Prayer of the heart. Saturday of the fifth week of Lent Holy Spirit,
I believe in you I hope in you I love you. Only you deserve
the worship of the human heart and only before you must I bow down only
you are the glorious lord with a beauty that you cannot even imagine. So,
sir, don' t let me worship anything like I' m a
god, because no being and nothing in this world is worth so much.
I recognize you as master lord of my life, allow me to lose serenity
and joy for things that are not worth so much. Today we celebrate Saint
Toribio of Bad Grovejo, Bishop of Lima, the Gospel of Saint John,
Chapter eleven Versicruz forty- five to fifty- seven. At that time,
many Jews who had seen Mary’ s house wanted. Seeing what Jesus had
done, they believed in him. But some came to the Pharisees and told
them what Jesus had done. The smokes of priests and Pharisees made the Saint
Adrin eat and said what we do this man does many miracles. If we
let him follow, everyone will believe him and the Romans will come and not
destroy the holy place and the nation. One of them was Caiaphas who was
a high priest. That year he said to them," You do not
understand a word" Do not understand that it is good for one to die
for the people and not to lose complete clarification. This he did not say
by his own impulse, but by being one, by being a high priest.
That year he spoke prophetically announcing that Jesus was going to die for the
nation, and not only for the nation, but also for gathering the scattered
children of God and that day they decided to put him to death. Therefore,
Jesus did not go there publicly among the Jews, but withdrew to the
neighboring region of Al, deserted to a city called Ephraim, and spent the
time there with the disciples. The Passover of the Jews was at hand,
and many from that region went up to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.
They were looking for Jesus and, standing in the temple, they wondered
how you think the feast will come. The smokes, priests and Pharisees had
commanded that anyone who found out where he was should warn him to seize him.
Lord I want to accompany you with my prayer in this closeness of Holy
Week open my intelligence and my heart. In the light of your grace and
your love, give me a simple and humble heart like yours so as not
to lock me in pride and selfishness. My God, I recognize you as
the only one that gives value and meaning to my life. I ask you
for each of my family and friends to give them a living, working and
luminous faith. Jesus Christ, help me to be meek and humble in heart
and do not allow the veil of pride to cover my eyes like the Pharisees.
We have said that Jesus, in his proclamation and in his entire work,
had inaugurated the non- political Kingdom of the Messiah and began to demarcate
two inseparable spheres until the hour. But this separation between politics and faith between
God’ s people and politics is an essential part of his message. It
was only possible, ultimately through the Cross, only through the truly absolute loss
of all external power, of being radically stripped of the Cross. The newness
became reality only through the lace in the crucified in the one who is dispossessed
of all calf power and therefore exalted also appears the new Community, the new
way in which God dominates the world. But that means that the Cross answered
a divine need and that you fall with its decision. It was the last
analysis. The executioner of God' s will even when his personal motivation was
impure and will not respond to God' s will, but to his own
selfish aims. In fact, the Pharisees and adduces knew Jesus abroad, heard
his teaching, many details of him that they did not know him on their
vel but did not know him in his truth. People know him, but
superficially they know some things about him, but they haven' t really recognized
him. Instead, the apostles, thanks to the friendship that also involves the
heart, had at least understood in substance and were beginning to know who Jesus
was. There is also today this different way of knowing. There are learned
people who know Jesus in many of his details and simple people who do not
know these details but who know him in his truth. The heart speaks to
the heart. The Pharisees could not know Jesus, let alone regard him as
the Messiah, because pride and selfishness nested in their hearts. To know Jesus
it is necessary to be humble, that is, to leave our preferences and
our tastes to allow Christ to laugh in our hearts and in our lives.
Love for Christ comes through the knowledge we have of His presence. The knowledge
of the Lord is not something theoretical, but experience but is experienced. The
experience of Christ begins in the recognition of all that he has done for me.
Jesus Christ loved me and gave himself to me for me on the Cross.
Christ loved me first and now it is my turn to correspond to his
love. The experience of the knowledge of Christ is done in prayer, in
the Eucharist and on the cross of every day when I have the humility to
approach him and ask for his help. The experience, the experience of Jesus,
is carried out when you look at him and recognize him in others,
in whom you have beside you and, especially, in the most needy,
because everything, in all of them must be to see the image of Christ.
Every man, regardless of his religion, is an image of God.
So has a lord made us and hence the great dignity of man. Draw
near to Christ with faith and humility in any visit that you make the tabernacle
to leave in your hands all your life. Christ, king and lord of
my soul, give me the grace to know you more and more so that
I may love you more sincerely. I give you my heart many times full
of superb selfishness for you to mold. According to your will, Lord,
pride and selfishness are attitudes contrary to love, for you yourself have taught me
that love is toning and giving. Teach me, therefore, to love you,
as you have loved me, I gave you the blessing, that the
goodness and mercy of God, Father, have your heart, that the gaze
of love of God, son, penetrates into your soul and purifies you from
any uneasiness and lack that may separate you from God, that the love of
God the Holy Spirit may grant you the peace you need, that the earth
of Mary, mother of God and our mother caress and protects you, and
that the strength and simplicity of Saint Joseph, our Father, Lord, may
lead you to heaven and beneficent of God, father, son and holy spirit
may descend upon you and accompany you always amen