Prayer of the heart on the seventh week of ordinary time. Come Holy Spirit
and teach me Mars as you love me. I want to let you look
with your eyes of love. I want to recognize your look of tenderness and
discover that, even if others look at my faults, ah your way sees
me loving you, loving me. Your word tells me even though your own
mother forgets you, I will never forget you and sometimes done, I feel
that I am worth very little, that I do not serve, that I
am not worthy of love. However, your word tells me something else you
are precious to my eyes and I love you touches my wounded inner Holy Spirit,
so that I can discover that that love is so great and also for
me. Come Holy Spirit. Amen today we celebrate Sagas pregato in Naples.
First bishop of the city. The Gospel is amethyst chapter fourteen verses one to
twelve. At that time King Herod heard what was told in Jerusalem and told
his hearers this is John the Baptist, that Harth and all among the dead
and therefore the powers act with him. It' s just that Rodes had
sent Juan with the der and put him in jail. He had put him
in prison chained for reasons of his brother Philip' s wife' s days,
because John told him that he was not allowed to go with them and
wanted to send him to kill, but he was afraid of the people because
he had him as a prophet. On the day of Herod' s birthday,
the daughter of Rodias danced in front of everyone and liked Herod so much
that I swear to give him whatever he asked. She, instigated by her
mother, told her to give me Graio herself the one who commanded John the
Baptist' s head and the king felt it, but by the oath the
guests ordered her to be given to him and had John beheaded in prison.
They brought the head of a tray, gave it to the young woman,
and she took it to her mother. I tell him to pick up the
body, they buried it, and they went to tell him. To Jesus
he commented blessed sixteen in this regard, referring to the lack of ce that
is perceived in characters of the Gospel. Jesus addresses this message to the priests
and to the rations of the people, that is, to those who understand
religion in the Israelite people. At first, they say yes to God'
s will, but their religiosity ends up being a ruin and a routine and
God no longer troubles them. That is why they perceive the message of John
Batista and Jesus as a nuisance. Thus, the Lord concludes his parable with
these drastic words. Publicans and prostitutes go ahead in yours, in the kingdom
of God, because John came to you teaching you the way of righteousness and
you did not believe him. Instead, they published you and the prostitutes believed
him. And even after seeing this, you do not repent nor believe them.
Translation into the language of our time, The affirmation may sound more or
less. Thus, agnostics who do not find peace because of the question of
God, people who suffer because of our sins and have a pure heart desire.
They are closer to the Kingdom of God than they look routine that they
only see the Church the boat without their heart being touched by the faith Jerimijah
and all the prophets of Israel were always persecuted for claiming the uncomfortable message of
seos that demands an authentic conversation of the heart. But they always faced persecution
with a spirit of videl, interpidity or the coast of forbidden and shedding of
good blood like John the Baptist for the testimony of the truth of God and
of his word. John the Baptist is the most classic example of the unarmed
and courageous defense of the prophet who, by defending his faith and his truth
and truth, ends his life as a fruitful victim forfiguration of the redeeming death
of Christ, the true Christian, then becomes a martyr. Moreover, only
the martyr is the true Christian and tensive of Christ in Greek, martyr and
witness. The whole history of the Church has been crowned and adorned with the
lives of so many of her children who, for the love of Jesus,
by their faith in him, have become martyrs. This is the radical condition
of the Christian. We must all be willing for love of him and the
Church to be fearless witnesses of the Gospel, even to give our promotion for
him. Only thus can we call them and be true Christians, that is,
disciples and followers of a Christ crucified by the truth of the Gospel and
by that redemption, the details of the account of the martyred John the Baptist
advance something about the sacrifice of the Lord As the teacher, John was not
afraid to tell the truth. It is not lawful for you to have your
brother' s wife and everyone, even erodes, thought he was a righteous
and holy man like Jesus, that people said he has done everything right.
The sign of juanes like that of Jesus fell on brothers of men, of
heroes such as burnings and pilates, duties and fearful ones who did not want
to contradict others to the point of sacrificing the truth for avoiding personal problems.
Both the prophet and the messiah die of a cruel death and in the solitude
of the prison and the cross and at the end of the disciples of both
comes to gather their bodies and places them in the tomb. Of those moments
there would be two would fix so much of the Baptist' s death that
people believed that that poet was still acting. John the Baptist has risen from
the dead and because his current in his powers, John is the first to
invite the lord to give his life for his friends. That is why he
is the only saint of whom the Church liturgically celebrates birth and death. By
rereading the martyr of that holy man, we can remember that we are all
called to be martyrs witnesses of the truth. Like the Baptist, everyone has
to see in us a likeness to Jesus. We cannot be afraid to manifest
in the environment the presence of God, bearing with joy the risks posed by
the coherence of a faith lived with generosity. We must make our life,
the life and death of Christ, die by mortification and penance, so that
Christ may live in us by love said St Joseph Mary on the Way of
the Cross. Lord, what a great example I have and in John the
Baptist, who has always preached your truth. He did not care about the
opinion of others, he did not allow for detours or selfish lethargy. Thank
you for enlightening my conscience, for helping me to see where I am being
deaf, O blind and insensitive to your doctrine. Help me adhere firmly to
your will to make your love the center of my poor existence. I'
m blessed. May the Lord bless us and keep you shine His uses upon
you grant us in His favor, turn His gaze upon others and grant us
peace and the blessing of God almighty father, son and holy spirit coming upon
you. Amen