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Heart healing. Saturday of the third
week of Lent come creative spirit, visit

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the souls of your faithful and full
of the great life, from grace to

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the hearts that you yourself created.
You are our consulate, gift of God,

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highest source, living, fire,
charity and spirit unity. You spill

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on us the sites. You the
finger of the hand of God, You

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the promised of the Father, You
who put on our lips, the treasures

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of your word, kindle our senses
with your light, infuse your love in

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our hearts and with your perpetual help. Strengthen that feeble flesh glory to God

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the father and son who was resurrected
and to the comforting spirit by the endless

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goings. Amen or and we celebrate
Saint Catherine of Bologna, of the order

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of the Clares. The Gospel is
from St Luke, capping another eighteen verses

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nine to fourteen. At that time
Jesus spoke this parable to some who trusted

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in themselves because they considered themselves righteous
and despised others. Two men went up

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to the temple to pray. One
was a Pharisee, the other publican,

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the upright Pharisee prayed like this inside. O God, I thank you,

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for I am not like other men, thieves, unrighteous, adulterous and not

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like publican. I fast twice a
week and pay the tithe of everything I

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have. The publican, however,
staying behind, dared not lift his eyes

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to heaven, but beat himself to
the breast, saying, O God,

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have compassion on this sinner, I
say to you, that he should be

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under his house justified by him not, for everyone who exalts himself will be

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humbled and he who is humble will
be exalted. This Lent time invites us

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to conversion. Without a doubt,
we need inner transformation. Bring us back

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to God' s face during our
lifetime. We, too, sometimes behave

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like the publican or like the Pharisee. In both situations we need to look

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to God and recognize who we really
are. He does know us and knows

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what muds we' re made of. This Lent is a good invitation that

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makes us fix them on him in
setting aside everything that separates us from his

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presence with a humble heart. Let
us turn to his presence and give him

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our love. Let us ask forgiveness
for our faults, and let us offer

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and offer to be Cyrines in the
calm of Calvary to relieve, relieve the

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burden of Jesus. Humility, simplicity, ucility, holy spirit are essential to

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open the heart of Christ to men. We like that they appreciate us,

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that they consider us, that they
take us into account, that they love

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us. We seek to draw the
attention of those around us who want us

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to love us. We do not
want, in the same way, to

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draw attention to Christ. We do
not want Christ to see us manifest his

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love to us, for these virtues
will be the motive for God to possess.

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God has his gaze on us.
He always does, but if we

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strive to live these virtues, he
will do so in a special way.

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On the contrary, pride to pride, vanity are born of selfishness and what

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seemed to be prayer, it is
nothing more than praise to ourselves, like

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the Pharisee who thanked God not to
be like other men, because they did

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not commit their errors and sins that
they, the two men, were in

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prayer. But what different prayers,
one made with personal presumption and the other

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with humility, with a sad heart
for having failed God. It means then

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that in order to do good prayer, we must necessarily hit our chests and

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do personal self- criticism tests,
bordering almost on pessimism. Surely God not

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Christ does not want this rather.
Rather, he asks us as children to

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approach his heart, surely acknowledging forgiveness
for the qualities he has given us.

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But also with the humility necessary to
recognize our faults. Let us remember what

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Catechism says about prayer in the number
two thousand seven hundred. By means of

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his word, he says I speak
to man by means of mental or vocal

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words. Our prayer took shape,
but the most important thing is the presence

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of the heart before him to whom
we speak in prayer which in our prayer

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is heard does not depend on an
ixis, it does not depend on the

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number of words, but on the
fervor of our souls to pray is a

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dialogue of love between the human being
and God, not a way to manipulate

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and therefore should not be immediated in
terms of its usefulness. At the center

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of prayer is the real one.
The center of prayer is the realization of

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God' s love in us and
gives us an answer to his love is

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a total surrender. The act of
worship is an act of love, of

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total surrender that seeks nothing but to
turn to the other. We are too

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used to that everything has to serve
something, that even moments of gratitude,

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of gratuitous forgiveness should produce results.
And this brings us some spiritual blindness to

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understand the deepest roots of prayer life. Saint John of the Cross defines his

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ideal of life as living in an
attentive and loving expectation, because to wait

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is to wait, is to be
receptive. Worship is not a means to

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achieve something, but to stand before
the goal of God himself. Many times

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we have useful reasons to approach prayer
and when these intentions are not satisfied,

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we can see that prayer is not
heard or that it is considered a waste

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of time because it does not find
immediate satisfactions. Clearly, this does not

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mean that there are no spiritual fruits
in the life of prayer, but expresses

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the need to purify every utilitarian intention. Prayer is friendship with God and a

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friend cannot be valued for its usefulness
or visited for the benefits it brings.

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Although in his presence we feel happier. Living in the presence of God fills

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us with peace. But if I
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I put him in second place,
made him useful and secondary. Prayer should

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not be a part of our day
or a part of our life, nor

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an attempt to demand something from God, as if prayer would give him any

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benefit. There is a Jewish philosopher
Martin Boober, who describes whether this prayer

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is not in time, but the
time in prayer. Inverting these relationships,

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Abolishing reality, living in genuine relationship
with God requires special times of prayer,

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but the whole life is in him. As Stol Paul will express, I

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no longer live, but it is
Christ who lives in me. This does

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not reveal that the difficulty is not
in prayer as such, but in our

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way of living. Prayer does not
tire or create tension, but it can

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happen that in our way of life
it complicates the encounter with God, true

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prayer, that encounter with another who
transforms me, that leaves me not the

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same, that challenges me and that
moves me to love for that is inseparable

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an authentic hour of worship, of
a transparent transmission after faith and of an

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effective charity. There is a fundamental
difference between recollection and concentration. Concentration requires

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a lot of effort and time,
on the other hand, or recollection is

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letting go, it is leaving without
anxiety. In fact, many find it

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difficult to start because they believe they
could not without concentration and, in fact,

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it is exhausting for the majority,
which makes it fleeting. Instead,

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the recollection demands that there is no
tension or anxiety and can last a long

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time. It is therefore advisable to
start daily prayer with a few minutes of

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concentration to calm down. But then
the important thing is to abandon in God,

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to remain calm and confident, because
God is always there waiting for me,

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wishing to meet me. If it
is clear that God does not love

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us more than two of us love
him, it is clear that they want

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us more than two of us love
him. As you offer to sing the

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songs, I am to my beloved
object of your desire, that is,

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I am the object of God'
s desire. If we depart from the

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faith in that love of God who
seeks us and wishes to pray, it

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is only to find it available to
be open to encounter. Lord today,

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like the publican, we approach YOU, for we recognize ourselves weak and in

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need of You, who are the
source of all. Thank you, Mr

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You. You know our heart and
you know that without you we can do

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nothing. That' s why we
want to ask you to stay with us

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at all times of our day.
Lord we want to love you, but

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sometimes we don' t know the
way well or let ourselves be carried away

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by our interests. Therefore, like
the publican, we ask you to have

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compassion on us and listen to our
prayer all a blessing. God almighty,

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bless you with all manner of heavenly
comings so that you may be holy and

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reprove in His presence, pour out
upon you the riches of His grace.

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Teach you with the word of truth
and with the gospel of good salvation,

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and enrich you with the beloved brother
and blessing of God almighty father, son

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and holy spirit, come down upon
you and accompany you always amen