«If the coming of the Kingdom of God - Kingdom of Love, Justice and Purity - were only to have been for the Israelites and the Hebrews of the Diaspora, it would not have brightly shone since, being Jesus the Man-God, universal King and of infinite power, all of Humanity could have aspired, merited and obtained the Kingdom of God within itself first, and the Kingdom of God in God later.
If this call and inheritance to the Kingdom had perhaps remained circumscribed only for the Hebrew People - something that would have only been able to occur through a striking miracle of God capable of shattering an erroneous world of ideas that, stubbornly, the Hebrews defended from anything that was able to make them fall and be dispersed - how could one have possibly said that God is an infinitely good Father to all creatures endowed with a spiritual soul? The others, all the others scattered throughout the then known continents and in those still unknown, how could they have been able to say, at the end of time, that God was good and paternal to all men? They were not guilty of having been born in other countries and in other religions. If there was a fault, it was the one of the Hebrews who had a bitter hatred and a fastidious disgust for anyone who was uncircumcised, even if he was, to a greater extent, more morally just than them.
Never, for this unjustified disgust and contrary to the command of love towards one's neighbour which is not only formed of compatriots and fellow-believers, never had Israel tried to make the true God known to those who worshipped many gods, and not even to those who, for being particularly virtuous amongst the pagans, for so much did they feel there being a true God, - different from the false gods, One, Holy, a Creator in a very different manner than what the mythical legends would say, the Guardian and Motive of all of Creation - that they raised an altar to the Unknown God, keeping it there for centuries, almost invoking Him. And without a precise command from the incarnate Word - "Go, evangelize to all the nations by baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching to them what I have taught you" - not even the best of Palestine, the elect, those taught by Him for three years through word and example would have been able to remove the heavy stones of their Hebrew conceptions and who judged as an "abomination and an impurity" everything that was not of Israel, combining in contempt the Samaritans with the Phoenicians, with the Romans and with as many who were not of the Synagogue of Israel.
The Acts of the Apostles testify to this persistent obtuseness and aversion even amongst the same Apostles. Jesus, the Master who for three years had explained to them that His Kingship was not of this world, who had refused their every insinuation to make Himself "king", who had reproached their dreams of human glory as far as making one of them His traitor for the disappointment of a vanished delirium, is about to return to the Father. And while blessing them again as He is about to leave, after having already once received the Holy Spirit from Him (John c. XX, v. 22) in order to be able to understand the supernatural and spiritual things - in order to be able, in this way, to absolve by understanding the mysteries of the heart and of the flesh - again, they ask Him, "Will you now rebuild the kingdom of Israel?" (Acts c. I, v. 6). They still had not yet understood, since they were the ancient Israel, that the Messiah was the King of a spiritual and eternal kingdom.
And years later, when Saul was already Paul, and Peter was the Pontiff and full of the Holy Spirit for quite some time, the prejudice towards the Gentiles was still so alive that God had to work a two-fold miracle (Acts c. X, v.11-16 and c. X, v.25-33) in order to persuade Peter not to refuse the centurion Cornelius of Caesarea, and a confirmation, be it for Peter as for the other Apostles and brothers of Judea (who were) ready to reproach Peter for his conduct (Acts c. X, v. 44-48 and c. XI, v. 2 and verses 15-17).
These things, certain because they are contained in a final part of the Gospel which the Fathers of the Church considered acceptable and of faith, are proof of just how strong the prejudice against the Gentiles was, even in the best of the old Israel and in the saints of the new Church of Christ.
However, Jesus, the Redeemer of all those with a just will and spirit, calling to the Kingdom all men, wanted to give evidence and proof that all men are predestined to Heaven so far as it depends on God, being He the loving and provident Father of all men.
The Gentiles did not seek justice, the true Justice; not out of scorn for it, but rather because they did not know that it existed, nor did anyone teach them that it did. However, having known that it did, they embraced it, and with a heroism of faith which amazed the world and made it Christian.
Truly, the mud of paganism was cleansed by the rivers of blood of the martyrs who, for the most part, were Gentiles converted to Christ; and the smoke of the stakes, on which the heroes of Christ burned, purified the world while the foundation of the Church had been given by the bones of the confessors, cemented by their ashes and blood. And their own names testify to how many people the Gentiles gave of martyred confessors of Christ.
And how Jesus, by calling to the Kingdom all men, testifies that the Kingdom was predestined to all men so that it could be given to those who would have merited it with their virtues; so the Gentiles, by choosing with a spontaneous good will of wanting to be part of this Kingdom of God, in man first, in Heaven later, testify that every man can belong to it, provided that he wants to, irrespective of his past.
Israel, on the contrary, though having known Justice and Wisdom for centuries, and had it wanted to, would have been in the position to complete, perfect, and receive the living Wisdom and the living Justice — Jesus, divine and incarnate Wisdom and Justice — did not want to seek this completion, this perfection; rather, instead of receiving He who came in order to make them truly just and wise, rejected, oppressed, and killed the holy and wise Christ and His followers by persisting in its evil will.
Israel did not want to be just. Never. Neither towards the Master, nor towards the Thaumaturge, nor towards the Messiah, nor towards the incarnate Word, nor towards the Innocent One. It condemned the words and actions of the Master and Thaumaturge as blasphemous and satanic, it derided and called the Messiah a liar and sacrilegious, it did not want to acknowledge the Word whose divinity was evident even to one who did want to admit it; and He who deserved every honour as both the most just Man and as the true God was given the cross instead.
This is always what perpetual Israel does, that is, the immortal class of Pharisees and scribes towards the just, towards the servants of God, the elect of God. The enemy of everything that is holy and good, an enemy of God and an enemy of the servants of God, it agitates its poisons, the inheritance of Adam's Sin against men, and it makes them concupiscent, that is, envious, spiteful, false, and unjust towards the saints who serve God in the way in which God has called them to serve Him.
Israel, the ancient and the new, has the word of justice, but it does not have the spirit of justice. It did not have it twenty centuries or so ago, and it does not have it now.
The word, rather, an avalanche of words: the unbearable "burdens" placed on the shoulders of the "little ones", whereas on their "mighty ones" they do not place any, the "doors" shut so that it be impossible for the people to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; the "tithes" that are paid for a visible respect to the Law and which don't weigh heavily on the rich, whereas they are a burden to the poor for whom there is no justice and charity, that is, the most essential things of the Law, and in order to justify their harshness, egoism, and avarice, the money which would be better spent to relieve a poverty, is defined as "corban"; all these things, which Christ spoke of to His friends and enemies with the very impartiality of He who is truthful and detached from every human thought, were and are the "word" and not the "spirit" of the Law, and are an impediment to entering into justice.
And so Israel did not enter into justice, and by remaining bound and mummified in the formulas that it had given itself, buried and made blind by the heap of stones which it had weighed upon its intellect and upon its spirit, it remained devoid, like a cadaver of life, of the perfect faith: that of Christ and in Christ; and that which should have been "Light", the "Corner stone", and also and above all for it, became the stumbling stone. Of that stone which Isaiah had spoken and predicted and which also Christ, prophesied by the old Simeon as the "ruin and resurrection of many and a sign of contradiction" says, "The stone which they rejected has become the corner stone... and whoever shall go against this stone will be shattered, and those who will be struck by this stone (the falling of the same upon them) will be crushed."
Who are those who are shattered by going against the Stone-Jesus-Church? The enemies of Christ who is the Stone-Church-Head of the Same.
It has not yet been seen that a true, great opposer has been victorious over the Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church. Twenty centuries of history shows that whoever raised their arrogant hand upon the Church and went against it, out of hatred, had its perverse dreams of glory shattered, as the ecclesiastical condemnations show; they are not a "word", but a reality which God underwrites with His will and that those struck by them (condemnations) can only experience ruin in time and in eternity.
Who are those upon whom the Stone falls, crushing them? Those who invoked that crushing Stone upon themselves by crying out, "His Blood fall upon us and upon our children."
And that Blood fell. And it crushed the Temple and the Altar, the priests, the mighty ones, and even the least of Israel, and with them, it crushed their foolish national pride, their merciless harshness towards the least ones, and their erroneous deductions and convictions regarding the Kingdom and the Messiah-King. It crushed everything. For centuries. Nor has the crushing ended. For as long as from the pride and from the stubborn blindness of Israel - the same even if the Stone fallen on Israel has pulverized and scattered the pride of Israel like dust - the humble invoking cry of forgiveness does not rise, the cry of knowledge and of acknowledgment that the Eternal One awaits for twenty centuries so as to forgive Israel of its horrendous sin of deicide and in order to re-admit it to the saving vision of Christ, "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna to Christ Son of God through an eternal generation and to the Son of David through a human generation of the Virgin, shoot from the root of Jesse, the flower, the inviolate lily which has come from this root, through whom, having appeared the Spirit of the Lord upon the virginal and immaculate corolla, came the Emmanuel!"
Until that moment, the condemnation will weigh heavily upon Israel, whereas for those who, notwithstanding where they are from, believe in Christ, or at least, through good will, for having practiced justice and through charity exercised towards one's neighbour and towards the perceived God, even if He is not known, belong to the soul of the Church, there will be affirmation of their hopes and a reward for their virtues.»