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Heart prayer. Sunday 2nd of Easter, Sunday of Divine Mercy. Come Holy

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Spirit, without you there is no
life worth living. That is why my

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doubts, my fears, tiredness and
weaknesses. I want to call on you,

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come Holy Spirit, to water it
that you are. Dry come to

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fruition what is weak, come to
heal what is sick. Transfer me,

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restore me, try me, intimate
and fruitful contuation. We leave today or

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celebrate sa O Juan Bautista de la
Salle. The Gospel is from St John,

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Chapter twenty verses nineteen, thirty-
one. On the evening of that

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day, on the first day of
the week, the disciples were in a

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house with the doors closed for fear
of the Jews, and in this came

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Jesus stood in the middle and said
peace to you And saying this, he

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showed them his hands and cost us
and by the side, and Uisipo was

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filled with joys from the women Jesus
repeated peace to you, as the father

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sent me so I also sent you
and, doing so, breathed out his

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spirit upon them and told them to
receive the holy spirit. Those who pretend

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your sins are forgiven. Whoever you
hold back, they' ll want to

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be held back. Thomas, one
of the twelve called Bellizo was with them

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when he heard. Jesus and the
other disciples said to him we have seen

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the Lord, but he answered if
I do not see his hands, the

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ladies of nails, if I do
not put my finger in the hole of

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nails and do not put my hand
in his side. I don' t

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believe it At eight days they were
back inside his disciples and Thomas. With

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them came Jesus, being shut the
doors, stood in the middle and said

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peace to you and then said Thomas, Thomas, bring your finger. Here

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is my brethren, bring thy hand, and put my side upon it,

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and be not unbelieving, but believing. Thomas answered, my lord and my

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God, Jesus said to him because
you have seen me, you have believed

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blessed that you believe without having seen
many other signs that are not written in

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this book. Jesus did in the
sight of the disciples. They have been

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written that you may believe that Jesus
the Messiah, the son of God,

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and here believing, have life in
his name. My Lord and my God,

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have compassion on me because with self
there are more times when I doubt

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my faith on this Sunday, that
you invite me to contemplate your immense mercy,

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that you show me your side of
your wounds and encourage me to experience

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your closeness through prayer. I can' t but say you, sir You

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are, my God. We ask
you, Lord, to grant us gela

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grace to be worthy of bliss.
Blessed are those who believe among themselves without

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having seen with faith, our life
will be immensely blissful, serene, simple

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and happy. With the risen Christ
Pope Francis commented on the cornization of John

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Twenty- three and John Paul II, of Saint John Belitrés, in Sa

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John Parón II. Jesus appeared again
in the Upper Room in the midst of

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Luciprus. Tomás was there, too. He turned to him and invited him

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to touch his wounds. And then
to that sincere man, that man used

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to personally check things out. He
scratched himself before Jesus and told him,

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my lord and my God, the
wounds of Jesus are a scandal for faith,

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but they are also the proof of
faith. Therefore, in the body

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of the risen Christ, the wounds
do not disappear, they remain because those

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wounds are the permanent sign of God' s love for us and are indispensable

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for wanting in God, not to
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God is love, mercy, faithfulness. St Peter' s. Screaming Isaiah,

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he wrote to Christians his wounds have
healed them. John Pétitres and John

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Varus II Ann had the courage to
look at Jesus' wounds, to touch

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his wounded hands and his pierced condensate. They were not ashamed of the burden

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of Christ, they did not climb
from him from his cross, they were

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not ashamed of the flesh of the
brother, because in every person who suffered

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they saw Jesus. They were two
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the Holy Spirit and bore witness before
the church and the world, to the

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goodness of God, to his mercy. Jesus invites us to look at his

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wounds, invites us to touch them
like Thomas to sound unbelief. He invites

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us, above all, to enter
into the mystery of his wounds, because

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it is the same. He is
the mystery of his love. Merciful.

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Years ago I had the opportunity to
contemplate in Rome the pictorial work of carabacho

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of all the paintings that are great. I remember one that caught my attention

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a lot about the faith profession of
the Tomas apostle before the risen Christ.

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Jesus appears in the Upper Room with
his disciples, with the evident signs of

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crucifixion on humans and on their feet. And in this painting, Jesus has

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come up to Jesus, his open
side shows to take his lattice open by

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the soldier' s spear, inviting
him to put his hand into the pierced

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chest, the apostle totally out of
himself, about his finger and his confused

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gaze to contemplate closely the signs of
the master' s passion and thus verify

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the veracity of his result. Personally, when I read the gospel of this

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Sunday, I find it hard and
impervious to the unbelief of Thomas. If

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I don' t see any other
sores or the sign of his nails says

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and I don' t stick my
finger in his nail hole and don'

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t stick the miser in his side, I' ll believe it too many

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conditions and demands to take the step
of faith. However, our lord,

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with his deep confidence and understanding,
as always condescends his apostle. Tre doubt

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he was not obliged to please the
demands and whim of the apostle, but

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he does so to give him more
elements, to believe he presents his hands,

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his feet, his side and even
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wound of his heart. To see
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evidence of the signs and the great
mercy of his master, Thomas is surrendered

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and conquered and concludes with the most
beautiful pressure of faith, proclaiming the divinity

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of Jesus. My Lord and my
God, this faith, although great in

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its profession, is far from perfect, having been preceded by so many evidences.

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But the Lord also accepts his act
of faith and takes advantage to need

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and bless all those who would believe
in him without having seen us, you

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and I, like Thomas, are
hard, pragmatic, rebellious. Thomas is

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a perfect representative of the man of
our time, of all the times of

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each one of us. How many
trials and we did to believe, how

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many inner resistances and how much infirmity
before forcing our head and our heart before

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the Lord How many times, how
many we demand to have all the trials

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and violences gives you in hand to
take a step forward, but as the

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apostle tomas we do not believe.
We believe, we believe our parents because

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they are our parents and because we
know that they cannot deceive us. We

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believe the doctor in diagnosing the disease, even if we' re not sure

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he' ll be right. We
believe in scientists, in researchers, because

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they look more than we do and
respect their respective competence, although they are

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often wrong. And yet, we
feel with the right and flamboyance to put

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ourselves to God when we don'
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determid, so it really doesn'
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as the good of others perhaps their
unbelief. That prism was a fruit of

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the crisis so deep into which it
had fallen. In just three days.

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So many tragic and hard and contradictory
things had happened that had completely shattered his

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soul. His master had been arrested
with death, mistreated in a beastly manner,

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hung a cross and killed and now
come to him with which he has

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risen too beautiful to be true.
Surely he would have thought that such things

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were not at stake and asked them
to tell him to leave him alone.

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It had been a love so bitterly
disillusioned to give credence to that news that

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his friends now told him. The
same thing happens to us many times too.

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We feel so disappointed, so struck
by life and so excited about things

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to believe that the Risen Christ really
lives with us. It seems to us

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a utopia, a fantastic illusion or
a dream too beautiful for it to be

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true. And as you take it, we also follow not too much evidence

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to believe. But faith is,
by definition, to believe what we do

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not see and to give the free
feeling of our mind, our heart and

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our will to the word of God
and the promise of Christ, even without

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seeing anything, confident only in the
authority of God who reveals to us his

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mystery of salvation. This teaches Christo
that technology is Catholic to him. That

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' s what we' ve learned
since we were kids. It is what

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we are also aware of in Chapter
11 of the Charter of the Hebrews.

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However, how much it sometimes costs
us to trust and to be Christ without

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conditions, But only the risen Christ
has words of eternal life and the power

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to give us this eternal life that
promises us, because he is true God

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and for him there is nothing impossible. Let us therefore remember the apostle Thomas

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and the promise of Christ. Blessed
are those who believe without having seen faith.

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It is a gift of God that
completely transforms the existence and vision of

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things. You and the blessing God, Father, who through the resurrection of

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his son, has redeemed us and
given them the grace of filial adoption.

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Fill you with the joy of his
blessing. Christ, who by his redemption

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obtained perfect freedom. He grants you
the principal of eternal inheritance and you,

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risen with him, baptism by faith. Through his holy life, we can

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come to the seeming heavenly and blessed
of God, almighty father, son,

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and holy spirit descend upon you and
remain always amen