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Prayer of the heart Sunday of the
seventh week of Easter, the ascension of

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the Lord come Holy Spirit and help
me to put in your presence everything that

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worries me, everything that worries me, everything that disturbs my peace. You

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know what my deepest concerns are,
but I want to tell you, because

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it' s better to share them
with you that I intend to face with

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my own human forces. Listen to
me, sir, because he cries to

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you with all my soul to you, I raise my arms and I beg

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you to help me. Today we
also celebrate the Feast of Santo Domingo de

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la Calzada and the Blessed to the
Gold of the Portillo. The Bagelium of

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Saint Mark, chapter sixteen verses fifteen
to twenty. At that time genus appeared

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to the eleven and told them to
go to the whole mountain and proclaim the

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Gospel the whole creation. Whoever believes
and is baptized will be saved. Anyone

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who resists believing will be condemned.
Those who believe will be accompanied by these

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signs, They will cast demons and
my name will have new tongues, they

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will take snakes in their hands,
and if they drink deadly poison, they

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will not hurt them and impose their
hands on the sick and they will be

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healthy. After speaking to them,
Lord Jesus went up to heaven and sat

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at the right hand of God.
They went to proclaim that the Gospel was

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everywhere and the Lord cooperated by confirming
the word with the signs that accompanied them.

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Lord let this prayer lead me to
ascend my faith to the hope of

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charity so that with great joy I
may fulfill all that you have commanded me,

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knowing that you will be eaten every
day that the joy of much ascension.

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Lord take me to focus my life
on love. Jesus part ascends to

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heaven, that is, he returns
to the father, who has sent him

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into the world, did his job
and returned to the father, but it

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is not a separation, because he
always stays with us. In a new

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way, with his ascension to the
risen Lord, he draws our gaze to

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the apostles and also our gaze to
the heights of heaven, to show us

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that the goal of our journey is
the Father. He himself said he would

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have left to prepare us a place
in heaven. In the meantime, Jesus

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remains present and active in the situations
of the human estr, with the power

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of the gifts of the Holy Spirit
in his real presence. I wanted it.

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He is next to each of us
and although we do not see him

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with our eyes, he is,
accompanies us and guides us, takes us

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by the hand and lifts us up
when we fall. Jesus risen, is

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close to persecuted and discriminated Christians,
close to every man and woman who suffers.

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It is close to all of us
and you leave said Fray Luis Bredón,

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Fray Luis de León and leave Pastor
Santo tu Grey in this deep dark

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valley with solitude and weeping and you
breaking the pure air you go to the

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immortal safe. Thus began his ode
to ascension. With this lyrical charm and

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nostalgic air, he addresses Christ who
sees him, who sees him going up

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to heaven as he wants to cling
to the garments, so that he does

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not leave and stays longer among his
own. That had to be also the

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experience of the apostles and disciples of
Christ when they saw him ascend to heaven

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and keep saying. The rather dice
and now sad and afflicted to your breasts,

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raised to you dispossessed to do,
will already convert their senses. What

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shall their eyes look upon, that
they have seen of their face of beauty,

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lest it be in their eyes.
Who has heard your sweetness, who

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will have it post- sorbing and
misfortune. These inspired kisses, no doubt,

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but I think we should also harbor
other feelings than our heart. In

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our hearts, joy, deep joy
and rejoicing, because our lord has triumphed

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definitively with his glorious resurrection has overcome
our enemies, the devil, sin and

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death, but his ascension to heaven
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As redeeming messiah and son of God, This triumph is not only of

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him, it is also ours,
because Christ has opened us to the gates

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of heaven of the Kingdom of the
Cirus and now he is leaving, as

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he told his apostles of the last
supper, to prepare a place for us.

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And then, when he' s
ready for us again, he'

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ll come back and take us to
get us where he is, so he

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' ll be good with him forever. This is the profound reason for our

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hope. When I hear someone dies, especially if it' s a friend

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or a loved one. I personally
experience along with the deep and human pain

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of a death, great peace and
a holy envy always seen from faith how

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great bliss for him. I think
to myself that he already enjoys God forever

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and there will be neither sadness nor
tears. And hopefully, have me touch

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this countless happiness soon. I don' t understand why some people get sad,

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downcast, use despair or sometimes reveal
themselves against God by the death of

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a loved one and is already enjoying
God for all of eternity blessed He,

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obviously, will last us all the
separation, like the apostles. It hurt

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for Jesus, sir, to go
to heaven. But what an immense joy

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for Jesus and, therefore, also
for us. That light is perfectly understood

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by those words of use, be
it, sir, spoken in the Upper

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Room on the night of farewell.
If you loved me, you' d

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be glad of whoever left me because
I' m going to the father.

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Now he' s definitely going to
heaven and we shouldn' t be happy

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with him, too. But as
God is, as Christ is, God

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is omnipotent and for him there is
no impossible. He leaves, but stays

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at the same time as he did
the Blessed night, the young saint,

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when he estranges Christia. Only his
love could have such occurrences, but his

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is an all- powerful and effective
love. Our human love also dreams and

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experiences our similar desires. But we
are radically powerless to fulfill. The dreams

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and longings of our love. Christ
can do it, he goes away,

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but he stays with us. What
a marvel, what a great consolation for

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our solitude and for the hours of
sadness that will be darkened by depression,

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defeat and hopelessness. Yes, Christ
stays. I won' t leave you

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orphans. He' ll come to
you. He promised it at the last

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supper and what Christ promises he fulfills. Why I hold fast to his promises.

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Let us remember what he told us
before the ascension, I will not

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be with you forever to be the
consummation of the world. He is never

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absent you are the great present.
Therefore, joy, comfort or hope in

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the hard and mature ones, as
the popular saying says, also when sometimes

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we no longer feel the hard,
but the stupid. On the drums,

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when of all we have our hard
and bitter times of bewilderment and day of

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decay all because we all go as
pereinos, groaning and crying in this dance

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of tears. But as Christ alone
and among us, we all cannot and

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by the way we are here,
the feast of the ascension of the Lord

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Christ going up to heaven, invites
us to raise our own also, also

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to bring our hearts to the heights. If you have risen with Christ,

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St Paul says to the Colossians,
seek the things above, where Christ is

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seated at the right hand of the
Father. Think of the things above,

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not of the things of the earth, for ye are dead. Your life

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is hidden with Christ in God.
Yes, Christ is in heaven. We

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too must have our heart in heaven. By the feet well set upon the

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ground, let us lift up our
hearts. Each Mass is invited to the

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priest and we too respond. We
have him raised up to the Lord for

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we hope that they are not only
words, but our whole life. Confirm

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And finally, ascension is a call
to mission and apostolate to share with others

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our faith and our certainties. What
are you doing there, looking up at

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the sky, the angel tells us. We must go and prove the message

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of Christ go all over the world
and preach the Gospel to every creature,

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baptizing them in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the

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Holy Spirit This was the command of
the Lord before leaving, teaching them to

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observe everything I have already commanded you. Your ascension is our triumph and our

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ultimate victory. We rejoice in our
consurrection and hope, a call to live

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with our hearts in heaven, an
invitation to share with others, the happiness

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of our faith hallelujah to the sherujah. To finish, and although I long

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the text damaged a very personal reflection. Today we also generate the memory of

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the Blessed to the gold of the
portillo and on the thirteenth day the feast

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of our Lady of Fatima is celebrated. I still remember, because I lived

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near the one in Rome the days
when I was fortunate enough to be a

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time of pleasant conversation Tertulia with DonÁlvaro. Many of those times we ended

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up having a chat at noon and
DonÁlvaro directed the prayer of the angelus

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or the rina Cheri at Easter time. I have a very vivid memory of

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how he directed his gaze to the
image of Our Lady with what mercy and

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simplicity he said small that he asked
for her protection. That was what moved

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me most, in addition to his
words, to see his affection for Mary

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Most Holy come true in his eyes
in his eyes it was evident that what

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you were saying in the prayer of
his prayer was real that he truly loved

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him. I thank God for having
shared with the BeratoÁlvaro, a dream

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without Rome, and pose he who
called me to the priest to priesthood and

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made it easier for me to be
St John Paul II to order me.

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Therefore, I have much to remain
thanks to God, a Blessed One called

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me to the priesthood and a saint
commanded me Almighty God bless you this day

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in Jesus Christ ascended to heaven and
opened the entrance of glory to you to

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reach him, Christ who appeared.
The disciples after the resolution also manifest themselves

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to his disciples and to you.
Full of mercy when you come to the

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final judgment and when you proclaim it
gracious with your father, grant you the

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joy to experience that remains with us
until the end of the world, as

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you promised, and the blessing of
God almighty father, son, and holy

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spirit, deciding upon you and always
remain amen