Prayer of heart lures of the tenth week of 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 that I do not get used to
life that let me surprise 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
my whole life Holy Spirit and fill it with the eternal newness of your Love
that on this day does not pass in vain and can discover the message that
you have today for my life. Come Holy Spirit, Amen, today we
encircle Saint of Portugal, the Gospel of Matthew, chapter five verses thirty-
eight to forty- two. At that time Jesus said his disciples. You
heard that it was said eye for eye and tooth for tooth. Instead,
I say to you, do it in front of the one who agrabias you.
On the contrary, uh, if one slaps you on the other'
s right cheek to want to sue you to take off your robe, also
give the cape to whoever requires you to walk a mile, I' ll
accommodate two to whom you ask to give it and borrow it. Don'
t run away. This Gospel page is considered the Magna Carta of non-
Christian violence, because it does not consist in sinking before evil, according to
a false interpretation, of presenting another mile another cheek, but in reciprocating the
sea with good, thus breaking the chain of injustice. Thus it is understood
that for Christians non- violence is not a mere tactical behavior and there is
not gone a way of being of the person. The attitude of those who
are so convinced of the love of God and of his power, who are
not afraid of fruiting evil only with the weapons of love and truth or,
as you said to Joseph Mary, drowning evil the world gives way well in
love to enemies. It is the core of the Christian revolution, a revolution
that is not based on strategies of economic, political or media power, the
revolution of love, a love that, in short, is not based on
human resources, but is a gift of God that is obtained by relying solely
and unreservedly on his merciful goodness side. This is the newness of the Gospel
that changes the world without making noise. This is the heroism of the little
ones who believe in God' s love and spread it even at the cost
of their lives. Sometimes it seems like Jesus is exaggerating. If we do
not express it so clearly, it is because we do not think it is
right to contradict what Jesus has said, although it might also be that we
have not. Understand that this speaks to us of charity and tells us that
our charity should not depend on others and on what they do to us or
what they ask of us. You love because you want to love and you
can love. Love encourages us to give everything that others need. If I
see that the other one needs ambit, the one that goes, I'
ll give him both, although he only asks for one garment. If the
other one needs my help. I will give not only the bladders in my
hands to work with him, the feet to accompany him and the heart to
feel, even a little, the love that God has for me. And
that I will also give you with which some pain comes, be your feet
on brothers, even if he himself is the one who hits me on the
cheek for my love depends as good Samaritan, only on my desire to love
and not on what others receive or ask of me. On one occasion,
Mother Teresa learned of a Hindu family with eight children. I had nothing to
eat. He took a little m and took some of the rice and took
it away. The eyes of the children shone with hunger. His mother took
the rice, divided it and went out with half the received one when he
returned and Teresa' s mother asked him what he had done. He answered
simply they too are hungry. They were a Muslim family neighboring mother Teresa then
commented later that night I gave them no more rice, since I realized that
they too could enjoy the joy of giving that good Samaritan represented Mother Teresa.
The Gospel tells us that the Samaritan, seeing the man abandoned his fate,
felt compassion, approached him, sold him the wounds, great difference with the
priest and the Levite. They passed by, saw it, and, justified
by different reasonings, followed along. The Samaritan saw the man, and he
was filled with compassion. Very significant words Jesus uses here indicate that the Samaritan
experienced a deep shock within him from where this feeling comes from. Perhaps it
was openness of mind and heart to the concrete reality of that wounded abandoned person.
As he opened the way, Samaritan saw the same thing that the Levite
sazurte saw, but unlike the two of them, he allowed reality to touch
his heart and without further reasoning about who he was lying there or why he
was like this, went out to meet him, sold him to the exits
and took care of him. He was not indifferent because somehow he allowed his
inner face to face the situation of that person perhaps moved by the simple reasoning.
That man needs help and I' m here and I can do something.
I can' t be indifferent and if I were in his place I
' d want them to do it with me. How many times we go
through people who, by being with you, have wanted and abandoned need our
help. How many times we follow the length of our path and don'
t even stop to think about its reality. Occasions we have and many in
which that person who needs us to become his neighbor is not a stranger that
we could find abandoned on the street. It' s someone you need with
is someone akin' s forgiveness. He' s someone we know with a
man and a last name. There' s a friend left, an acquaintance
suddenly, even someone from our own family. However, in the face of
their suffering, their abandonment, their needs, we are still going on for
a long time. This means closing our hearts, today' s Gospel invites
us to question this need sincerely, without hastening to a swift condemnation, to
a slight absolution, without complicating ourselves in human disquisitions. Let us be content
with what Jesus wants to say to us. Let our thoughts spring up and
we may hear ourselves saying things as I would like, but I have no
time for anything if I have many things to do and the responsibilities to do.
Also, who needs to get the most suffering done as if their own
were not enough, is that, deep down, I don' t know
what to do for the other, etcetera. We all think things like that.
The important thing may be to have the courage, sincerity, and confidence
to see reality with Jesus’ eyes. Then what we have to change.
It will be clearer in both eyes and trusting him we can do it.
Then we will perceive more clearly how much we are closing our hearts to others
and how open we are to their reality, communicating inwardly and doing something to
help them. Jesus Christ give me the grace to make the Kingdom of Heaven
a reality in my life. When I know, to respond to the aggression
with the understanding that concern can ensure the economic good does not lead me to
mean and, above all, to become an indefatigable disciple and missionary of your
love, because the world needs you and I must take you to the world.
I give you the blessing that God, Father, will accompany you.
If in your heart I looked after you it was strong and joyful and faithful
that God, son, make sense of your tenderness and mercy and take away
your heart any anxiety that can make you suffer that the Holy Spirit deduce the
intelligence strength in your heart renewed spirit and determination to love everyone with the heart
that Blessed I felt her mother' s warmth and her loving and tender arm
and St Joseph takes care with his father' s heart the name of the
father and son and of the Holy Spirit Amen