Prayer of the heart Wednesday of the ninth week of ordinary time. Holy Spirit,
You who make everything clear to me, who illuminate all the ways for
me to reach my ideal, You who give me the divine gift of forgiving
and forgetting the evil that they do to me and that in all the moments
of my life you are with me. I want, in this short dialogue,
to thank you for everything and confirm that I never want to be separated
from you, however much it is the use of material. I want to
be with you and all my loved ones. It will be perpetual glory.
Thank you for your mercy to me of mine. Thank you, my God.
Today we celebrate Saint Boniface of the eighth century, Bishop and martyr and
Blessed Ferdinand of Portugal, the Gospel of Saint Mark, chapter twelve verses eighteen
from now on. At that time some adducees of those who say there is
no resurrection approached Jesus and asked him Master Moses did not leave written. If
one is killed by his brother, leaving a wife, but not children,
let him be with the widow, and what kind of offspring? And give
birth to your brother. Well, there were seven brothers. The first married
and died without children, and the second married the widow and died also as
children. So did the third and none of the seven left children. Finally,
the woman died. When the salf and life come and come back to
the life of which one of them was the woman. Why the hi'
s had you married, they' ve been married to her. Jesus answered
him. You are wrong, because you do not understand the scripture or the
power of God. When they rise again, neither men nor women will be
married, They will be like angels from heaven. And about the dead telling
them. You have not read in the book of Moses, in the episode
of the Zarza, what God told him. I am the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob. He is not the
God of the dead, but of the living. You' re so wrong.
Paul Francis commented of some families and does not serve to begin prayer.
The Gospel contains the two revealing signs of those who know what to believe but
have no faith. The first sign is casuistics, represented by those who ask
Jesus if it is lawful to pay the fees or which of the seven brothers,
the husband was to marry the woman who had become a widow. The
second is not ideology, that of Christians who think of faith as a system
of ideas and ideology. At that time there were Gnostics, there were many
and so these who fall into the casuistic or these who fall into the ideology
are Christians who know the urn, but without ce like demons, with the
difference that they also tremble. They don' t live in peace. In
the Gospel also examples of people who do not know the doctrine. But he
has a lot of faith in the episode, for example, of the Canaanea.
With his faith he achieves the exoneration of the daughter victim of a possession
and the Samaritan who opens her heart because she has found it is not extractive
truths, but Jesus Christ also the blind man of birth healed by Jesus and
for this he is questioned by Pharisees and doctors of the law until he kneels
down with simplicity and worships the one who has healed him. Three people who
demonstrate faith and witness are indissoluble. You are in a great error Jesus warns,
But for those who have faith the power of God and the scriptures speak
of that totally different point of view. The spirits who give life to the
flesh are useless. And here the flesh is represented by thoughts too attached to
our earthly condition, by the lack of transcendent sense, by the forgetfulness of
our spiritual dimension of the inner motor of love and the desire of God that
beats within us. When the world proclaims the good of pleasures, the advantages
of its freedoms and the happiness of a lifestyle you will see us, on
most occasions, it is not convenient for us to stick to this materialistic error
that obscures the most beautiful part of our life and future hope, that part
that makes us united to God, to his transcendence, to his happiness.
Whoever understands and puts into practice the priority of his spiritual life can experience everything
else as secondary the key by which we interpret the future. Therefore, we
worry sometimes these so is in God and only he cannot reveal it to each
one as a unique and untransferable secret. The spirit and realization today will know
that the resurrection of Jesus opens the way to our new resurrected life. We
can make the word alive through a commitment of love and joy to others.
We are used to seeing life from a human perspective. Without God. We
want to give everything a human, scientific, technical explanation, and we have
set aside the spiritual supernatural of our life. But there are things like the
sense of death, which can only be explained on a supernatural level. In
all times there have been people who do not want to believe people who do
not accept the word of God with simplicity and trust. It comes from God
and so it is, even though I do not understand, it is people
who want to understand everything with their intelligence. The world is very complex and
our head alone is not able to do everything it implies. Much less.
Let us understand how and why God has done things. The faith that helps
us to believe that it is true that God tells us is a great gift
that we receive from God, but we have a responsibility to take care of
him and make him bear fruit, because we can also reject him and lose
him. The Virgin Mary in a great example of simplicity, of trust,
of love for God, of great faith, among other things. Many of
the people who have not been able to flee from the faith try to justify
themselves, making narrow reflections and trying to trap him. Oh, God.
They expect people to recognize that they and not God are right. Such is
the case of these adducees who wanted to confuse Jesus, we must be careful
when we listen to those people, because there are many who can redeem us
by their words, to stop the faith of the way that God has lovingly
erected for us. Jesus is not angry with abuse. Jesus loves them and
gives them an answer that knows the eyes to the truth and the life of
God. Resurrection frees us from death. Christians are children of God with an
eternal destiny, children of life, children of love. Our religion is of
life, of love. It is about communicating this life and thus loving and
preparing for eternal life. There is a double aspect to the Paschal Mystery.
By his death, Christ frees us from sin. By his resurrection he opens
us up to a new life. This is first of all the justification that
returns us the grace of God so that, just as Christ was resurrected in
other dead, so let us also live a new life. It consists of
the victory over sin and death and the new participation in grace Revives filial adoption,
because men become brothers of Christ. God is not a God of the
dead, but of God. We take part in his own life, in
his love. Our Church is therefore the living church. Our experience must not
be limited only to the cold fulfillment of a series of moral rules and works,
but must be the very life and love of God flowing through our veins.
Someone who does not love does not resemble God, does not fulfill his
vision. I really hear it because God is love. Today there is much
talk about what awaits us after death and they hear different things, that we
are going to reincarnate, that we are going to become plants, that we
are going to become, that do not like to find lost in universe,
etc. And there is little talk of the great happiness and wonder we encounter
with God, our creator. I remember men. Remember that men die once
and we are judged. At the end of time the dead will be resurrected.
There is no reincarnation after death. I repeat, there is no reincarnation
after death, there is no fusion with the universe, there is only resuscitation
of life or eternal death. Let us pray to God that we can all
attain the eternal happiness of heaven. Remove Luanca whom the Church celebrated yesterday made
an act of forgiveness celebrated the day. Last Monday, the Church made an
act of faith. As he was being taken to the fire, he repeated
to his companions that they would then be martyred. Friends to life. We
' ll meet in heaven. That is the faith of the martyrs. Today
we can devote more and better time to do a deep examination of our spiritual
life. Take care of your faith when he came to crissate God. I
say it makes us partakers of the love of Christ us. Lord you have
created me with a nature that seeks to transcend, because you have given me
the prenity of being your child illuminates my meditation so that I can understand the
great truth of my life, which is that you love me. I now
give the blessing, that the goodness and mercy of God, Father, have
the heart, that the gaze of love of God, son, penetrate into
your soul and purify you from any uneasiness that can prepare you from God,
that the love of God, Holy Spirit, grant you the peace that you
need, that the tenderness of Mary, mother of God and our mother caresses
and protects you, and that the strength and determination of Saint Joseph, our
father, Lord Thee, may lead to heaven and the bellition of God,
Father Son and Holy Spirit, descend upon you and accompany you always amen