Heart- breathing. Monday of the seventeenth week of ordinary time, come Holy
Spirit so that I may find wisdom in the midst of my limits, discomfort
and weariness, for the sun that sets is as beautiful when I am healthy
as when I am sick. Help me to appreciate the beauty of things beyond
my moods. Help me enjoy what you give me in the middle of my
troubles. Come Holy Spirit and teach me to live, because many times I
can only look at what worries me, what I lack, what I dislike,
as if nothing else was done. Today we celebrate Salta Marta of Bethany
and Saint Beatrice Martyr, the Gospel of St John, Chapter eleven verses nineteen
to twenty- seven. At that time, many Jews had gone to see
Martha and Mary to express their condolences for their brother. When Martha found out
that she was coming, Jesus met her while Mary stayed home and said Martha,
Jesus, sir, if you had been here, my brother would not
have died. But even now I know that everything you think to God,
God will grant it to you. Jesus told him your brother will rise again.
Marta answered. I know it' ll turn out to be the last
day' s ultrasrection. Jesus tells him I am the resurrection in life.
The one who believes me, though already dead, will live and the one
who is alive and believes me will not go to me forever believe this.
She answered. Yes, sir I believe you read the Messiah, the son
of God, the one who should have come into the world. All divine
revelation is the fruit of dialogue between God and the people, and also faith
in the resurrection is linked to that dialogue that accompanies the path of God'
s people history. It is no wonder that a mystery as great, as
decisive, as superhuman as that of the resurrection has required the whole journey,
all the time necessary, to Jesus Christ. He can say I am the
resurrection and the life, because in him that mystery is not only fully revealed,
but is fulfilled. It happens for the first and final time it becomes.
Actually. We are called to be first before the Cross of Jesus,
but also to hear his last cry and his last sigh, as well as
the silence that pronounces throughout the Holy Saturday, and then we are called to
hear, to go to the tomb to see that the great stone has opened,
to hear the announcement has risen. He' s not here. There
' s the answer. There is the foundation in the rock, not in
discourses, but in the love of wisdom, but in the living word of
the cross and the resurrection of Jesus. St Thomas of Aquinas said, only
a fool tries to comfort a mother before her dead son. These words arise
as a direct result of the contemplation of that passage in which Jesus, in
front of the tomb of his friend Lazarus Derrama. One of the few tears
that appear expressly in the Gospel. Jesus is aware of the value of life
in the face of eternity and death. He knows that Lazarus' soul rests
waiting, like that of the rest of men, for the sublime moment of
redemption. However, Jesus is also a man, which he does not find
it difficult to postpone at first. Four days later it will turn into tears
and tears. The contemplation of his friend' s tomb. Returning to the
life of Lazarus is a foretaste, a prophecy of what will be in the
future the resurrection of the dead. The friends of Jesus, their close ones
are most dear. They will return to life between the astonishment of their enemies
and the petty looks of those who in life did not catch Jesus in their
hearts. The Gospel story of Lazarus' resurrection shows us why Jesus can love
some friends and disciples more than others, because death is not natural and beautiful.
The difference between the great resurrection and the resurrection and the deeper meaning of
the viraros or signs, as they are called the Gospel of John. Some
find it difficult to accept that God loves some people more than others. That
would not be fair, they say, but God became man and if he
did not love some more than others, Jesus would not be fully human,
because human beings have family and friends. While we can do good and even
risk our lives for a stranger, we have special bonds of intimacy of affection
in a rather small circle of twelve, Jesus had one especially loved. In
the gospel of this beloved disciple we learn that Jesus had a family that was
practically loved in that way. The family was that of Mary Martha and her
brother Lazarus. So it was a surprise to all that Jesus did not come
immediately when he heard that Lazarus was sick. Of course he was a busy
man, but Jesus had often left before his occupations to heal strangers. This,
on the other hand, was one of his dearest friends. We are
concerned he explained this disease to the disciples. He would not end up in
death imagining the surprise of the apostles when he tells them a few days later
he is dead and sounds of visiting his tomb. Jesus knew what he was
going to do. However, when he was greeted by a desolate maria and
her weeping companions, he did not rebuke them for crying. He did not
say that they should wear white and rejoice that their brother had finally been,
would have gone to heaven’ s house or not, but wept with them
as well. Some people feed death as a natural part of human life.
Others think that death is simply a portal to eternity. Jesus saw death as
an enemy. His father had never heard, he had intended for us to
experience it. In fact, he forbade Adam and eva only one thing,
a fruit that he would use subject to it. Death came into the world
because of the Devil’ s envy, not God’ s plan. Death
starts and from the soul. The soul of the body tears the loved ones
from the embrace of their families. So in n no of the wounded by
the bite of death. Jesus cries the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels always
arise from his compassion for suffering, but he always has more in mind,
something more than helping only the victim who is before him. His miraculous works
in the Gospel of John are called signs because they point beyond themselves to something
even greater that will be to obtain greater benefit for all. But Jesus allowed
Lazarus to die in the first place, because when he called him to the
tomb, Jesus was making it clear why he had come. His teaching was,
of course, sublime. If Jesus was really the savior, he had
to save them from the grave and salvation had to be permanent. The resurrection
of Lazarer just to put it in a way, a suspension of execution.
A few years later, his family would have to gather around his cava.
Again, in the presence of the great crowd gathered for the funeral, Jesus
called Lazarus out of the tomb. This demonstration of Jesus' power over death
was a sin of his own coming resurrection and that of Lazarus and the night
as well. This is the last registered miracle worker of John Jesus knew what
was going to happen. He could hope that the news of this miracle,
witnessed in Jerusalem by numerous eyewitnesses, would lead to the acceptance of Jesus as
teacher and lord and messiah. But the Lord knew it would have exactly the
opposite effect. Opposed He showed his enemies how great his power was before God,
so it becomes a threat. But that was all part of his plan.
He was willing to do so because by means of it he knew he
would do more for us than he had done for Lazarus, a victory over
death that would last forever. That is why preparation for the Passover Jesus is
appropriate for that time. You love Me so much that in order to save
me you overcome the fear of sufferings of death. I also want to live
like this without fearing the renunciation of detachment, in order to live in your
grace and thus be able to bring others closer to your love, especially those
members of my family who are far from your love. May the goodness and
mercy of God, Father, fill your heart, may the measure of love
of God, children, perish in your soul and purify you from any uneasiness
and lack that can separate you from God, may the love of God the
Holy Spirit grant you the peace you need, may the tenderness of Mary,
mother of God and our mother caress and protect you, and may the strength,
strength and simplicity of St Joseph, of his father, Lord You,
lead to heaven and the blessing of God, father, son and holy spirit
descend upon you and accompany you always amen