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Prayer of the heart Wednesday of the
fifth week of Lent holy spirit. I

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believe in you, or I hope
in you I love you Only you deserve

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the worship of the human heart and
only before you must I bow down.

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

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imagine. Therefore, sir, do
not allow me to worship anything as if

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I were a God, for no
one marries it in human beings and nothing

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in this world is worth so much
I recognize you as master of my life,

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allow you to lose serenity and joy
for things that do not stop so

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much. Today we learn St Martin
of Dunio, the Gospel of St John,

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chapter eight of the thirty- first
and forty- two centuries. At

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that time he told Jesus instead to
the Jews who had believed in him.

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If you remain in my word,
you will indeed be my disciples, I

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will know the truth and the strange
truth free. They told him we are

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Abram' s wine and we have
never been slaves to anyone. As you

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say, you will be free.
Jesus answered them in truth. Verily I

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say unto you all that commit sin
are slaves. The slave doesn' t

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stay in the house forever. The
son stays forever. And if the children

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make you free, you will be
truly free. I know you are Abraham

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' s lineage. However, it
brings you to kill me because my word

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doesn' t face you. I
speak of what I have seen my father,

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but you do what you have heard
of your father. They replied our

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Father Sabraham, Jesus told them if
you were Abraham' s children, you

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would do what he did. Abrahan. However, you try to kill me

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and I have told you about the
truth that I heard from God and that

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did not abrahan. You do what
your father does. We are not children

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of prostitution, we have one father
of God. Jesus answered them. If

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God were your father, you would
have made me dizzy because I came out

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of God and came so that I
did not come on my own, but

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he sent me. Lord, this
moment of prayer is the means by which

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your grace increases. It says so
that it can become a strong, luminous,

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working, contagious, profound faith that
leads me to know the truth.

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You know how much I need this
gift because if the lakeman could truly love

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neither YOU nor others, Lord increases
my faith to know your truth. The

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doctors of the law did not understand
the joy of the promise, they did

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not understand the joy of hope,
they understood nothing or the idea of the

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alliance. They did not know how
to be happy because they had lost the

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sense of happiness that only comes from
faith. Our great father has been able

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to be happy because he had faith. It has been made righteous in faith.

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They had lost faith. They were
a doctor of the law, but

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without faith And even more, they
had lost the law because the center of

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the law is love, love for
God and for the Projimo. This is

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life without fires, without trust in
God, without hope in God and in

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his heart. It has been petrified
in this way, it is sad to

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be a believer without joy. And
there is no joy when there is no

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faith, when there is no hope, when there is no law, but

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only the perscriptions of cold autrine,
the joy of faith, the joy of

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the Gospel, is the criterion of
a person' s faith. Without joy,

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that person is not a true believer. Abraham, our father, the

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faith turned out the hope of Vermidia
saw it and was filled with joy.

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Ask the Lord for the grace to
be exultant in hope, the grace to

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be able to see the day of
Jesus when we meet him and the grace

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of joy. I tell you this
little story that, even if it'

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s not very sad, that'
s what they told me. It'

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s the only thing you can tell
a friend at the time who told me

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how her brother had gotten into drugs
before a funny, cheerful boy a little

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bit of a study mess, which
we forgave him, but I never thought

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he could get to that end and
lay by a tree. His father had

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thrown him out of the house and
his sister was crying dismayed, leaning on

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my shoulder. After a year he
died of overdose. He was unable to

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get out of the drugs, despite
all the help, And it is that,

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as the Gospel says, sin makes
us slaves, the sin calls another

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sin and so it becomes impossible even
to get out. Thus the life of

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the Christian, who is not attentive
as a child, happens. She was

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fervent and even almost liked the Church. Then, eventually, it cooled down.

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Sometimes she left Sunday Mass and slowly
left it at all. Then he

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confessed an early year and went to
the Church only for the wheels and burials,

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until he came to an age when
he considered himself mature at all and

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said to himself I no longer need
God and less of the Church. Jesus

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does not warn us in today'
s Gospel so that we do not become

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slaves to sin, but that,
as Our Lady is very faithful to God

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who at every moment asks us to
free us and generous availability to fulfill his

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will. Lord Jesus, unfortunately,
the one they say has too much influence

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on my decision- making, when
my standard of life should be only to

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always follow your will and always follow
your truth. Help me to pray with

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humility and simplicity so that I may
receive and appreciate the countless gifts with which

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you enrich my life so that,
with your grace, I may be a

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consistent witness of my faith. I
give you the blessing, that the goodness

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and mercy of God, parents,
has the heart, that the gaze of

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love of God, son, penetrates
into your soul and purifies you from any

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uneasiness and lack that you can separate
from God, that the love of God,

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

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

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and protects you, and that the
strength and simplicity of Saint Joseph, our

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

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son and Holy Spirit, descend upon
you and remain always Amen.