Keep salt in yourselves

Sir 5,1-10; Ps 1; Mk 9,41-50
28 FEBRUARY

When does a man have salt in himself? When every moment of his life is spent to achieve the true purpose for which he was created, redeemed, saved and incorporated in Christ Jesus. We must immediately confess that today the Christian is becoming a person without salt. He is changing all the essential ends to the attainment of the primary end in secondary, ephemeral and vain ends. While he is making all the futile ends necessary and essential. This distortion of ends attests that foolishness is invading his heart, his mind and his spirit. Is there greater folly than that which changes good into evil and evil into good? Is there a more elevated insipidity than the one that erases the truth and in its place raises falsehood and lie? What future is there for a people that feeds on vanity, while stays away from what lasts for eternal life? Who wants to find the wisdom, let him know that it is found only in the Word of Jesus. For the whole world and not only for the disciples of Christ the Lord, perfect knowledge is only his Sermon on the Mount. Other perfect wisdom is not found on earth.

Today, Jesus gives his disciples a rule of wisdom that must never be forgotten. It concerns the scandal, or impediment caused to ourselves or to others, which prevents us from remaining in the light, grace, truth and justice. What is the purpose of every disciple of Jesus? Following Him to reach Heaven. Helping every other man, pointing him the way of Paradise and how to run it in order to be able to get to it one day. The scandal is a sin committed by us, seen by others, which tells them that we do not walk towards Heaven. If we do not walk, why should they walk? If we can get out of the light, why should they come in? There is no use going in and out. Even because the one who goes out often no longer returns, remaining forever in darkness. A scandal is also the sin that the other commits and that could lead us to commit it. Jesus wants us to avoid seeing, touching and attending every person, place and situations where sin is easily committed and by inadvertence it could even conquer our hearts. We must confess that today the scandal has refined its technique so marvellously well, as to make all sin, every violation of the law of the Lord, every devastation of nature, every abomination and wickedness, pass as good, love and truth.

Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward. “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe (in me) to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna. And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna, where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’ “Everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good, but if salt becomes insipid, with what will you restore its flavour? Keep salt in yourselves and you will have peace with one another.”

The children of the Catholic Church in all this are not without any fault. They have abolished the very supernatural end that Jesus asks us to reach. They say that God is only mercy, only forgiveness and only heaven. He is not justice, is not righteous and does not judge anyone. At the moment of death he welcomes everyone in his Paradise. Between the Gospel and what the children of the Catholic Church teach, the difference is greater than that which exists between Heaven and Hell. It is the abyss of the abysses. While every Word of the Gospel is aimed at the attainment of the end, having abolished the end to be achieved, we have declared null and void the whole Gospel. But if the Gospel is null, null is also the Church, grace, truth and justice. Null is all religious practice. Null is the evangelizing mission. Everything becomes a great apparatus of falsehood. This is one of the reasons why from the supernatural we are dedicating ourselves to the natural.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, help us to give value of eternal truth to the Gospel.