They do not know the one who sent me

SATURDAY 16 MAY (Jn 15,18-21)

Hate against God starts from far away, in heaven itself. Lucifer has fallen into the sad sin of pride. He wanted to make himself like God, in everything similar to Him. However, he forgot that He is only a creature. He is not eternal and is not divine. He didn’t even create himself . A   thing impossible to happen either in heaven, or on earth, or in the underworld and or even in God: that God can create himself. God is eternal. Without beginning and without end. Every being receives life from the being. The created being from the Eternal Divine uncreated being. Lucifer drew a third of Angels on his side and all were precipitated by their Creator into eternal darkness. This defeat produced and produces a double fruit: of hatred against God and of envy against man. He inoculates these two fruits in all those he is able to drag to his side. Every proud one hates God and fights him. He consecrates himself to evil for the ruin of those who still believe in Christ Jesus.

The description Revelation offers us of the power of hate and envy is terrifying: “Then I saw a beast come out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads; on its horns were ten diadems, and on its heads blasphemous name (s). The beast I saw was like a leopard, but it had feet like a bear’s, and its mouth was like the mouth of a lion. To it the dragon gave its own power and throne, along with great authority. I saw that one of its heads seemed to have been mortally wounded, but this mortal wound was healed. Fascinated, the whole world followed after the beast. They worshiped the dragon because it gave its authority to the beast; they also worshiped the beast and said, “Who can compare with the beast or who can fight against it?” The beast was given a mouth uttering proud boasts and blasphemies, and it was given authority to act for forty-two months. It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling and those who dwell in heaven. It was also allowed to wage war against the holy ones and conquer them, and it was granted authority over every tribe, people, tongue, and nation. All the inhabitants of the earth will worship it, all whose names were not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life, which belongs to the Lamb who was slain.”

A single beast is not enough. Here comes a second one: “Then I saw another beast come up out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb’s but spoke like a dragon. It wielded all the authority of the first beast in its sight and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound had been healed. It performed great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of everyone. It deceived the inhabitants of the earth with the signs it was allowed to perform in the sight of the first beast, telling them to make an image for the beast who had been wounded by the sword and revived. It was then permitted to breathe life into the beast’s image, so that the beast’s image could speak and (could) have anyone who did not worship it put to death. It forced all the people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to be given a stamped image on their right hands or their foreheads, so that no one could buy or sell except one who had the stamped image of the beast’s name or the number that stood for its name. Wisdom is needed here; one who understands can calculate the number of the beast, for it is a number that stands for a person. His number is six hundred and sixty-six” (Rev. 13,1-18). Who fights and will always fight the beast and those who are taken by admiration for it? Always the disciples of Christ Jesus.

“If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you. Remember the word I spoke to you, ‘No slave is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

Not only do they not know the Father who sent Christ Jesus, neither do they want to know him. They fight him. They also want to remove the memory of him from every heart.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, give us all wisdom so as not to fall into temptation.