1944
Chapter: Commentary to the Letter to the Hebrews: The Redemptive Value of Obedience
Pages: 219-223
March 16
Ref: Hebrews 5:7,8,12,14; 6:1,4,6,8
Jesus says:
"I want to have you--and many along with you--consider a virtue from which a great good has come to you. The greatest good, whereas from its opposite so much evil has come to you: the greatest evil. I have already spoken to you about it, but your suffering has not let you remember the words. I shall repeat them to you because I am anxious for you to have them.
" Having loved you infinitely, I wanted to be your Redeemer. But I was not such only through Wisdom, or through Power, or even through Charity. These are three characteristics, three divine gifts, which all act in the Redemption of the human race, for they instructed you, shock you with miracles, and redeemed you with Sacrifice.
"But I was Man. In being Man, I had to possess the virtue whose loss had brought man to be lost and redeem you with it.
Man had been lost for having disobeyed God's wish. I, Man, had to save you by obeying God's wish.
"Paul says, that, 'having offered prayers and entreaties with loud cries and tears, in the days of my mortal life, to save man from spiritual death, I was heard because of my reverence.' And he adds that, having arrived at perfection because I had learned (that is, complied out of obedience), I became the cause of eternal salvation for all those who are obedient to Me.
"Paul, with words which the Spirit renders true, says, then, that I, the Son of God made Man, reached perfection by obedience and was able to be the Redeemer because of it. I, the Son of God. I reached perfection by obedience. I redeemed by obedience.
"If you deeply meditate on this truth, you must experience what someone experiences who, bending over a profound bay by the sea, stares at the depth and immensity of the ocean and feels as though he is sinking into this liquid abyss whose profundity and limit he is unaware of.
"Obedience! A boundless, abysmal sea in which I immersed Myself before you to bring those who were shipwrecked in sin back to the Light. A sea in which the true children of God must immerse themselves to be redeemers of themselves and their brothers and sisters. A sea which has not only great depths and great waves, but also low-lying beaches and slight ripples seeming to jest with the sand on the shore which the children playing with them are so fond of.
" Obedience is not made solely out of great hours in which to obey is to die, as I did, in which to obey is to tear oneself away from a Mother, as I did, or in which to obey is to give up one's own dwelling, as I did on leaving Heaven for your sake. Obedience is also made out of minuscule things in every hour, carried out with no grumbling as they present themselves to you.
"What is the wind? Always a whirlwind which curves the timeworn treetops and bends them, breaks them, and knocks them to the ground? No. It is wind, too, when, lighter than a mother's caress, it combs the meadow grasses and the wheat cropping up and makes them barely wave as if they were slightly quivering at the top of the green stems out of joy at being grazed by the light wind. The small things are the light wind of obedience. But how much good they do!
"Now it is spring. If the blood did not sully it, how sweet this season would be! The plants, which are able to love and obey the Creator, are putting on new clothes made of emerald and, like brides, wrapping themselves in flowers. The meadows look like embroidery, velvet adorned with flowers; the woods, scented plush under a vault of green, singing crests. But if the tenuous winds of April did not exist, or the mad gusts of March, how many flowers would be left without fecundation, and how many meadows, without water! Flowers and grasses would thus be born to die to no end. The wind pushes the clouds and waters them that way; the wind brings kisses to the flowers, takes to those far away the kiss of those far away, and with its joyous race from branch to branch, from tree to tree, and from orchard to orchard fecundates and makes those flowers become fruit.
'Obedience also picks all the little things which God presents to you through the events of the day; it does what the wind does with plants and grasses of the meadows and gardens. It turns you, flowers, into fruits. The fruits of eternal life.
"Most blessed are those who, caught up by the whirlwind of Love and their love, consummate the total sacrifice of themselves, the little redeemers who perpetuate Me, who fulfill supreme obedience by drinking my own chalice of pain. But blessed, too, are those who, not having courage to say to the whirlwind of Love, 'I love You; here I am, take me,' are able to bend under the light wind of Love, who can measure the strength of man, his son, and give each just the amount of pressure which it is possible to bear. **[Elijah comes to heart] [Moses comes to heart]
"It seems to you, O children, and never before as now it seems to you, that the trial is many times superior to your strength. But it is because you grow rigid. And because you are proud and distrustful. You want to act on your own and do not abandon yourselves to Me. I am not an executioner. I am He who loves you. I am a Good Father. And if I cannot nullify Justice, I increase Mercy to make up for it. The more Justice grows because of the tide of crimes, blasphemies, and acts of disobedience to the Law which covers the Earth, the more I increase it.
"You are getting shipwrecked in it. The innocent, the nearly innocent, the blameworthy, and the extremely blameworthy--you are sinking in it. But if for the latter the sea bottom of the shipwreck will be in Satan's seabed (beginning in this life, with the dismemberment of a conscience gnawing at them and giving them no peace, though they pretend to have peace), for the former two categories the seabed will be in my Mercy--it is there for the nearly innocent, and it is in my Heart for the innocent. But Mercy and Heart are already Heaven, and for these, after the comforts of the Earth, which I do not deny them--and you know this--Heaven is ready.
"I said something else to your spirit, and your spirit has not been able to make your extenuated flesh write it, and I shall repeat it to you.
"In all of this teaching of mine, no lesson or vision is given without my pursuing an educational purpose of mine which you do not understand or understand after a delay and partially. I you meditated with insightful lucidity, you would see that the lessons I give you with the dictations or contemplations of the spokesman are always related to events soon to take place. I do so to give you supernatural aid. These pages--since the world is not completely savage--will do a lot of good to souls, in the future, too, because they contain teachings of eternal Knowledge; but for you, living in this fatal hour, they are also a guide and a comfort for the times you are living through.
"You, too, like Paul's early Christians, 'have become a bit weak in understanding...and still need, again, to be taught the first rudiments of the word of God, reduced as you are to the need for milk and not solid food.' You have become children again, not through innocence and simplicity, not through obscure faith, but through your inability to walk in faith and understand its truths.
"You have gone so far backwards! The words of Justice are just sound striking your ear; and sometimes you don't even perceive it. You do not make it the food of Life. You cannot do so because you do not assimilate it. Your spirit, through your blameworthy indifference, your blameworthy sympathy of sin, is stricken by childishness and no longer has the juice rendering it capable of making the robust food of adults in faith its nourishment. You either have no religion or have a religion made up of a choreography of practices and sentimentalism.
"But do you know what 'Religion' means? It means to follow God and His Law, not just to sing beautiful hymns, hold beautiful processions and beautiful functions, go to hear elegant sermons, or be a member A or B of such-and-such an association--all of them things which titillate your sentiment. And nothing more. Religion means to make the animal-man a demigod-man. One must annul animality in its various forms, ranging from the flesh to thought, by way of religion. Down with gluttony and lust, away with avarice and indolence, death to lying and haughtiness. Be chaste, charitable, humble, and honest; be, in short, as God wants and as I have taught you to be. You will then be adults in religion, in faith; you will be finished men, and having 'trained you facilities by practice to discern good and evil.'
"Its for this reason that I, leaving aside elementary teaching, come to instruct you on what is most perfect, for I want to lead you to it. There will be few of you, ones hungry for Justice, Truth, and Wisdom. But for these, my blessed one, I give a bread which helps them to taste other bread, that is I-as-Eucharist, better and better. In my public life, too, I had the bread of the Word precede the bread of the Sacrament. **249 [Luke 24-31]. It is always the former which must prepare for the latter. The teaching Church exists for this purpose. To perpetuate my ministry as Teacher and make you able to draw the maximum vital power from the Sacrament.
**[Note: Body-bread; Blood; wine -- transubstantiated Antidote to Serpents Poison; Medicine to return man to Origin but more Perfect because God became Incarnate whose Flesh and Blood we feed on]. Note: God became Man to Perfect Man. Simplicity of God.
"Woe to those, however, who, after having been illuminated, preferred to go back to the darkness. Woe to those who, after having tasted this heavenly food, preferred Satan's mouthfuls. Woe to those, who after having been rendered aware of Truth by the Holy Spirit, become beasts again, profaning themselves. It is not possible, once they have plunged downwards, for them to come back to penance. For, if I greatly forgive man's weakness, I am inexorable with those wanting to remain in Evil after having chosen Evil spontaneously as their King.
**[Note: if one stumbles unawares, like falling into a trap of Satan and the trap is big one, and it is not an willful act and doesn't want as in desire it the 'I want it to serve Evil because I love lust and pillaging and plundering flesh for its craving'; key words: 'is to 'Remain in Evil'']
"And you, to whom I grant the taste of sweetness of the word of God, which flows forth once more to make up for too much silence on the part of priests, too much lukewarm ash where there should be living fire, which flows forth to neutralize in my new disciples Satan's venom circulating over the Earth; be worthy of the gift--you, for whom I also remove veils over the secrets of my day as Man and over the mysteries of the future age, become granite ears and not arid straw ready for the fire. But, Ears for eternal wheat. You will be reborn in Heaven.
"Oh, the joy of being out of the world! The joy of being where God is! When, having given up my spirit, I was able to see the Father again, I savored a blessedness which I had never before experienced from all eternity. And it endures, for I now know what it means to be separated from Heaven, from God. I have suffered all experiences in Myself. To be able to defend you before the Most High. But in truth I tell you that my own blessedness will be yours when you are here, out of exile, with Me, close to the Father, in the Homeland of Love.
"Of Love, children. Where there is no more hate and crime, weeping and terror."
Peace be with you always
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