Prayer of the heart Thursday of the sixth week of Easter. 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 than to pretend to face them with my few human forces.
Listen to me, sir, because I cry out to you with all
my soul to you and raise my arms and I pray that you will help
me. Today we celebrate St Isaiah the Prophet. The Gospel is from St
John chapter sixteen verses, sixteen to twenty. You won' t see me
in a while, but in a little while you' ll see me again.
We commented on some of the disciples in tonces. What does that mean?
Sooner or later you won' t see me, but soon or later
you saw me again? And that' s what I' m going to
the father and they were wondering what that little thing did. We don'
t understand what he' s saying. Jesus understood that they wanted to ask
him and told them that you are discussing what I told you. Soon you
will no longer see me and within a little while you will see in truth
again, Verily I say unto you, ye shall weep and wash yourselves.
While the world will be joyful, you will be sad. But will your
sadness become joy? But will your sadness become joy? These farewell words of
Christ to his disciples recorded in chapter sixteen of the Gospel of St John.
They tell us about joy after sadness. You apostles had the great joy of
seeing the risen Christ, but before you saw the apparent failure of the Lord
at Calvary. They went through the pain of seeing from seeing their master taken
or l lns, treated, crucified and dead. They now enjoy in heaven
the eternal and very close beneficence of Christ. But here on earth, they
suffered all kinds of persecution to be faithful to God, to bear witness to
the Gospel, to proclaim the good news of Jesus of Nazareth, to preach
Christ, who was crucified and resurrected, to an entire pagan world. Motive
of joy. It is the love that Christ has for us to know that
we are loved by God as the Father sent me I love myself so I
have also loved you this. I tell you this so that I may enjoy
myself with you and you may rejoice. A Christian, a child of God,
has every reason to be always happy about how much he has received from
God. The benefits exceed the number as they depart from the sea rejoiced always
a lord again rhodigo gladdens St Paul says in the Letter of the Lipenses.
Joy is an integral part of the Christian' s cane. Why should it
be a sower of peace and joy and should always be manifested in the life
of each one and in the serene and joyful atmosphere of each Christian family?
Saint Joseph Mary said, the virtue of hope, assurance that God governs us
with his provident omnipotence that gives us the necessary means. He tells us of
the Lord' s continuing kindness to men with me, always willing to hear
us because he never tires of listening. He is interested in your joys,
your successes, your love and also your troubles, your pain, your failures.
That' s why you don' t expect him on it. Only
when you press yourself with your divinity, address your Heavenly father in favorable and
adverse circumstances, accepting his mercy, his merciful protection, and the certainty of
our personal unignulity. It does not take great humility to recognize this reality.
We are an authentic multitude of s It will be brought into an irresistible fortress,
because to the left of our self will be Christ and that figure in
measurable turns out the lord is my strength and my refuge to whom I will
fear so far the text of St Joseph Mary. Joy is the fruit of
faith in the abandonment of God, of generosity, of the dedication of duty
to every Christian. It is to lead peace and happiness through numerous ambient paths
of the earth in a crusade of recirement and joy that renews, that removes
to the musty and rotten hearts and lifts them up to it. And if
that joy is lacking, it is that something does not stand between us and
God. Christian joy proceeds the effective desire to do the holy will of God
in everything. If we do so, we will always discover motives and sources
of muse joy. To live in grace and to have a clean soul,
to practice the forgetfulness of the same thing by turning away the selfishness that can
make us happy an hour or a day, but makes us unhappy for all
life, the spirit of service or the joy of serving others, the fulfillment
of the will of God that always brings us joy and peace, generosity,
humility, sincerity to know if instrument in the hands of God the seventy-
two disciples returned and to us of joy saying Lord even the demons were submitted
to us in your name. But joy is found only in the encounter with
Christ. Only God sought and loved with sincere love, is strong with joy,
is hereity and peace, said St John Palo II. The wizard kings
were filled with immense joy when they saw a star, a joy that tells
them where God was, the star- albera wizards felt great joy. Therefore,
if we discover there we love God, we will always be happy for
what happens when they live happily. I' m happy. I should not
be looking at my life and said St Joseph Mary doing a self- consciousness
exam. But I feel happy because I see that the Lord is looking for
me once again that the Lord is still my father with God I thought every
day seems more attractive. I' m going to live in little dogs.
One day I consider another detail magnificent. I discover a picture I had not
noticed before. By the way, I don' t know what would happen
with time. Then I noticed that he assured me, for every day will
be greater. You' re happy because you' ll give more and more
in the divine adventure, in the big mess I' ve gotten you into.
I will see that I do not leave you says St Joseph Mary in
groove, neither external setbacks nor personal miseries can take away a joy, because
God can get good out of everything. We must foretell them with peace and
knowing that if we regard them as the will of God, even though we
do not understand them, they will not make us sad. He has measured
a cloud of lack, of desire, of loss, of illusion. Eight
Basques have fallen in sadness with the clear feeling of being gifted and as a
colophon. You were stalked by decays born of a more or less objective reality.
So many years fighting and you' re still so far back, so
far away. All that is necessary and God has that to reach the goz
of a gobache. True peace and joy. We must add to the conviction
of our divine affliction, which does not fill optimism, the recognition of one
’ s own personal weakness. Allery is key in our lives. If it
is missing, we cannot expect it to come alone, but we must regain
it by considering our divine affiliation. Knowing and living as children of God,
we cannot be sad, because with sadness, the devil destroys us. God
does not want us happy on earth with a happiness that is relative, compatible
with tears, with pain. That' s what we' re gonna be.
That is a joy forgiveness that is confirmed by living small things. All
right, sir boburo and faithful. He has been faithful, or I will
make you little sombre much enter into the joy of you. Sir. If
we militate, we will conclude that we must always be happy, because the
life of the Christian is a continuous happiness, Loneliness is the bitterness of the
great. We really want him. We truly love each other and note the
joyous affection of others in their family, of our friends. This is what
we must be able to convey. We must be builders of peace and joy
with the serenity of the one who has the presence of God and the joy
of surrender. The joy of our Christian life must be noted in order to
make others happy. It is true what Urteaga' s sador or loidy described
in that always cheerful to make others happy. You of the blessing that may
be in your heart, gentlemen, that you may know evil with all of
him, that your lips may be in order that you may speak with strength
and yield his resurrection, that your arms may be in order that you may
work without rest for his sake, and that I may postulate his kingdom,
that your feet may be in the paths of the peace of the Lord He
will show you that your eyes may be clean, that your eyes may see
Jesus in others, that he may be in your joy, that you may
never lose it, even if you have reason and can give it to others
in the name of the father and son and of the Holy Spirit Amen.