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Prayer of the heart on the seventh
week of ordinary time. Come Holy Spirit

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and teach me Mars as you love
me. I want to let you look

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with your eyes of love. I
want to recognize your look of tenderness and

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discover that, even if others look
at my faults, ah your way sees

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me loving you, loving me.
Your word tells me even though your own

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mother forgets you, I will never
forget you and sometimes done, I feel

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that I am worth very little,
that I do not serve, that I

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am not worthy of love. However, your word tells me something else you

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are precious to my eyes and I
love you touches my wounded inner Holy Spirit,

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so that I can discover that that
love is so great and also for

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me. Come Holy Spirit. Amen
today we celebrate Sagas pregato in Naples.

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First bishop of the city. The
Gospel is amethyst chapter fourteen verses one to

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twelve. At that time King Herod
heard what was told in Jerusalem and told

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his hearers this is John the Baptist, that Harth and all among the dead

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and therefore the powers act with him. It' s just that Rodes had

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sent Juan with the der and put
him in jail. He had put him

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in prison chained for reasons of his
brother Philip' s wife' s days,

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because John told him that he was
not allowed to go with them and

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wanted to send him to kill,
but he was afraid of the people because

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he had him as a prophet.
On the day of Herod' s birthday,

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the daughter of Rodias danced in front
of everyone and liked Herod so much

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that I swear to give him whatever
he asked. She, instigated by her

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mother, told her to give me
Graio herself the one who commanded John the

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Baptist' s head and the king
felt it, but by the oath the

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guests ordered her to be given to
him and had John beheaded in prison.

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They brought the head of a tray, gave it to the young woman,

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and she took it to her mother. I tell him to pick up the

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body, they buried it, and
they went to tell him. To Jesus

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he commented blessed sixteen in this regard, referring to the lack of ce that

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is perceived in characters of the Gospel. Jesus addresses this message to the priests

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and to the rations of the people, that is, to those who understand

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religion in the Israelite people. At
first, they say yes to God'

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s will, but their religiosity ends
up being a ruin and a routine and

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God no longer troubles them. That
is why they perceive the message of John

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Batista and Jesus as a nuisance.
Thus, the Lord concludes his parable with

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these drastic words. Publicans and prostitutes
go ahead in yours, in the kingdom

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of God, because John came to
you teaching you the way of righteousness and

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you did not believe him. Instead, they published you and the prostitutes believed

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him. And even after seeing this, you do not repent nor believe them.

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Translation into the language of our time, The affirmation may sound more or

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less. Thus, agnostics who do
not find peace because of the question of

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God, people who suffer because of
our sins and have a pure heart desire.

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They are closer to the Kingdom of
God than they look routine that they

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only see the Church the boat without
their heart being touched by the faith Jerimijah

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and all the prophets of Israel were
always persecuted for claiming the uncomfortable message of

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seos that demands an authentic conversation of
the heart. But they always faced persecution

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with a spirit of videl, interpidity
or the coast of forbidden and shedding of

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good blood like John the Baptist for
the testimony of the truth of God and

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of his word. John the Baptist
is the most classic example of the unarmed

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and courageous defense of the prophet who, by defending his faith and his truth

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and truth, ends his life as
a fruitful victim forfiguration of the redeeming death

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of Christ, the true Christian,
then becomes a martyr. Moreover, only

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the martyr is the true Christian and
tensive of Christ in Greek, martyr and

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witness. The whole history of the
Church has been crowned and adorned with the

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lives of so many of her children
who, for the love of Jesus,

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by their faith in him, have
become martyrs. This is the radical condition

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of the Christian. We must all
be willing for love of him and the

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Church to be fearless witnesses of the
Gospel, even to give our promotion for

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him. Only thus can we call
them and be true Christians, that is,

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disciples and followers of a Christ crucified
by the truth of the Gospel and

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by that redemption, the details of
the account of the martyred John the Baptist

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advance something about the sacrifice of the
Lord As the teacher, John was not

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afraid to tell the truth. It
is not lawful for you to have your

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brother' s wife and everyone,
even erodes, thought he was a righteous

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and holy man like Jesus, that
people said he has done everything right.

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The sign of juanes like that of
Jesus fell on brothers of men, of

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heroes such as burnings and pilates,
duties and fearful ones who did not want

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to contradict others to the point of
sacrificing the truth for avoiding personal problems.

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Both the prophet and the messiah die
of a cruel death and in the solitude

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of the prison and the cross and
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comes to gather their bodies and places
them in the tomb. Of those moments

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there would be two would fix so
much of the Baptist' s death that

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people believed that that poet was still
acting. John the Baptist has risen from

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the dead and because his current in
his powers, John is the first to

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invite the lord to give his life
for his friends. That is why he

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is the only saint of whom the
Church liturgically celebrates birth and death. By

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rereading the martyr of that holy man, we can remember that we are all

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called to be martyrs witnesses of the
truth. Like the Baptist, everyone has

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to see in us a likeness to
Jesus. We cannot be afraid to manifest

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in the environment the presence of God, bearing with joy the risks posed by

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the coherence of a faith lived with
generosity. We must make our life,

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the life and death of Christ,
die by mortification and penance, so that

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Christ may live in us by love
said St Joseph Mary on the Way of

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the Cross. Lord, what a
great example I have and in John the

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Baptist, who has always preached your
truth. He did not care about the

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opinion of others, he did not
allow for detours or selfish lethargy. Thank

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you for enlightening my conscience, for
helping me to see where I am being

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deaf, O blind and insensitive to
your doctrine. Help me adhere firmly to

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your will to make your love the
center of my poor existence. I'

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m blessed. May the Lord bless
us and keep you shine His uses upon

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you grant us in His favor,
turn His gaze upon others and grant us

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peace and the blessing of God almighty
father, son and holy spirit coming upon

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you. Amen