HE IS MY BROTHER AND SISTER AND MOTHER
Mic 7,14-15.18-20; Ps 84; Mt 12,46-50
24 JULY
Every moment of his life and every event that happened around his person, Jesus always brings it back to his eternal truth, from which he reads and explains everything. Nothing He reads from the earth and nothing does he explain using the thought of the heart of man. He knows that the heart of man speaks from its sin, from its falseness and from its interests.
Transgression speaks to the ungodly within his heart; There is no fear of God before his eyes. For it flatters him in his own eyes Concerning the discovery of his iniquity and the hatred of it. The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; He has ceased to be wise and to do good. He plans wickedness upon his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good; He does not despise evil. Your loving kindness, O Lord, extends to the heavens, Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;
Your judgments are like a great deep. O Lord, You preserve man and beast. How precious is Your loving-kindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; And You give them to drink of the river of Your delights. For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light. O continue Your loving kindness to those who know You,
And Your righteousness to the upright in heart. Let not the foot of pride come upon me, And let not the hand of the wicked drive me away. There the doers of iniquity have fallen; They have been thrust down and cannot rise (Ps 36 (35) 1-13).
A relationship between a man and a man is true if lived in the Word of the Lord. Never might who does not keep the Commandments have a true relationship with their brothers. It will always be an unjust relationship, because lived in the transgression of the Law of the Lord. It does not matter which commandment is transgressed. Sin is always committed against God and against humanity. Every violation of the Commandments offends humanity. The rights of a man are hurt, but in that man all humanity is injured. Thus it is also said of a Word of the Gospel not observed. We lack true love for the whole human family. Creation also suffers for a Word of Christ the Lord not lived in fullness of love, light and most pure obedience.
Who is it that observes the Word of God or who does the will of the Father of Christ Jesus? He who does not distract Jesus from his ministry and from his mission. He who helps him in the preaching of the Gospel. whoever supports him in his missionary work. Jesus must be, he must be only from the divine will, ready for its every command. He must be more ready than the seven Angels of heaven who stand before the door of their Lord, to respond without any interval or delay to every call made to them: “I am Raffaele, one of the seven angels who are always ready to enter the presence of the glory of the Lord” (Tb 12.15). Jesus can only take care of the things of God.
While he was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers appeared outside, wishing to speak with him. (Someone told him, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, asking to speak with you.”) But he said in reply to the one who told him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
Whoever wants to be a brother, sister and mother of Jesus, not only must allow him to always obey the Father, he must also help every other so that God may be given immediate and prompt obedience. But above all, everyone must also put himself in a position to listen only to what the Father wants. When we move the axis from the heart of God to our heart, then we are no longer brothers or sisters, or mother of Jesus. When we approach the thought of the world and walk according to its oracles and its prophecies and sentences of sin certainly we are not in kinship with our Lord Jesus Christ. Then, when it is Jesus himself who is put at the edge, exiled, denied, betrayed and banished from our life as disciples, because his truth is denied, then it is the sign that we are spiritually dead. Our sentences are sinful.
True Mother of God, Angels and Saints, always make us obedient to the will of the Father.