1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:06,280 Prayer of the heart Wednesday of the second week of Easter. Oh, Holy 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:12,199 Spirit, Love of the Father and the Son, always inspire me what I 3 00:00:12,199 --> 00:00:16,239 must think, what I must say, as I must say, what I 4 00:00:16,519 --> 00:00:20,800 must silence, how I must act, what I must do for the Glory 5 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:27,359 of God, well of the Souls and my own sanctification. Holy Spirit Give 6 00:00:27,359 --> 00:00:31,480 me, sharpness to understand, ability, to retain, method and faculty, 7 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:36,640 to learn its use, to interpret, grace, effective, effectiveness to speak, 8 00:00:37,079 --> 00:00:42,240 Give me, right, at the beginning, direction, progress, perfection, 9 00:00:43,039 --> 00:00:48,479 at the end amen. Today we celebrate the prophet St Ezequiel' s 10 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:54,880 Gospel is from St John, chapter three verses, sixteen to twenty- one 11 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,119 so much God loved the world that he gave up his unbegotten so that everyone 12 00:00:58,679 --> 00:01:02,399 who believes in him would not deserve, but have eternal life, because God 13 00:01:02,439 --> 00:01:04,599 did not send his son into the world to judge the world, but that 14 00:01:04,599 --> 00:01:07,560 the world might be saved by him. Whoever believes in him will not be 15 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:11,760 judged. He who does not believe and is judged because he has not believed 16 00:01:11,799 --> 00:01:15,640 in the name of Jesus, unbegotten of God. This is the judgment that 17 00:01:15,719 --> 00:01:19,959 light came into the world and men preferred darkness to light because their deeds were 18 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:25,359 evil. For every one who works evil hates light and will not come near 19 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:29,319 light so that he will not be accused for his works. Instead, the 20 00:01:29,879 --> 00:01:33,120 one who works the truth approaches the light so that it may be seen that 21 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:41,200 his works are made. According to God, today' s gospel proposes to 22 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:46,959 us the words spoken by Jesus to Nicodemus. God loved the world so much 23 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:51,359 that he gave his only- begotten son. Listening to this word, we 24 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:57,879 look from our hearts at Jesus crucified and feel within us that God loves us, 25 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:04,359 loves us truly and loves us very much. This is the simplest expression 26 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,199 that sums up the whole gospel, the whole faith, the whole theology. 27 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:12,719 God loves us with free love and without limits. That' s how he 28 00:02:12,719 --> 00:02:15,960 loves us, God, St Paul reminds us. But, God, what 29 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:21,560 a rich mercy they never forgot, and what a mercy for the great love 30 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,759 with which they loved us. It was just when we were dead to our 31 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:29,520 sins that he brought us back to life with Christ. The couz of Christ 32 00:02:29,759 --> 00:02:32,599 is the supreme proof of God' s love for us. Jesus has loved 33 00:02:32,599 --> 00:02:37,000 us to the extreme, that is, not only until the last moment of 34 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,879 climbing ground, but to the extreme limit of love. If in creation the 35 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,280 father has given us proof of his immense love by giving us life in the 36 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:50,800 passion of his son, he has given us proof of the trials, he 37 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,639 has come to suffer and die for us. And this for love. God 38 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:59,919 ' s mercy is so great, because he loves us, forgives us. 39 00:03:00,039 --> 00:03:07,520 With his mercy. God forgives everything and God forgives always. Sharing baptism means 40 00:03:07,599 --> 00:03:12,319 that we are all sinners and that we need licking that God offers us. 41 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,639 We all experience the same call to come out of darkness and go to meet 42 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:22,759 God. Full of mercy. The darkness troubles us the light, instead, 43 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:27,960 not the security. In the dark we don' t know where we are 44 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:31,199 in the light. We can find a path with few lines, few girls. 45 00:03:31,199 --> 00:03:36,159 The Gospel presents us will beg for the mystery of our history. On 46 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:40,639 the one hand, I love the world so much without meriting it, we 47 00:03:40,639 --> 00:03:44,639 will do it. He gave us the most beloved or the more he gave 48 00:03:44,639 --> 00:03:49,319 himself to give us life than this good to the world, to enlighten us 49 00:03:49,319 --> 00:03:53,159 with existence. And in contrast came the light of the world and men loved 50 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:59,240 darkness more than light. We have not just realized what this immense, gratuitous, 51 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:03,439 selfless love of God means, a love to the extreme, the infinite 52 00:04:04,039 --> 00:04:09,759 love of God that meets the drama of our freedom that sometimes chooses evil darkness. 53 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,879 Even in spite of that ardent desire to be in the light. But 54 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:21,319 Christ did not come to condemn them, but to save them. It comes 55 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:27,399 to be light in a world full of sin. He wants to make sense 56 00:04:27,399 --> 00:04:30,040 of our walk. To act on the truth is the best way to live 57 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:33,079 in the light. And to act the truth is to live by love. 58 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:40,040 Letting them penetrate for the love of God who gave himself to his only- 59 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:46,959 begotten and seek to reciprocate his choir is given, says Pope Francis in the 60 00:04:46,639 --> 00:04:50,399 exhortation Gaudi telezultate, let the grace of your baptism bear fruit as the path 61 00:04:50,399 --> 00:04:54,959 of holiness. Let everything be open to God and choose him for it. 62 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,720 Choose God over and over again not to be outgoing, because you have the 63 00:04:59,759 --> 00:05:02,839 Fu of the Holy Spirit to make it possible. And holiness, deep down, 64 00:05:02,959 --> 00:05:08,079 is the fruit of the spirit of your life. When you feel the 65 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:14,600 temptation to entangle yourself in your weakness, raise your eyes to the crucified and 66 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,240 say Lord I am a poor little one, but you can realize the look 67 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:25,319 that we do to make me a little better in the Holy Church and made 68 00:05:25,399 --> 00:05:27,360 up of sinners, you will find everything you need to grow inside Holiness. 69 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,560 The Lord Rossa in giving gifts with the word, sacraments or sanctuaries, the 70 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:35,639 life of the communities, the witness of the saints and a multiple beauty that 71 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:40,600 comes from the love of God as via which you save with your jewels. 72 00:05:42,199 --> 00:05:45,839 Thank you, sir, for giving me the light for knowing how to take 73 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:47,720 the path that comes to me from Holiness. Certainly, that path is not 74 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:53,639 the easiest before human eyes, the most beautiful or pleasant. Moreover, there 75 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:58,199 is an inner tebor that does not allow me to abandon myself completely in your 76 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,879 providence, a controlling spirit that I cannot easily master. But how wonderful to 77 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:08,160 know that you, despite my attachments, still love me forgiving. I really 78 00:06:08,199 --> 00:06:14,360 want to correspond to so much love, this blessing that God accompanies you be 79 00:06:14,439 --> 00:06:16,079 in your heart. Take care of you, make you strong, I will 80 00:06:16,639 --> 00:06:20,279 make my faithful, the son of God make you feel his canura and mercy 81 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:25,319 and remove from your heart any anxiety that can cause you to suffer that God, 82 00:06:25,519 --> 00:06:30,480 Holy Spirit, deludes you in intelligence or strength in your heart renewed spirit 83 00:06:30,519 --> 00:06:33,199 and determination to love with all your heart, that Blessed Mary will make you 84 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:35,600 feel her warmth as a mother and her loving and tender embrace. And that 85 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:41,040 Joseph takes care of you with his father' s heart, in the name 86 00:06:41,079 --> 00:06:43,560 of the father, and of the son, and of the Holy Spirit Amen.