Prayer of the heart Wednesday of the seventh week of ordinary time. Help me
holy spirit so I can look at others with your patient eyes. I want
to recognize your love for all human beings, also for those people that I
can no longer love with patience and compassion, that I cannot love with patience
and compassion. They are all important to the loving heart of Jesus. They
' re all sagagassed and borious. No one has been born by chance,
but it is an eternal project of your love. Free me from condemning and
prejudging others. I' d like to imagine your sufferings, your anxieties,
those weaknesses that you find difficult to operate. Help me to always find some
excuse to excuse them and not to look at them with bad eyes shed on
me all the patience I need. Come holy spirit of Horamos today to sanctify
the Gospel of Saint Mark. Chapter nine verses, thirty- eight to forty.
At that time Jesus said, Juana said, Jesus, Master. We
have seen one casting demons in another man and we have wanted to prevent him
because he is not one of us. Jesus answered. Don' t stop
him because one who makes miracles in my name can' t talk bad about
me later. The one who is not against us is in our favor.
But today I want to comment to the reading what it says so, dear
brothers, you say tomorrow or the day after we go to that city and
we will spend there in the year negotiating and earning money and you don'
t even know what will happen tomorrow? For what is your life, a
cloud that appears for a moment and immediately disappears. You must say so.
If the Lord wants it and we live, we' ll do that or
that. Really the apost I Santiago writes a true treatise of morality. These
are good and necessary advice. In this case it prevents us from wanting to
have everything humanly bound, so that we leave nothing to improvisation and then we
come to believe ourselves indispensable. We make plans, we foresee, we have
to do it, but knowing our limitations and then things are different, in
a different way. Change the last hour they twist or fix in the least
thought way. What will happen tomorrow, what will separate us, time,
etcetera. These are questions that we all ask ourselves and we know that we
cannot answer each other with certainty. If the Lord wants it, we say
we are absolutely dependent on God and this gives us a certain fear. What
can God want for You, but make you happy? What can God do
in You, but good. But it' s hard for us to believe.
It' s like the dairy story I already had in mind what I
' d do with the money I' d get out of the milk sale
and what I' d buy with that money and what I' d get
out of that sale, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. But he
dropped his pitcher, lost his milk and all the history and his dreams were
left in nothing. This can happen to us, and in fact, it
happens to us. We make plans, anticipate unforeseen events, adjust time,
weigh in the future and suddenly for something that God has otherwise wanted, everything
falls apart the priests. We pray every night a precious prayer, in prayer
before night rest the whole is Simeon' s prayer in the Temple, when
he saw the child Jesus, the child God and had his arms. Now,
sir say you said it was Simeon. Now, Lord, you can
let your servant be seen in peace according to your word, for my eyes
have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the stroke of all peoples,
light for the revelation of the Gentiles and glory of your poor Israel.
Praying this prayer gives much peace and helps to rest from leaving everything in the
evils of God. And so we say in another habitation that we also pray
in that moment in your hands. Lord I entrust my spirit, I will
say today many thanks to Mary, Mary, mother of love and mercy,
defending us from enemies and protecting us now and at the hour of our death.
Amen give you the blessing God, father and fountain of all light,
who illuminated the hearts of the disciples, pouring on them the holy spirit.
Bless you and grant you the abundance of your dors, the admirable fire that
appeared upon the disciples, purify your hearts from all evil and enlighten you with
its light the spirit that, by proclaiming one faith meeting to the peoples of
different tongues, makes you persevere is to my faith and come to them thanks
to the vision that you expect and the blessing of God almighty father, son
and holy spirit to you, being upon you and always remaining amen