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Wednesday 25 November 2020

Thirty-fourth Week of Ordinary Time

Word for today
The Gospel of Luke 21:12-19

To betray

Lucifer's goal is to do everything possible to ensure that the greatest number of God's children will one way or another willingly surrender themselves into his satanic hands, and thus will be permanently lost, distancing themselves completely from God and His love. The individual who gives himself deliberately to Satan, consigns to him the life of his spirit, heart and body.
Satan does not, however, have the power to grasp the spirits and hearts of those who has chosen to love and serve the God of life and those who do not give themselves to Satan in the name of power, success, prestige , wealth and human glory. Satan is allowed only to affect their physical person and their material and social life, and he cannot in any case do it directly with his own hands; he must do it through the hands, choices, actions of the children who have sold and dedicated themselves to him.
God's friends who work for the salvation and the awakening of God's people, are the ones that Satan hates most of all. They are his worst enemies, but he cannot directly strike their hearts and spirits, and so what does he do? Satan has organized his entire earthly kingdom in such a way that God's servants, who are at the service of God's people, in this earthly life are constantly thwarted, delayed, oppressed by enemies, be they occasional or organized like the system of power, hierarchies, training systems or economic principalities. As Satan cannot directly sink his teeth into the spirits and hearts of God's servants, he tries to persuade his own servants to deliver the Lord's workers into the hands of their earthly enemies, who are always ready to strike, to destroy, and to annihilate God's children. What is Satan's way to make sure that his servants deliver God's children into the hands of their enemies? It is betrayal. To betray, from Latin tradere, means to give, to deliver, to place in the enemy's hands. To betray is not only to lack faith towards the one who trusts you. To betray is to tie a pact with the evil one to deliver someone to the enemy. Through the betrayal that delivers a child of God into the hands of the enemies, the evil one's servants sell their hearts to Satan and acquire greater human power. The betrayal's lord and master is Lucifer because it is through betrayal that he absorbs the souls of God's children who submit themselves to him, thus impeding the path of God's servants. Jesus warns mankind that Satan will use everything and everyone to block the way of God's children, and in particular he will use betrayal to deliver God's children into the hand of their enemies. Jesus also adds that Satan, the mocking king of betrayal, will ensure that the betrayers of God's children are the closest and most trusted people such as parents, siblings, relatives, friends. Betraying brothers and delivering them to the enemy is a very effective and powerful way to let Satan into one's heart and to deliver one's life to him. The individual who does not want to betray his/her brothers will suffer slander, condemnation, persecution, even death, but none of his spiritual essence or own divine life will be touched by the evil one and not a hair of his head will perish.