My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it

23 SEPTEMBER (Lk 8,19-21)

In the Gospel we find only five episodes that reveal the relationship between Jesus and his Mother. In them it is as if we were placed before an infinite distance of Christ concerning his Mother. However, if we read these episodes in the Holy Spirit, it appears quite clearly that appearances are not the truth. The truth is always of the Spirit of the Lord, never of the letter of the Gospel. The letter must always remain letter.

Each year his parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom. After they had completed its days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it. Thinking that he was in the caravan, they journeyed for a day and looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances, but not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him. After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions, and all who heard him were astounded at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety.” And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?” But they did not understand what he said to them (Lk 2,41-50).

On the third day there was a wedding in Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” (And) Jesus said to her, “Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servers, “Do whatever he tells you.” Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus told them, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, “Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.” So they took it. And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from (although the servers who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now” (Jn 2,1-10).

Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home (Jn 19, 25-27).

While he was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed.” He replied, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it” (Lk 11,27-28).

Then his mother and his brothers came to him but were unable to join him because of the crowd. He was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside and they wish to see you.” He said to them in reply, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it.”

Whoever reads carefully, in the ever-new wisdom of the Holy Spirit, these five passages, must confess that there is a truth that emerges in every intervention of the Lord Jesus. Jesus is the eternal Truth made ​​flesh. He is the Truth that must always give truth to every other person. Even his Mother must always be from the Truth of Jesus. His disciples and every other man, whether he is also a relative, friend and enthusiastic, must never be from a lower truth, but always from his supreme and eternal Truth. There is no truth in this world that must not be from Christ the Lord.

This principle must also be applied to the Church founded on Peter. On this earth, the supreme and eternal truths of salvation is in this Church. Never might any other church, any other denomination, any other religion constitute itself the truth of salvation, because it is not. It deceives the brethren. It drags them on ways of death, of non life, of darkness and of no light. As Christ the Lord the Church founded on Peter must have the strength to attest this infinite distance that separates her from every other human way to go to God.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints give us this divine certainty.