Prayer of the heart Tuesday of the twelfth week of ordinary time. Hey come
Holy Spirit, fix me your ever- new life. Fill me with the
astonishment of a child who admires the world and the life I do not get
used to, the life that lets me surprise every morning, because, behind
everything, even your Love, my God, help me to recognize that routine
does not exist, because everything is new every day, because there is always
something that was beginning. Take all my life Holy Spirit and he will make
the eternal novelty of your Love that that day will not pass in vain and
I will be able to discover the message that you have for my life.
Come Holy Spirit. Amen today we celebrate St Maximus of Turin and St William
and Berceli the Gospel of St Martheus chapter seven verses six to fourteen. At
that time, Jesus told the disciples not to give holy things to dogs nor
to cast away your pearls. They will imprison the pigs and then turn to
destroy you treat others, as you want me to evade this is the law
the prophets enter through the narrow gate. Wide is the door and wide the
way leading the prediction and many enter through them that narrow is the door and
distress the way leading life, and few give with them what Jesus means what
is the door through which we must enter and why Jesus speaks of a narrow
door. The image of the door is repeated several times in the Gospel and
refers to that of the house, the home where we find security, love
heat. Jesus says that there is a door that leads us into the family
of God, into the warmth of the house, into Communion. With him.
This door is Jesus himself. He is the door in is the step
towards salvation. He leads to the father and the door that is Jesus is
never closed. It is always open and open to all, without distinction or
excursions, without privileges, because Jesus does not exclude anyone. Jesus, in
the Gospel tells us that being Christians is not to have a label. We
are Christians of etiquette or of truth responds within you to the Lord that we
are not Christians of etiquette, but Christians of truth of heart, sexistians to
write and to deny faith in prayer, in the hours of charity, in
the promotion of justice, in doing good through the narrow door that is Christ
must spend our whole life. Jesus invites us, as I say, to
enter through the narrow door. We can ask ourselves, sir, in my
daily life, what is the narrow door. And you can cast this confused
idea on us, and maybe we don' t understand it. But what
Christ is really asking us to do is to be and live the teachings he
has left us before the path of denial and why all these denials to get
through the narrow door leading to eternal life. The figure of the door is,
in this context, very revealing. On the one hand, to detail
that the door is narrow to or angusta. Jesus tells us that the entrance
is not easy. The figure becomes even clearer when he himself says enter through
the narrow door, for chi is the door to go wide, the path
that leads to perdition and I am many who enter through it. And,
on the other hand, there' s the time factor. The door will
close in a moment. It is a fact of fact that we cannot forget.
As Francis said today, it is fundamental and it is with greater reason.
If we consider that there might be no tomorrow, then let us strive
and begin to do so today. This is how the father speaks, the
master of the house, who closes the door before the call of those who
were left out. He answers with this tremendous phrase. I don' t
know who you are Stay away from me. Jesus puts us at the forefront
of the dramatic possibility that I have arrived on the final day, when we
stand before the Father, do not recognize us, we know each other,
do not know who we are, how we might be unaware at such a
point. Or the sin of forming the image of God himself put within us
by believing us is the result of an existence lived from the back of love.
On the contrary, let us ask ourselves what we need to do to
be recognized. Strive, as Jesus says, to live love by cooperating with
the strength of the Holy Spirit that our forms inwardly consecrate us with the Lord
Jesus. That is, in short, the holiness which, as Pope Benedict
XVI explained, does not consist in performing extraordinary enterprises, but in joining Christ
in living, his mysteries, in making our attitudes, his thoughts, his
behaviors. Holiness is measured by the statue that Christ reaches in us by the
degree as with the power of the Holy Spirit. We model our whole lives
according to yours. It is to be like Jesus, as Saint Paul signed,
because those whom he had known beforehand he destined to reproduce the image of
his son. We have a very clear and precise mission to preach the Gospel
to everyone and we cannot be satisfied until we see our task finished. Our
precious pearls are in our hearts every time we receive them in the sacrament of
the Eucharist. Hence giving is born the need to ask God our Father Lord
that we never leave him alone and that he knows us gives the grace to
come to his presence to enjoy the fruit of our denial. Lord help me
to give more example of my vocation as an authentic Christian. My Lord,
and my God, I am all yours You are my shepherd, Lord Dame,
courage to follow the path of sacrifice, which is the one that leads
to heaven. I want to be happy in your presence. Enjoy me being
an untiring transmitter of truth. I give you the blessing that God, the
Father who accompanies you, is of your heart to take care of you and
make you strong faithful agarit, that God, son, make you feel his
torun and that mercy and take you out of your heart. Whoever stills that
I can make you suffer that I Holy Spirit, you shine in intelligence by
force of heart renewed spirit and determination to love with all your heart that Blessed
Mary will make you feel her mother' s warmth and her loving and tender
embrace and St Joseph take care of you with your father' s heart in
the name of father and son and holy spirit amen