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Prayer of the heart. Thursday of
the third week of Lent come creative spirit,

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visit the souls of your feres and
full of divine grace in the hearts

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that you yourself created. You are
our comforting gift from God, the highest

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source, living, fire, charity
and spirit gathering. You spill on us.

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Seven gifts, You the finger of
the hand of God, You the

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promised of the Father, You who
put on our lips, the treasures of

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your word. Light our senses with
your light, infuse your love in our

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hearts and with your perpetual help strengthen
you, weak flesh, glory to God,

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father and son who rose again and
comforting spirit for the endless centuries.

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Amen today we celebrate the memory of
the Holy Martyrs perpetually and happiness. The

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Gospel is from St Luke, chapter
eleven verses fourteen to twenty- three.

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At that time Jesus was casting out
a demon who was mute and it happened

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that as soon as the demon came
out he began to speak the mute.

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The crowd was amazed, but some
of them said by art of Belzebub,

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the prince of demons. Throw out
the demons. Others to put the test

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asked him for a sign from heaven
and he, knowing his thoughts, told

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them every kingdom divided against himself,
went to ruin and fell house upon house.

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If, then, satan has also
divided against himself, how will his

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kingdom be maintained. For you say
that I have made demons by the power

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of belcebul But if I have made
demons by the power of belcebul your children

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by the power of whom you were
cast out. Therefore, they themselves will

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be your judges. But if I
have cast out demons with the finger of

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God, then the kingdom of God
has come to you. When a strong

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and well- armed man keeps his
hand, his goods are secure, but

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when another stronger man assaults him and
then overcomes him, he takes away the

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weapons of the trusted one and distributes
his spoils. Whoever' s not with

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me is against me. Whoever gathers
us with me scatters the devil, has

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patience and does not leave what he
wants for himself, that is, our

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soul. That is why it is
necessary, says the Pope. Caring for

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our heart does not prevent the Holy
Spirit from entering other spirits. Take care

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of the heart as you take care
of the house with a key and then

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watch the heart like a sentry.
How many times bad thoughts, bad intentions,

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jealous cells come in. There'
s a lot of stuff coming in,

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but who' s opened the door
where they came in. If I

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didn' t realize how much enters
my heart it becomes a square where everyone

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comes and goes, a heart without
intimacy, a heart where the lord can

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' t speak or be heard.
Jesus says there another thing that seems a

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little strange. The one who does
not gather with me of esparrama uses the

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word, collects having a heart gathered, a heart on which we do not

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know what happens. And here and
there you can do the ancient practice of

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the Church. But good examination of
conscience. Which one of us at night

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before the end of the day.
But I need it alone. It is

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not asked and the question is asked
What has happened in my heart today,

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What has happened, what has happened
through my heart. If we don'

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t really do it, we don' t know how to keep an eye

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on it or take good care of
it. Thus commented this Gospel, Pope

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Francis, The Lord loves us so
much that he cannot accept that we are

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far from him. He wants it
all or nothing. Christ does not conform

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to parts of a whole. The
desire our total surrender, the best,

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the most beautiful, the greatest.
And if we can offer it through our

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brothers, when we strive in charity, we greatly enlarge the heart of Jesus

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Christ. But the question you can
ask yourself what is God' s will?

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For me I am doing God'
s will. If the question is

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already complex, thinking the answer becomes
a more difficult one, because it is

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sometimes not easy to understand what God' s will is in our life,

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when we are surrounded by many realities, suffering, difficult situations that make us

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fall more and more and things like
the first Council I would like to give

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you. Do not seek God merely
by trying to find in his answer a

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desire that you have within you.
I ask you again and calmly this sentence,

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because I believe that there may already
be many of the answers that you

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come looking for and you still do
not have I will be even clearer.

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But do not seek an answer from
God for your state of life. For

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example, it is you and only
you who are concerned about it more than

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God does not see with a response
from God in relation to the suffering you

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are living. It' s you
and you alone who' s worried about

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getting rid of the problem instead of
learning from it. What I mean by

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this is that you don' t
go after God demanding answers to your desires,

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because your desires may not be the
priority of what God wants for you

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now. Then, if I must
not seek God to respond to my desires,

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what I must do. You need
to start looking for God, because

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in God you will find the answers
you need. Look. There is a

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very big difference between seeking God with
the desire that he will respond to your

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desires and seeking God so that he
will give you the answer you need.

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When we understand this difference, we
stop wanting to manipulate God and look for

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them only for what he can offer
us and we will start looking for him

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for what God is. God is
God and must be our only motive for

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seeking Him. When we seek God
from the heart, without second intentions,

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without masking our desires, when we
seek Him, we begin to purify even

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our way of relating to Him.
I will no longer need to stay looking

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for answers and solutions to the problems
of my life, because the focus is

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no longer on the answers I need
for my life and the focus will be

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on God and on who he is. For me, and there it is

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clear that all the steps you will
need to take in your life will be

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easier to decide. The steps you
will need to take will become clearer to

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you. Once you seek God from
your heart, once you seek God for

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what he is and not for what
he can give you. Your life will

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be a fuller life of God.
And even if you don' t have

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all the clarity of your next step, you won' t be grieved,

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so you will keep walking in God
until these next steps become more expensive to

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make a decision And all that will
materialize in the search for God through prayer.

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That' s why I advise you. Pray. Pray, pray and

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pray. There is no other way
to reach God, but the way that

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is marked by a life of dedicated
and faithful prayer much more than by the

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will to pray. This path must
be marked by the persistence of constancy.

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And my second advice is don'
t wait to have the desire to pray.

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Don' t you want to fill
up, you' ll stop praying.

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Don' t expect you to feel
your heart anxious to meet God through

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prayer, because surely if I part
with regret, I wouldn' t pray.

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Pray without desire, pray tiredly,
pray with worries in your head,

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pray sickly, pray at work,
pray in the car, pray sadly.

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Pray even if you' re feeling
lonely. Pray even if you feel God

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is not hearing you. Pray,
Pray, pray and pray the constancy in

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your life of prayer. He will
give you the gift of this life attached

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to the will of God. Look
at all the events of today as opportunities

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that Christ gives you to show him
your love for him and for your brothers,

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the men Jesus. I don'
t want to scatter the fracies and

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where you' ve given me.
Sir, let me pick you up.

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I want to help you, I
want to always be at your side working

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with you. You are my joy
and your mission, my mission. Give

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me the grace, Lord, never
to tire and always to be a good

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and faithful servant to you. I
give the blessing God, almighty. Bless

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you with all manner of heavenly lives
so that six saints and reprehensible in His

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presence may pour out upon you the
riches of His grace. Teach you with

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the word of truth and with the
gospel of salvation, and make you rich

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with the brotherly complaint and blessing of
God almighty father, son, and holy

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spirit, cleave upon you, and
abide always Amen.