Prayer of the heart. Monday 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 me and peace. You know what my
deepest concerns are, but today 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 to you
with all my soul to you, I raise my arms and I beg you
to help me. Today we celebrate Santo Domingo Sabio. The gospel is from
St John. Chapter fifteen verses, twenty- six from now on. At
that time, Jesus told his disciples, when he comes to the paracritus,
that I will send you from the father the spirit of truth that the father
proceeds, he will bear witness to me and also others will bear witness because
from the beginning you are with me. He has spoken of this to you
so that you may not be offended by bears who will commune with the synagogues.
Even more will come an hour when the one who gives you death will
think that he worships God and explore because they have not known the Father or
me. I have told you about this so that when the time comes you
will remember that I told you. You too will bear witness. To be
Christ' s witnesses to his resurrection. That is the mission that the Lord
asks of each one of us as Christians, and for that he chooses us.
He chose a few men to establish his reign in the world were most
of them humble, fishermen with little culture, full of defects and without material
means. He erected the world' s fraucity to confuse strong human foods.
It is incomprehensible that this is men who will come to spread the utria of
Christ throughout the earth in such a short time and having in unspeakable fendiz obstacles
and contradictions. A current sociological analysis of the situation of the Empire would have
resulted in the impossibility of evangelizing it to its very end over us. Also
that grain of bstaza in the relationship with the task entrusted to us by the
Lord In the midst of a world not too different from that found by the
first evangelizers, we must not forget the disproportion between the means and within our
reach, our scarce talents and the magnitude of the position we are to perform.
But we must not leave aside that we will always have help from the
Lord who moves hearts through his spirit. Difficulties will arise and we will then
be more aware of our smallness. This should lead us to rely more on
prayer and the supernatural character of the task entrusted to us by the Lord himself.
In the hours says St Joseph Mary on the way, in the hours
of struggle and tradition, when the good may fill your way with obstacles,
do to your heart the apostle. Listen to God, to Jesus who speaks
of mustard seed and yeast and tell him and he says novispara ballan explain to
me the self parable and you will feel the joy of contemplating the future victory,
speaking of heaven in the shelter of the apostolate, now incipient and all
the fermented mass. But the early Christians found a society mined in its foundations,
on which it was practically impossible to build any ideal. Paul thus describes
the Roman city and the pagan world in general, which had darkened in many
respects the natural light of reason and had remained blind to see the same dignity
of man, says St Paul in the hunt for the Romans, for which
God abandoned them to the desires of his heart, to the vices of impurity.
That is why God gave them to the infamous passions, for since they
would not acknowledge God, he gave us a new sense of fate that they
have done unworthy things of man, being filled with all manner of wickedness,
wickedness, malice, fabrication, aberacy, perversity, full of envy, murderous,
penniless, fragrant, evil, gossiping, infidel, enemies of God,
outragers, proud, altar- keepers, inventors of vices, disobedient to their
parents, torn, disloved, disloyal, merciless. So far the text of
St Paul and from within this society, Christians transformed it. There the seed
fell and from there to the whole world and, although insignificant, carried a
divine force that belonged to Christ. The first Christians who arrived in Rome were
no different from us and with the help of Grace, they exercised an effective
apostolate working side by side in the same professions as others, with the same
problems, reducing, obeying, pardoning also more laws unless they were against those
of God. The obstacles of the environment should not discourage us, even if
we see in our society signs similar or equal to the time of St Paul.
The Lord is counting on us to transform the escape where our daily life
unfolds. Let us not fail to carry out that which is in our hands,
even if it seems to us to be little, so little as some
insifying mustard pomegranates that Lord Visboa will increase our efforts and the prayer and sacrifice
we have put forth will bear their fruit. The proclamation of the Gospel,
most of the time carried out by co- workers in the neighbourhood office,
meant for entire families a radical change of life and internal salvation. For another
scandal and for many foolishness. Paul declares to the Christians of Rome that he
is not ashamed of the Gospel, because he is a force of God to
be the salvation of everything, of everyone who believes in the first Christians.
We must learn not to have false human respect, not to have the,
not to fear the one they will say, to keep alive the concern to
make Christ known in any solution in which we will face with the clear awareness
that it is the treasure we have found, the precious pearl we find after
much searching. We are few in relation to the task ahead of us,
but it is the same for heaven to save with many that with few who
in war does not depend on the victory of the crowd in the army,
but on the strength of a few. It has always been yes in the
effort of God, from the beginnings of the Church to the present day.
God uses little for his great works. Nor will we lack the help.
It' s gonna be like he' s almost back with the big force.
Wherever we are. Let us not fail to do what is within our
reach, even if it seems to us to be irreverent in the face of
what the world needs. In the midst of the joy of the feast a
cana, only Mary warns of the lack of wine to the smallest details of
the service. The soul comes, if like her you live passionately attentive to
your neighbor. For God' s sake, have the blessing that Lord is
in your heart that you may know evil with all of him, that I
may be your lips, that you may speak with strength and faith, and
his resurrection, that I may be your arms, that you may take a
rest for his sake and for this of his kingdom, that your feet may
be, that you may walk in the paths of peace, that the Lord
may show you that your eyes may be clean, that your eyes may see
Jesus in others, that they may be your joy, that you may never
lose, even if you have reason, and that you may find others in
the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit Amen.