MY FATHER IS THE VINE GROWER

At 15,1-6, Ps 121; Jn 15,1-8
2 MAY
Whoever reads the Gospel – even leaving out the rest of the New Testament and the whole of Ancient Scripture – must necessarily, if it is an honest person, affirm that the God of Christ Jesus no longer exists. He has been erased from the mind and heart of the believer. In place of the God of the Gospel another one has been “created” all milk and honey: merciful, compassionate, forgiving, who hates hell and never created it, who has cancelled the commandments and never dictated them, who has abolished the distinction between good and evil and made it bad, who has also proclaimed the non-existence of the devil, indeed he never existed, who declared the Church no longer the only way to reach true salvation, who even ridiculed Lord Jesus, the Crucified, making him a man like any other, without either distinction or difference from other men. One among others, one like others. Even the sacraments, once so much defended, are useless. They are a historical heritage and must be lived as a heritage. The last straw is that this God has no word to say to men. Everyone says the word he wants and he is happy to take them all and make them all his own, especially those that deny once and again all his ancient words. This is the God who is fashionable today. Today only the one who destroys the old God, who also cancels his existence, is listened to by the world and even by the Church. People do not want him anymore even as a museum exhibit or as a historical relic.

Instead, the Gospel puts us before the Father who effectively intervenes on the true vine that is Jesus the Lord, his one and only true vine. The first great truth of this God already appears and is highlighted. He does not care about any other vine. His true vine is only one: Christ the Lord. This true vine is the object of his love and of his care, made by him with supreme intelligence. To understand the supreme intelligence with which the Father cares for his true vine, an anecdote is more than useful. One day they find I was in a vineyard during harvest. I saw the winemaker cutting the bunches with the scissors, talking to each vine and telling it which branches he would have cut and how he would have done it at the time of pruning. I remembered Jesus’ similitude and now I know that the Father’s attention to his true vine is infinitely more. He observes every branch with wisdom and intelligence of the Holy Spirit. At the time of pruning, he comes, prunes if the branch produces fruit. Cuts or severs the branch if it does not bear fruit. His true vine cannot be weighed down or exploited by whoever does not bear fruit. But this God who is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is no longer our God and if this God is no longer our God, not even Christ Jesus is our true life. Jesus and the Father are one, inseparable forever. Whoever changes God necessarily must change Christ Jesus. Whoever changes Christ Jesus must necessarily change God. Even who changes the Church must change God and Christ. Even whoever changes his ministry changes; he changes the Church, changes Christ and changes God. Today the true Christ of God and the true God of Christ Jesus have been overthrown by the new God created by the mind of his worshipers.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and everyone that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit. You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you. Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you. By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.

Man can destroy all the truths of the Christ of God and the God of Christ Jesus. But never might he destroy the true Christ of God and the true God of Christ Jesus. They always descend in history and always operate according to their very pure truth. The Father comes and plants his true vine. But he also comes to prune and cut and order the cut branches to be thrown into the fire. The man can never prevail against his God.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints, make us worshipers of the true God.