«No one escapes the sorrowful consequence of the disorder created by an angel and the Progenitors.
Not even the Son of Man, the most holy Word of the Father, who without sinning, was nonetheless familiar with the assaults of the Tempter, and who in the hour in which He became "Man", He who, like the ram of expiation, burdened by the sins of all men, was driven out to die outside of the Holy City, into the desert of deserts - that of the abandonment not only of His own people, but of friends and as far as to His own Father - though being God Himself, and therefore, Eternal, Purest and thus free from the consequences of the Sin, [He] was familiar with sorrow and death.
Not even Mary, Pure through divine privilege and through heroic will and faith, escaped the law of sorrow, the consequence of sin. And even if She did not die materially but crossed over adoring, separating Her spirit from the flesh in the delight of contemplation - in order to pave the way for She who was not to be acquainted with putridity of the flesh, for not having been acquainted with the even more absolute irreparable putridness of the Sin and of sins, but who had to, with Her glorified flesh re-united to Her purest soul, enter into Heaven as Queen - She, too, was familiar with sorrow and experienced heartache by seeing Her God and the Son of Her womb die on a cross.
No one, therefore, of those born of a woman, is immune from the consequences of the Sin which forever violated the order established by God; it altered the harmony between creatures and the Creator, defiled love which was previously holy, with false loves, that is, with the re-ebullition of carnal passions, easily disordered, and apt to bringing the human soul which was created with predestination to glory, to imperfection and to a spiritual death.
Are these consequences irreparable? Are they an obstacle to Heaven for the sons of Adam? No. If the stains of the Sin are indelible, if the punishment of death and sorrow remains, if the foments remain even after the Redeemer and the Sacraments established by Him render Grace to the descendants of Adam, not for this reason are the Heavens closed nor glory denied to those who heroically know how to achieve sanctity.
The intellect, the conscience, and the Law are amongst the many gifts that man has received from God and that have been left even after the Sin, or have been re-instated after the Redemption.
The intellect is capable of distinguishing that which is good and that which is evil. Even more, it helps man in distinguishing the divine Law which indicates that which is good and that which is evil, and it teaches how and why one can and must want to do good and not want to do evil.
The voice of the conscience - and it could also be called the "voice of the Lord Himself speaking within man" - is another help not only in spurring the will to do good deeds or in keeping the same will from doing evil deeds, but it is the source to repentance and it spurs to the reparation of an evil committed so that man can return to the grace of God that he had lost while sinning.
God has given this to man. And so that his actions could be of merit, He gave free will. Man can do anything that he wills. Good as well as evil. In his will to do one or the other is the proof which will either reconfirm him in Grace or will cast him out of the true Life.
The angelical word on the night in Bethlehem was not only a word of joy and of promise. It was also a lesson to present and future men that the Innocent One who was received in a manger and destined to die on a cross was, yes, the Prince of Peace, the Prince of the future ages, the Saviour - Yeshua - the Messiah, the Promised One in the same hour of the condemnation of the Progenitors, the Redeemer and most holy and Eternal Pontiff of the true and perfect religion, but that in order to be all this to the multitudes of the descendants of Adam, "good will" was necessary on their part.
With good will, the sacrifice of a God who incarnates Himself and of the Son of Man who dies on a cross, would not have been unavailing for individuals. With it, individuals would have had peace, true peace. Peace of the heart on Earth, during the time of exile. Peace of the spirit, and then of the spirit and of the risen flesh, in the Kingdom of Heaven, peace of immeasurable joy. Peace amongst men, amongst cities and nations. The good will of man is an essential condition so that the coming of Christ can give the fruits willed by the Father.
In the opposing voices of Good and Evil which God leaves provided it acts in order to test men and draw from Evil itself ground for eternal glory for His adoptive children, heroic in conquering Evil and desiring Good, the free will of man has a way of conquering the situation which attracts him the most. Every action of man derives from the origin of his will. If his will is good, a man will do good deeds, or at least he will strongly desire doing them. If his will is evil, a man will do evil deeds, or at least he will strongly desire doing them.
And here, my soul, I will remind you of a distant word of the Eternal Love who engraved Himself with indelible letters in your spirit, and there it shines, a beacon for your entire life and on your way towards your Love: God. "Know that it is not enough not to do evil. It is also necessary not to wish it." It was said to you so as to lead you to where you are going and where you shall end.
However, it should be said to everyone. Preached. Written in books and in churches, and also in souls. Because the person who today desires to do evil will truly do it tomorrow. For this reason, the Word said, "He who looks upon a woman with desire is already an adulterer in his heart." Whereas he who desires to do good today, and desires it everyday, it truly is as if he has done so, even if, because of a disease or because of some other obstacle, he is prohibited from doing so.
A desire which is inflamed by love so that God can be loved, known and served, and so that a sinner can mend his ways, can conquer more souls for God than not spirited lavishing deprived of pure love, and therefore, also of a hidden sacrifice. Because the desire inflamed by love so that God can be loved and so that souls can be redeemed, fuses itself to the eternal breath and desire of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit so as to make of the human being "one thing only" with God, co-operating in the glory of the Father, the Redemption of the Son, and the sanctification of the Holy Spirit.
This is the way men of good will live, those whose actions and martyrizing desire of wanting to perform them, are at times more overpowering than the action itself; they possess wisdom of the spirit, and therefore, theypractice the law of Charity and of the divine Decalogue, and they attain eternal glory.
True children of God who live according to the spirit, though forced to struggle against the assaults of evil and of the flesh, remain faithful to the order, the harmony, and the love towards God and their neighbour, and they end up fusing themselves to the eternal Perfection while those who voluntarily elect the wisdom of the flesh, an enemy to God and to His Law, following the ephemeral and immoral earthly triumph, will become familiar with the desperation of those rejected by God and the horror of the Abyss whose king is Satan.»