Heart Prayer Thursday of the seventh week of Easter. Help me holy spirit so
that I can look at others with your patient eyes. I want to recognize
your love for all human beings, also for those people that I cannot love
with patience and compassion. And compassion is all important to the loving heart of
Jesus. They are all sacred and valuable. No one has been born by
chance, but it is an eternal project of your love. Free me from
condemning and prejudging others. I would like to imagine their sufferings, their distresses,
their weaknesses that they have difficulty overcoming. Help me always find some excuse
to excuse them and not look at them with bad eyes. Eyes pour out
to me all the patience I need see holy spirit. Today we celebrate St
Simon Stock the lowly Salukah, chapter of St John was chapter seventeen verses,
twenty to twenty- six. At that time, Jesus raising his eyes to
heaven gold, saying not only for them immediately, but also for those who
raise in me by their word, that they may all be one, as
your father in me and I in you that they also be one with less,
that the world may believe that you have sent me I have given them
the glory that you have given me to be one, as we are one
I in them and you in me, that they may be one completely,
so that the world may know that you have sent me and I have loved
them as you have loved my father. This is my wish that those you
have given me be with me where I am and behold my glory which you
gave me because you loved me before the founding of the Father world. Just
if the world has not known you, I have known you and these have
known that you sent me I have made known to them and will make known
to them your man, so that the love you would bring into them and
I in them, so that they may be one as we are one,
I in them and you in me read today. It has not been a
repeated request for so many centuries. The Lord prays, at the end of
his life, in a solemn way, for the unity of all men,
putting as a reference the unity of the most holy tride. And it is
that we experience in as much place the light among men as among Christians,
and this is a tremendous pain for the Church. We do today in our
prayer meditating on the Church. The Church is a gift to save men,
not in isolation, but by constituting them as one people gathered together in the
unity of the father, son and Holy Spirit. The Church, dear and
founded by Christ, wishes to serve only for this purpose that every man may
find Christ, so that Christ may walk with each one of us on the
path of life. For the achievement of this unique purpose, the Church,
with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, transmits and guarantees the truth that Jesus
Christ has revealed and keeps alive and present the means of salvation that is instituted,
that is, the sacraments and prayer. That is why, throughout the
year, the Church, in her liturgy, will present us with the main
steps and mysteries of Jesus' life, so that, as we contemplate them,
we will always find new virtues, that we imitate new motives of gratitude,
new invitations to an ever more dedicated love. The Church is mother and
teacher as she walks in this world, yearn for the definitive and perfect union
with God that is given only in heaven and cares as a loving mother of
all her children, concerned that all will come to eternal bliss, constantly facilitates
to them the means of salvation that she receives from Jesus Christ and especially the
sacraments. It said in a very beautiful way. São Paulo. This is
it, the Church is our mother. We owe it all to her.
She has begotten us to new life, to the life of grace that will
provide us with our eternal happiness. He has given us faith and with his
magisterium, he keeps it whole and fruitful. She has given us grace,
she is the dispenser of the sacraments, she has given us charity, she
unites us, she educates us in love, in true humanism, in understanding
and in edifying that of herself. He guides us, defends us, directs
us along the paths of hope, anticipates the catological desires of future life and
makes us like his happiness in advance. So far, Paul' s text
is this we love the Church. To call the Church is to confess with
strength her supernatural character, that is, to look at her with the eyes
of faith and to trust that the gates of hell will not prevail against her
is not to judge her in a human way, without theological faith, looking
only at the greater or lesser quality of certain ecclesiastics or of certain Christians.
The most important thing in the Church is not to see how people respond,
but to see what God does. Just as this is God and man,
and many see only man. The Church is also Christ and men, and
many see men, but let us say it clearly. The program is men.
Today it becomes more necessary to know and spread the teachings of the Pope,
to speak to the teachings of the Magisterium, because the Church is called
to make in the world the light of Christ shine in the world, reflecting
it in itself as the light of the moon reflects the light of the sun.
In the Church the ancient prophecies concerning the Holy City of Jerusalem have been
fulfilled, as the wonderful prophecy of Isaiah Lift up thee Jerusalem, which comes
to your light, shall the kings walk in your light when they answer from
your dawn says Isaiah chapter sixty. This must be done by the lecipils of
Christ, after learning from him to live. According to the style of the
Beatitudes, they will have to draw all men to God through the witness of
the Alumna love. Thus your light to men so that you may see some
works and give glory to your father, who are the heavens the Church,
willingly respecting the areas that are her own, which are not her own.
It points to a moral course that is not divergent or contrary, but coincides
with the demands of the dignity of the human person and the inherent freedoms of
the human person and that constitute the platform of a healthy society. Human societies
cannot without becoming criminals, conduct themselves as if God did not exist and do
not take up religion tour, as if it were something strange to them,
or that could in no way be useful to them. Excluding the action of
the church founded by God, of the laws, of education, of youth,
of the family is a criminal error of the encyclical and mortal law of
Leo XIII. Love for the Church will always lead us to defend it.
The Church has suffered and suffers the defamation of slander has been persecuted and continues
to be so. Do not say that the Church was always allied with the
powerful and therefore accomplices in the slavery of peoples. Christianity was born as a
promise of liberation and was therefore fiercely fought by the princes of the nations.
Review the history of the Church and you will see that everyone, from the
emperors of the first years to the governments of our time, has opposed and
decimated Christians. The Church ah improved humanity because she has been faithful to Christ
and has lent it to the extent that her commandments have been faithful. In
the two thousand logs of history. The Church has always accomplished her threefold task.
The proclamation of the word of God, the celebration of the sacraments and
the service of charity are tasks that involve each other and cannot be separated from
each other. For the Church, charity is not a kind of activity of
social existence that could also be left to others, but belongs to its nature
and is an irrenunciable manifestation of its own essence. Love for the Church is
synonymous with fidelity to the people of God and to be faithful to the Churches
also to live in intimate communion with the pastors placed by the Holy Spirit to
govern the people of God is to accept with docility the Magisterium, is to
give to recognize its teachings. To be fierce to the Church is not to
be dragged away by doctrines and hydrogies contrary to Catholic dogma. Love for the
Church carries with it prayer for the Pope and for the Bishops. The pontiff
is the one who acts as Christ on earth. We have called on him
to listen to him, because in his voice is the truth and we want
this truth to reach all the inhabitants of the earth without deformation, so that
many disoriented see the light and many afflicted recover hope to pray for the Pope
and the Bishops. It is one of the longest duties of charity of Christians.
Mary is attached to my great mystery of the Church, that she and
the Church are inseparable, as she and Christ are. Mary reflects the Church
before her, she is her person and, in the midst of all the
tribulations that afflict and grieve the Church, she remains the star of salvation.
She is its true center of trust, although very often its periphery weighs on
our soul. Let us ask the Most Holy Virgin Materère Clesie that every day
we more and more open ourselves to the Church to almighty God, bless you
on this day when her son ascended into heaven and opened the way of glory
to enter AE with him Christ, who appeared in his disciples after his resolution,
also shows himself full of mercy to you when he comes to the final
judgment and when he proclaims a purse with all to the father He gives you
the joy of experiencing that which remains in you until the end of the world,
as he promised, and the blessing of God almighty father, son,
and holy spirit descend upon you and remain always amen