that he reached the true faith and he will always help him. The whole life of Jesus is consecrated to the creation of true faith in Him in the heart of his disciples. Without true faith there is no real following. Without true following, there is no real obedience. Without true obedience, there was no kingdom of God. We remain the kingdom of darkness. Faith in Christ is true if faith in his Word is true. One does not believe in his Word, he does not believe in Christ Jesus. Salvation does not come from miracles, but from the Word. The miracle heals the body. The soul and the Spirit are healed by faith in the Word, which is faith in truth, in light, in grace and in eternal life that are in Christ the Lord. One can be a man of true faith without being there any previous miracle. But we can also be people of non-faith, despite the many miracles performed by Christ Jesus. Jesus wants faith to arise from preaching and then faith to be the one to create miracles. This is what the Gospel according to Mark teaches: “He said to them, “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned. These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages. They will pick up serpents (with their hands), and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”  (Mk 16,15-19). Not the apostles, but those who believe in the Word are the ones that work miracles. They believe, they ask and they obtain. He believes who lives the Word.

An official of the king has a seriously ill son. He comes and asks Jesus for the miracle of healing. This man believes that the Lord can work miracles. Since he believes, he asks according to the measure of his faith. Instead, Jesus does not want us to believe in his thaumaturgical capacity, but in his Word from which every salvation of the soul, of the spirit and of the body, for time and also for eternity derives. He doesn’t want to and he says: “If you don’t see signs and wonders, you don’t believe”. But the official does not listen to what is addressed to him. He has other priorities. His son is about to die. He only cares about this. Other problems need to be postponed. He thinks this and says this: “Lord, come down before my baby dies”: You come and heal my son. We will solve the rest later. Jesus hears this heart: “Go, your son lives”. This heart believes and walks home. His servants come to meet him and announce him that the boy has recovered. This heart opens to faith in Christ with all his family. From faith in Jesus who works miracles, to faith in Jesus Word of eternal life. We believe in Jesus the Word of salvation, we enter the true salvation of the Father.

After the two days, he left there for Galilee. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his native place. When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast. Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death. Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.” The royal official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” Jesus said to him, “You may go; your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and left. While he was on his way back, his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live. He asked them when he began to recover. They told him, “The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon.” The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live,” and he and his whole household came to believe.  (Now) this was the second sign Jesus did when he came to Galilee from Judea.

Today, we must denounce that we are losing faith in Jesus, the true salvation of the Father, in Jesus, way, truth and life, in Jesus, light of the world and in Jesus Lord and Judge. This faith must be recovered and placed in every heart. This is the mission of the disciple. If the Christian does not create faith in the Word of Jesus, it is the failure of all his works. This is why he was called: to believe in the Word and create faith in the Word.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints arrange that never faith in the Word of Jesus fails.