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Prayer of the heart. Thursday of
the fourth week of Quaresma holy spirit.

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I believe in you I hope in
you I love you. Only you deserve

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the worship of the human heart and
I must bow down to you alone.

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Only you are the glorious lord with
a beauty you can' t even imagine.

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So, sir, don' t
let me worship anything like I'

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m a god, because no being
or anything in this world is worth so

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much. I recognize you as master
of life, do not allow me to

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lose serenity and joy for things that
are not worth so much. Today we

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celebrate Saint Matilde of Saxony, wife
of King Henry II, the Gospel of

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St John, chapter five verses thirty- one to forty- seven. At

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that time, Jesus told the Jews. If I testify of myself, my

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testimony is not true. There is
another who bears witness to me and I

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know that the testimony he gives of
me is true. You sent messengers to

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John and he has testified in favor
of the truth. It' s not

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that I depend on a man'
s testimony. If I say this it

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is for you to save yourselves.
John was the lamp that burned and shone,

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and you wanted to enjoy his light
for a moment. But the testimony

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I have is greater than that of
John. The works that the father has

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granted me to perform, those works
that both bear witness to me that the

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father has sent me and the father
who sent me himself has testified to me.

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Though ye have heard his voice there, though ye have not heard his

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voice, neither have ye seen his
pro- face and his word dwelleth not

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in you, because ye believe not
him whom he hath sent. You study

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the scriptures thinking of contracting eternal life
in them, for they are giving you,

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my lady, and you do not
want to see me, come to

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me to have life. I don' t get glory from men. Besides,

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I know you and I know that
God' s love is not in

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you. I came in the name
of the father and you didn' t

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receive me. If another comes his
own name to that century, you will

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receive it. How can you see
yourself believing that you accept glory from one

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another and do not seek the glory
that comes from the one God. Don

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' t think I' m going
to charge you with the father. A

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fast that accuses you. Moses in
whom you have your hope. If you

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believe Moses, you do not believe
me, because he wrote about me.

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But if you do not want in
his writings, how will you believe.

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In my words, believing is not
adding one opinion to others, and the

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commission of faith and conviction the faith
that God exists is not an information.

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Like others. A lot of information
doesn' t matter to us if they

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' re true or fans, because
it doesn' t change our lives.

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But if God does not exist,
the day is empty, life is empty,

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the future is empty, instead,
if God exists, everything changes.

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Life is light, our future is
light and we have an orientation to know

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how to live. Therefore, believing
constitutes the fundamental orientation of our life.

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Believing to say yes, I think
you' re God. I believe that

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in the incarnate son you are present
among us orients my life, forced me

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to adhere to God, to unite
with God and thus find the place where

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to live and the way I should
live and believe. It' s not

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just a way of thinking, an
idea, as I said, it'

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s an action, a way of
living to believe. It means to follow

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the path marked by the word of
God. Like I said before. I

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don' t think I' ve
or one opinion to others. We have

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many opposites of God. We often
think that God is only a judge,

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the one- powerful dictator of heaven, who rules a supreme with his brea

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authority, something very different from what
God really is. That is why it

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is difficult for us to accept,
believe and do his will. God is

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not like that. God is mercy
forgiveness. Love God does not act as

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a dictator, but rather as a
father who corrects to point out the right

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path because he loves and wants the
best for his son. Act like this,

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act like this knowing it' s
going to hurt, but it'

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s for everything to come out front. In this true orientation we find God

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and the confidence that we believe in
God arises naturally, because we have made

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the experience of the true God.
He who understands, understands and helps.

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And it is logical that, after
this experience so strong and alive, our

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belief should be transformed into action and
we still believe that it goes beyond what

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is accepting God' s love more
passively, a belief that it is committed

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to fully surrendering itself to him.
Whatever Jesus asks of me, in this

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gospel he addresses a reproach to us. Christ is trying to defend? Christ

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tries to defend his name, not
because he will be interested in himself,

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but so that more people will believe
in him. He makes an effort to

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stand among the Jews, following their
mentality of trusting in the testimony of others.

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He does and says everything he can. However, his words seem to

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clash and slip in the face of
unbelief. In the face of unbelief,

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Jesus seems to forgive us before the
unbelief of the proud hearts. Jesus appeals

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to the very testimony of the father
manifested in the writings of Moses and St

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John the Baptist, to the First
God had chosen him to free and guide

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his people through the wilderness into the
promised land. It is not Jesus himself

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who guides us in the desert of
our life to the eternal homeland. The

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second John proclaimed the coming of the
Messiah' s muis and proposed a baptism

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of penance. Jesus, in another
passage, claims that he was Elijah appointed

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as his originator, who would then
add Montes and fill Valles for the passage

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of the Lord. It is not
Jesus who keeps shouting in the desert of

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the consciences of so many men calling
them to conversion, drawing them to their

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love. But the Jews didn'
t understand. We understand that today.

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It is sad, but it is
true in this gospel Jesus reproaches us not

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having understood his message. We go
in search of the grus that gives the

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world to those who work according to
the logan of the moment, we run

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after the vanity of having more and
more without sharing what he himself has given

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us love, affection and understanding,
that is, reading the scriptures and not

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understanding the message of Christ, going
to Mass and then not living the Gospel,

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calling himself a Christian and barely knowing
Jesus. But Jesus is patient,

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waiting for us and if he reproaches
us something in our conscience, it is

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because he loves us and loves us. Close to his great heart, we

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can correspond to him by approaching the
parish, living and sharing our faith,

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giving to the world our smile that
gives joy to that of the hope and

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trust of Jesus. The moments I
reserve for your things, sir, are

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very few and they pass very quickly. What else can I do for you

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I do not want to let go
of this moment of prayer, like many

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who have already left without leaving me
a true experience of you. Sir,

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I can' t leave without really
committing myself to you. I' ve

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already contemplated your love as you really
are. Now my share is missing.

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You know me I' m weak, but I know that with your grace

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I can in you is my strength
with you I vacillate it. I give

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the blessing, that the goodness and
mercy of God, Father fill you in

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your heart, that the mediated love
of God, son and enter into your

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soul and purify you from any uneasiness
and lack that can separate you from God,

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that the love of God the Holy
Spirit may grant you the peace you

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need, that the tenderness of Mary, mother of God and our mother may

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caress and protect you, and that
the strength and sencility of St Joseph our

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father, Lord, may lead you
to heaven and the blessing of God,

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your father, son and holy spirit, come down upon you and remain always amen