So if a son frees you, then you will truly be free

Dn 3,14-20.91-92.95; C Dn 3,52-56; Jn 8,31-42
10 APRIL

God created man free. He placed him above every existing being on earth. The condition for being lord in his creation is only one: being always from the will of his Lord, God and Creator. He leaves the will of his God and immediately becomes a prisoner of sin, a slave to every other created being and is governed by every vice. He no longer produces fruit according to his created nature, but according to his corrupt nature. It is the law of life. Every tree produces from its nature. A good nature produces good fruit. A corrupt nature produces fruits of corruption. Death generates other death. Concupiscence other concupiscence. Vice other vices. Sin other sin. In a crescendo that never stops. It is proven by history that when a man begins to yield to sin, he walks from a lighter sin to a greater sin. David started with adultery and ended up turning into a multiple murderer. Sin is satisfied with sin. Sin also believes that it can hide sin with sin.

You take a tree. You eradicate it from the ground. It can no longer be replanted by itself. It needs a man’s hand. The same goes for a vase. It falls to the ground. It shatters. It can no longer be put back into unity by itself. We need the knowledgeable, expert hand of a man to be repaired. Even man has been shattered with sin and continues to be shattered. Nobody can repair him, because the fracture is irreparable. The shattered man can only be recreated and regenerated. Who can recreate and generate is only Christ the Lord. The regenerated and recreated man returns to being free. This is why Jesus can say: “If the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed”. If the return to freedom were only a question of God’s work, in a moment all men could be recreated and regenerated by him. Instead, the will of man is needed. Jesus preaches freedom in his name, in his Word, in his grace and in his Holy Spirit. He announces the gift of eternal life. Not only is it necessary that man wants freedom, it is also necessary that he wants to live it and he can live it by returning to be entirely and always from his Creator. How will he be from his Creator? By living and dwelling in the Word of Jesus. Making the Word of Jesus the Law of his life. We listen to the invitation to conversion, we believe in the Word, we let ourselves be regenerated, recreated and as regenerated and recreated persons, we live in the Word of Jesus. Freedom is in fidelity to the Word. Never out of the Word. Never against the Word.

Jesus then said to those Jews who believed in him, “If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered him, “We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will become free’?” Jesus answered them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. A slave does not remain in a household forever, but a son always remains. So if a son frees you, then you will truly be free. I know that you are descendants of Abraham. But you are trying to kill me, because my word has no room among you. I tell you what I have seen in the Father’s presence; then do what you have heard from the Father.” They answered and said to him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works of Abraham. But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God; Abraham did not do this. You are doing the works of your father!” (So) they said to him, “We are not illegitimate. We have one Father, God.” Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and am here; I did not come on my own, but he sent me.

Freedom is from sin, from vice, from concupiscence, from evil that is not outside us, but within us. Only the Creator can free us from this inner evil, which destroys soul, spirit and body. The Creator frees us through Christ the Lord. Christ the Lord frees us through his Holy Spirit. His Holy Spirit liberates us through the sacramental ministry of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. God has freed. Christ has liberated. The Spirit wants to give freedom. Today, who is failing are many children of the Church that do not believe in their mission as creators and regenerators of the man that lives under the heavy slavery of sin. If the Church does not free, man remains in slavery.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, help the children of the Church to carry out their ministry.