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Saturday 25 April 2020

Saint Mark, Evangelist

Word for today
The Gospel of Mark 16:15-20

Transformation

Jesus sent His disciples, men and women, into the whole world to announce humanity the happy and divinely effective gospel’s procedures for the wellbeing of every man and creature. Jesus sent those men and women constantly escorted by His very presence, men and women able to announce with joy such a gift, such an opportunity, able to cast away demons from people and cities, able to speak any language, to survive poisoning and heal infirmity and disease by just laying their hands. The humanity that Jesus was dreaming of, therefore, was a lively and powerful one in announcing, genial and most effective in communicating on every level and with everyone, a humanity with a deep knowledge of His evangelic procedures, free from demons both in its personal and collective life, where poison and poisoning, accidental or caused by enemies, were not harming, a humanity free from diseases and hospitals.
Jesus sent into the whole world those spirit’s pioneers, but, along the way, they turned into power’s fellows, creating morals for any occasion. Jesus sent them, constantly escorted by Himself; He sent people through whom He could have continuously worked, but along the way they got tangled in the net of compromises, of interest’s calculations, prestige and human power, loosing any communicative and thaumaturgic capacity, becoming therefore useless because incapable. Jesus sent into the world men and women free from human convention and trainings, to free man from his ignorance of God but, along the way, they became people who gather fellows and proselytes. Jesus sent people who could inspire His Word but, along the way, they became persuaders of human doctrines and traditions, binding and numbing people. Jesus sent men and women at the cutting edge of wisdom and spiritual science, new and innovative men and women, at the service of each man’s utter and integral wellbeing, but along the way, they turned into the ones who, as a job, hid and keep hiding from man the keys of wisdom, they became the most boring servants of convenience, centralizing power, stiffened and numb slaves of the established system, sterile loudspeakers of ready-made devotional schemes without any correspondence to man’s reality and life. Jesus sent men and women without any budget or any fixed base, but, along the way, they turned into bankers, owning incalculable assets and wealth, people who love to live in luxurious palaces, surrounded by every comfort and luxury, in opulence and laxity. Jesus sent precursors of a new way to live, not linked to the power of kings and governments, but, along the way, they turned into arrogant managers of power, proud intellectuals crystallized in the most abject prejudice, full of hatred and spite towards all that smells and breathes like a new of the Spirit and a prophecy. Jesus sent men and women thirsty of serving and inspiring humanity, fishermen dedicated to fish man back to love and joy in the name of God but, along the way, they became sad and dark, thirsty of power, vanity, wealth and prestige. Jesus sent men and women to transfigure man and his life in the light of God’s life but, along the way, they became enemies of humanity and its happiness. Those self-transformed people became spiritually self-sufficient and unable to talk to man about Jesus in a joyful, charming, inspiring way, they became unable to heal man from his infirmity and disease or to chase demons away from cities and generations. Those self-transformed people are not useful anymore to humanity and, as it was written and foreseen by Jesus himself, humanity will walk over them and throw them away. This is the time when, more than ever in history, anyone sent by Jesus has to decide with absolute determination either to let Jesus transfigure him or to self-transfigure himself, remaining glued to prestige, managed by the thirst of power, guided by vanity, immerse in the circle of power, because there will not be enough time to come back on one’s own steps, on one’s own choices. God and Satan, for opposite reasons, are in a hurry and they will not allow it. When a boat change route, the captain has to know precisely who is with him and who is against him in manoeuvring to change route towards a new destination. God is manoeuvring to change completely humanity route towards a new evolution and happiness’s sailing. Such a drastic and important change of route has never happened before, and will never happen again, and God needs to know now who is working with Him for humanity’s wellbeing, and who is not.  Satan as well is in a hurry to know who is with him and who is against him, who is his ally and who is not, to obstacle as much as possible God manoeuvre and lead man towards self-destruction. The one who chose to serve power, vanity and satisfy his thirst of dominion, prestige, success, is right now making a definitive choice, as never happened before in history. This is a most delicate time, a unique one. It is a time of cosmic manoeuvres, and the one who now chooses to support either life’s manoeuvre or death’s one, chooses to give up completely his life and energy to God’s or Satan’s manoeuvre, with no chance to come back.  In the human history, when man of power took advantage of their position to subdue people and exploit them to death, for their own advantage and profit, that has always been a time of deep and most severe injustice before God, and it has always manifested a clear choice to sign a covenant with Satan and rebel against God. But now everything is different. Men and women of the political, economical, religious, scientific power who choose with determination, in this time of cosmic manoeuvre, to serve human power and their thirst of dominion, accepting roles of responsibility and control at the expenses of humanity, are making a choice that is incomparable, for gravity and danger, for themselves and others, to anything that happened during the very long human history. They are, and they will be, the most wretched, cursed, unhappy and unfortunate ones in the entire history. The one who, now, for opportunism and interest, betrays his friend and the values he dedicated himself to help and serve humanity, is the most miserable, unhappy, mean, sinister, ominous, subdued, ruinous in the history. The ones who, in this most delicate and unique time in history, are working against the prophets sent by God to prepare humanity for this time, and are dedicating themselves to prevent those from accomplishing their mission, trying at the same time to sow division amongst the ones who follow them, they are making something so severe and dangerous for themselves and others, that anything like that can be found in the entire human history.     
This is a most delicate and precious time, as there has never been and never will be. It is a time when, as never before, life itself will give everybody and each one a chance to choose who to join and offer one’s own energy: either to God’s manoeuvre, or Satan’s one.