Prayer of the heart. Monday, the tenth week of ordinary time. Holy
Spirit, You who make everything clear to me, who illuminate all the ways
for me to reach my ideal, You who give me the divine gift of
forgiving and forgetting the evil that they do to me and that in all the
moments of my life you are with me. I want, in this short
dialogue, to thank you for everything and confirm that I never want to separate
myself from you however much material illusion is to host you and all my loved
ones in perpetual glory. Thank you for your mercy to me and mine.
Thank you, my God. Today we celebrate the Sanasterio de Petra. The
Gospel is from St Matthew chapter five verses. One to twelve when he saw
the crowd, he went up to the mountain and sat down, and the
disciples came and took the word, and taught them, saying. Blessed are
the poor in spirit, for God is the kingdom of heaven, well because
they will persevere the earth, well all who weep, for they will be
comforted. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will
be filled. All the merciful will say, for mercy will come upon you.
Blessed are the clean in heart, for they will see God. Blessed
are those who work for peace, for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs
is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they revile you, and
persecute you, and speak all manner of evil against you for my sake,
rejoice and rejoice, for your reward will be great in heaven, for in
the same way they persecuted the prophets before you. The word happy blessed appear
nine times in this first great preaching of Jesus is like a refrain that reminds
us of the Lord' s call to walk with him a path that,
despite all difficulties, leads to true happiness. All people, of all times
and of any age, seek happiness. God has placed in the heart of
man and woman a deep longing for happiness, for spirit. Do not notice
that your hearts are restless and find in search of a good that you can
do his infinite being said St Augustine. Thus, in Christ we will find
in full fulfillment of the two years, a dream of goodness and happiness.
Only he can meet our expectations, often frustrated by the false evil promises.
As St John Paul II said. He is the beauty that attracts them so
much. It is he who provokes with that series of radiality that does not
allow them to let themselves be carried away from conformism. It is he who
pushes to leave the masks that distort life. It is he who reads in
their hearts the most authentic decisions that others would want to suffocate. The Jesus
who inspires in us the desire to make us of his life. Something big
is the mountain world. It has resonated so many times in the hearts of
Christians of all times and has been for all the message of hope in the
midst of the shifting difficulties of the world. It is the paradox of reduced
faith, its greatest expression. Wind all who weep, because they will be
consulates. It is the promise that we all wish to see fulfilled one day.
But the Christian is not simply to be assigned to everything that comes.
The disciple of Christ wields the prayer every day, removes obstacles, cleanses the
ground. He works because he knows that his effort will always be remunerated,
if not here, in the afterlife. Beatitudes are not just promises to wait.
They are a whole program of life to reform this land. If for
one day all men were poor in spirit, meek in heart, peaceful,
merciful, clean in heart, we could bring heaven to earth. It is
true that the Lord allows evil in our societies, disorientation and injustices, but
we cannot forget that, if he permits, they are sure to obtain all
this, from the greater good. As Christians, it is up to us
to tessimulate this message by living it with the simplicity and everydayness of our professional
and family life, leaving it to God to illuminate the world with the light
that emanates from our lives. What Jesus shows in the Beatitudes is himself.
He is the blessed, the Holy, the fullness of the new law,
the fulfillment of the law, the new Kingdom of God will consist in following
him in imitating him as he is, to the extent possible. A deeper
look leads us to see Jesus, the poor man who, if he gives,
sees the world and without anything will become lord of all created. He
is the meek and the peaceful who manifests himself by encouraging, reconciling men with
God among themselves and within them. Tears will take their place in life and
will be comforted by angels before the ransom sacrifice; it is the hungry and
thirsty of the new righteousness that, as of a divine, will be poured
out upon the earth. Sower of mercy, he will attain forgiveness to the
contrite of heart and to the lost ears. His cleansing of heart will come
until the absence of all self- love, of a true love that will
be poured out upon all men. He is the son of God in an
earthy generation of such a plenitu that he is with substance to the father.
The father and I are one will say later. Moreover, he will be
persecuted for teaching the paths of love that the world cannot understand, because he
is full of sin and in the eighth and adventure we have nailed Christ to
the cross. The sacrifice to rand effect between heaven and men, saving all
Christ in the Beatitudes shows himself as a way of new happiness. All this
flood of light, truth and life was to be communicated to men in a
tempted garden way. Most could not bear so much truth, for it was
necessary to break the old schemes. Therefore, Christ is revealed veiledly by manifesting
himself through a new morality, the morality of the Beatitudes. On the first
level, he tells them that they will be happy and just, they know
how to live in poverty, in meekness, in a peaceful and peaceful spirit,
with a merciful heart, being clean in heart and full of righteousness and
intention in the most intimate that those who hunger for righteousness will receive it,
just as if they know how to weep and carry out persecutions well. It
has never made men happy with the desire for money or power, nor the
violent spirit, nor the rebellious of troubles and the twisted dirty heart, nor
the soul my hard mercies that do not know how to suffer with those who
suffer, nor the grudge against persecutions. Happiness can only be in sincere love,
and adventures mark the path of a love rich in nuances that embraces all
the real situations of life. On the other hand, the prize is extraordinary
the Kingdom of Heaven, for what it means to possess the earth, to
be comforted, to be satisfied with righteousness, to hunt mercy, to see
God, to be called to the children of God and to die a war,
reward in heaven. This is the fullness of the Kingdom of God that
Christ further announces. You can' t ask. The Kingdom of adventurers is
the pleetumana sized as where God wants to believe and live new life and the
new covenant. At the end of time, Just will receive that beatitude.
Your full way. Truly. He is happy who knows the poor and lives
detached from things, from the free land, from treachery, from desire and
from desire for possession. He is happy who, in weeping, receives the
comfort of knowing that his sufferings are not useless and meaningless, but can become
a sacrifice that helps save others in a spiritual communion of the saints. He
is happy who has inner dominion over his passions, in a meekness that is
to be able to be serene away from violence. He who knows that all
desires for righteousness and love are filled with abundance is happy. He is happy
who has a good heart for him who suffers with his soul and body and
is drawn with a mercy that is sometimes forgiveness and or refreshing. He who
looks at the world at trosoras is happy, I hate God' s cleanness
and understands things with supernatural notice. It is happy that always peace and that
it runs among men so that they learn to love each other also when they
are few unkind. He may finally be happy, who is persecuted for being
faithful to God, for so he can resemble Jesus, who is the innocent
who pays the debts of sinners because he loves them with a love that elevates
them more than judges them. Tes of blessing, that goodness and mercy of
God. Father, fill your heart, may the gaze of love of God,
son, penetrate you into your soul and purify you from any restlessness and
source that can separate you from God, may the love of a Holy Spirit
grant you the peace you need, may the cell of Mary, mother of
God and our mother caress you and protect you and the strength and be determined
to Joseph the father. Lord I led you to heaven and blessing of God,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit descend upon you and abide always Amen