Church of Jesus Christ of the Universe

By Mauro

18.01.2026

(translated audio)

We have spoken of the offering of life; we have seen that this offering – in the sense of surrendering one’s life to Jesus – is the means by which we participate in and remain faithful to the covenant renewed with us by Jesus himself through Redemption, through His offering, through His death and resurrection on the Cross. It is a covenant with Him that is renewed every day, renewed every time we remain faithful to God’s will for us. A will that is not a burden or a condemnation, but is God’s love, which has planned a path for the restoration of every one of His children, so that every one of His children may return to being fully in His image and likeness and may enter into communion with Him through Jesus Christ and live in fullness. It is renewed in a special way in the Holy Mass, lived not so much as a duty, a habit, or a quest for graces, but precisely as a union with Christ, becoming one with Him, uniting on that altar together with Jesus.

So, in every ‘yes’ to God, to that will which at times, especially at the beginning, remains somewhat hidden from us, is always given solely in faith – faith in His love, faith in the knowledge that He is faithful – this ‘yes’ constantly renews not only the covenant but our entire life. So, what are we saying this ‘yes’ to? Because I would like to try to say it is not a ‘yes’ to an idol, to a judging God. Ultimately, it is a ‘yes’ to a love I have recognised; it is also a renewal of thanks to that love by saying that ‘yes’, and I do so not only before God, but before myself and my neighbour. Because, if I have encountered that love, if I recognise it in the fact that He created me, in all that He has created, in the fact that He sent Jesus Christ – and Jesus Christ agreed to come – and… even if I do not understand it, but I am touched by this love and the Holy Spirit stirs up in me all that is beautiful, all that is good, then my ‘yes’ is also a ‘yes’ to what I feel. It is also a ‘yes’ to being faithful not only to God, but also to what God has placed within me.

So, living in this way begins a process of integrity within us – of being integral – a process of faithfulness, integrity. If we are not integral, we cannot even be offered, because we are not faithful, because integrity arises precisely from that ‘yes’, from that decision. When are we integral? When we remain faithful to this love, not when we say it and then, in every situation in life, do the exact opposite; faithful to the good and then commit evil, faithful to the fact that God wants to restore us and then instead organise our whole life in such a way that we stay far from God. In this way we are not integral, and we are not integral not only towards God, but also towards ourselves, towards the words we speak, towards what we feel, towards what we acknowledge. If we are not integral, the covenant with Jesus is broken. Jesus is faithful; Jesus offers Himself and gives us the chance to live the offering; He offers Himself and gives us the chance to return to God, through Him. When we are not integral, the covenant is broken and we return to original sin.

So this integrity, if we look at it, is not a burden either; there are no laws, no commands; it is, of course, based on laws, but laws of the Spirit written within us. They are all there, written from the moment He created us, because God could only have created people of integrity. God did not create evil, God did not create sin; God created us integral, and Jesus gives us the chance to become like this, to become integral children – not perfect, but integral. So, we are upright with regard to what is written within us, to that word of Jesus that resounds within us, with regard to that love we have felt and feel within us; a love which, I am sure having experienced it myself, you will all experience; a love, one has the desire to give to others, to live it. And even in this case we often cheat on ourselves to silence our conscience by giving love in a… superficial way.

It all starts with that choice we made at Baptism, because otherwise, there is no point in being baptised. Through Baptism, we chose to know the Father, to know the Son, to know the Holy Spirit, to know the mystery of life. This is what Baptism is; it is the faith that, through that covenant, we wish to set out to discover life. Even though we received it as children in our parents’ faith, but we renewed it in the sacraments up to Confirmation. So, starting from this desire, we are upright if we do not put our own interests, our own needs and the compromises that the world constantly offers us before all of this.

Here one might think: but what a struggle it is to remain integral! Bear in mind that our struggle is the desire to be like this; our struggle is the faith to believe that with Jesus all things are possible[1]; our struggle is to remain united to this covenant. That is the only struggle, because there the Holy Spirit comes to our aid, protecting us, giving us the strength to remain integral, giving us light, giving us graces, and giving us joy when we are integral; He makes us feel good even if we have struggled, even if we have had to sweat and weep, but He gives us fulfilment. This is the gift that comes from Jesus. The first gift is the Holy Spirit, to live the covenant.

But by remaining like this, we go even further; we also reach the gift of immaculacy. Not like the Blessed Virgin Mary, but a gift which, little by little, by remaining faithful to the covenant, takes us into another dimension where, in some way, Satan’s temptations diminish and where it becomes natural to be integral. On this journey, there comes a point where it would be harder not to be integral than to be so. It is a process: we set out with this fidelity and with the help of the Spirit, and then we reach a point where it is natural to be integral, and leaving that state is more difficult than remaining in it. One might say this is the protection of Mary’s mantle, the protection of the saints, the communion of saints.

When we are at this point, in my view, other mechanisms kick in to keep this covenant alive and continue to nurture it. Certainly, one must begin to give thanks, to be grateful, to thank God, to begin to see how God has led us, how God has protected us, to begin to see God in our life who sustains life and who never leaves us alone. There, faith is present, but it becomes almost… we cannot help but believe, it is not difficult to believe. Sometimes we are in the dark, but we believe. There, we really must give thanks, acknowledge, above all acknowledge His love, that love which guides and never leaves us. When we are like that… it is right to always start from a positive perspective, not so much to play the victim when something painful happens to us – ‘why me?’ – but we should ask why, certainly, but in a positive sense, knowing that, if it happens to me, it is still because I have something to learn. So ask the Holy Spirit: what do You want to tell me?

The gift of integrity and the gift of being immaculate (think of this journey in this way) undoubtedly lead to a deepening of communion. The first communion that grows is with God; we begin to know the Father, we begin to perceive Him, we begin to understand Him, we begin to feel the Father’s presence – we feel it, I do not know how to explain it. A communion with one’s neighbour also arises; it is the immediate consequence of true communion with God the Father, communion with those who, like us, seek this life, communion with the struggles of others, with the joys of others, with the offerings of others.

There arises a need for the sacraments, but no longer with the aim of eliciting a grace from God, of trying to overcome a trial, but precisely as a need for communion, because in the sacrament we encounter communion, in the sacrament we encounter the life of the Father and the life of our brothers and sisters; in the sacrament we feel that we are part of the Mystical Body of Christ –  the sacrament as a sign of communion, of family, the Eucharist and Holy Mass above all. A Holy Mass experienced in this way, in communion with brothers and sisters who all see it in this way, with this desire to unite with Jesus, because we know that united with Jesus we are led to the Father; united with Jesus we walk with Him through every aspect of our life, through every trial, and even through those of our brothers and sisters, out of love for them, and through the situation of the Earth – and in these times it is so terrible.

So what happens next? Miracles occur. A miracle is no longer: I make a vow, I go to Medjugorje, I fast. A miracle is the fruit of this life; a miracle in a Holy Mass like this is something natural. It is like when the apostles passed by and, standing in the shadow of the apostles, those people were healed[2]. At that point, the miracle is also an energetic form of that energy which vibrates within us, which is, ultimately, the love of God. The first miracle is always this: we are freed from selfishness; transformation takes place. The first miracle is that we realise we are naturally led to offer ourselves, naturally led to prayer, naturally led towards goodness and beauty. This is the first and greatest miracle. There, our way of thinking is transformed; the miracles of resurrection take place. Something that was impossible for us: a fixed, rigid, deeply held belief of ours that changes; that changes suddenly, so that we understand, so that we realise how much we have lost and how much we may have, so to speak, ‘gone wrong’ – for it is not that we were wrong. We thought we were doing right because the resurrection had not yet taken place. These things happen in these stages.

And miracles of healing from illness are natural too, because even the body that comes into contact with this primary energy, with this vortex that forms where two or three gather in His name and live like this in the Holy Mass, then the whole Church is present and a primary energy is formed and so the body heals too and illnesses flee. Anything that is disintegrating energy cannot remain there; it shatters, and physical healings take place there too. There is no longer any place for the disintegrating energy within us and around us and exorcisms take place.

Well, even with what I have said today, Baptism is explained once more, the covenant with God. We always return to that: living out Baptism. Life in God, walking in this way day after day, gives birth to the new creation made up of new creatures; we see the Kingdom of God amongst us.

May Mary help us to desire to remain ever more deeply in this covenant and bless us in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

[1] See Mt 19, 25-26; Lk 1, 37

[2] See Acts 5, 14-15