He shall be called a Nazorean

SUNDAY 29 DECEMBER (Mt 2,13-15.19-23)

When a prophecy is fulfilled, all the meaning or truth contained in the prophecy is fulfilled. If Jesus is the shoot that comes from the root of Jesse, He is the Messiah of the Lord. The King of the Jews that was born, that fled to Egypt and that returned is the Christ of God. Thus the prophecy speaks of Him: “But a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: a spirit of wisdom and of understanding, A spirit of counsel and of strength, a spirit of knowledge and of fear of the Lord, and his delight shall be the fear of the Lord. Not by appearance shall he judge, nor by hearsay shall he decide, But he shall judge the poor with justice, and decide aright for the land’s afflicted. He shall strike the ruthless with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked. Justice shall be the band around his waist, and faithfulness a belt upon his hips. There shall be no harm or ruin on all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be filled with knowledge of the Lord, as water covers the sea. On that day, The root of Jesse, set up as a signal for the nations, The Gentiles shall seek out, for his dwelling shall be glorious” (Cf. Is 11,1-10). Jesus is the King with the eternal kingdom

But the way to ascend to the eternal throne of God is that of suffering and of vicarious atonement. The prophecy says also this truth: “See, my servant shall prosper, he shall be raised high and greatly exalted. Even as many were amazed at him –  so marred was his look beyond that of man, and his appearance beyond that of mortals – So shall he startle many nations, because of him kings shall stand speechless; For those who have not been told shall see, those who have not heard shall ponder it. Who would believe what we have heard? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up like a sapling before him, like a shoot from the parched earth; There was in him no stately bearing to make us look at him, nor appearance that would attract us to him. He was spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity, One of those from whom men hide their faces, spurned, and we held him in no esteem. Yet it was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings that he endured, While we thought of him as stricken, as one smitten by God and afflicted. But he was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins, Upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole, by his stripes we were healed. ” (Cf. Is 52,13-53,12). Who wants to know the true mystery of Christ must add prophecy to prophecy, promise to promise and revelation to revelation. Not only must he put together the words of the Old Testament, but also those of the New. His mystery is all the Holy Scripture.

When they had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him.” Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt. He stayed there until the death of Herod, that what the Lord had said through the prophet might be fulfilled, “Out of Egypt I called my son.” When Herod had died, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child’s life are dead.” He rose, took the child and his mother, and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go back there. And because he had been warned in a dream, he departed for the region of Galilee. He went and dwelt in a town called Nazareth, so that what had been spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, “He shall be called a Nazorean.”

All the heresies that have tormented the history of the mystery of Christ Jesus over time, all the schisms and lacerations of his body are the fruit of a heretical reading of the Word of God, of his revelation and of his prophecies. One takes a Word of God, separates it from the others, builds a mystery, but founded only on a spark of truth. Today the heresies of Christianity can no longer be counted. Indeed we are beyond the very heresy. It is the word of the man that has taken the place of the Word of the Lord.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, arrange that the word of man is never called the Word of God.