Prayer of the heart Saturday of the ninth week of ordinary time. Today we
celebrate the immaculate heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. We also celebrate Saint Melardo
holy spirit, You who believe me all, enlighten all the ways for me
to reach my ideal. You give me the divine gift of forgiving and forgetting
the evil they do to me and that in all the moments of my life
you are with me. I want in this short dialogue, to thank you
for everything and to trust that I never want to separate myself from you,
because, however much material illusion, I wish to be with you all my
loved ones in the perpetual luriaa. Thank you for your mercy to me to
mine. Thank you, my God, the Gospel of St Luke, Chapter
two verses forty- one to fifty- one. When Jesus was twelve years
old, they heard the feast according to custom and when it was over they
returned, but the child Jesus remained in Jerusalem without being heard. Her parents.
These believing that he was in the caravan, made a day and began
to look for him among relatives and acquaintances. When they did not find him,
they returned to Jerusalem. In his search Three days later he was found
in the temple sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
Everyone who heard him was amazed at his talent and the answers he gave.
When they saw them, they were amazed and their mother told him,
Son, why you have treated us like this. See how your father and
I were looking for you in distress and he answered them why you were looking
for me. You don' t know that I must be in my father
' s house, but they didn' t understand what I was telling them.
He went down with them to Jerusalem and continued under his authority. His
mother kept all this in her heart. Sir, I want to take care
of your things. I want you to be the center of my life.
I fulfill your will. The incentive of all my actions. Come Holy Spirit
illuminates my mind and heart. In this prayer, my Holy Spirit gives me
the strength to fulfill God' s will, says Pope Francis. Jesus remained
on that periphery for thirty years. The Evangelist Luke sums up this period.
Thus, Jesus was subject to them, that is, to Mary and to
Goshe and one could say but it is God who comes to save us.
He lost thirty years there, on that periphery of bad form. He lost
thirty years. He wanted this and Jesus' way calls in that family.
His mother kept all this in her heart and Jesus grew in wisdom, stature
and grace. Before God and among men there is no talk of miracles or
cures of preaching. He did not do any of it in this period,
nor multitudes that I trust of Jews. It was he in doing this,
or it seems to happen normally according to the customs of a pious and hardworking
Garita family. He worked, his mom, he cooked, he did all
the things in the house, he threw out his shirts, all Mom'
s things. Father carpenter worked, his son was called to work thirty years.
What a waste, Father. We could think. God' s ways
are mysterious. What was important there was family and this was not a waste.
They were great saints. Mary, Joseph' s most holy and immaculate
woman, was the most just man in the family. Who knows better than
a mother like Mary what it means to lose the child of God and is
her own son. If at that time, God, Father, had asked
Mary to account for her son' s education, what she would have answered.
Maria, I lost it. If I don' t find him,
or he' s holding your meeting, but the distressed one, how distressed
he was, would seem to answer that I was lost. With this there
is no more convincing proof that Mary loved Jesus than so many other mothers possibly
loved their children. He was his son, and as such, he loved
and cared for him. However, the same love of Mary’ s father
led him to silence himself. Faced with Jesus' answer, I had to
take care of my father' s thing, that Jesus did not know that
Mary was giving her life for him, I did not know that without the
help of the mother he could not survive and that he did not starve,
he died killed by the men of heroes Possibly he knew, but he also
had so clear the mission that he had to fulfill and he had to begin
as soon as possible. But let us stop longer in our gaze of Mary,
a mother who has cared for her son for twelve years And now her
son comes out with such a disconcerting response are the risks of a mother to
more love for the home more sacrifices she must face. May our life also
be fulfilled these words that Amparo II said of her all your life. His
life was a pilgrimage of faith, because he walked in the shadows and waited
in the invisible and knew the same contradictions of our earthly life that, as
Mary has dyed, our life too is a perguidar in the faith when we
do not understand the reasons of life. It offers a mystery of rosary by
a member of your family who is far from the Church. Lord Jesus,
the anguish that the Blessed Virgin did not encounter you is the worst nightmare that
any parent, How difficult it was for her not to understand your apparent indifference
to suffering. Allow me to grow in your grace so that, like Mary,
I can accept anguish or pain without leaving my prayer, always trusting in
your divine providence. Today the blessing and mercy and goodness of God, Father
already in your heart, may the gaze of love of God, children,
penetrate you into your soul and purify you from any restlessness and lack that you
can guard from God, may the love of God, Holy Spirit grant you
the peace you need, may the tenderness of Mary, mother of God and
our mother caress you and protect you and the strength and sheerness of Saint Josephs
do not know the Lord Lead you to heaven and the blessing of God,
father, son and holy spirit descend upon you and remain always Amen.