Church of Jesus Christ of the Universe

By Mauro

28 October 2023

Rom 8, 1-11; Ps 23/24; Lk 13, 1-9

Even though today is the feast of the holy Apostles Simon and Jude, we have taken the readings of Saturday, the 29th week. We did it because St. Paul’s words to the Romans, of yesterday and today[1], are important for us who have walked forward and believe in the living presence of Jesus here on Earth. They can help us to unleash fully the life of God in us, which comes through the action of the Holy Spirit, of the Trinitarian vortex and the primary energy.

It is good to hear such a great Apostle like St. Paul say: “For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.”[2] St. Paul says that. He describes what takes place in every person, therefore also in us, due to sin, original sin, collective sin, the action of Lucifer, our humanity that has been redeemed by Christ, yet still must go through the whole process of transformation. Then, St. Paul rejoices: “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!”[3]

The meaning of these words does not seem to go any further, but if we understand them with faith, they mean life. The Apostle Paul explains a promise, which applies to each one of us; it is a promise that, if accepted, changes our life. Thus, we are no longer subject to the law of death, as death has been defeated, and this goes beyond our feelings and experiences, beyond our mistakes and falls. If we believe this, we also believe that Christ defeated death and that He did it even within us. He truly continues to overcome death throughout the journey of our life. As always, we are required to show Him our loyalty and faith.

Saint Paul speaks of the law of the spirit of the world, the law of our thoughts. If you look, in our innermost place, we know what to do. Everything is clear to us when we are in prayer, at Holy Mass, in our meetings. We also feel that we have the strength to have faith, but then, suddenly, the law of sin takes over. It is normal. We must not see the Saints, in this case Paul, as distant from us, thinking that only they are capable of having such a strong faith. No. Everyone has it in his or her uniqueness. When we discuss the communion of saints, universal communion, we know that he said those words from personal experience, and we, too, have experienced just as he did! I and you. Communion also brings with it the joy of knowing that it is not us, but the law of sin, a law that we can overcome in Christ.

St. Paul perfectly describes the struggle between our thoughts and Christ’s thoughts, which is the topic we have been discussing repeatedly in the past years. We must die to our thoughts and enter into Christ’s thoughts. That is precisely the battle. However, in today’s passage he says: “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.”[4]

If we believe this, our lives change and are transformed. It is no longer a question of strengths or abilities, of commitment or renunciations: there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Thus, our path changes orientation: we commit ourselves to being “holy”. We will commit ourselves to being in Jesus Christ, to letting Him free to act, to allowing Him to live and act within us. This creates an intimate relationship between Christ and us. It is a spousal relationship, as we must unite with Him, and then He begins to work in us. He puts the law of love above all; we are asked to let ourselves be loved and to love Him, seek Him, desire Him, want Him. This has already made us more than winners, as the law of sin can no longer achieve anything.

This means living according to the Spirit. Before God, we honestly desire the things that are above; we seek the thoughts of God, we desire to know the Father and the One whom the Father sent.[5] We always return to this, as that is the basis of our life, putting this at the centre of the normal flow of our life. Then God acts and the Holy Spirit acts, too. The extraordinary instruments and everything we have been taught is based on this. The sacraments are a help to live this out. They support us in experiencing Christ’s victory over our death, not only over the death He suffered two thousand years ago; Christ has overcome our death. The sacraments sustain this.

I repeat, if we truly have given our life to Christ through the Blessed Virgin Mary; if we believe these words and all other words, where do the doubts, the fears and the need for confirmation come from? They still come from the law of death. It is a further trial we must go through. Is it possible that Christ leaves us at the mercy of death if we have given our life to Him? Is it possible that Christ allows the Spirit of Stefania Caterina to mock us if we have given our life to Him? Where can we look for confirmation? We already know within ourselves that it is true; we know it in Christ. It is up to Christ to defend each one of us; we do not have to defend ourselves. God has asked us to offer our life to Him, and we have offered it to Him; we desire nothing but Him, and now He begins to act on the ground.

Living like this means entering into the laws that allow everything to contribute to the good of those who love God. Then, you can see that the law of death no longer works. Everything contributes to the good: it contributes to the good when we feel good, when we feel bad, when we fall, when we sleep, eat and get up. Everything contributes to the good because Christ is at the centre of our whole life. Then, the law of the spirit of the world – St. Paul calls it the flesh, but it is the same – no longer affects us; it does not mean that we no longer make any mistakes; it means that even mistakes contribute to the good. It means that Christ is free to act, and He will be able to guide us to life in fullness through the Holy Spirit. How? Only He knows that. It is He who guides life and history.

It is easy to verify whether we have truly chosen the Holy Spirit or the world, and there are many ways to verify it. One way is to look at the fruits. If we only desire Christ, if we find peace only in prayer, in blessing and loving others, trying to build the Kingdom of God together with Him and all the instruments, as much as we can, what spirit have we chosen? If our thoughts are focused on how to make Christ known, how to ensure that peace truly comes, how to ensure that the Foundation is increasingly a clean and visible instrument, and we find peace only in this, what have we chosen? We have chosen the Spirit of God. If, instead, we need the things of the world and seek what the world offers us to have peace; if our peace comes from worldly things, it is easy to understand what spirit we have chosen.

What do we become in the hands of God, in the hands of the Holy Spirit, when we place what we have just said at the centre, believing it and walking a path of faith? We become instruments or, in other words, a ground on which a battle takes place, but this battle is fought by Jesus, and Mary, against the world. We simply let this battle unfold. We will experience moments of trial, darkness and fatigue, but that is part of the battle, and we do not measure ourselves by those things.

Our faith that Christ has overcome death must grow more and more. Universal communion, communion on Earth, prayer and retreat help us in this as well as everything that God has made available to us, such as meetings, sanctuaries, chosen places. All this helps us to nurture the belief that Christ has overcome death, that He is overcoming it even now, beyond all wars and trials: Christ wins. We are waiting to see His manifestation, His glorification in us and around us. He will glorify Himself; that is for sure.

We know that we are family members of God, fellow citizens of the Saints.[6] I repeat this question: if we believe this; if we are surrounded by Angels and Archangels, by Mary, by the faithful brothers and sisters, by all the Saints who lived before us, who could ever be against us? Who could ever harm us?[7] Lucifer? We send him away with a gaze. Unlike Mary, who does not even look at him, let us give him that gaze while standing behind St. Michael. Who may be against us?

Then, with faith, we leave Christ free to work within us without continuously measuring whether there are a few of us or many of us, whether we are doing well or doing badly. We always move forward, keeping hope alive as much as possible. All must respond for themselves; we cannot respond for others. We continue to offer to God all the good that exists on Earth; even if we do not see it, we know it is there. Let us offer all the suffering we see, but without judging; let us just elevate it to God. All the martyrs, all the blood that has been shed, all the dying, all the killed – let us offer them all to God, remaining firm in the faith, and God will transform evil into good.

Let us free ourselves from expectations and needs; the latter disappear by themselves if we live in this way because our need will always be only encountering Christ. He will always respond to this need because He always comes. We have to struggle to fulfil all other needs but not this one because He always comes. He will always be next to us, before us, behind us, around us and inside of us; He will never abandon us.

The patience lies in waiting for our moment, whether it is His glorious return or our glorious departure. However, then, all that God has always wanted will be accomplished, and it will be more beautiful than we could have ever imagined. This is no small thing. We already imagine it to be beautiful, but it will be even more beautiful.

Therefore, our prayer is based on the certainty that God has overcome the world, that His promises will be fulfilled and that He makes us bearers of primary energy. Living with this faith means to be a witness, to be a blessing; it means, fulfilling in our daily life what we have been saying in a simple way in the past years:  sleeping, eating, working, but always with this faith.

We want to thank God, as St. Paul did, for freeing us from what we could not have accomplished by ourselves: the law of the world. We want to thank Him for opening the path of the Holy Spirit within us. Let us thank God for every gift, for the gift of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the gift of all extraordinary instruments, St. Joseph, and the universal communion. We also entrust to Him all the suffering of this Earth, all the dying and all the dead. Let us entrust to Him, above all the pain and the sacrifice of the innocent; in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

[1] See Rom 7, 18-25

[2] See Rom 7, 19

[3] See Rom 7, 24-25

[4] See Rom 8,1-2

[5] See John 17, 13

[6] See Eph 2, 19

[7] See Rom 8, 31