Prayer of the heart you turn from the eighth Easter Week. Come Holy Spirit,
without you there is no life worth living. Therefore, from my doubts,
fears, wearyness and weaknesses, I want to invoke you come Holy Spirit,
to water it that you are. Dry come to strengthen what is weak
vere to heal what is sick. Transfer me, restore me, relieve me
with intimate and fruitful tuation. Today you are jealous of Saint Vincent de Ferrer
of the order of preachers. The gospel is from John, chapter twenty-
one verses one to fourteen. At that time, Jesus appeared again to the
disciples by the lake of Triberities, and appeared in this way. Simon Peter
Thomas was together, nicknamed to the twin to tie the caladero he released the
cebreros and two other disciples of him, Simon Peter tells them I am going
to fish and they answered you. We went with you, too, and
they went out and embarked, and that night they took nothing. It was
dawning when Jesus appeared on the shore col but the disciples did not know it
was Jesus. Jesus tells them boys, you have fish and they answered no
and says cast the net to the right of the boat and you will find
it. They threw her out and had no strength to pull her out by
the crowd of fish. And that disciple whom Jesus so loved tells Peter is
the lord when He heard, who was Lord Simon Peter, who was naked.
He tied his robe and threw himself into the water. The rest of
the disciples drew near in the boat because they were no more than a hundred
metres from the earth. Rolling the net with the fish. On the altar
the earth, when they leap to the ground, see coals with a fish
on top and bread, Jesus tells him to bring the fish, which you
have just caught. Peter went up into the boat and dragged to the shore
to the net full of Peter Herrandez one hundred fifty- three, and though
there were so many, the net did not break. Jesus tells them let
' s have lunch. None of the disciples dared to ask him who he
was, because they knew well what he was. The Lord Jesus drew near
and took the bread and gave it to him, and the fish saw it.
This was the third time that Jesus appeared to the disciples after his resurrection
from the dead. The Gospel of Jesus cannot be proclaimed if the complete witness
of life who listens to us and sees us must be able to read in
our actions that same thing that hears on our lips and the glory of God.
I am reminded of a Council of St Francis of Assisi which gave to
its brothers dedicated The Gospel said and, if necessary, also with words.
But all this is only possible if we recognize Jesus Christ because he wants to
be the one who has called us, who has invited us to walk his
path, has chosen us to announce and bear witness. It is possible only
if we are with him, just as Peter John and our disciples were around
the risen Jesus, as the Gospel passage says today there is a daily closeness
with him, and they know very well who he is. He is known
to the evangelist at his line that none of the ilipulos dared to ask him
who he was, because they knew well what the lord was. This is
an important point to live an intense relationship with Jesus, an intimacy of diago
and dialogue and life in such a way that we recognize him as he,
Lord, we can worship him as what God is charged with. Like the
first time again, Christ looks to the banks of our lives to let himself
be seen by those who have eyes full of faith and without demanding anything,
without forcing anyone, only let himself be seen giving Peter had returned to his
old office. Perhaps he could assimilate all that he had experienced during those intense
days of the Passover would replete him with the terrible bitterness of betrayal that differentiated
him from Judas. Until then, he went fishing with others and got nothing.
Like the first time that you Christ by the sea of the vine of
his life, the sea of his life. Now again the lord appears to
you and you do not know him. They' re all fatigued and mulhumorated.
No one can feel peace when he does not have Christ. He doesn
' t have the Christ in him. Right now, the gentlemen speak you
have fish. They might have listened to him, but he opts for a
short secu and almost sharp answers respond no. Now the stranger tells you how
to get them cast the net to the right and from the boat you will
find you could not see him could not have ignored him? How many times,
Lord, my answer has been that. Don' t forgive me for
not knowing how to always say yes who that was to tell them what they
should do. The fact is that they listen to him, they do an
act of faith, like the first time that Peter, in his name,
made the nets had now spread him, they had said it knowing that it
was not a moment of fish And what was his surprise, because whoever trusts
the lord cannot receive, cannot receive no more than he expects. That is
why Peter, for which forgiveness, for which John recognizes him, is the
Lord, because they have believed the stranger and have been rewarded with his faith.
Peter who was able to follow the same course of Judas is carried away
by his heart, a heart that wept at the Lord and his mercy is
thrown into the water and does not expect to reach the boat, to the
shore. They' re smart enough to come in next to the lord.
He has understood that it consists in being a sinner and letting himself be loved
by the Lord who seeks him with his forgiveness, because first they have believed
in someone who did not know who he was At that time, when I
see what his faith can, it is possible, he cannot not ask for
mercy as the first time and as Christ wanted fish. It is Peter who
draws out the networks symbolizing the souls of the apostle. It has certainly been
Christ who has borne the fruits, but they have supported the refraction. Peter
offers himself the preces but before he has already offered his heart. That'
s why he had the fish, because he let himself fish from the lord.
Sir, I have an enormous need to meet your redeeming love. Increase
my faith to know how to recognize you in the Eucharist, in prayer,
in other people, in the incidents of my day to day. My testimony
is what I can read most in the new realization. So help me,
sir, to be coherent, to not forget that nothing convinces me, as
much as authentic charity made, availability, service and giving to others, all
of the blessing God, Father who, through the reflection of his little ingenuity,
has redeemed and the salvation of filial grace, eats you the business and
from his blessing Christ who by his reaction did not obtain, obtained you in
perfect freedom, grants you to participate in the eternal Church and you rise with
him the ebutism by faith. By means of a holy life, you can
come to the heavenly homeland and the blessing of God almighty, father, son
and holy spirit, saying about you and always remain amen