THIS IS TRULY THE PROPHET

2 Kings 4,42-44; Ps 144; Eph 4,1-6; Jn 6,1-15
29 JULY
The works show the truth of a man. The widow of Sarepta after having known Elijah as a true man of God, also confessed that the true Word of God was on his lips. If it is the true Word of God, it must be heard. A life can be built on it.

Sometime later the son of the mistress of the house fell sick, and his sickness grew more severe until he stopped breathing. So she said to Elijah, “Why have you done this to me, O man of God? Have you come to me to call attention to my guilt and to kill my son?” “Give me your son,” Elijah said to her. Taking him from her lap, he carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed. He called out to the Lord: “O Lord, my God, will you afflict even the widow with whom I am staying by killing her son?” Then he stretched himself out upon the child three times and called out to the Lord: “O Lord, my God, let the life breath return to the body of this child.” The Lord heard the prayer of Elijah; the life breath returned to the child’s body and he revived. Taking the child, Elijah brought him down into the house from the upper room and gave him to his mother. “See!” Elijah said to her, “your son is alive.” “Now indeed I know that you are a man of God,” the woman replied to Elijah. “The word of the Lord comes truly from your mouth” (1Kings 17,17-24).

Those who eat the bread multiplied by Christ Jesus, recognize that He is the prophet to come. However, they omit to make the profession of the widow of Sarepta. They do not ask Jesus to give them the Word of life. They decide what to do with him. They choose him as their king. With this decision it is Jesus the one that must listen to them and not just they the ones that must listen to Jesus. Then. when Jesus speaks to them and will say what the Father has established and decided, they abandon him, declaring his speech hard. They do not pass from history to faith. They want to stay in history, but they do not intend to listen to Jesus. They seeks material bread. They reject and do not receive the other bread, the one according to the faith. What happened yesterday, happens today and will always happen.

After this, Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee (of Tiberias). A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. The Jewish feast of Passover was near. When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip, “Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?” He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, “Two hundred days’ wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little (bit).” One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?” Jesus said, “Have the people recline.” Now there was a great deal of grass in that place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number. Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they wanted. When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples, “Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted.” So they collected them, and filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat. When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, “This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world.” Since Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain alone.

What happened with Christ, also happens with his disciples. What Jesus Christ avoided happening, even his disciples are called to avoid it. Jesus did not let himself be spoken by the people. He must always let himself be spoken by his Father. Even the disciples must never let themselves be spoken by the world. Whoever has to speak to them is always Christ the Lord. The world wants the material fruits of Christ, it does not want either Christ or his spiritual fruits. That is how today the world is with the Church. It wants her material fruits, it wants neither the Church nor her spiritual fruits, of eternal life. Christ Jesus remained faithful to the Father by losing the world. Today the Church is risking losing Christ in order to gain the world. Christ Jesus is everything for the Church. If the Church loses Christ, she not only loses the world, she also loses herself.

Mother of Christ the Lord, Angels and Saints, keep the Christian in his purest truth.