The most divine Author says,
«What God establishes is always perfect, be it in regards to time, as to the way, and to the person.
It is, therefore, as promised at the beginning of the punishment, that Christ comes at the perfect hour. The centuries pass with an ever clearer voice and with ever sharper particulars, the voice of the divine promise of a Redeeming Messiah and of the Woman without concupiscence who will punish the Prevaricator by giving birth to the Victor of Sin and Death.
Many are the symbols and voices which repeat the promise in the centuries. However, one divine word has still not been understood in its truth.
In Chap. 9 of Genesis, it is said, "...I will set my rainbow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between Me and the Earth. And when I will have accumulated clouds (the punishments) in the sky, my rainbow shall appear in the clouds and I will remember my covenant... of the everlasting covenant established between God and with every flesh that is upon the Earth."
Rainbow: sign of peace. Rainbow: bridge between Heaven and Earth.
Mary, the peaceful bridge joining Heaven and Earth, the most Beloved One who obtains mercy for sinners with Her sole presence. And God, in the centuries before Christ, when the prevarications of men, obstinate and proud, accumulated the clouds of the divine chastisements upon Humanity, contemplating in His Thought She who ab eterno was established the Ark of the divine Word, Fount of Grace, Seat of Wisdom, the peaceful joy of Her Lord, dispersed the clouds of the inexorable chastisement, granting time to Humanity in expectation of Salvation.
The voice of the still unborn Virgin, "Peace! Mercy! my Lord!" Her perfect love, Her perfect obedience, already noticed by God before the purest Star was, the sweet sacrificial odour that appeased the wrath of the Lord. And in the centuries after Christ, Mary is peace and mercy for Humanity. And with the growing of sins and the increasing of storm clouds of divine wrath and satanic fumes, Mary is always the one who scatters the clouds, who disarms the lightening, who builds her mystical bridge for Humanity who has fallen into the abyss so that it can rise up sweetly towards its Good.
"I will set my rainbow amongst the clouds... and I will remember my covenant."
Oh! truly the Rainbow of peace, the Co-Redemptrix is amongst the clouds, above the clouds, the sweet star that shines in the presence of God in order to remind Him that He has promised mercy to men and who has given His Son so that men may have forgiveness. She is such, not as a sweet thought but as a true reality, complete, with Her soul without blemish and Her flesh without corruption. Nor is She content at being adored or blessed, but shows Herself to be active and calls, She again calls Humanity to Salvation.
The hour of Mary. This hour.
The ark of Noah did not save all men but those amongst whom God found to be just in His presence. Even in the present hour, an hour that rises and which has to pass, and the more it advances, the more it shall be darkened by the storm clouds, the Ark of God will not be able to save all men, but because men, many men, will not want to be saved by finding salvation by means of the Ark of God.
The rainbow after the flood was seen only by the few just ones who had remained alive on Earth. In the present hour instead, Mary, the rainbow, the sign of peace for a superabounding of mercy, will be seen by many who are not just. Her voice, Her perfume and Her prodigies will be noticed by the just and by sinners, and blessed those amongst these last ones who, as for the Rainbow of God the wrath of God is not unleashed, so too, to justice, to faith in Jesus in whom is salvation, will they turn.
Christ, therefore, came at the established time in order to re-establish order disturbed by original Sin and the relationships of progeny between God and men. The established Victim came to die not only for the good, but also and above all, for sinners.
All were at least sinners of the hereditary sin. Only Mary was without sin. The holy works of the just, though being blessed by the Eternal, did not give to the spirits of the just, the inheritance to the Kingdom of God.
To have been just was a serious effort because Grace was not in the spirits. The Law was the cause of sin more than of salvation because for too many of the people of God, the Law was by now the "reason of wrath" for how tampered and violated it was. Wisdom had been distorted in its voices, adapted by men to preach that which was not made to the glory of God, but to the benefit of the avid teachers.
A more serious chaos, because it was spiritual, had occurred to the simple, perfect Law of the Lord, and spirits would lose themselves in it whenever they weren't completely lost by giving themselves spiritual death. An idolatry worse than the one of the golden calf was in the consciences of most people. Every powerful [man] of Israel was a "golden calf", and he would idolize himself and wanted to be idolized by the crowds.
The Temple was a name; the rites, a mimical representation. The invisible divine Presence in the Holy of Holies was not believed other than by the simple ones, by the little ones amongst the people who had the name of holy. Still the Priests and the Rabbis taught that God was in His Temple, magnificent in His glory, speaking to His ministers. However, they knew well that God had already abandoned the Temple where He was not adored, only the interests of the Princes of the Priests, of the scribes and the Pharisees. They felt the emptiness that had occurred to the Presence. The irremediable emptiness. Because none of the industries of men can fill the emptiness of God. Every work is in vain to fill, or at least to hide, the emptiness of an altar from which God has left. Nothing. And nothing can deceive and give peace to one who has within his consciousness the knowledge that God is no longer present, that He has abandoned the proud to their destiny, to their concupiscences, to their idolatries.
And Jesus came in that hour. If God were to measure things to the measure of men, never an hour less propitious than that one should have been chosen for the coming of the hour of Mercy. However, it was not only the hour of Mercy. It was also the hour of Justice. Justice for Israel no longer worthy of being the People of God. Another people had to be elected in its place: the Christian people.
The end of the Temple had come. The new Law, the perfection of the ancient one, imposed itself and was preached to men directly by God. The Love of God showed itself in its fullness to men.
Charity does not mean injustice, though it is all mercy. Charity means to do everything for the love of men. This is also the precept which Jesus has given to you.
However, He, Perfection, did not limit Himself to teach that there is no greater love than that of the one who lays down his life for his friends. He died. And not only for His friends, for the just and those eager for justice - even these last ones are friends of God, even if they are still weak, shapeless in spirit -. He also died for His enemies. From the cross, He did not pray for His friends, but for His enemies.
Eternal and infinite Wisdom, Christ knew how, through man, sin had entered the world together with death and had spread to all men, and how it was also prior to the Law. If there had not been any sin, there would not have been the need for a code against sin. It [sin] is fermented in its diverse forms by pride, gluttony, and avarice which made the Progenitors insane as far as making them rebellious towards God. And after the violence made to the order of God, to God therefore, it was followed by the violence made towards innocence violated and destroyed in order to give way to evil, and this was followed by violence made to a brother, with the fratricide committed by Cain, and the murder of Lamech, and the lust of the sons of God towards the daughters of men, and the pride of the builders of Babel, and the avidity of the people and of the tribes, and the various sins of Sodom and Gomorrha, flourishing ever more strongly in the centuries.
And Christ, dying, prays for the enemies of God so that they can have forgiveness and return to justice. Jesus is the restorer of order.
If, on a scale, one places a weight disproportionate to the balancing weight, the scale leans to one side; however, if the equilibrium is re-established, the two plates of the scale would then place themselves on one single line.
Well then: for the crime of one, many perished. The scale of God leaned all to the side of Justice. However, because of the sacrifice of Christ, Grace and Life are given to all those who believe in Jesus. And in this way, the equilibrium is not only re-established, but given that the sacrifice of the Man-God is of infinite value and infinite are the merits of Christ the Saviour, while the sin of Adam, though M its gravity, is never without limits - and it is shown by the fact that it could have been repaired, whereas if it had been infinite, it could not have been and the two infinities, that of Grace and that of Sin, would have confronted each other without being able to fight and one winning since two equal forces remain thus, one in opposition to the other - the balance of God leans to the side of Mercy, and mercy and forgiveness overflow from the plate filled with the divine Blood shed for the salvation of the world.
All shed. All the more shed, the more abundant sin was, so that Grace, by abounding, could conquer sin, and Life could conquer [over] Death, dying in order to render Life to the immortal souls of men: Life, that is, the Kingdom of God in you and for you here, and beyond life, in the Kingdom of Heaven.»