They gave a large sum of money to the soldiers

At 2,14.22-32; Ps 15; Mt 28,8-15
22 APRIL

Can you buy the truth? In the society of sin and flesh everything is sold and bought. We buy and sell honour, morality, speech, justice and honesty. Today a woman’s womb is sold and bought. Every organ of the human body is sold and bought. You buy and sell a philosophy, an ideology and a system of thought. We have also come to sell ourselves the conscience of being men and Christians. We are building the free market society. Even the Father of heaven, Christ Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the Church, her sacraments, the Gospel, eternal truth, sacredness itself and eternity; everything is sold even without money, but only for the simple prestige of belonging to liquid modernity in which nothing has to be solid and firm. Everything must be degradable, solvent, evanescent, vaporous. Jesus rises. The signs of his resurrection are unequivocal and historically perfect. The soldiers, placed by the chief priests in custody of the grave, see, hear and watch the event. They know that Jesus has risen. He is no longer in the grave and no one has come to break the seals and steal the body of the Lord. They are the witnesses chosen by the opposing party. They are there just to prevent anyone from approaching the grave. Some of them go to the chief priests to report what happened. Instead of confessing their defeat, they want to be victors, against any testimony of history. They offer them a substantial sum of money so that they tell everyone that while they were asleep, his disciples came and stole him. Not only do the guards sell the historical truth for money, they also have to shoulder a very serious fault of omission in carrying out their work. A guard sentry could never have fallen asleep. He paid with his life. But the chief priests know that Pilate before them is able not to close one eye, but both. They agree to sell the truth and to take on this very serious fault, on the promise that no trouble would have come to them. They would have solved the trouble with the Governor.

Then they went away quickly from the tomb, fearful yet overjoyed, and ran to announce this to his disciples. And behold, Jesus met them on their way and greeted them. They approached, embraced his feet, and did him homage. Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.” While they were going, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had happened. They assembled with the elders and took counsel; then they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers, telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him while we were asleep.’ And if this gets to the ears of the governor, we will satisfy (him) and keep you out of trouble.” The soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has circulated among the Jews to the present (day).

Whoever wants not sell his conscience to sin must leave the society of sin. Both the chief priests and the soldiers belong to this society, which is why they meet in the market of the sale of historical truth and their own conscience. The Church exists for this, not to preach a liquid morality, a vaporous religion, an evanescent truth and a looted ritual of her eternal truth. She exists to remove man, every man, from the society of sin and lead him into the society of life, to free man from the kingdom of darkness and lead him into the kingdom of Christ Jesus, under the rule of the Holy Spirit. If the Church lets man die in the society of sin, she can preach to him what she wants, she can also erase his morality and she becomes like the soldiers. She turns out to be a vendor to the society of sin, of the heavenly Father, of Christ the Lord, of the Holy Spirit and also of herself. But there is an eternal difference with the soldiers, who are a sign and a figure of her placed to guard the eternal, divine and human truth of Christ the Lord. The society of sin first acquires her false testimony on God and on everything that originates from him concerning creation, redemption and eternal life, but it does not guarantee her eternal perdition.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that we never sell you to the society of sin and death.