THE STONE THAT THE BUILDERS REJECTED
2Pt 1,2-7; Ps 90; Mk 12,1-12
4 JUNE
Christ Jesus is the cornerstone or stone of stability and consistency of the whole building of God. The truth of God and of man, of time and eternity, of life and death, of wealth and poverty, of mercy and forgiveness, holiness and light, is only Him, Christ Jesus. He is discarded, there is no longer any truth either of God and of man, either of the present and or of eternity, either of life and or of death, either of riches and or of poverty, either of mercy and or of forgiveness, either of holiness and or of light. All religions are without their perfect truth, because the truth of every religion is Lord Jesus. All must tend to him and in Him reach their perfect truth. For him to live their life on earth. But even the Church without Christ remains without truth. Her mysteries, but also her ministers are without truth. What is a Pope without Christ, if the Pope is the Vicar of Christ Jesus? This also applies to bishops and presbyters. What is a baptized person, a confirmed person, without Christ? A man kneaded with sin in his old nature, like all other men. Everything is from the light of Christ. Christ is taken away, heaven and earth, life and death are extinguished. Everything collapses.
Satan knows well that his downfall is only Christ Jesus. All his pride and envious intelligence is entirely aimed at arranging that every man separates from Christ Jesus and also separates others from their Redeemer, Lord, God, Light, Truth, Life and Wisdom. History attests that all the battles of Satan are against Christ. This Angular Stone must be discarded, eliminated and thrown away. In the first millennium all the attacks were brought against the person of Christ. They wanted to destroy it in its divine and human truth. In the second millennium all his wars were aimed at destroying Christ in his body which is the Church. Where he did not succeed in the Person of the Eternal Son of the Father, he succeeded instead in his Body, in his instrument necessary to operate the salvation of man. He has lacerated the Church by breaking her in her unity. In the third millennium Satan has thought of another of his even more infernal ones. He decided to erase from the mind and hearts of every believer in Christ both the truth of the Person of Christ and the truth of his body. He wants to give unity and visibility to the structure, but without any truth in it. His fight has already begun. A body of Christ without any truth is in all similar to every other religious reality existing in the world.
He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and left on a journey. At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants to obtain from them some of the produce of the vineyard. But they seized him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. Again he sent them another servant. And that one they beat over the head and treated shamefully. He sent yet another whom they killed. So, too, many others; some they beat, others they killed. He had one other to send, a beloved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking, ‘They will respect my son.’ But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ So they seized him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard. What (then) will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come, put the tenants to death, and give the vineyard to others. Have you not read this scripture passage: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes’?” They were seeking to arrest him, but they feared the crowd, for they realized that he had addressed the parable to them. So they left him and went away.
But whoever watches over Jesus the Lord is the Father of Heaven. As in the Old Testament, the Father watched over his Word so that it were realized in all its prophesied truth, so the Father always watches so that Christ is always put back in his place. The prayer of the righteous must go up to the Father today and always so that he immediately puts back Christ the Lord in his place, in the Church. Without Christ, the heart of the Church and of her truth, she has neither future nor present. She is a rotting corpse, a body without a soul.
Most Holy Mother, Angels and Saints intercede for Jesus to be the heart of the Church.