Prayer of the heart Wednesday of the thirteenth week, in ordinary time, come
Holy Spirit, to give me your ever new life. Fill me with the
amazement of a child to admire the world and life. Let me not get
used to life, because I let myself be surprised every morning, because behind
everything is 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
is beginning. Take all my life Holy Spirit, and it was 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 today for my life. Come
Holy Spirit, Amen today we celebrate Saint Thomas Apostle' s Apostle the Gospel
is of St John, chapter twenty verses, twenty to twenty- nine.
Thomas, one of the twelve, called the twin, was not with them.
When Jesus came and your two disciples told him to see him, we
saw the Lord, but he answered them. If I don' t see
the sign of the nails in your hands, if I don' t stick
my finger in the nail hole and don' t stick my hand in your
side, I don' t think so. In the eight days they were
again within the disciples and Thomas with them came Jesus, being shut the doors,
stood in the middle and said peace to you and then said to Thomas,
bring your finger here, have my hands, bring your hand and metalle
my side and not be unbelievers, but believers. Thomas answered," My
Lord and my God, Jesus," and said to him," Why
have you seen me?" You have believed blessed of those who believe without
seeing, Lord Jesus, how I look, Thomas, I want immediate answers
to my requests. I want to experience your presence in prayer. I want
not to humble myself in your presence, without remaining silent. The exterior interior
wants, without being attentive to be docile to your inspirations. My poor attitude
wants to change with your grace, Lord Yes, that I can accomplish it
as you most apostle. I want to tell you, my lord and my
God, increase my faith when the lord approaches is not hope. The Lord
always comes with hope, always to see the door, always When the Lord
comes to us close the doors, opens them and the Lord, in his
proximity, gives us the answer, this hope, which is a true fortress
at Christian Christmas, is a grace, it is a gift to approach and
the answer and give hope, to approach with tenderness. But let us think
that in the tenderness he has had with the apostles, with the Magdalene,
with those of Maus, he approaches with tenderness. Give me to eat with
Tomás Put your finger here, sir. It' s always like that.
Thus is the consolation of the Lord, that the Lord give us all.
The grace of not being afraid of the Lord' s consolation, of being
well advised to ask for it, for it is a consolation that will give
us hope and make us feel the tenderness of God, Father. Blessed are
those who believe without having seen it seems a lie that one of the Lord
' s elect does not believe the word of the apostles, but rather seeks
to believe only by the sensitive signs. Thomas seems like a person of his
time, because he only believes in what the senses represent. The senses are
very good, because they help us to learn things, to taste, to
smell, to contemplate, to feel. But in the field of spiritual life,
these hinder us, as happened to Saint more than he wanted to see,
that he did not want to believe until he saw or touched. And
this is where God' s blessing comes. For those who always believe the
blessing of faith it is for us, too, who are two thousand years
away from the apostles. For us God' s blessings will come without believing
in all that he has promised us, but it is true that it is
hard for us to believe in God and, especially, that what does not
happen is God' s providence. I think how many times we complain perhaps
inwardly, about so many things that if my life were another, if I
had more money, if my husband, if my wife were otherwise, if
my family, if my work had this schedule. Yes, it is already
stopped to think that what happens, that you have is a blessing from God.
It is good to see those people in need of so many material things
that they receive you with a most beautiful surprise, which is a prayer,
it is a thanksgiving, but that not for what they have, but for
what they are children of God. Let us ask him to increase our faith
that we are worthy to receive such blessings. Propose to witness the Christian waiter,
in your family, in your group of friends, work or place of
study. Lord, as Thomas you ask me to live a living faith,
a tiva attitude, an open heart, a life maintained, always troubled in
a constant and faithful struggle to, a lowly of ficultades. Here I am,
sir, with our counting on me to collaborate in the new evangelization.
May the Father bless you, with the life of faith, the Son,
with the happiness of forgiveness and mercy and holy spirit, with the peace in
your heart and abnigen from God, father son and spirit holy to you and
always abide amen