Dear brothers and sisters, Fiat!
Today's readings speak of agriculture. It is a subject that seems not as important as it used to be, when the cultivation of the fields conditioned the life of the whole society and constituted the activity of the majority of the population. Today, in the opulent western world, industry and the tertiary sector prevail. The agricultural world is increasingly moving away from the common horizon of interests and concerns; whether it is raining or sunny, it is more relevant to the success of the holidays than to the outcome of the harvests. And perhaps the fascinating images of this Sunday's readings might seem closer to a poetic vision than to the concreteness of life.
In the first reading (Isaiah 55:10-11) "The Lord says: As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater so is my word that goes out from my mouth”. The responsorial psalm (Psalm 64) seems like a hymn to the beauty of spring: "(Lord), Thou hast visited the earth, and hast plentifully watered it; thou hast many ways enriched it… Thou shalt bless the crown of the year of thy goodness: and thy fields shall be filled with plenty. The beautiful places of the wilderness shall grow fat: and the hills shall be girded about with joy."
The gospel (Matthew 13:1-23) also refers to the agricultural world, with a parable relating to the sowing. Preamble: in Jesus' time (but in part still today), the fields of Palestine were not like ours; people cultivated the hills, where there are small parts of good soil alternating with outcropping rocks and wild bushes. That is why those who sow the seed cannot prevent a part from being lost: on the arid path, where "the birds came and ate it up", or on the shallow ground among the stones, where " It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root ", or " among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants ". But " other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown ".
Jesus concludes: " Whoever has ears, let them hear," that is, try to understand. It is easy to understand the meaning of the parable, since a little further on it is the gospel itself that explains it. The seed is the Word of God. It spreads among men in abundance but with different outcomes, depending on where it falls: on the arid ground of those who oppose rejection or indifference, on the superficial ground of those who are distracted or inconstant, among the bushes of material interests that suffocate it, or in the good ground of those who welcome it with attention and make it fruitful.
But before and more than the outcome, we should consider the sowing: God is immense, He is the LORD, the Almighty. Though He has no need of anything or anyone, He turns to man, and becomes his interlocutor, He speaks to him: what worthiness, what gift! This is enough to manifest the greatness of man, his incomparable dignity, the unique, unrepeatable, supreme value of his existence. And when we speak of man we mean every human being, because God does not speak only to someone, more intelligent than others, or more important, or more educated: He speaks to everyone, in many ways: through the beauty of creation, the pages of the Bible, the example of the saints, the intimacy of conscience; God speaks because He is moved by an inexhaustible love for the good of the loved one.
On March 12, 1938 Jesus told Luisa that the life of one who lives in the Divine Will is formed within the Divine Being - she is conceived, born, and reborn continuously. Just as the Divine Being is always in the act of generating, in the same way she is always in the act of being born again; and as she is born again, she is reborn to new Love, new Sanctity and new Beauty. As she is reborn, she grows and takes always from God. These new births are her greatest fortune - and God’s as well, because He feels that not only the creature lives in Him, but she is also born again and she grows in His Life, being renewed in His very Act, which is always new. And as she is reborn, God delights in looking at her because she acquires a new beauty - more beautiful, more attractive than the one before. But, does she, perhaps, remain there? No. More beauties will invest her, without ever ceasing - so many as to enrapture our gaze, preventing God from moving it, to enjoy in her His endless beauties. And God loves His beauties, from which He incessantly invests her. As God looks at this creature under the rain of His various beauties, His Love does not remain behind; It makes her be born again every instant in His Love, which is always new. Therefore, she loves God always with new love, a love which always grows and never stops.
It is the Paradise which God forms within the soul. By being born again in God, she gives God always new joys, and new surprises of happiness, because as she is reborn, she is born again in God’s Power, Wisdom, Goodness and Sanctity. Recognizing His Life in her, God loves her as He loves Himself.
Now, as she is born again within God many times, God gives her virtue to be able to receive His sowing, so that He can sow in her as many of His Divine Lives as He wants. And here It is – His Will, coming into the picture. With Its FIAT, the Divine Will speaks and creates; It speaks and sows Divine Lives, making them grow with Its breath, feeding them with Its Love, giving them with Its Light the colors of all Its various beauties. And since this is life reborn in God many times, and grown within Him, God infused in her all the attributes necessary to be able to receive the sowing of His Divine Lives. These Lives are the most precious. They possess the Creative Virtue - they have God’s same value. The Most Holy Trinity can say: ‘We Ourselves formed many of our Lives and sowed them within the creature”. Comparing these Lives to the sun, its light remains like shadow before them. The expanse of Heaven is small compared to them.
Would you like to know what the use of these divine Lives will be, which have been formed with so much love in the creature? They will serve to populate the earth, and to generate the Life of the Divine Will in the human family. They are divine Lives. God’s Life never dies - It is eternal, with Him. Therefore, they are all in waiting to take possession of the creatures, in order to form one single life with them. And this is also the cause – God’s great divine reason for which He has been speaking for so long about the Divine Will. Each word God says is one of His Lives which He delivers - it is a birth which He gives to the light. Every word that He pronounces on the FIAT is a Life that He exposes, which puts Itself in communication with the creatures.
God’s Love for this creature who receives the sowing of His Divine Lives is so great that, as God speaks to her about the Divine Will, His Eternal Love pours over her, unleashing Itself and feeling loved in return. The weight of human ingratitude - of not being loved - remains empty, because God finds one who loves Him with His Love; this has the virtue of making up for all the love which all the creatures should give Him - of burning all their evils, and of filling and shortening the greatest distances. God’s Love finds in her His refreshments, His revenges; so God loves her infinitely. But God is not satisfied in loving her by Himself. He makes her loved by the Celestial Queen, as a more than tender daughter; by the Angels and the Saints, as their inseparable sister; He makes her loved by Heaven, the sun, the wind - by everyone. They feel in her the strength, the virtue of God’s Love; they feel fortunate to love her, because she is the bearer of joys for all. And God’s Love and the content He feels are such that He calls her ‘His consoler, His FIAT which He keeps on earth, His depository.