Until all things have taken place

Dt 4,1.5-9; Ps 147; Mt 5,17-19
27 MARCH

Every Word uttered by Jesus must always be read, enlightened, interpreted and understood with the divine light of the Holy Spirit. The truth of every Word of the Gospel is in the Holy Spirit. It must always be asked Him, not just once in life, but moment by moment, hour by hour, day by day, month by month and year by year. The request must be made without interruption, because the truth is infinite as God is infinite and cannot be known by a single invocation. The Spirit does not give the truth, he leads to the whole truth. Jesus says: “Do not believe that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets, I have not come to abolish, but to give full fulfilment”. It must be immediately said that the first full fulfilment that Jesus gives to the Law and to the Prophets is his own life. He shows how one can live in fullness of truth, charity, light and holiness, every Word spoken by his Father in the Old Testament. The Commandments, the Law, the Statutes and the Decrees of his Father did not suffer from his part any violation, either in a little or a lot, either slightly or gravely. In addition, Jesus has observed them at the height of the potential of his heart, of his mind and of his strength. He lived the Law according to the procedures established by the Law. He has consecrated all of himself to it.

“These then are the commandments, the statutes and decrees which the Lord, your God, has ordered that you be taught to observe in the land into which you are crossing for conquest, so that you and your son and your grandson may fear the Lord, your God, and keep, throughout the days of your lives, all his statutes and commandments which I enjoin on you, and thus have long life. Hear then, Israel, and be careful to observe them, that you may grow and prosper the more, in keeping with the promise of the Lord, the God of your fathers, to give you a land flowing with milk and honey. “Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone! Therefore, you shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. Take to heart these words which I enjoin on you today (Dt 6,1-6).

To this first mode of fulfilment, a second one is added. In Christ Jesus all the promises of the Father are fully implemented. Every oath, prophecy and oracle of the Father has become a yes in him. The Father must fulfil nothing more. The Father revealed himself to be faithful to his every word in Christ Jesus. What he said, he did it.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed to you by us, Silvanus and Timothy and me, was not “yes” and “no,” but “yes” has been in him. For however many are the promises of God, their Yes is in him; therefore, the Amen from us also goes through him to God for glory. But the one who gives us security with you in Christ and who anointed us is God; he has also put his seal upon us and given the Spirit in our hearts as a first instalment (2Cor 1,19-22).

But there is a third fulfilment that must be highlighted. The Law of Sinai sets an impassable limit. Whoever crosses it passes out of the Pact of the Old Covenant. This limit is impassable even in the New Covenant Pact. But Jesus has pushed the obligation to love to the human limit of it and the limit is the offering of his body to God, on the Cross, as a true holocaust and a sacrifice of redemption and salvation.

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfil. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

While with every prophet the beyond of love, truth, justice, holiness and obedience exists, with Jesus the beyond no longer exists. He is the full accomplishment, without the beyond. For every man on earth there will always be the beyond to be reached or to be added. With Christ everything was accomplished, all implemented, all realized and everything happened. Now it is up to each of his disciples to manifest to the world that he is on the way of Christ, to the beyond to be reached, until arriving himself also to the fullness of love.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that we walk from faith to faith to the whole truth.