Leave her alone. Let her keep this for the day of my burial

25 MARCH (Jn 12,1-11)

The life of Jesus is an impenetrable mystery. Those who live around him, are moved by the Holy Spirit and perform also actions mysterious. Christ is a mystery, and every prompting of the Holy Spirit is a mystery. You do not understand the mystery, you carry it out in the Holy Spirit and in the Holy Spirit it is welcomed. The Spirit of the Lord is the one and only true principle of interpretation of the mystery of Lord Jesus.

Judas is not in the Holy Spirit. He is in the Devil. He has already handed himself over to him. He has already decided to betray the Master. He is only waiting for the opportune moment. He sees the gesture of the woman that pours a precious and very expensive perfume on Jesus and judges it irresponsible, a useless waste. Why waste on Jesus in vain more than three hundred pence, while the poor die of hunger? Jesus cannot allow such things. He is not a true Master. Judas ,yes, is a true master of humanity. He knows how to distinguish what is vain and what is worth. He know how to make a difference between Jesus and the poor. That is what the man of the Devil thinks. John with subtle finesse and wit reveals that Judas was a thief. He used the poor to get rich. He was the apostolic cashier and subtracted everything from the cash. Judah speaks as a real thief. He does not speak like a true lover of the poor.

When we are not in the Holy Spirit we do not have the truth of what is happening around us. There is poverty and poverty. There is a spiritual poverty that is more intrusive than the material poverty. There is the poverty of loneliness that is much more serious than the lack of bread. There will be the impending poverty of Jesus which will lead him to be buried without due anointing. The Holy Spirit has prepared that this did not happen for Christ and moves the woman to anoint the body of the Lord in advance.

Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him. Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair; the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. Then Judas the Iscariot, one (of) his disciples, and the one who would betray him, said, “Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days’ wages 3 and given to the poor?” He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief and held the money bag and used to steal the contributions. So Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Let her keep this for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.” (The) large crowd of the Jews found out that he was there and came, not only because of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. And the chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus too, because many of the Jews were turning away and believing in Jesus because of him.

To understand the prophetic gestures of the Holy Spirit one must be in Him. Never might who is not in him understand them. He will judge, deny, fight and criticize them. This truth reveals us that the saint can only be understood by another saint. Who is not holy cannot understand the saint, because he is not in the Spirit of the Lord. Then, if you are in the spirit of Satan, who took possession of our thoughts, our hearts, and our own eyes, you understand how impossible it is to accept a gesture that is of most pure and holy love. At this moment Jesus is the poorest in the world. It is Jesus who is homeless, without clothes, without sepulcher, without unction, without anyone that might take care of him. If he is the poorest, it is right that every service goes to him. But only in the Spirit of the Lord might this poverty be contemplated.

Today, the world is without the Spirit of God. That is why it becomes impossible to contemplate the true poverty. There are endless spiritual, moral, intellectual, relational, familial, social and civil poverties. The poverty that kills more victims today is the social one. We are incapable of true relationships, of great charity, sharing, support, help and relieve. The closing in oneself seems to be a wealth, while it is infinite poverty, because it is deficiency and absence of true humanity. If we do not “wear” the Holy Spirit again as a clothing of our soul and our spirit, this poverty will consume us.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints clothe us of the Holy Spirit again.