Prayer of the heart Tuesday of the fifth week of Easter. Oh, Holy
Spirit Love of father and son, Inspire me what I must think, what
I must say, as I must say, what I must silence, how
I must act, what I must do for the Glory of God and good
of the Souls and my own sanctification. Holy Spirit Give me, sharpness to
understand, ability, to retain, method and faculty to learn, subtlety to
interpret. Thank you, efficiency to speak, give me, right, as
you begin direction, as you take advantage and perfect, end up loving me.
Today we celebrate Saint Benedict Otorengo and Pope Saint Pius V of the Gospel
of St John, chapter fourteen verses, twenty- seven to thirty- one.
At that time Jesus said to his disciples, peace I leave you and
peace you today I have not dare today as the world gives it either or
your heart or your scurry is not cowardly. You heard me say I'
m leaving and I' m coming back to you. If you loved each
other, you would make him go to the father, because the father is
older than me. I told you now before it happens, so that when
it happens, you believe already. I will not speak much with you,
for about the prince of this world, it is not that he has power
over me, but it is necessary that the world understand that I love the
father and that, as the father has commanded me thus, I act and
peace leave you my peace I give you what a beautiful greeting with which he
begins I will bring him down from today. The Lord is the God of
peace and wants that in our hearts there should be no cowardice, peace,
the world, society, all women and men without exception. We have in
our heart, in the depths of it, a immense desire for peace,
for tranquility, for serenity. But, as happens to us as worldly things,
other things, we try to satisfy that desire in an inappropriate way,
seeking a peace where it is not found. The only peace, the true
one, is found only in Jesus Christ, which is why he can tell
us peace. I leave you my peace, I give it to you not
as the world gives. Jesus is the only one who preaches an entirely new
attitude, he is known in relation to peace, making it dependent not on
others, but on others themselves. Jesus is the only one who invites us
to forgive seventy- seven times those who offend us to do good, those
who hate them to be meek and not violent with those who attack us.
There is peace in our lives only when we have no enemies and enemies are
fought, annihilated in a totally new way with love. It is precisely the
love of enemies that is at the heart of the Christian message. But the
enemy who speaks to Jesus is not only the one who makes war or tempts
us against our security. He' s not a distant enemy. He'
s very close to us. It may be the relative, the neighbor,
the companion, who has not helped our graces for when he could, what
has done us some harm, who has been a righteous with us, who
has insulted us and has not taken into account the one who has robbed us
of evil Treaty is from which we flee and with whom we do not want
to communicate that we do not speak to him, that we wish him evil
at the bottom of our heart. How this is explained by Christian constipation.
Throughout life we are heaping up all kinds of wounds caused by those enemies who
are marking us. We can hide them at the bottom of our hearts,
filling ourselves with hatred, bitterness and resentment But that attitude does not lead us
to peace or happiness. The big hates that corrode us, that destroys them
revenge and the corner in poison life, cause the wounds to become infected inside,
creating a general discomfort and dissatisfaction. And it' s true what pro
- Franchino says. The one who seeks revenge must dig two things. Only
in him does forgiveness teach them to practice. Jesus breaks new life and his
tribulogy. Forgiveness means liberation, because it leads us to free ourselves from the
wounds in us, to put peace in our heart. Years ago, in
a novel published in the United States, he narrated the hatred of a colored
girl towards polancos. The author said that over the years she realized that in
hatred that she had been taught to have and that they fostered at the bottom
of her heart, she was destroying her dignity and preventing her from seeing the
deep gestures of love that a white companion had with her. Little by little,
she discovered that, rather than demanding that whites ask forgiveness, but and
justices they had done with blacks, she had to apologize for her own hatred
and inability to look at whites as people. The peace that Christ brings us
begins with the heart When, thanks to a new force, a person rejects
all kinds of revenge. To forgive is to have the firm conviction that,
behind every person who has done us evil, there is a human being able
to change with forgiveness if he initiates a process that leads us to accept and
even love those who have wounded us. He recalled St John' s attitude
to an II before his grocer, following the attitude of Christ the Cross,
asking forgiveness of his heavenly partner for those who are crucifying him. Christ'
s message about forgiveness was revolutionary at the time and I am still revolutionary now.
It implies a paradigm shift in relation to the eye for an eye and
between parties, the Christian message to be refounded in human relations with love,
forgiveness as the love of God, of God, from where it arises has
no measure, admits no limits. How I should forgive as he has forgiven
us. How many times must I forgive, up to seven times, up
to seventy times, seven to whom I must forgive all, since you will
wash your neighbor of Jesus expand the term itself and embrace every person, I
repeat to every person, included in enemies. And any offensive action is passed
from the containment of vengeance to the ensegic love of we have forgiven because God
has forgiven us brimero. We must love as he has loved us. God
' s forgiveness also becomes our hearts, an inexhaustible source of forgiveness in our
relations with ours. As God has forgiven me the cross being a love like
he loves to the end of love. Thus we are to forgive ourselves,
reaching the extreme as well. Forgiveness is part of the divine misecudia and,
as Mrs Saint John Chrysostom, nothing resembles us as much as we are ever
willing to forgive God. Therefore, the one who forgives reflects commanding is the
image of God. You forgive a dart and a good after receiving an evil.
It is a particularly intense way of self- worship that roams the person.
Forgiveness does not leave things as before without the relationship being renewed and in
some way purified and deeper. Thus, Christ' s death on the Cross
renews and elevates God' s relations with men and men among themselves. Between
the Cross and the resolution was the pardon maculated to the Pope of every year
they come to the Pala de San Pedro. Forgive the passing of Spain in
Rome the homage to the most pleasant sight. On one of those occasions they
addressed prayer to Our Lady as the Kingdom of Peace, asking her to pray
for us and ending with a few words that will also serve us to finish
this time of prayer of the heart. Thus he spoke more of mercy of
hope than men and women of the third millennium. The precise, precious gift
of peace, peace in hearts and in families and communities and among peoples.
Make all human beings of all races and cultures meet Jesus and welcome him,
who came to earth in the mystery of Christmas to give us his peace,
Mary, Queen of Peace. Give us Christ, true peace of the world,
Holy Mary, Queen of peace, grope for us. I have the
blessing, that the goodness and mercy of God, his father, the key
heart of love of God, son, penetrates into your soul and purifies you
from any uneasiness and lack that can separate you from God, that the love
of God the Holy Spirit, to grant to the peace that you need,
that the tenderness of Mary, the mother of God and our mother caresses and
protects you, and that strength and thirst, if it is already of St
Joseph, may separate us, Lord Thee, point to heaven and the lesson
of God, father, son and holy spirit.