Readings: Hebrews 7:25 – 8: 6; Ps 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 17; Mk 3:7-12 Jesus began his messianic ministry from Galilee, Judea, from beyond the Jordan, from the part of Tire and Sidon. The signs in Jesus are the revelation of the truth of his Person, of his human and divine nature. The signs manifest the being of Christ that necessarily comes from God. If he didn't come from God, he couldn't do the signs that He does. But if he comes from God, as God is omnipotent, so Jesus is omnipotent. Nothing is impossible for him. For us too he can do what we ask him. He comes from God and does the works of God. If we touch him, we heal.
Let us try to apply the truth of Christ to each of his disciples. Jesus comes from the Father. He says the Word of the Father. He does the works of the Father. The disciple comes from Christ. He is obligated to speak the Word of Christ, to do the works of Christ. Jesus visibly reveals his being of him from the Father. The Christian too must visibly reveal, in his words and deeds, that he comes from Christ. If people do not go to the disciple of Jesus it is a sign that they do not see him as a disciple of Jesus. They do not see him in his being. In his actions, in his speech, in his gestures, in his thoughts, in his works. No artifice can replace nature. We often willingly want to convince ourselves that artifices can replace nature.
The whole religious world around Jesus was an artificial world. It was a world that not did not attract God. Before the disciples of Jesus there are only two ways. Or we decide to transform ourselves, with the grace of the Holy Spirit, into a Christ nature, so as to speak the Word of Christ, do the works of Christ, manifest Christ acting in our hearts, in our souls. Or the way of building an artificial life, which in turn requires an artificial religion, made only of human precepts, hypocritically passed as God's precepts. We know that hypocrisy is cultivated only by hypocrites. Hypocrisy repels. In fact, scribes and Pharisees each had their own artificial world to cultivate. They were all against Christ, united for convenience to defend their hypocrisy, divided to impose each one's hypocrisy. We have a very high mission to live. We manifest to the world that every Word of Jesus is true. When the disciples and the Word of Jesus are one, the world sees and rushes, seeks, sees and follows. The crowd needs Jesus. He is their Savior and Redeemer. The obligation to attest to the truth of Christ with our lives never fails. It is immortal and timeless. This is true religious freedom: we live the whole Gospel, thus drawing the world to the Gospel. Attracting to the Gospel necessarily draws to Christ. But for this it is necessary that the disciples (we) be ontologically the life of Christ. Mother of God, Angels, Saints, intercede for us to become the life and nature of Christ.