In those days he departed to the mountain to pray

9 SEPTEMBER (Lk 6,12-19)

God is the Lord of history. Every man of God, and Jesus is the true man of God, other than the true God, must ask the Lord of history to be the one to direct it, control it and decide it for the greater good not only of his person but of all mankind. Every man who comes into this world is not only responsible for his life and his particular history. On the contrary, he is responsible for the life of the entire universe and the entire history.Through him history can set out on a path of life or death for everyone.

Eve has committed a single sin. For her disobedience not only the life of humanity has been turned upside down, but also that of God. The death on the cross of God, of the Son of God, is also the fruit of her guilt. Jesus suffers death to heal the man from that transgression which caused the death of all mankind. We all die for her sin, and for that disobedience. This truth must be put into the heart, the mind and the conscience of everyman. None of us lives for himself. He lives for a multitude of brothers. No one dies  for himself. He died for all men. From our life is the life of the world. From our death is the death of the world.

Jesus knows that the future of humanity depends on the choice of the Twelve that He will make today. Of those who tomorrow will be his Vicarson earth, the witnesses of his death and resurrection and the announcers of his mystery of eternal life. Not only have they to be witnesses, butalso the creators of the new humanity through the gift of the Holy Spirit. Knowing this, he goes to the mountain. He goes to talk with the Father. He asks him to show him those whom He has chosen in his eternal and divine wisdom. He prays to him so that he manifests him who must be called and who left. Today, Jesus performs a pure act of faith in the Lordship of the Father.

Perhaps it is just this faith that is missing in us. We are lacking right in it. We no longer have the Father as Lord of our lives. We think that everything is in our hands. We do not even go to hand our life over to him. We go because we want to own and govern it all ourselves, according to our will and our every wish. We do not pray as true worshipers of God, in spirit and truth. We pray as people that use God and want him to do our will. Education in the true faithoften becomes a work of Titans, so it is humanly impossible. Only with the power of the Holy Spirit one can work and not everything.

In those days he departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. And he came down with them and stood on a stretch of level ground. A great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and even those who were tormented by unclean spirits were cured. Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them all.

Jesus does not choose from his will, but from that of the Father. A true man of God, He knows that everything in Him has always to be from the Father,everything, even the smallest. Nothing in Jesus is from himself. This is his peculiar note. What he did, said, taught, even the ways, all things are dictated, suggested and indicated by the Father. We can attest that never did Jesus put anything of his own. Nothing ever came from his will, from his heart andhis desires. His is a perfect obedience, otherwise he could neither be our Redeemer and Saviour, nor our model and example. As with Jesus, so it must be of every one of his Apostles, his disciples and his witnesses. Everything has to be from the Father. This is the true teaching that must always be given. God and He alone is the Lord of our lives.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints teach us the way of faith.