Prayer of the heart. Thursday of the third week of Lent come creative spirit,
visit the souls of your feres and full of divine grace in the hearts
that you yourself created. You are our comforting gift from God, the highest
source, living, fire, charity and spirit gathering. You spill on us.
Seven gifts, You the finger of the hand of God, You the
promised of the Father, You who put on our lips, the treasures of
your word. Light our senses with your light, infuse your love in our
hearts and with your perpetual help strengthen you, weak flesh, glory to God,
father and son who rose again and comforting spirit for the endless centuries.
Amen today we celebrate the memory of the Holy Martyrs perpetually and happiness. The
Gospel is from St Luke, chapter eleven verses fourteen to twenty- three.
At that time Jesus was casting out a demon who was mute and it happened
that as soon as the demon came out he began to speak the mute.
The crowd was amazed, but some of them said by art of Belzebub,
the prince of demons. Throw out the demons. Others to put the test
asked him for a sign from heaven and he, knowing his thoughts, told
them every kingdom divided against himself, went to ruin and fell house upon house.
If, then, satan has also divided against himself, how will his
kingdom be maintained. For you say that I have made demons by the power
of belcebul But if I have made demons by the power of belcebul your children
by the power of whom you were cast out. Therefore, they themselves will
be your judges. But if I have cast out demons with the finger of
God, then the kingdom of God has come to you. When a strong
and well- armed man keeps his hand, his goods are secure, but
when another stronger man assaults him and then overcomes him, he takes away the
weapons of the trusted one and distributes his spoils. Whoever' s not with
me is against me. Whoever gathers us with me scatters the devil, has
patience and does not leave what he wants for himself, that is, our
soul. That is why it is necessary, says the Pope. Caring for
our heart does not prevent the Holy Spirit from entering other spirits. Take care
of the heart as you take care of the house with a key and then
watch the heart like a sentry. How many times bad thoughts, bad intentions,
jealous cells come in. There' s a lot of stuff coming in,
but who' s opened the door where they came in. If I
didn' t realize how much enters my heart it becomes a square where everyone
comes and goes, a heart without intimacy, a heart where the lord can
' t speak or be heard. Jesus says there another thing that seems a
little strange. The one who does not gather with me of esparrama uses the
word, collects having a heart gathered, a heart on which we do not
know what happens. And here and there you can do the ancient practice of
the Church. But good examination of conscience. Which one of us at night
before the end of the day. But I need it alone. It is
not asked and the question is asked What has happened in my heart today,
What has happened, what has happened through my heart. If we don'
t really do it, we don' t know how to keep an eye
on it or take good care of it. Thus commented this Gospel, Pope
Francis, The Lord loves us so much that he cannot accept that we are
far from him. He wants it all or nothing. Christ does not conform
to parts of a whole. The desire our total surrender, the best,
the most beautiful, the greatest. And if we can offer it through our
brothers, when we strive in charity, we greatly enlarge the heart of Jesus
Christ. But the question you can ask yourself what is God' s will?
For me I am doing God' s will. If the question is
already complex, thinking the answer becomes a more difficult one, because it is
sometimes not easy to understand what God' s will is in our life,
when we are surrounded by many realities, suffering, difficult situations that make us
fall more and more and things like the first Council I would like to give
you. Do not seek God merely by trying to find in his answer a
desire that you have within you. I ask you again and calmly this sentence,
because I believe that there may already be many of the answers that you
come looking for and you still do not have I will be even clearer.
But do not seek an answer from God for your state of life. For
example, it is you and only you who are concerned about it more than
God does not see with a response from God in relation to the suffering you
are living. It' s you and you alone who' s worried about
getting rid of the problem instead of learning from it. What I mean by
this is that you don' t go after God demanding answers to your desires,
because your desires may not be the priority of what God wants for you
now. Then, if I must not seek God to respond to my desires,
what I must do. You need to start looking for God, because
in God you will find the answers you need. Look. There is a
very big difference between seeking God with the desire that he will respond to your
desires and seeking God so that he will give you the answer you need.
When we understand this difference, we stop wanting to manipulate God and look for
them only for what he can offer us and we will start looking for him
for what God is. God is God and must be our only motive for
seeking Him. When we seek God from the heart, without second intentions,
without masking our desires, when we seek Him, we begin to purify even
our way of relating to Him. I will no longer need to stay looking
for answers and solutions to the problems of my life, because the focus is
no longer on the answers I need for my life and the focus will be
on God and on who he is. For me, and there it is
clear that all the steps you will need to take in your life will be
easier to decide. The steps you will need to take will become clearer to
you. Once you seek God from your heart, once you seek God for
what he is and not for what he can give you. Your life will
be a fuller life of God. And even if you don' t have
all the clarity of your next step, you won' t be grieved,
so you will keep walking in God until these next steps become more expensive to
make a decision And all that will materialize in the search for God through prayer.
That' s why I advise you. Pray. Pray, pray and
pray. There is no other way to reach God, but the way that
is marked by a life of dedicated and faithful prayer much more than by the
will to pray. This path must be marked by the persistence of constancy.
And my second advice is don' t wait to have the desire to pray.
Don' t you want to fill up, you' ll stop praying.
Don' t expect you to feel your heart anxious to meet God through
prayer, because surely if I part with regret, I wouldn' t pray.
Pray without desire, pray tiredly, pray with worries in your head,
pray sickly, pray at work, pray in the car, pray sadly.
Pray even if you' re feeling lonely. Pray even if you feel God
is not hearing you. Pray, Pray, pray and pray the constancy in
your life of prayer. He will give you the gift of this life attached
to the will of God. Look at all the events of today as opportunities
that Christ gives you to show him your love for him and for your brothers,
the men Jesus. I don' t want to scatter the fracies and
where you' ve given me. Sir, let me pick you up.
I want to help you, I want to always be at your side working
with you. You are my joy and your mission, my mission. Give
me the grace, Lord, never to tire and always to be a good
and faithful servant to you. I give the blessing God, almighty. Bless
you with all manner of heavenly lives so that six saints and reprehensible in His
presence may pour out upon you the riches of His grace. Teach you with
the word of truth and with the gospel of salvation, and make you rich
with the brotherly complaint and blessing of God almighty father, son, and holy
spirit, cleave upon you, and abide always Amen.