1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:05,559 Prayer of the heart. Saturday of the third week of Lent come Holy Spirit, 2 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:19,719 without you there is no life worth living. Therefore, from my doubts, 3 00:00:20,519 --> 00:00:29,519 fears, tiredness and weaknesses, I want to invoke you, come Holy 4 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:35,000 Spirit to water it that is dry Come to strengthen what is weak come to 5 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:40,079 heal what is sick. Amen, today we celebrate St Ines of Prague and 6 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:46,439 are A San or Legoria Olegario, the Gospel of St Luke, chapter fifteen 7 00:00:46,439 --> 00:00:52,880 verses, one from now on. At that time they used to approach Jesus, 8 00:00:53,399 --> 00:00:58,759 all the publicans and sinners to listen to him, and the Pharisees and 9 00:00:58,799 --> 00:01:06,120 scribes murmured among themselves. He welcomes sinners and eats with them. Jesus told 10 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:11,920 him this parable. A man had two children under him, he told his 11 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:15,120 father, Father Give me the share of my fortune and the father gave him 12 00:01:15,159 --> 00:01:21,280 the goods. Not many days later, the youngest son, gathering all his 13 00:01:21,359 --> 00:01:26,719 own, emigrated to a distant country and there wasted his fortune living lost. 14 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:33,000 When he had spent it all he came through that land a terrible famine and 15 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,920 began to need it. It was then, and so he insisted on a 16 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:42,480 resident of that country who sent him to his fields to guard. Pigs were 17 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:47,480 in the mood to satiate themselves from the grabs that the pigs ate and no 18 00:01:47,519 --> 00:01:53,040 one fed him by reconsidering. Then it was said how many of my father 19 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:56,000 ' s laborers have the abundance of bread. As I starved here, will 20 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:00,599 I go where my father is and tell him father I have sinned against heaven 21 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:06,079 and against you no longer deserve to call me son, yours? Treat me 22 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,039 like one of your day laborers. He set a path to where his father 23 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:14,479 was when he was still far away. His father saw him and he was 24 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,439 moved and running, and he put his neck around him and kissed him and 25 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,639 his son told him father," Have I sinned against heaven and against you 26 00:02:21,719 --> 00:02:24,639 no longer deserve to call me son, yours?" But the father told 27 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:30,879 his servants straight away to bring out the best suit and dress it, put 28 00:02:30,879 --> 00:02:36,039 a ring in his hand and holy them on their feet, bring the fattened 29 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:39,639 calf and kill it let' s have a feast, because this son of 30 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,879 mine was dead and revived, was lost and we found him and started the 31 00:02:43,879 --> 00:02:46,680 banquet. His eldest son was in the field. When he returned to the 32 00:02:46,719 --> 00:02:50,919 house, he heard the music and the dance and called one of the young 33 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:53,280 men, and asked him what was going on. This one answered him. 34 00:02:53,840 --> 00:03:00,280 Your brother has returned and your father has killed the fattened earth because he has 35 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:04,240 recovered it with his light. He was indignant and refused to enter, but 36 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,479 his father went out and tried to persuade him and he replied to his father 37 00:03:08,479 --> 00:03:14,879 Mira. In as many years as I serve you without disobeying I never ordered 38 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:19,639 you to me you have never given me a kid to have a banquet with 39 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:21,560 my friends. And when he has come to this son, yours who has 40 00:03:21,599 --> 00:03:27,120 eaten your goods with evil women, you kill the fatted earthling. The father 41 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:32,240 told him, son, you' re always with me and all mine is 42 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:37,800 yours You should be glad that this brother of yours was dead and revived. 43 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:45,680 He was lost and we found him. Lord, how great is your Mass, 44 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:50,639 your love and your mercy. I identify with these two children of the 45 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,240 Gospel who do not know how to receive and correspond to your love. Lead 46 00:03:53,319 --> 00:04:00,000 this prayer so that my heart will not harden and become fond of inspirations Seño 47 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,560 and my gall to always trust me in your great mercy, but do not 48 00:04:02,639 --> 00:04:08,680 allow me to abuse so much love. Then it is written that the Lord 49 00:04:08,719 --> 00:04:14,280 is compassionate in the sense that grace grants us. He has compassion and in 50 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,800 his greatness he leans over those who are weak and poor, because ready to 51 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:24,800 take, as understanding and forgiving is like the father of the word of the 52 00:04:24,879 --> 00:04:30,240 Gospel of St Luke, a father who does not close in resentment for the 53 00:04:30,319 --> 00:04:34,079 abandonment of the youngest son, but, on the contrary, continues to wait 54 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:35,800 for him has generated it and then runs to his encounter in the embrace. 55 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:42,000 He won' t even let him finish his confession as if he had covered 56 00:04:42,079 --> 00:04:45,680 his mouth. How great is the love and joy for finding it again. 57 00:04:46,199 --> 00:04:49,680 And he also goes to the eldest son, who is indignant and does not 58 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:54,720 want to party, the son who has always stayed at home, but living 59 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:58,279 as a servant rather than as a son, and also on the father, 60 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,240 he leans, invites him to enter, seeks to open his heart to love 61 00:05:02,319 --> 00:05:05,920 so that no one remains is excluded club. It' s from the feast 62 00:05:05,959 --> 00:05:13,399 of mercy. Mercy is a feast of this merciful God. It is also 63 00:05:13,439 --> 00:05:17,079 said that he is slow to anger literally long in his breath, that is, 64 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:23,639 with the broad breath of patience and the ability to endure. God knows 65 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:28,560 how to wait for his times are not those impatient of men. He' 66 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,199 s like a wise farmer who can wait. Leave time for the good seed 67 00:05:32,639 --> 00:05:38,199 to grow in spite of the ciudadania. Knowing that we are children of God, 68 00:05:39,439 --> 00:05:44,240 we think that we deserve everything, sometimes we are neither able to thank 69 00:05:44,319 --> 00:05:47,920 our creator for the great gift of life, let alone strive to correspond to 70 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:55,279 his infinite love. How much we have received from God everything, however, 71 00:05:55,920 --> 00:06:00,920 we see it as an obligation on his part. We could come to complain 72 00:06:00,959 --> 00:06:04,759 when we don' t get what we want and maybe we' ve even 73 00:06:04,759 --> 00:06:08,720 gotten to the point of demanding it. God in His infinite goodness does not 74 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:14,199 cease to fill us with His graces and even fulfills other whims, no matter 75 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:19,879 whether we thank Him or not. The most beautiful thing is to see that 76 00:06:19,959 --> 00:06:25,800 God does not tire even as far as we distance ourselves from him and when 77 00:06:26,319 --> 00:06:30,000 we wish to return, there he is with open arms, waiting for us 78 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,519 with a heart full of love. God is the shepherd who rejoices at finding 79 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:40,199 lost bee. He is the merciful father who awaits his lost son with great 80 00:06:40,319 --> 00:06:46,319 eagerness, forgives him for any fault when he sees true repentance and fills him 81 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:48,560 with his love. Let' s say Christ, sir, you know everything. 82 00:06:49,079 --> 00:06:54,600 You know I love you. My Lord, how easily I can deceive 83 00:06:54,639 --> 00:06:58,759 myself, to follow the easy path that life offers me and to be a 84 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:03,120 blind and deaf and different from the needs of others to concentrate only on my 85 00:07:03,199 --> 00:07:12,600 own happiness. Give me sh give me your grace, to know, always 86 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:16,680 keep me by your side that I do not stray from your grace, for 87 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:23,040 then my heart will become rock, insensitive to receive and to correspond to your 88 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:27,920 love freely. I want to depend always and on everything on you I give 89 00:07:28,959 --> 00:07:32,160 you the blessing God almighty. Bless with all manner of heavenly goods that you 90 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:39,040 may be holy and blameless in His presence, pour out upon you the riches 91 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:43,240 of His grace, or instruct with the word of truth and the gospel of 92 00:07:43,319 --> 00:07:48,560 salvation, and enrich you with the fraternal charity and blessing of God almighty father, 93 00:07:48,839 --> 00:07:55,480 son, and holy spirit, come down upon us, and abide always Amen.