Church of Jesus Christ of the Universe

By Mauro

20.09.2025

Saturday, 24th Week of Ordinary Time – Year C

1Tim 6, 13-16; Ps 100; Lk 8, 4-15

For us, more than for others, understanding the mystery of Holy Mass, the mystery of forgiveness, the mystery of entering Mass in one way and leaving in another, the mystery of being able to unite ourselves, even if only for a moment, to this infinite love that sacrifices itself, this mystery that we will never fully understand, perhaps never, but for a moment we can enter into it and there we live, understand and comprehend. And then, throughout the day, what we might call the test of what we have understood begins. This is the transformation: understanding God’s love for a moment, receiving that love and then trying, throughout the day, in everyday things, to live it, to feel it, and there we are transformed. This is the method God has chosen to make us children of God again, and we cannot say whether it is right or wrong: God has chosen it; we can only try to penetrate this love and understand it: why did He choose the cross? Why are there trials? All this is necessary so that we may become children of God again. But the basis remains: to be sure that it is the Lord’s action, not ours. We can only participate.

Let us prepare ourselves.

In today’s readings, Saturday of the 24th Week, we first have St Paul saying to Timothy, but he is saying it to each one of us: “I charge you to keep this commandment without spot or blame until the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Chris.”[1] We have been told many times: “I ask you to remain faithful to the Word.” In the Psalm it says: “Know that the Lord is God; It is he who made us, and we are his.”[2] These words may seem trivial, but they affirm that we are his. Life is not ours, it is his. Our cornerstone is “to offer our lives”. It is because of God’s goodness that He has left us free, but life is not ours, it has been given to us and He keeps us alive. If for a second the Lord did not think of us, we would disappear; life is not ours.

And then we come to the Gospel. Jesus gives the example of the sower and perfectly describes the different responses that each person gives. I think it also perfectly describes what has happened to each of us: we hear the Word, we like it, but if we do not remain faithful, if we do not continue to question ourselves, our thoughts, if we do not allow that Word to enter within us and divide our spirit from our soul, we run the risk of falling among those who are among the thorns, among the stones and… they recognised the word, but then let it go along the way. Only where there is good soil does it bear fruit.

The apostles did not understand the parable; they had to have it explained to them. They did not understand it because they were still thinking in human terms. They too had to follow this path of faithfulness. There are other passages in the Gospel where we see that the apostles do not understand, but their faithfulness led them to the Ascension of the Lord and to Pentecost. It led them there even through the scandal of the cross. After Pentecost, we see in the Scriptures the new man; the apostles are new men. They are no longer who they used to be; Peter is no longer who he used to be. They have totally accepted the Word, Jesus Christ and the whole plan of God. They have stopped thinking in a human way. They are new, they are children of God, and we can immediately see that they no longer have anything to do with the world. For them, the world has been crucified[3].

It may seem from the parable that it is by chance that one is compared to a rock, to a thorn… In another passage of the Gospel[4], not this one from Luke, it says that the seed bears fruit some twenty, some thirty, some fiftyfold, and it may seem that this is predetermined, but in God it is not so. The sowing of Jesus, the sowing of God, his action, if we leave it free – and leaving it free means responding totally – always yields a hundred per cent. God’s action can never stop halfway, it always comes to fruition. We can stop God’s action, but God accomplishes it regardless our limits. What changes this action of God is our sincere response: “Here I am, let it be done to me according to your word,” and our sincere: “I offer you my life through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.” Because at that moment our life returns to where it came from, it returns to God, and the action of the Trinity brings us to our fullness.

Each of us is called to this fullness, each of us is called to holiness, which is not our work but God’s work. It is up to us to “let Him be free”, then God does the rest. The action of the Father who creates cannot be stopped, and He creates everything to be perfect, He does not create imperfect creatures; the action of the Son who redeems, who forgives cannot be stopped, and He forgives everything, there is nothing He does not forgive. And then there is the action of the Holy Spirit who sanctifies, and the Holy Spirit does not stop at twenty per cent, He brings us to one hundred per cent. The action of the Trinity is always perfect.

So, I repeat: it is all God’s work, it does not depend on us, it depends on our sincerity in leaving God free, in truly offering our life. I know we know these things, but if we reflect on these simple things, they are the cornerstones of life, because from this openness we give to God, He reveals the whole mystery to us; from that openness we begin to understand the value of Holy Mass, the value of the Sacraments; we begin to leave human thinking behind and understand the parables.

Also today, in the Gospel, Jesus says: “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand”[5]. Those others are those who do not remain faithful and do not give themselves completely to God, so they hear but do not understand, they see but do not understand. That fidelity leads us to understand God’s action and his work.

A true gift to Him, a true offering made with love, not by force, leads every person to be one hundred per cent themselves. And note that this is the condition for God to bring his work to completion at the level of the Church, because that is the New Creation. In the New Creation, each of us will be perfect, even if we are not all in the same place, but we will understand each other. We will have no envy, no doubts, no guilt, we will no longer feel smaller or greater: we will each be in the right place. However, this is something that God wants to do already from here. When He says that the New Creation starts from here[6], when He speaks of the Village of the Father, where even creation must already be new, it starts from each of us who lets the Holy Spirit be free.

The Holy Spirit will reveal the identity to each of us, each of us will feel comfortable in our own place, and in that fullness we will be a help to everyone else, without judgement, without wanting to understand who is right and who is wrong, without looking at who is greater and who is lesser. Everyone, like all the flowers in a meadow, stand in their own place.

Then God’s action will be able to address all humanity and present the new people. However, it is important that you believe that everyone is called to fullness. God did not create people except so that they might return to Him in fullness. He cannot have conceived and created someone whom He knew would be lost. He would not have created them. Everyone has this possibility, but everything depends on the response.

[1] 1Tim 6, 14

[2] Ps 100, 3

[3] See Gal 6, 14

[4] See Mt 13, 3-9; Mk 4, 3-9

[5] See Lk 8, 10

[6] See message of God the Father from 4 August 2019 intitled “I a Here, I Am Your Father”, published on our website in the category “Messages – 2019”.