Prayer of the heart. Monday of the seventh week of Ordinary Time. Blessed,
Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, help me my holy spirit so
that I can look to others with your senator eyes, I want to recognize
your love for all human beings, also for those people that I cannot love
with patience and compassion, all those important to the loving heart of Jesus all
sacred and valuable. No one has been born by chance, but it is
an eternal project of your love. Free me from condemning and prejudging others.
I would like to imagine their sufferings, their distresses, those weaknesses that,
after overcoming, help me always find some excuse to excuse them and not to
look at them with bad eyes. Give me all the patience I need.
Come holy spirit. Today we celebrate St Bernardine of Siena, the Gospel of
St John, Chapter nineteen verses NS, twenty- five and thirty- four.
At that time, next to the Cross of Jesus were his mother,
his mother' s sister, Mary of Clofas, and Mary the Magdalene.
“ Jesus, seeing his mother and beside her the disciple turned away,”
his mother woman said,“ there you have your son” And then the
disciple said. There' s your mother. And from that hour the disciple
received it as his own. After this, Jesus knowing that all was fulfilled
so that the scripture would be fulfilled, said I thirst there was a jar
full of vinegar there and holding a sponge soaked in vinegar to an isopus reed
brought it to his mouth. Jesus, when he met the miracle, said
he is fulfilled and bowing his head, gave up the spirit the Jews.
Then, as it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would
not remain on the cross of the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a great
day, and they asked Pilatu and they would break their legs and take them
away. It was Saturdays. He knows the soldiers broke the legs of the
first Bloo, another who had crucified with him for reaching Jesus, seeing that
he was already dead. His legs were not burned, but one of the
soldiers with the spear carried him to the side, and blood and water came
to the point. The generation given to the mother of God by the Church
in the present times, In the light of reflection on the mystery of Christ
and his own nature, could not or could not forget the figure of that
woman, the Virgin Mary, who is the mother of Christ and at the
same time mother of the Church. This was already in some way present in
the faith of the Christian people, as seen in the premonitory words of St
Augustine and those of Leo the Great. The first says that Mary is the
mother of the members of Christ because she has cooperated with her charity in the
regeneration of the faithful of the Church. The other saying that the birth of
the head is also the birth of the body, indicates that Mary is gone
time, mother of Christ, son of God and mother of the bodies of
his mystical body, that is, the Church. Indeed, Mary, who
stood by the Cross, accepted the will of her son' s love and
welcomed all men personified to St John as sons to regenerate the divine life,
becoming mother of the church that Christ has begotten on the Cross, giving in
to the spirit. In turn, the beloved disciple Christ chooses all disciples as
heirs of his love. She makes the mother, entrusting her to receive her
with filial affection. Mary took care of the rising church, set up her
maternal mission, praying with the apostles waiting for the avenue of the Holy Spirit.
With this feeling, the Christian people honored Mary the accusation of the centuries
with the titles that in some way equals ple de ur valentes, of mother
of the disciples, of the faithful, of the believers, of all those
who are born in Christ and also mother of the Church, as appears in
the Magisterium of Benedict XIV and Leo XIII. From all this it is clear
that on what Saint Paul is founded. This is the twenty- first of
November of the year sixty- four, as a contest of the third session,
the cooked Vatican II, to declare to the biennial of Virgin Mary the
mother of the Church, that is, mother of all the people of God,
both of the faithful and of the pastors who call her Loving Mother,
and established that from now on, the Mother of God should be honored by
all the Christian. With this most pleasant title, making is the sense of
the Christian people of the thousand years of history had taken in a different way
the maternal filial bond that closely to the riscipals of Christ with his most holy
mother. Such a bond gives explicit testimony of the Evangelist John when he speaks
of the will that Jesus died in Veracruz after having given his mother to the
disciples and their mother, knowing that all was already fulfilled. When Jesus died,
he gave his spirit for the life of the Church. His mystical body,
because the side of Christ asleep on the Cross was born the admirable sacrament
of the whole igris in the passion of the Lord The water and blood that
sprang from his merciful heart on the Cross, a sign of the fulfillment of
his redeemer, continue sacramentally to give life in the Church through baptism and the
Eucharist. Mary continues to carry out her mission as a mother in this admirable
union that will always grow between the redeemer and the redeemed. This celebration of
Mary, Mother of the Church, will help us to remember that the growth
of Christian life must be based on the mystery of the Cross, on the
offering of Christ, on the humbalistic banquet and on offering to the mother of
the redeemer and Christians. The Church, the wife of Christ, sees Mary
as her model. She also finished without spot or wrinkle and yet need purification
in her members, because we are sinners. That is why he tries to
imitate and follow the paths of his mother and example. The Church contemplating the
archaic holiness of Our Lady and imitating her charity and compressing, faithfully fulfilling the
Father' s will to accept with officiality the word of God. She too
becomes a bus mother with preaching and baptism breeds for the new and immortal life
children conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of God. She, too,
is the virgin who keeps the bride' s sidewalk whole and pure, inviting
the sleepy mother by the habitude of the Holy Spirit. It originally preserves whole
faith, firm hope and sincere charity. The Church and the world need our
personal holiness. Original sin has been forgiven us in baptism, but its consequences
remain alive in our soul and clumsy mistakes, easy to vigate evil, difficult
to do good. And yet we have no right to be discouraged, because
we have God’ s hypotent reason. Open to Joseph Mary and the intercession
of Saint Mary to us to play only to fight without fainting and to begin
how many times it is necessary. Son, you must think of your life
and ask forgiveness in the sight of your poor life to ask forgiveness and do
the firm, firm, firm, concrete purpose, determined to improve in this
and in that, in that which costs you, in that which you usually
do as you should, you do not do as you should and you know
it once we can feel especially alive with all the taste of that sad inheritance
of Adam. Perhaps then one' s love will bring us to discouragement,
presenting holiness to us as an inaccessible goal, trying to fill the soul with
anxiety for our sins, a restlessness that is not that God, because it
does not lead to humility and peace. It would then be time to turn
more confidently than ever to Mary to take refuge in her immaculate holiness. All
the sins of your life. It looks like they' re standing up Don
' t be suspicious. On the contrary, call your mother, Saint Mary,
with faith and abandonment of the child. She will bring to your soul
the protection of a wicked virgin, who is a most stale mother, never
to let go, for great are our sorrows. If I were a leper,
my mother would hug me and feel that we are reprehensible and without fear,
I would kiss my wounds then, and the Blessed Virgin. While you
paint we are bondors, everything has remedy and the feeling that we are lepers,
that we are arrived ras and scream mother, and the protection of our
mother is like a kiss in the wounds to have much devotion to her.
Always trust her and when you find yourself in a moment of trouble pray to
her, invoke her help. Support her, she' s a safe hold
and you' ll stand firm. The holiness of the virgins, therefore,
is that of Christ, the richest treasure that the Church keeps in its abundance.
We live Saint, the member of the mystical body of Christ. Contemplating
Mary, she strengthens our faith in the Church, which is always holy.
Despite our personal miseries. The immaculate virgin is much more than an exalted member
of the Church, her ferbidity to her son, he also spiritually begets Christians
to the life of grace, and it is therefore our mother all the blessing
God who, by his abundance, is redeeming the human race through the materiality
of the Virgin Mary, pouring out his abundant blessing that you experience always and
everywhere, the position of the Virgin Mary, because you received is the author
of life and all of you gathered to speed up love. This party of
his honor is a fine one. You discern the gifts of spiritual cutting and
inner primes and the blessing of God, almighty father, son, and holy
spirit, tizzard upon us, and abide always amen.