Prayer of the heart. Thursday of the fourth week of Quaresma holy spirit.
I believe in you I hope in you I love you. Only you deserve
the worship of the human heart and I must bow down to you alone.
Only you are the glorious lord with a beauty you can' t even imagine.
So, sir, don' t let me worship anything like I'
m a god, because no being or anything in this world is worth so
much. I recognize you as master of life, do not allow me to
lose serenity and joy for things that are not worth so much. Today we
celebrate Saint Matilde of Saxony, wife of King Henry II, the Gospel of
St John, chapter five verses thirty- one to forty- seven. At
that time, Jesus told the Jews. If I testify of myself, my
testimony is not true. There is another who bears witness to me and I
know that the testimony he gives of me is true. You sent messengers to
John and he has testified in favor of the truth. It' s not
that I depend on a man' s testimony. If I say this it
is for you to save yourselves. John was the lamp that burned and shone,
and you wanted to enjoy his light for a moment. But the testimony
I have is greater than that of John. The works that the father has
granted me to perform, those works that both bear witness to me that the
father has sent me and the father who sent me himself has testified to me.
Though ye have heard his voice there, though ye have not heard his
voice, neither have ye seen his pro- face and his word dwelleth not
in you, because ye believe not him whom he hath sent. You study
the scriptures thinking of contracting eternal life in them, for they are giving you,
my lady, and you do not want to see me, come to
me to have life. I don' t get glory from men. Besides,
I know you and I know that God' s love is not in
you. I came in the name of the father and you didn' t
receive me. If another comes his own name to that century, you will
receive it. How can you see yourself believing that you accept glory from one
another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one God. Don
' t think I' m going to charge you with the father. A
fast that accuses you. Moses in whom you have your hope. If you
believe Moses, you do not believe me, because he wrote about me.
But if you do not want in his writings, how will you believe.
In my words, believing is not adding one opinion to others, and the
commission of faith and conviction the faith that God exists is not an information.
Like others. A lot of information doesn' t matter to us if they
' re true or fans, because it doesn' t change our lives.
But if God does not exist, the day is empty, life is empty,
the future is empty, instead, if God exists, everything changes.
Life is light, our future is light and we have an orientation to know
how to live. Therefore, believing constitutes the fundamental orientation of our life.
Believing to say yes, I think you' re God. I believe that
in the incarnate son you are present among us orients my life, forced me
to adhere to God, to unite with God and thus find the place where
to live and the way I should live and believe. It' s not
just a way of thinking, an idea, as I said, it'
s an action, a way of living to believe. It means to follow
the path marked by the word of God. Like I said before. I
don' t think I' ve or one opinion to others. We have
many opposites of God. We often think that God is only a judge,
the one- powerful dictator of heaven, who rules a supreme with his brea
authority, something very different from what God really is. That is why it
is difficult for us to accept, believe and do his will. God is
not like that. God is mercy forgiveness. Love God does not act as
a dictator, but rather as a father who corrects to point out the right
path because he loves and wants the best for his son. Act like this,
act like this knowing it' s going to hurt, but it'
s for everything to come out front. In this true orientation we find God
and the confidence that we believe in God arises naturally, because we have made
the experience of the true God. He who understands, understands and helps.
And it is logical that, after this experience so strong and alive, our
belief should be transformed into action and we still believe that it goes beyond what
is accepting God' s love more passively, a belief that it is committed
to fully surrendering itself to him. Whatever Jesus asks of me, in this
gospel he addresses a reproach to us. Christ is trying to defend? Christ
tries to defend his name, not because he will be interested in himself,
but so that more people will believe in him. He makes an effort to
stand among the Jews, following their mentality of trusting in the testimony of others.
He does and says everything he can. However, his words seem to
clash and slip in the face of unbelief. In the face of unbelief,
Jesus seems to forgive us before the unbelief of the proud hearts. Jesus appeals
to the very testimony of the father manifested in the writings of Moses and St
John the Baptist, to the First God had chosen him to free and guide
his people through the wilderness into the promised land. It is not Jesus himself
who guides us in the desert of our life to the eternal homeland. The
second John proclaimed the coming of the Messiah' s muis and proposed a baptism
of penance. Jesus, in another passage, claims that he was Elijah appointed
as his originator, who would then add Montes and fill Valles for the passage
of the Lord. It is not Jesus who keeps shouting in the desert of
the consciences of so many men calling them to conversion, drawing them to their
love. But the Jews didn' t understand. We understand that today.
It is sad, but it is true in this gospel Jesus reproaches us not
having understood his message. We go in search of the grus that gives the
world to those who work according to the logan of the moment, we run
after the vanity of having more and more without sharing what he himself has given
us love, affection and understanding, that is, reading the scriptures and not
understanding the message of Christ, going to Mass and then not living the Gospel,
calling himself a Christian and barely knowing Jesus. But Jesus is patient,
waiting for us and if he reproaches us something in our conscience, it is
because he loves us and loves us. Close to his great heart, we
can correspond to him by approaching the parish, living and sharing our faith,
giving to the world our smile that gives joy to that of the hope and
trust of Jesus. The moments I reserve for your things, sir, are
very few and they pass very quickly. What else can I do for you
I do not want to let go of this moment of prayer, like many
who have already left without leaving me a true experience of you. Sir,
I can' t leave without really committing myself to you. I' ve
already contemplated your love as you really are. Now my share is missing.
You know me I' m weak, but I know that with your grace
I can in you is my strength with you I vacillate it. I give
the blessing, that the goodness and mercy of God, Father fill you in
your heart, that the mediated love of God, son and enter into your
soul and purify you from any uneasiness and lack that can separate you from God,
that the love of God the Holy Spirit may grant you the peace you
need, that the tenderness of Mary, mother of God and our mother may
caress and protect you, and that the strength and sencility of St Joseph our
father, Lord, may lead you to heaven and the blessing of God,
your father, son and holy spirit, come down upon you and remain always amen