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Heart- breathing. Monday of the
seventeenth week of ordinary time, come Holy

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Spirit so that I may find wisdom
in the midst of my limits, discomfort

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and weariness, for the sun that
sets is as beautiful when I am healthy

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as when I am sick. Help
me to appreciate the beauty of things beyond

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my moods. Help me enjoy what
you give me in the middle of my

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troubles. Come Holy Spirit and teach
me to live, because many times I

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can only look at what worries me, what I lack, what I dislike,

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as if nothing else was done.
Today we celebrate Salta Marta of Bethany

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and Saint Beatrice Martyr, the Gospel
of St John, Chapter eleven verses nineteen

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to twenty- seven. At that
time, many Jews had gone to see

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Martha and Mary to express their condolences
for their brother. When Martha found out

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that she was coming, Jesus met
her while Mary stayed home and said Martha,

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Jesus, sir, if you had
been here, my brother would not

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have died. But even now I
know that everything you think to God,

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God will grant it to you.
Jesus told him your brother will rise again.

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Marta answered. I know it'
ll turn out to be the last

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day' s ultrasrection. Jesus tells
him I am the resurrection in life.

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The one who believes me, though
already dead, will live and the one

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who is alive and believes me will
not go to me forever believe this.

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She answered. Yes, sir I
believe you read the Messiah, the son

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of God, the one who should
have come into the world. All divine

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revelation is the fruit of dialogue between
God and the people, and also faith

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in the resurrection is linked to that
dialogue that accompanies the path of God'

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s people history. It is no
wonder that a mystery as great, as

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decisive, as superhuman as that of
the resurrection has required the whole journey,

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all the time necessary, to Jesus
Christ. He can say I am the

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resurrection and the life, because in
him that mystery is not only fully revealed,

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but is fulfilled. It happens for
the first and final time it becomes.

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Actually. We are called to be
first before the Cross of Jesus,

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but also to hear his last cry
and his last sigh, as well as

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the silence that pronounces throughout the Holy
Saturday, and then we are called to

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hear, to go to the tomb
to see that the great stone has opened,

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to hear the announcement has risen.
He' s not here. There

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' s the answer. There is
the foundation in the rock, not in

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discourses, but in the love of
wisdom, but in the living word of

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the cross and the resurrection of Jesus. St Thomas of Aquinas said, only

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a fool tries to comfort a mother
before her dead son. These words arise

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as a direct result of the contemplation
of that passage in which Jesus, in

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front of the tomb of his friend
Lazarus Derrama. One of the few tears

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that appear expressly in the Gospel.
Jesus is aware of the value of life

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in the face of eternity and death. He knows that Lazarus' soul rests

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waiting, like that of the rest
of men, for the sublime moment of

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redemption. However, Jesus is also
a man, which he does not find

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it difficult to postpone at first.
Four days later it will turn into tears

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and tears. The contemplation of his
friend' s tomb. Returning to the

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life of Lazarus is a foretaste,
a prophecy of what will be in the

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future the resurrection of the dead.
The friends of Jesus, their close ones

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are most dear. They will return
to life between the astonishment of their enemies

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and the petty looks of those who
in life did not catch Jesus in their

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hearts. The Gospel story of Lazarus' resurrection shows us why Jesus can love

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some friends and disciples more than others, because death is not natural and beautiful.

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The difference between the great resurrection and
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the viraros or signs, as they
are called the Gospel of John. Some

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find it difficult to accept that God
loves some people more than others. That

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would not be fair, they say, but God became man and if he

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did not love some more than others, Jesus would not be fully human,

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because human beings have family and friends. While we can do good and even

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risk our lives for a stranger,
we have special bonds of intimacy of affection

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in a rather small circle of twelve, Jesus had one especially loved. In

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the gospel of this beloved disciple we
learn that Jesus had a family that was

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practically loved in that way. The
family was that of Mary Martha and her

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brother Lazarus. So it was a
surprise to all that Jesus did not come

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immediately when he heard that Lazarus was
sick. Of course he was a busy

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man, but Jesus had often left
before his occupations to heal strangers. This,

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on the other hand, was one
of his dearest friends. We are

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concerned he explained this disease to the
disciples. He would not end up in

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death imagining the surprise of the apostles
when he tells them a few days later

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he is dead and sounds of visiting
his tomb. Jesus knew what he was

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going to do. However, when
he was greeted by a desolate maria and

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her weeping companions, he did not
rebuke them for crying. He did not

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say that they should wear white and
rejoice that their brother had finally been,

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would have gone to heaven’ s
house or not, but wept with them

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as well. Some people feed death
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Others think that death is simply a
portal to eternity. Jesus saw death as

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an enemy. His father had never
heard, he had intended for us to

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experience it. In fact, he
forbade Adam and eva only one thing,

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a fruit that he would use subject
to it. Death came into the world

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because of the Devil’ s envy, not God’ s plan. Death

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starts and from the soul. The
soul of the body tears the loved ones

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from the embrace of their families.
So in n no of the wounded by

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the bite of death. Jesus cries
the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels always

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arise from his compassion for suffering,
but he always has more in mind,

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something more than helping only the victim
who is before him. His miraculous works

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in the Gospel of John are called
signs because they point beyond themselves to something

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even greater that will be to obtain
greater benefit for all. But Jesus allowed

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Lazarus to die in the first place, because when he called him to the

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tomb, Jesus was making it clear
why he had come. His teaching was,

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of course, sublime. If Jesus
was really the savior, he had

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to save them from the grave and
salvation had to be permanent. The resurrection

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of Lazarer just to put it in
a way, a suspension of execution.

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A few years later, his family
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Again, in the presence of the
great crowd gathered for the funeral, Jesus

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called Lazarus out of the tomb.
This demonstration of Jesus' power over death

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was a sin of his own coming
resurrection and that of Lazarus and the night

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as well. This is the last
registered miracle worker of John Jesus knew what

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was going to happen. He could
hope that the news of this miracle,

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witnessed in Jerusalem by numerous eyewitnesses,
would lead to the acceptance of Jesus as

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teacher and lord and messiah. But
the Lord knew it would have exactly the

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opposite effect. Opposed He showed his
enemies how great his power was before God,

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so it becomes a threat. But
that was all part of his plan.

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He was willing to do so because
by means of it he knew he

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would do more for us than he
had done for Lazarus, a victory over

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death that would last forever. That
is why preparation for the Passover Jesus is

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appropriate for that time. You love
Me so much that in order to save

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me you overcome the fear of sufferings
of death. I also want to live

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like this without fearing the renunciation of
detachment, in order to live in your

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grace and thus be able to bring
others closer to your love, especially those

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members of my family who are far
from your love. May the goodness and

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mercy of God, Father, fill
your heart, may the measure of love

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of God, children, perish in
your soul and purify you from any uneasiness

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and lack that can separate you from
God, may the love of God the

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Holy Spirit grant you the peace you
need, may the tenderness of Mary,

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mother of God and our mother caress
and protect you, and may the strength,

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strength and simplicity of St Joseph,
of his father, Lord You,

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lead to heaven and the blessing of
God, father, son and holy spirit

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descend upon you and accompany you always
amen