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Prayer of the heart. Monday of
the sixth week of Easter, come Holy

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Spirit and help me to put in
your presence everything that worries me, everything

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that worries me, everything that disturbs
me and peace. You know what my

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deepest concerns are, but today I
want to tell you, because it'

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s better to share them with you
than to pretend to face them with my

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few human forces. Listen to me, sir, because I cry to you

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

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to help me. Today we celebrate
Santo Domingo Sabio. The gospel is from

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St John. Chapter fifteen verses,
twenty- six from now on. At

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that time, Jesus told his disciples, when he comes to the paracritus,

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that I will send you from the
father the spirit of truth that the father

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proceeds, he will bear witness to
me and also others will bear witness because

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from the beginning you are with me. He has spoken of this to you

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so that you may not be offended
by bears who will commune with the synagogues.

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Even more will come an hour when
the one who gives you death will

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think that he worships God and explore
because they have not known the Father or

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me. I have told you about
this so that when the time comes you

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will remember that I told you.
You too will bear witness. To be

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Christ' s witnesses to his resurrection. That is the mission that the Lord

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asks of each one of us as
Christians, and for that he chooses us.

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He chose a few men to establish
his reign in the world were most

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of them humble, fishermen with little
culture, full of defects and without material

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means. He erected the world'
s fraucity to confuse strong human foods.

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It is incomprehensible that this is men
who will come to spread the utria of

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Christ throughout the earth in such a
short time and having in unspeakable fendiz obstacles

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and contradictions. A current sociological analysis
of the situation of the Empire would have

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resulted in the impossibility of evangelizing it
to its very end over us. Also

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that grain of bstaza in the relationship
with the task entrusted to us by the

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Lord In the midst of a world
not too different from that found by the

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first evangelizers, we must not forget
the disproportion between the means and within our

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reach, our scarce talents and the
magnitude of the position we are to perform.

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But we must not leave aside that
we will always have help from the

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Lord who moves hearts through his spirit. Difficulties will arise and we will then

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be more aware of our smallness.
This should lead us to rely more on

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prayer and the supernatural character of the
task entrusted to us by the Lord himself.

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In the hours says St Joseph Mary
on the way, in the hours

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of struggle and tradition, when the
good may fill your way with obstacles,

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do to your heart the apostle.
Listen to God, to Jesus who speaks

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of mustard seed and yeast and tell
him and he says novispara ballan explain to

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me the self parable and you will
feel the joy of contemplating the future victory,

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speaking of heaven in the shelter of
the apostolate, now incipient and all

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the fermented mass. But the early
Christians found a society mined in its foundations,

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on which it was practically impossible to
build any ideal. Paul thus describes

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the Roman city and the pagan world
in general, which had darkened in many

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respects the natural light of reason and
had remained blind to see the same dignity

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of man, says St Paul in
the hunt for the Romans, for which

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God abandoned them to the desires of
his heart, to the vices of impurity.

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That is why God gave them to
the infamous passions, for since they

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would not acknowledge God, he gave
us a new sense of fate that they

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have done unworthy things of man,
being filled with all manner of wickedness,

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wickedness, malice, fabrication, aberacy, perversity, full of envy, murderous,

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penniless, fragrant, evil, gossiping, infidel, enemies of God,

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outragers, proud, altar- keepers, inventors of vices, disobedient to their

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parents, torn, disloved, disloyal, merciless. So far the text of

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St Paul and from within this society, Christians transformed it. There the seed

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fell and from there to the whole
world and, although insignificant, carried a

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divine force that belonged to Christ.
The first Christians who arrived in Rome were

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no different from us and with the
help of Grace, they exercised an effective

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apostolate working side by side in the
same professions as others, with the same

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problems, reducing, obeying, pardoning
also more laws unless they were against those

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of God. The obstacles of the
environment should not discourage us, even if

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we see in our society signs similar
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The Lord is counting on us to
transform the escape where our daily life

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unfolds. Let us not fail to
carry out that which is in our hands,

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even if it seems to us to
be little, so little as some

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insifying mustard pomegranates that Lord Visboa will
increase our efforts and the prayer and sacrifice

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we have put forth will bear their
fruit. The proclamation of the Gospel,

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most of the time carried out by
co- workers in the neighbourhood office,

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meant for entire families a radical change
of life and internal salvation. For another

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scandal and for many foolishness. Paul
declares to the Christians of Rome that he

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is not ashamed of the Gospel,
because he is a force of God to

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be the salvation of everything, of
everyone who believes in the first Christians.

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We must learn not to have false
human respect, not to have the,

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not to fear the one they will
say, to keep alive the concern to

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make Christ known in any solution in
which we will face with the clear awareness

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that it is the treasure we have
found, the precious pearl we find after

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much searching. We are few in
relation to the task ahead of us,

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but it is the same for heaven
to save with many that with few who

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in war does not depend on the
victory of the crowd in the army,

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but on the strength of a few. It has always been yes in the

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effort of God, from the beginnings
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God uses little for his great works. Nor will we lack the help.

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It' s gonna be like he' s almost back with the big force.

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Wherever we are. Let us not
fail to do what is within our

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reach, even if it seems to
us to be irreverent in the face of

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what the world needs. In the
midst of the joy of the feast a

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cana, only Mary warns of the
lack of wine to the smallest details of

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the service. The soul comes,
if like her you live passionately attentive to

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your neighbor. For God' s
sake, have the blessing that Lord is

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in your heart that you may know
evil with all of him, that I

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may be your lips, that you
may speak with strength and faith, and

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his resurrection, that I may be
your arms, that you may take a

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rest for his sake and for this
of his kingdom, that your feet may

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be, that you may walk in
the paths of peace, that the Lord

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may show you that your eyes may
be clean, that your eyes may see

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Jesus in others, that they may
be your joy, that you may never

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lose, even if you have reason, and that you may find others in

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the name of the father and of
the son and of the Holy Spirit Amen.