Church of Jesus Christ of the Universe

By Mauro

29 June 2023

Acts 12, 1-11; Sal. 33(34); 2 Tim 4,6-8.17.18; Mt 16, 13-19

We are celebrating the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul. Two years ago, when they both spoke to us[1], Peter advised us to live in communion with them and to live in a true relationship with them and with all the Saints. They asked us to feel their action and not to think of them as immobile figures up there in Heaven, but as Saints who are concretely working together with us in the dimension of the spirit where they can easily act while for us it is difficult.

If we start from the reading of the Gospel according to Matthew, there is Jesus’ question: “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” (Mt 16, 13-19 NIV).It seems to me that we should often ask ourselves this question. Perhaps the humanity of the Earth has forgotten to ask itself this question because in our time Jesus Christ has truly been forgotten. If we do not consult Him, if we do not consider Him, if we do not name Him, much less will we question, “Who is Jesus for me?” What is missing in our time is precisely this: to look at Him personally and understand: “Who is Jesus for me? How important is Jesus to me? If so, is He only as important as so many other things in my life?” Everyone must answer the question: “How much does Jesus mean to me?”

The Gospel continues: “I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church.” I will not dwell on this, as you know it, but I would like to deepen these words: “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven” (Mt 16, 18-19).

I think that many associate the importance of these words with priests, confession, etc., whereas we should look at it as a personal attitude that affects each one of us. It is we who bind ourselves, and what we bind here on Earth will also be bound in the Kingdom of Heaven. We can loosen ourselves and each other from certain bonds to the extent that we understand who Jesus is for us: if He is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, then, in this faith, everything will open and unfold.

We have read this in the letter of St. Paul to Timothy: “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Tim 4, 7). Where does he find this courage? In the faith in Christ, the Son of the Living God, as he says at the end of his letter: “The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever“ (2 Tim 4, 18). This is the faith we must have, too.

Through His redemption, Jesus has given us this strength, this power and the ability to free ourselves in His name. He has liberated us. “Make sure you remain free”, He says, “I have liberated you, but it is up to you to have faith”. Faith in Jesus’ name and His power is not faith in personal needs or faith bound to the miracles that can happen in our lives. Of course, belief in miracles is also belief; The Gospel tells many such events: “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace …“[2]

However, I am speaking about St. Paul’s faith: “I have fought the good fight.” I believe that he asks us to get to the point of saying, “I have fought the good fight.” We are not fighting the battle to overcome a trial, to receive a miracle or to ask for everything to go well. We fight the battle when BY FAITH we know that Jesus will deliver us from all evil even if it does not happen on Earth. I have said it other times: we must have the faith of those three young men who were thrown into the fiery furnace, to whom the king says: “What god will be able to rescue you from my hand?” They reply, “King Nebuchadnezzar,… the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up” (Dan 3, 13-18). This is the faith I mean.

True faith is truly needed in these times; Jesus has called us to this in recent times; to reunite everything in Christ, He asks us to live for Him and to give the testimony of people who believe in His promises, who await His glorious return. This faith is always total in everything. To have this faith we must first ask ourselves the question I said before: “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”

I think that in his message of 2021[3], St. Paul asks us to verify whether we have faith, otherwise, we must ask Jesus to give it to us.

I will read St. Paul’s words: “I ask all of you to have the same strong and generous love for Jesus. Love for Him is the only guarantee for you of a sincere love for the Father and for the gift of the Holy Spirit. In fact, the Father only grants this gift to the true followers of Christ who love Him, welcome Him and recognise Him for what He is: the Lord of the Universe, the Son of the Most High. Seek to cultivate intensively your love for Jesus. Now is the time in which the Church must express this love in the whole Universe and especially on Earth where the false religions and the false Church do not manifest this love. You have to hold up the banner of Christ: not only His Cross and Resurrection but also that of your love for Him, which encourages you to go towards everything and everyone, which enables you to embrace friends and enemies and to help the suffering humanity to improve. I pray for you together with all the Saints. As Peter has told you, we are all in action in this time. We communicate to your spirit the fruit of what we did and experienced while we were in the body. Thus, from spirit to spirit, the immense richness of God passes through the generations of Saints.”

It is with this love that we must verify ourselves, not with our love for a work, for ourselves or for others because love for ourselves and for others must also be the fruit of our love for Jesus. Everything must begin there. We know in faith that it is He who guides history, that He is here and that He gives us the certainty that everything will be brought to completion. Then, love will lead us to the commitment that Jesus asked of us: to be souls who are spouses of Christ.[4] I think that in these times we cannot have an impact on history without this true faith. Soul-spouses can write history, and they can touch events; they are souls who are like white pages on which Jesus can write.

We, therefore, ask St. Peter, St. Paul, St. John and all the Saints to help us truly in spirit to understand the importance and beauty of living in a full relationship with Jesus and to allow Him to loosen everything within us; we ask them to help us to lose our lives for the love of God. May their blessing descend upon us and all those who are connected to us, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

[1] See the messages of St. Peter the Apostle of 29 June 2021, “Walk in the Footprints of the Saints in Communion with Them”, and St. Paul, “You Are Already Living in the Cosmic Pentecost”, published on our webpage and in the book “Towards the New Creation – Vol. VIII – Collected Messages 2021”, on the homepage, https://towardsthenewcreation.com/

[2] See Mt 9, 2; 9, 22; 9, 29; 15, 28; Mk 2, 5; 5, 34; 10, 52; Lk 5, 20; 7, 50; 8, 48; 17, 19; 18, 42

[3] See footnote 1

[4] See Message of Jesus of 24 December 2020, “The Souls, Spouses of Christ”, published on our webpage and in the book “Towards the new creation – Vol. VII, Year 2020”, https://towardsthenewcreation.com/