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Giovedì 14 Novembre 2024

Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time

Word for today
The Gospel of Luke 17:20-25

The Kingdom

The fish of the ocean and all the sea creatures live in the ocean. They live in the ocean, with the ocean, off the ocean, they are part of the ocean. The ocean itself is a place of life, it is a universe of vibrations at all levels giving life to every sea creature and, in turn, lives off the life of all the fish and all the different forms of life immersed in it. The fish of the ocean and all the sea creatures live in the ocean, but it is also correct  to say that it is the ocean itself that lives among and within all the fish and all the creatures of the ocean.
Jesus speaks of the kingdom of God as an ocean of divine life where mankind and the creatures of the earth can live in vibrations of peace and happiness , health and well-being. The kingdom of God is not a place, it is not something which attracts attention arousing surprise and wonder. The kingdom of God, in Jesus' words, is that way, that certain and effective way which makes man's heart, psyche, and actions vibrate  according to the vibration of love and joy God has sown in man. Indeed, the kingdom of God is at the epicenter of man's vital energy, man's  very vibrational center as a divine being created in the image and likeness of God. The kingdom of God is the driving force of man's love and joy and, at the same time, it is the  wonderful  sum of all the vibrations of all hearts,  psyches and actions that live according to the vibration of love and joy. Far from the kingdom of God, outside of the vibrations of the kingdom of God, there cannot be a full, healthy and happy life for man.
One day, two thousand years ago, Jesus, the Son of God, came to visit the earth, but it was not a pleasure trip. It was a visit willed by God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Paraclete out of the incalculable love of God for humanity, because humanity was moving too far away from the vibrations of the kingdom of God and the frequencies of love and joy putting the very survival of life on earth at risk.  Jesus' visit of two thousand years ago was not a pleasure trip, in fact the men and women of this generation, instead of welcoming Him with deep honor, infinite gratitude and radiant happiness, caused Him to suffer humiliation and torture and finally killed him nailing Him to a tree in the shape of a cross. The real tragedy of this generation is not having refused, mocked, tortured, and murdered Jesus but having refused His message, which is the synthesis of the procedures necessary for man to realign himself with the axis of the life of the kingdom of God in order to get in tune with the frequencies of the vibrations of the kingdom of God, which are love and joy. The real tragedy of the men and women of this generation has been to reject the only proposal able to heal and save mankind. Those who refuse Jesus and His message do not reject a religion, a philosophy, a moral, but the vital center of our life and existence, they reject the knowledge that enables man to immerse himself once again in the ocean full of wonderful life of the kingdom of God.
That is why Jesus has to come back, because most of the men and women of this generation, due to ignorance, by choice, out of opportunism, greed, thirst for possession, evil, live far from the vibrations of love and joy of the kingdom of God and they are destroying life on this planet. That is why one day He has to come back. That day will be His day because on that day all the other voices ruling over humanity and who made themselves the religious, spiritual, and philosophical reference points will be quickly silenced  and no one will never mention them ever again. On His day Jesus will ask  every man and woman which kingdom they desire to belong to forever: the reign of the vibrations of possession and unhappiness of the kingdom of Satan or the vibrations of love and joy of God. For just as lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be (in his day). On that day there will be wonder and marvel astonishing the men and women of this planet, but there will also be the depth and the power of that final decision. On that day, beyond ignorance and wickedness, everyone will feel inside, with extreme precision and clarity, how far away they have gone, consciously or unconsciously, from the vibrations of love and joy of God and will decide in which ocean they want to dive into immersing themselves forever.