Prayer of the heart. Monday of the fifth week of Lent holy spirit.
I believe in you I hope in you I love you. Only you deserve
the worship of the human heart and I must bow down to you alone.
Only you are the glorious lord with a beauty you can' t even imagine.
Therefore, sir, do not allow me to worship anything as if I
were a god, because neither Gúser nor anything in this world is worth so
much I recognize you as the owner, lord of my life, allow me
to lose the serenity and joy of things that are not worth so much.
Celebrate St Cilio of Jerusalem today, bishop and doctor of the Church, The
Gospel of St John, chapter eight verses one to eleven. At that time,
Jesus withdrew to the Mount of Olives at dawn and again appeared in the
temple and all the people came to him. Then he sat down and began
to point out to them The scribes and Pharisees take a woman caught in or
ultery and put her and put her in the middle and tell Master, this
woman has been caught in flagrant adultery. Moses commanded us in the law to
stone these women. What do you say. They said this to tempt him,
to have something to accuse him of. But Jesus, leaning down,
began to write his finger on the earth. But how they insisted on asking
him. He stood up and told them that of you who is without sin,
to throw the first stone at him. Lying down again he wrote on
earth. When they heard these words, they withdrew one after the other,
beginning with old men, and Jesus was left alone with the woman who was
still in the middle. Jesus told her woman, where they are. No
one has convicted you. She answered.“ No one, sir,”
Jesus answered. I don' t condemn you either, and don' t
sin anymore. Lord, thank you for this gospel that confirms your attitude to
sin. As Benedito sixteen said, you' re not interested in falls,
but every time I get up here. I' m sorry. Truly repented,
lord repented with all my heart, of all the good that I have
ceased to do and I trust in your mercy and I love you and desire
to love you with a purer heart and I beg you to give me that
grace. Help me, Lord Jesus, to experience your mercy so that I
may also dispense it to others. A group of Jews led by some lawyers
and Pharisees present Jesus with a woman caught in adultery, with the intention of
stoning her hypocrisy and hardness of heart that is not unworthy. They accuse a
woman and rely on the law of Moses in order to condemn her death and
satisfy her with hatred and blood. Under the appearance of justice among the law,
they use the name of God and his Holy Law to kill, murder
and break the most important commandment, which is that of charity, petty attitude
and mercy that, instead of forgiving those who fail and are wrong for whatever
reasons, they feed on the sinner to condemn them without any mercy or compassion.
This is called Phariseeism and fanaticism. But the most regrettable and painful of
these Pharisees is that, in addition to accusing this poor woman even makes a
woman, they wanted to take this opportunity to accuse and condemn to death Jesus
himself, two equally evil and murderous targets. However, Jesus’ behavior is
totally different. It opens in her infinite, sweet and merciful heart to forgive
all the moral wounds of this woman. But he not only forgives it,
but understands it, takes it and defends it. I believe that, more
than the same forgiveness, which is an immense gesture, the most wonderful thing
of all is the way it offers you infinite respect, incredible sweetness, unimaginable
compression. Jesus does not scandalize himself and puts the cry in heaven because this
woman has been caught in flagrant crime of adultery. Jesus does not keep silent,
he keeps quiet, he pretends to hear the accusations, he bows down
and writes on earth, as if to make himself misunderstood. He turns a
blind eye and seems to see no evil forgives. He understands human miseries,
but as the Pharisees insisted on his accusations, our lord joins in and responds
with a masterful blow from his own, as he is going to do,
who is sinless, who has the first stone and after this sentence, again
leans and continues to write on earth. It is not the proud and defiant
attitude of the polemist who already feels victorious in the lawsuit does not remain in
his humble discreet supustu so as not to humiliate or put anyone of evidence.
Even though the accusers do, Jesus lets them be themselves. He wants more
Karen to be desired before God and his own conscience. And then the Gospel
tells us. When they heard it, they snuck out one by one.
John adds with a certain tone of irony, starting with older ones. We
have all sinned and if we are all sinners, why do we strive to
be so cruel and hard with those who fall. Not anymore. Your lord
had not said it at that time of the mountain. How can you see
the straw from your brother' s eye and not see the league the beam
in your hypocrite? First take the beam out of yours and then you can
pull the straw out of your brother' s eye. And speaking to us
of forgiveness, he taught us to forgive our neighbor unconditionally, for if you
do not forgive those who offend you, neither will your heavenly father forgive,
he will forgive your others. Your faults. Saint Peter, a grisologist,
speaking of prayer and mercy, tells us in salmon forty- three. It
is a bad seeker that you hope to obtain for yourself what he denies to
others, also forgiveness and compassion. Already when two accusers have left, then
Jesus incorporates and expects the woman all trembling, to approach him woman where your
accusers are. None of them have convicted you, none of them. Lord
answered her with great respect, humility and confusion, for neither am I acquiescing
in the advance of what wonderful words flowed directly from the heart of God.
Jesus was the only one who could condemn her, because he had no sin.
And yet his attitude is immense, stones of compassion, tenderness and mercy
toward this poor woman go and sin no more, how much gratitude and love
will have been born in that woman' s heart. She felt respected,
accepted as she was also in her miseries and sins, but above all,
she was understood, forgiven, accepted and elevated to a greater divinity. This
is the power and secret of His Lord' s mercy. Like Prodigus said,
the tenderness of God' s heart destroys the past regenerates gives new life.
Pope John Paul II and his cyclical live and mercy. He told us
that he, the father of mercy, of the parallary, that is to
say, acts under the influence of a deep affection and thus explains his generosity.
In addition, with his mercy he saves another fundamental good, diginity,
humanity. He told you what Jesus does by forgiving the woman and by forgiving
each one of us. It never humbles us, respects us, elevates us,
dignifies us and, above all, brings us to the heart of the
father to experience the infinite love of God. If so is the mercy of
the father, how not to approach them to ask forgiveness and to reconcile with
him. What are we waiting for to become this Lent? Why not return
to God with all your heart and with all your soul through confession and sacraments.
Don' t leave it for tomorrow. Today is the day of salvation
Jesus. To truly experience and value mercy, I need to become aware of
my weakness and correspondence from Tomarcia. Help me to have a personal encounter with
you, as you do with the woman of the Gospel. My pride and
sensuality slow my desire for conversion. Lord Dame, the gift of knowing how
to correct my faults to experience your deep love. I give you the blessing
that the goodness and mercy of God the Father has in your heart, that
the gaze of love of God the Son, penetrate into your soul and purify
you from any restlessness and lack that you can operate from God, that the
love of God, the Holy Spirit will grant you peace, that you need,
that the tenderness of Mary, the mother of God and our mother caresses
and protects you, and that the strength and that ten Joseph in her father,
Lord Thee, lead to heaven and the blessing of God, father,
son and holy spirit, saying about you and always accompany you amen