See that you tell no one anything

THURDAY 16 JANUARY (Mk 1,40-45)

God’s works must be sung and magnified. It is the universal law. Every man owes it immediate obedience. The works are what manifest the greatness of the Creator and Lord. Here is the heavenly teaching given to us: “Raphael called the two men aside privately and said to them: “Thank God! Give him the praise and the glory. Before all the living, acknowledge the many good things he has done for you, by blessing and extolling his name in song. Before all men, honor and proclaim God’s deeds, and do not be slack in praising him. A king’s secret it is prudent to keep, but the works of God are to be declared and made known. Praise them with due honor. Do good, and evil will not find its way to you. Prayer and fasting are good, but better than either is almsgiving accompanied by righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than abundance with wickedness. It is better to give alms than to store up gold; for almsgiving saves one from death and expiates every sin. Those who regularly give alms shall enjoy a full life; but those habitually guilty of sin are their own worst enemies. “I will now tell you the whole truth; I will conceal nothing at all from you. I have already said to you, ‘A king’s secret it is prudent to keep, but the works of God are to be made known with due honor.’ I can now tell you that when you, Tobit, and Sarah prayed, it was I who presented and read the record of your prayer before the Glory of the Lord; and I did the same thing when you used to bury the dead. When you did not hesitate to get up and leave your dinner in order to go and bury the dead, I was sent to put you to the test. At the same time, however, God commissioned me to heal you and your daughter-in-law Sarah. I am Raphael, one of the seven angels who enter and serve before the Glory of the Lord” ” (Tb 12,6-15). If the works of God are to be sung, magnified, celebrated, narrated, told, disseminated, announced – and this is the true evangelization: I will tell how much the Lord has done for me – why does Jesus impose silence? Why does Jesus severely warn the healed leper so that he watches not to say anything to anyone? For whom does this warning apply?

Every evangelization is done according to times and moments established by God. Even for the full truth of Christ Jesus there are times and moments determined by the Lord. Today the miracles worked by Jesus must be silenced, because much more space must be given to conversion and faith in the Gospel. If one comes to Jesus only for a miracle of the body, his mission is a great failure. The soul would remain in eternal death and the spirit in the great error and in the universal falseness concerning the mystery of salvation. What good is it to have a body cleansed of leprosy today, while the soul is already damned and ready to be received in eternal darkness? Instead it is preferable to remain with the body in leprosy, but with the soul full of grace and on the way to eternal bliss. Time is not the measure of a man’s truth. The measure of truth is his eternity. Woe when the measure of truth is time and no longer eternity.

A leper came to him (and kneeling down) begged him and said, “If you wish, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, “I do will it. Be made clean.” The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean. Then, warning him sternly, he dismissed him at once. Then he said to him, “See that you tell no one anything, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses prescribed; that will be proof for them.” The man went away and began to publicize the whole matter. He spread the report abroad so that it was impossible for Jesus to enter a town openly. He remained outside in deserted places, and people kept coming to him from everywhere.

Jesus is in the Holy Spirit and knows what benefits man. Man is not in the Holy Spirit. He lives in the great ignorance of God and his things. Making the mystery of God in which is the mystery of man be known, belongs to Lord Jesus and today it belongs to the Apostles of the Lord. If the Apostles, in time, do not carry the measure of truth according to the rules of eternity established by the Lord, their work is in vain. They work in time for time. They do not evangelize to men the rules of true eternity. But today evangelizing according to the rules of eternity has become impossible. Many disciples of Jesus have substantially modified these rules, indeed they declared them null and void. They have repealed them. With what results? They can no longer evangelize eternity.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints arrange that the Christian is the evangelizer of true eternity.