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Giovedì 7 Novembre 2024

Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time

Word for today
The Gospel of Luke 15:1-10

Substance

All creation is made of and formed from the substance of God. All cells, molecules, atoms, electrons, protons, neutrons, photons, everything is made of the substance of God. The electrochemical energy that makes thinking possible and the smallest particle which makes up the human body are made of the substance of God. What is the substance of God made of? The substance of God is joy. God is joy. Even love is made of the substance of joy because the aim and purpose of love are surely joy, and joy has no purpose and has no end; it is the end and that is why it will last forever. Faith is needed to see and to understand the things of heaven from down here on earth, love serves to transform all that is earthly into heavenly realities, but heaven, the heavenly kingdom, God's sky, is joy, total joy without end. God is joy. Man is made of the substance of God, which is joy. Everything human is made of joy and only when man loses joy does he stop being strong, full of energy, healthy and beautiful. No man becomes ill because diseases exist, but diseases exist because they are a psychophysical sign of a lack of joy. Whenever a man or a woman, consciously or not, for whatever reason, move away from the substance of God, which is joy, they enter a state of energy imbalance with the substance of God, a hypo-energetic state of necrosis which, with time, manifests itself psychically in emotional states of sadness and diseases of the body. There is no disease or disharmony on earth which does not  come from sadness, both individual and collective. 
Satan is sad, because he invented sadness with his envious thoughts against God, and he has no other purpose than to make all those who follow him sad. Even Satan loves, prefers, desires and feels, but he loves, prefers, desires and feels without joy, that is his tragedy. There is no joy without love, but true love, the kind that comes from God and leads to God, leads to joy.  Satan's aim is to make man sad. Satan wants man to depart from God because when man is far from God he becomes sad. Satan does not care whether a man is evil, a murderer, a thief, violent, greedy, envious, angry, vengeful, ruthless, cruel  unfair, but he does care if a man is evil, because an evil man is sad and generates sadness. Envy, greed, thirst for power and wealth, possession, ambition, ignorance are deadly ways, because they are born out of sadness and generate sadness. Evil is everything that is not joy, it does not release joy's energy and it does not lead to joy. True good and true love  never fight evil,  but they generate joy. Satan is not defeated by morality or law, but by living and creating joy. The law is one of Satan's strokes of genius because the law is by definition the absence of joy. Satan knows that everything man performs while he is far from joy and without joy will be nothing and will lead to nothing. Satan fights men of faith, he hates the humble, he cannot stand those who love lovingly, he despises the martyrs, but he enters a state of lethal hallucination when he approaches a man or a woman who is joyful. Morality without joy, goodness without joy, sacraments without joy, the Word of God without joy, communities without joy, duty without  joy, praising God without joy, justice without joy, being right without joy are all going in Satan's direction. Satan connot even go near to a man, who sings all day in the joy of his Lord. God is joy. Everything is made of the substance of God, which is joy. God does all that He does for His name's sake, and God's unpronounceable name is joy, total joy, unbounded joy, endless joy. Jesus himself incessantly explains that  everything he has come to bring to humanity, in power and strength, love and knowledge, has the sole purpose of bringing man joy, the fullness of joy in overflowing measure: I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete (John 15:11). Jesus himself gave  to his message the name of euanghèlion, the proclamation of joy.

 Joy substance of God
Humility that does not come from joy and does not release joy
has the same meaning, direction, and sense as envy and pride.
Poverty that does not come from joy and does not release joy 
has the same meaning, direction, and sense as misery and opulence.
Prayer that does not come from joy and does not release joy
has the same meaning, direction, and sense as blasphemy and denying God.
Forgiveness  that does not come from joy and does not release joy
has the same meaning, direction, and sense as revenge and anger.
Love that does not come from joy and does not release joy
has the same meaning, direction, and sense as possession and indifference.
Charity that does not come from joy and does not release joy
has the same meaning, direction, and sense as greed and injustice.
The gift of oneself that does not come from joy and does not release joy
has the same meaning, direction, and sense as cruelty, ambition, and egotism.
Freedom that does not come from joy and does not release joy
has the same meaning, direction, and sense as slavery and oppression.

 NOTHING WITHOUT JOY BECAUSE GOD IS JOY