Prayer of the Heart Friday of the eighth, week of ordinary time visitation of
the Virgin Mary. Help me with holy spirit so that I can look at
others with patient eyes. I want to recognize your love for all human beings,
also for those people that I cannot love with patience and compassion. They
are all important to the loving heart of Jesus. They are all sacred and
brioso. No one has been born by chance, but it is a project
of love, of eternal, of your love. Free me from condemning and
prejudging the former. I would like to imagine their sufferings, their distresses,
those weaknesses that they have difficulty overcoming. Help me always find some excuse to
excuse them and not look them in the eye. It pours in me all
the patience I need. Come Holy Spirit, we celebrate Saint Petronila of Rome
Virgin and Martyr the Gospel of St Luke. Chapter one, verses, thirty
- nine to fifty- six. In those days, Mary rose up and
set her way to the mountain, to a city of Judah. He went
into Zechariah' s house and greeted Elizabeth. It happened that when Elizabeth heard
a greeting from Mary, she jumped the creature from her womb. Elizabeth was
missed by the holy spirit and raising her voice, you cried out among the
women and blessed by the fruit of your womb. Who am I to be
visited by my lord' s mother, for as soon as your greeting came
to my ears, the creature leaped with joy into my womb. Blessed is
she who has believed, for what the Lord has told her will be fulfilled.
Mary said proclaim my soul. The greatness of the Lord My spirit rejoices
in God, my Savior, because he has looked at the humility of his
slave from now on. He will congratulate me all generations, for the mighty
war done great in me his holy name, in his mercy reaches his faithful
from generation to generation. With his arm he sometimes scatters the proud of heart,
casts down from the throne, the mighty, and exalts the humble,
the hungry, the full of goods, and the rich, he dismisses them
empty. Israel his servant helped him by mercy, as he would have promised
to our fathers, in behalf of the great and her offspring forever. Maria
stayed with Isabel about three months and returned home. The Magnificat text presents Mary
as a peregerina of love, but Elizabeth draws attention from her faith and,
referring to her, pronounces the first vienalenturanza of the happy gospels of which she
has loved. This expression is like a key that does not know Mary'
s intimate reality. For San Juan n i i i Ir. The greatest
title of the Lord' s mother is that of a pilgrim of faith as
the daughter of Zion, She follows in the footsteps of Abaran, who by
faith obeyed and went out to the land to be inherited, but not knowing
where she was going. This symbol of the preponderance of faith illuminates the inner
history of Mary, the dear par excellence as suggested by the Vatican Council II,
the Blessed Virgin advanced on the pilgrimage of faith and faithfully maintained the Union
with her children of the cross. It must also be for us that faith
enlightens our life. The path of faith that Our Lady walks was not easy.
The eruption is the starting point where Mary begins all the way to God.
A path of faith that knows the omen of the sword that passes through
the soul. It passes through the tortuous paths of the silo of Egypt and
the inner darkness. When Mariano understands the n t i d ons Jesus at
the age of twelve in the temple, but he keeps all these things in
his heart. In the darkness the hidden life of Jesus also unfolds, during
which Mary must resound within her the beatitude of Elizabeth through an authentic fatigue of
the heart. Certainly, in Mary' s life there is no lack of
gusts of light and peace, like the Buddha of Cana, where, despite
apparent indifference, Christ takes his mother' s prayer and realizes the first sign
of revelation, raising the faith of the disciples. In the same counterpoint of
light and shadow of revelation and mystery, stands in ludears the two beatitudes referred
to us by Saint Luke, who directs the mother of Christ, a woman
of the multitude, and who Jesus assigns to those who hear the word of
God and keep it at the top of this earthly loss in faith is Golgotha,
where Mary lives intimately the paschal mystery of her son. In a sense,
she dies as a mother at the death of her child and opens herself
to the resurrection with a new motherhood. With regard to the Church, on
Calvary, Mary experiences the night of faith as there will be on Mount Moria
and after the illumination of Pentecost, she continues to make a pilgrimage at the
feasts of assumption, when the son takes her in the eternal bio lans the
blessed Virgin Mary continues to precede the people of God. His exceptional pilgrimage of
faith represents a constant point of reference for the Church, for individuals and communities,
for peoples and nations and, in a certain way, for all humanity.
She is the star of the third millennium, as she was at the
beginning of the Christian Lea, the dawn that preceded Jesus, the horizon of
history. Indeed, Mary was born chronologically before Christ and begot him and inserted
him into his Mara history, turning to her to guide him to the Father,
to Christ and to the Father also in the generous night of evil and
of the moment of doubt, crisis and silence and suffering. This has always
been understood by the Church in all the centuries and by the two lungs East
and West, as for example, the acatist hymn, which in twenty-
four stanzas is lyrically high its figure in the fifth stanza dedicated to the visit
of Isabel Esclava. Save the autumn, save or branch of the fruit incorrupt,
Save the pious stand you grow, Save you plants to the one who
implants life. Hail oh fruitful field of copious graces, Hail or be filled
with divine gifts. Save a meadow, germs of all delight. Hail to
the sea, you prepare the safe way. Salve incense of grace, prayer,
save offering that the world reconciles, Save God' s mercy for man,
Save man' s trust with God, Blessed virgin and wife. The
visit of A Elizabeth concludes with the singing of the Magnitude A hymn that goes
through as a perennial melody every Christian century, a hymn that creates the hearts
of the triciples of Christ above the historical divisions that we are committed to operate
with a view to full communion. Saint Ambrose comments that he encourages them to
militarize daily that in all he says resides the soul of Mary to glorify the
Lord, that in all resides Mary' s spurt to result in God.
While it is true that there is physically only one mother of Christ by faith,
Christ is the fruit of all, because every soul receives the verb of
God with the condition of remaining blameless, preserved from the moment it is from
evil and sin, keeping chastity in an unaltered purity. So every soul that
comes to this state of leaping to the Lord, just as Mary' s
soul leaped to the Lord and her spirit trembled in God the Savior. Indeed,
the Lord was magnified, as you have read elsewhere. Proclaim with me
the greatness of the Lord Not because the human word can add something to the
Lord, but because he grows in us, because Christ is the image of
God, so the soul that does something just and religious. Proclaim that image
of God in the likeness of who she has been created, then, proclaiming
it in a certain way, participates, is her greatness and rises. It
seems that he reproduces this image in it through the splendor of the colors,
of his good works and, to some extent, copies it for his virtues.
Mary celebrates the first of God and his grace that chooses the last and
the despised, the poor of the lord of whom she speaks. The Old
Testament changes their fate and introduces them as protagonists in the history of salvation.
Since God saw her with love, Mary became a sign of hope for the
multitude of the poor of the latter of the earth, who will be the
first of God' s Kingdom. She faithfully copies the choice of Christ,
her son, who repeats to all the afflicted in history come to me,
all who are burdened and weary and I will relieve you. The Church follows
Mary and the Lord walking along the tortuous paths of history to raise, promote
and value the immense procession of poor, hungry, humiliated and offended women and
men. The humble virgin of the zaed, as St Ambrosius affirms, is
not the God of the temple, but the temple of God as such to
all those who recoil. She guides them to the encounter with God triality,
father, son and holy spirit and I give you the blessing God almighty.
Bless you with all kinds of heavenly lives so that you may be holy and
reprehensible in His presence, pour out upon you the riches of His grace.
Teach you by the word of truth and the gospel of salvation. And make
you rich with fraternal charity and the blessing of God almighty father, son,
and holy spirit sit upon you and abide always amen. I ask you for
a brief prayer for me, because today thirty- one May, I fulfill
forty years of priesthood. On a day like today in Saint Peter A and
seventy and so many more he ordained us priests. St John Paul II.
Thank you for rustling.