Prayer of the heart Sunday of the tenth fifteenth week of ordinary time. Come
Holy Spirit Today I want to give you my future until the last day of
my life. I want to walk illuminating, illuminated by your divine light to
know where I am going, so as not to wear out energies in things
that are not worth it. I don' t want to be obsessed with
the future and that' s why I prefer to give it in your presence
and let myself be carried away by your Holy Spirit Healthy impulse, my anxiety
so that I accept that everything comes to its time and in its time.
Today we celebrate St Camilo of Lelis the Priest, The Gospel is from St
Mark, chapters six, verses seven to thirteen. At that time, Jesus
called the twelve and began to send them two by two, giving them power
over the unclean spirits. He ordered them to take a cane and nothing else
for the road, but no bread, no bag, no money in the
girdle that they wore sandals, but not a replacement tunic. And he said
unto them, When ye enter into a house, abide in it until ye
depart from there. If any man, if any place receive not and hear
us, depart from there, shaking the dust of the sole of your feet
for a testimony against them, and going from there, preached that they should
convert, cast out many demons, and anointed many sick with oil, and
healed them. Lord Me, I present to you hungry for the graces you
wish to give me at this time of prayer. I believe in your goodness
and want to respond generously to your call to go forth to preach your forgiveness
and your word, because I love you above all things. Jesus increases in
me the desire to be truly an apostle of your gospel. Jesus takes the
initiative of sending out the Twelve Apostles. Indeed, the term apostles means precisely
evil messengers. His vocation will be fully realized after Christ' s resurrection with
the gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. However, it is very important
that from the beginning, Jesus wants to involve the Twelve in his action.
It is a kind of learning in view of the great responsibility that despairs.
The fact that Jesus calls some disciples to collaborate directly in his mission manifests an
aspect of his love, that is, he does not disdain the help that
other men can give to his work. He knows their limits, their weaknesses,
but he does not despise them. Moreover, he confers upon them the
dignity of being his envoys. Jesus commands them two by two and gives them
instructions that the evangelist sums up in a few sentences. The first refers to
the spirit of detachment. The apostles should not be attached to money or comfort.
Jesus also warns the disciples that they will not always receive a favorable welcome.
Sometimes they will be rejected, they may even be persecuted. But this
doesn' t have to impress them. They must speak the name of Jesus
and preach God’ s Kingdom without worrying about success. Success will be left
to him by God. The Evangelist St Mark writes called Jesus to the Twelve.
Yes, Jesus calls the apostles, those to whom he would later entrust
his church and the salvation of souls. Choose and call from among many those
who have been sent all over the world to preach the good news of the
Gospel. Likewise, Jesus calls us, invites us to collaborate with him the
salvation of souls, of many souls, beginning with those of ours and of
our relatives and people closest to us. He calls us to accompany him and
to know him more intimately. That same call he made to the Twelve today
does to us, invites us to be close to him. That is the
vocation of every Christian to seek to resemble Jesus in his behavior, which is
what we call holiness and him, and to bring the message of salvation to
all men, which is what we call apostolate, is the double vocation or
call of every Christian, as you and as I, why he calls us.
We might wonder why to others wiser than us, to others wiser or
stronger, smarter than us. Why do you call us better, why don
' t you call us better people, richer, more important, more important,
why do you call us? If we ask the Lord, he will
surely answer us because I love you, because you are a person that I
have always loved, because I want you to live eternally with me, because
I want you to be happy those would be the words that the Lord would
say to us and that lovingly tells us. But whenever there' s a
call, we' ll have to give an answer. If a prayer invites
us to eat at his house, the least we could do is say yes
or no, but answer him. He' s waiting for our answer.
The Lord' s invitation is for love. With the same love we must
respond. Moreover, the Lord will always respect our answer, for he has
set us free. He' ll never force us to say yes or no.
No. He always asks us to answer for ourselves. He won'
t threaten us and treat us badly. The answer to God' s loving
call to us must be free and out of love. After having called his
disciples, he sent them two by two to preach the good news of the
Gospel. That is their great mission to proclaim salvation to others. Lord,
we ask you confidently and humbly to help us accept our vocation to the apostolate,
because we want many souls to know you, to love you and to
praise you for strengthening us so that selfishness and comfort do not prevent us from
working generously for the salvation of souls. I command you my blessing today that
God, Father, accompany you, be in your heart. Take care of
you, make you strong, joyful and faithful, may God, son,
make you feel his tenderness and mercy and remove from your heart any anxiety that
can make you suffer that God, holy spirit You, of lights, intelligence,
strength in your heart, renewed spirit and determination to love with all your
heart that Blessed Mary will make you feel her warmth as a mother and her
loving and tender embrace and Saint Joseph will take care of you with his father
' s heart in the name of Father and Dejo and of the Holy Spirit Amen