Heart prayer. Sunday 2nd of Easter, Sunday of Divine Mercy. Come Holy
Spirit, without you there is no life worth living. That is why my
doubts, my fears, tiredness and weaknesses. I want to call on you,
come Holy Spirit, to water it that you are. Dry come to
fruition what is weak, come to heal what is sick. Transfer me,
restore me, try me, intimate and fruitful contuation. We leave today or
celebrate sa O Juan Bautista de la Salle. The Gospel is from St John,
Chapter twenty verses nineteen, thirty- one. On the evening of that
day, on the first day of the week, the disciples were in a
house with the doors closed for fear of the Jews, and in this came
Jesus stood in the middle and said peace to you And saying this, he
showed them his hands and cost us and by the side, and Uisipo was
filled with joys from the women Jesus repeated peace to you, as the father
sent me so I also sent you and, doing so, breathed out his
spirit upon them and told them to receive the holy spirit. Those who pretend
your sins are forgiven. Whoever you hold back, they' ll want to
be held back. Thomas, one of the twelve called Bellizo was with them
when he heard. Jesus and the other disciples said to him we have seen
the Lord, but he answered if I do not see his hands, the
ladies of nails, if I do not put my finger in the hole of
nails and do not put my hand in his side. I don' t
believe it At eight days they were back inside his disciples and Thomas. With
them came Jesus, being shut the doors, stood in the middle and said
peace to you and then said Thomas, Thomas, bring your finger. Here
is my brethren, bring thy hand, and put my side upon it,
and be not unbelieving, but believing. Thomas answered, my lord and my
God, Jesus said to him because you have seen me, you have believed
blessed that you believe without having seen many other signs that are not written in
this book. Jesus did in the sight of the disciples. They have been
written that you may believe that Jesus the Messiah, the son of God,
and here believing, have life in his name. My Lord and my God,
have compassion on me because with self there are more times when I doubt
my faith on this Sunday, that you invite me to contemplate your immense mercy,
that you show me your side of your wounds and encourage me to experience
your closeness through prayer. I can' t but say you, sir You
are, my God. We ask you, Lord, to grant us gela
grace to be worthy of bliss. Blessed are those who believe among themselves without
having seen with faith, our life will be immensely blissful, serene, simple
and happy. With the risen Christ Pope Francis commented on the cornization of John
Twenty- three and John Paul II, of Saint John Belitrés, in Sa
John Parón II. Jesus appeared again in the Upper Room in the midst of
Luciprus. Tomás was there, too. He turned to him and invited him
to touch his wounds. And then to that sincere man, that man used
to personally check things out. He scratched himself before Jesus and told him,
my lord and my God, the wounds of Jesus are a scandal for faith,
but they are also the proof of faith. Therefore, in the body
of the risen Christ, the wounds do not disappear, they remain because those
wounds are the permanent sign of God' s love for us and are indispensable
for wanting in God, not to believe God exists, but to believe that
God is love, mercy, faithfulness. St Peter' s. Screaming Isaiah,
he wrote to Christians his wounds have healed them. John Pétitres and John
Varus II Ann had the courage to look at Jesus' wounds, to touch
his wounded hands and his pierced condensate. They were not ashamed of the burden
of Christ, they did not climb from him from his cross, they were
not ashamed of the flesh of the brother, because in every person who suffered
they saw Jesus. They were two courageous men and men of the parresía of
the Holy Spirit and bore witness before the church and the world, to the
goodness of God, to his mercy. Jesus invites us to look at his
wounds, invites us to touch them like Thomas to sound unbelief. He invites
us, above all, to enter into the mystery of his wounds, because
it is the same. He is the mystery of his love. Merciful.
Years ago I had the opportunity to contemplate in Rome the pictorial work of carabacho
of all the paintings that are great. I remember one that caught my attention
a lot about the faith profession of the Tomas apostle before the risen Christ.
Jesus appears in the Upper Room with his disciples, with the evident signs of
crucifixion on humans and on their feet. And in this painting, Jesus has
come up to Jesus, his open side shows to take his lattice open by
the soldier' s spear, inviting him to put his hand into the pierced
chest, the apostle totally out of himself, about his finger and his confused
gaze to contemplate closely the signs of the master' s passion and thus verify
the veracity of his result. Personally, when I read the gospel of this
Sunday, I find it hard and impervious to the unbelief of Thomas. If
I don' t see any other sores or the sign of his nails says
and I don' t stick my finger in his nail hole and don'
t stick the miser in his side, I' ll believe it too many
conditions and demands to take the step of faith. However, our lord,
with his deep confidence and understanding, as always condescends his apostle. Tre doubt
he was not obliged to please the demands and whim of the apostle, but
he does so to give him more elements, to believe he presents his hands,
his feet, his side and even allows his finger to stick in the
wound of his heart. To see if he ends up being convinced by the
evidence of the signs and the great mercy of his master, Thomas is surrendered
and conquered and concludes with the most beautiful pressure of faith, proclaiming the divinity
of Jesus. My Lord and my God, this faith, although great in
its profession, is far from perfect, having been preceded by so many evidences.
But the Lord also accepts his act of faith and takes advantage to need
and bless all those who would believe in him without having seen us, you
and I, like Thomas, are hard, pragmatic, rebellious. Thomas is
a perfect representative of the man of our time, of all the times of
each one of us. How many trials and we did to believe, how
many inner resistances and how much infirmity before forcing our head and our heart before
the Lord How many times, how many we demand to have all the trials
and violences gives you in hand to take a step forward, but as the
apostle tomas we do not believe. We believe, we believe our parents because
they are our parents and because we know that they cannot deceive us. We
believe the doctor in diagnosing the disease, even if we' re not sure
he' ll be right. We believe in scientists, in researchers, because
they look more than we do and respect their respective competence, although they are
often wrong. And yet, we feel with the right and flamboyance to put
ourselves to God when we don' t understand why he does things in a
determid, so it really doesn' t make sense. We behave many times
as the good of others perhaps their unbelief. That prism was a fruit of
the crisis so deep into which it had fallen. In just three days.
So many tragic and hard and contradictory things had happened that had completely shattered his
soul. His master had been arrested with death, mistreated in a beastly manner,
hung a cross and killed and now come to him with which he has
risen too beautiful to be true. Surely he would have thought that such things
were not at stake and asked them to tell him to leave him alone.
It had been a love so bitterly disillusioned to give credence to that news that
his friends now told him. The same thing happens to us many times too.
We feel so disappointed, so struck by life and so excited about things
to believe that the Risen Christ really lives with us. It seems to us
a utopia, a fantastic illusion or a dream too beautiful for it to be
true. And as you take it, we also follow not too much evidence
to believe. But faith is, by definition, to believe what we do
not see and to give the free feeling of our mind, our heart and
our will to the word of God and the promise of Christ, even without
seeing anything, confident only in the authority of God who reveals to us his
mystery of salvation. This teaches Christo that technology is Catholic to him. That
' s what we' ve learned since we were kids. It is what
we are also aware of in Chapter 11 of the Charter of the Hebrews.
However, how much it sometimes costs us to trust and to be Christ without
conditions, But only the risen Christ has words of eternal life and the power
to give us this eternal life that promises us, because he is true God
and for him there is nothing impossible. Let us therefore remember the apostle Thomas
and the promise of Christ. Blessed are those who believe without having seen faith.
It is a gift of God that completely transforms the existence and vision of
things. You and the blessing God, Father, who through the resurrection of
his son, has redeemed us and given them the grace of filial adoption.
Fill you with the joy of his blessing. Christ, who by his redemption
obtained perfect freedom. He grants you the principal of eternal inheritance and you,
risen with him, baptism by faith. Through his holy life, we can
come to the seeming heavenly and blessed of God, almighty father, son,
and holy spirit descend upon you and remain always amen