Prayer of the heart Sunday of the seventh week of Easter, the ascension of
the Lord come Holy Spirit and help me to put in your presence everything that
worries me, everything that worries me, everything that disturbs my peace. You
know what my deepest concerns are, but I want to tell you, because
it' s better to share them with you that I intend to face with
my own human forces. Listen to me, sir, because he cries to
you with all my soul to you, I raise my arms and I beg
you to help me. Today we also celebrate the Feast of Santo Domingo de
la Calzada and the Blessed to the Gold of the Portillo. The Bagelium of
Saint Mark, chapter sixteen verses fifteen to twenty. At that time genus appeared
to the eleven and told them to go to the whole mountain and proclaim the
Gospel the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved. Anyone
who resists believing will be condemned. Those who believe will be accompanied by these
signs, They will cast demons and my name will have new tongues, they
will take snakes in their hands, and if they drink deadly poison, they
will not hurt them and impose their hands on the sick and they will be
healthy. After speaking to them, Lord Jesus went up to heaven and sat
at the right hand of God. They went to proclaim that the Gospel was
everywhere and the Lord cooperated by confirming the word with the signs that accompanied them.
Lord let this prayer lead me to ascend my faith to the hope of
charity so that with great joy I may fulfill all that you have commanded me,
knowing that you will be eaten every day that the joy of much ascension.
Lord take me to focus my life on love. Jesus part ascends to
heaven, that is, he returns to the father, who has sent him
into the world, did his job and returned to the father, but it
is not a separation, because he always stays with us. In a new
way, with his ascension to the risen Lord, he draws our gaze to
the apostles and also our gaze to the heights of heaven, to show us
that the goal of our journey is the Father. He himself said he would
have left to prepare us a place in heaven. In the meantime, Jesus
remains present and active in the situations of the human estr, with the power
of the gifts of the Holy Spirit in his real presence. I wanted it.
He is next to each of us and although we do not see him
with our eyes, he is, accompanies us and guides us, takes us
by the hand and lifts us up when we fall. Jesus risen, is
close to persecuted and discriminated Christians, close to every man and woman who suffers.
It is close to all of us and you leave said Fray Luis Bredón,
Fray Luis de León and leave Pastor Santo tu Grey in this deep dark
valley with solitude and weeping and you breaking the pure air you go to the
immortal safe. Thus began his ode to ascension. With this lyrical charm and
nostalgic air, he addresses Christ who sees him, who sees him going up
to heaven as he wants to cling to the garments, so that he does
not leave and stays longer among his own. That had to be also the
experience of the apostles and disciples of Christ when they saw him ascend to heaven
and keep saying. The rather dice and now sad and afflicted to your breasts,
raised to you dispossessed to do, will already convert their senses. What
shall their eyes look upon, that they have seen of their face of beauty,
lest it be in their eyes. Who has heard your sweetness, who
will have it post- sorbing and misfortune. These inspired kisses, no doubt,
but I think we should also harbor other feelings than our heart. In
our hearts, joy, deep joy and rejoicing, because our lord has triumphed
definitively with his glorious resurrection has overcome our enemies, the devil, sin and
death, but his ascension to heaven confirms his victory and looks to his glorification.
As redeeming messiah and son of God, This triumph is not only of
him, it is also ours, because Christ has opened us to the gates
of heaven of the Kingdom of the Cirus and now he is leaving, as
he told his apostles of the last supper, to prepare a place for us.
And then, when he' s ready for us again, he'
ll come back and take us to get us where he is, so he
' ll be good with him forever. This is the profound reason for our
hope. When I hear someone dies, especially if it' s a friend
or a loved one. I personally experience along with the deep and human pain
of a death, great peace and a holy envy always seen from faith how
great bliss for him. I think to myself that he already enjoys God forever
and there will be neither sadness nor tears. And hopefully, have me touch
this countless happiness soon. I don' t understand why some people get sad,
downcast, use despair or sometimes reveal themselves against God by the death of
a loved one and is already enjoying God for all of eternity blessed He,
obviously, will last us all the separation, like the apostles. It hurt
for Jesus, sir, to go to heaven. But what an immense joy
for Jesus and, therefore, also for us. That light is perfectly understood
by those words of use, be it, sir, spoken in the Upper
Room on the night of farewell. If you loved me, you' d
be glad of whoever left me because I' m going to the father.
Now he' s definitely going to heaven and we shouldn' t be happy
with him, too. But as God is, as Christ is, God
is omnipotent and for him there is no impossible. He leaves, but stays
at the same time as he did the Blessed night, the young saint,
when he estranges Christia. Only his love could have such occurrences, but his
is an all- powerful and effective love. Our human love also dreams and
experiences our similar desires. But we are radically powerless to fulfill. The dreams
and longings of our love. Christ can do it, he goes away,
but he stays with us. What a marvel, what a great consolation for
our solitude and for the hours of sadness that will be darkened by depression,
defeat and hopelessness. Yes, Christ stays. I won' t leave you
orphans. He' ll come to you. He promised it at the last
supper and what Christ promises he fulfills. Why I hold fast to his promises.
Let us remember what he told us before the ascension, I will not
be with you forever to be the consummation of the world. He is never
absent you are the great present. Therefore, joy, comfort or hope in
the hard and mature ones, as the popular saying says, also when sometimes
we no longer feel the hard, but the stupid. On the drums,
when of all we have our hard and bitter times of bewilderment and day of
decay all because we all go as pereinos, groaning and crying in this dance
of tears. But as Christ alone and among us, we all cannot and
by the way we are here, the feast of the ascension of the Lord
Christ going up to heaven, invites us to raise our own also, also
to bring our hearts to the heights. If you have risen with Christ,
St Paul says to the Colossians, seek the things above, where Christ is
seated at the right hand of the Father. Think of the things above,
not of the things of the earth, for ye are dead. Your life
is hidden with Christ in God. Yes, Christ is in heaven. We
too must have our heart in heaven. By the feet well set upon the
ground, let us lift up our hearts. Each Mass is invited to the
priest and we too respond. We have him raised up to the Lord for
we hope that they are not only words, but our whole life. Confirm
And finally, ascension is a call to mission and apostolate to share with others
our faith and our certainties. What are you doing there, looking up at
the sky, the angel tells us. We must go and prove the message
of Christ go all over the world and preach the Gospel to every creature,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit This was the command of the Lord before leaving, teaching them to
observe everything I have already commanded you. Your ascension is our triumph and our
ultimate victory. We rejoice in our consurrection and hope, a call to live
with our hearts in heaven, an invitation to share with others, the happiness
of our faith hallelujah to the sherujah. To finish, and although I long
the text damaged a very personal reflection. Today we also generate the memory of
the Blessed to the gold of the portillo and on the thirteenth day the feast
of our Lady of Fatima is celebrated. I still remember, because I lived
near the one in Rome the days when I was fortunate enough to be a
time of pleasant conversation Tertulia with DonÁlvaro. Many of those times we ended
up having a chat at noon and DonÁlvaro directed the prayer of the angelus
or the rina Cheri at Easter time. I have a very vivid memory of
how he directed his gaze to the image of Our Lady with what mercy and
simplicity he said small that he asked for her protection. That was what moved
me most, in addition to his words, to see his affection for Mary
Most Holy come true in his eyes in his eyes it was evident that what
you were saying in the prayer of his prayer was real that he truly loved
him. I thank God for having shared with the BeratoÁlvaro, a dream
without Rome, and pose he who called me to the priest to priesthood and
made it easier for me to be St John Paul II to order me.
Therefore, I have much to remain thanks to God, a Blessed One called
me to the priesthood and a saint commanded me Almighty God bless you this day
in Jesus Christ ascended to heaven and opened the entrance of glory to you to
reach him, Christ who appeared. The disciples after the resolution also manifest themselves
to his disciples and to you. Full of mercy when you come to the
final judgment and when you proclaim it gracious with your father, grant you the
joy to experience that remains with us until the end of the world, as
you promised, and the blessing of God almighty father, son, and holy
spirit, deciding upon you and always remain amen