Prayer of the heart Tuesday of the eighth week of ordinary time. Holy Spirit
You are the soul of my soul I humbly adore you enlighten me, strengthen
me, guide me, comfort me and, as it corresponds to the eternal
plan of the Father God, reveal to me your desires. Let me know
what eternal love desires of me. Let me know what I must suffer.
Let me know what I must suffer, let me know what it is with
silent modesty and in prayer I must accept, carry and endure. Yeah.
Holy Spirit Give me, to know your will and the will of the Father,
for all my life I want to be nothing other than a perpetual continued
yes to the desires and will of the eternal Father God. Today we celebrate
St German of Paris, the Gospel of St Mark, Chapter ten, verse
twenty- eight to thirty- one. At that time, Peter began to
tell Jesus you see that we have left everything and followed you. And Jesus
told you that whoever leaves home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or
children or lands for me and by the Gospel will now receive now a hundred
times more in houses, brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands?
Many first will be the last and many last will be the first. These
words of the Lord that we will go into the Gospel are very comforting.
He assures us that he who leaves all things promises that he will now receive
at that time one hundred months more houses and brothers and sisters, mothers and
children and lands with persecutions and in the future age eternal life. But we
can' t miss a detail that the gentleman wants to appear on this list
of benefits for whoever leaves all things. I imagine you' ve noticed persecutions.
It says clearly that our life will not cease to be cross, persecution
that when we have and love for God, we see it from another hepoptic
and thus we understand the thought of St Joseph Mary that allows me to do
so. It sounds very strong to say so, sorry says thoughtlessly on the
way one hundred and ninety- four. I' m going to tell you
what are the treasures of man on earth so that you don' t despise
him hunger, thirst heat, cold, pain, dishonor, poverty, loneliness,
betrayal, slander, jail are treasures, but how we could come to
grasp and I' ll accept that this is so. If we believe the
misfortunes of space, it will surprise us with eternals in the latter. Blessed
be ye, and ye shall be when they revile, persecute us, and
lie against you with all manner of evil for my sake; rejoice, and
rejoice: for the heavens shall be great in your reward. These words left
a deep imprint on the hearts of the hearers and have always left it in
the disciples of all time. Happy are you, how not to be attracted
to the words of the Lord God. He wants our happiness. He has
placed that desire in the depths of our being and with the viraventitudes shows us
the only way to eternal bliss to which man' s heart aspires. Heaven
' s happiness reaches us at the price of a miserable life on earth.
God does not grant us grace over natural grace, which is a breach of
glory. Now we are his children, and what father does not want to
see his children happy. Packed in this spirit of divine sonship. St Joseph
Mary affirmed with joy. I am increasingly persuaded the happiness of heaven is for
those who know how to be happy on earth. The path of misfortunes that
Jesus points out is very different from that which the human vision attached to the
earth seeks, which puts happiness in the satisfaction of self- love through riches
the power of pleasures. Saint Augustine already noted that all men seek happiness and,
however, most do not know how to achieve it. Jesus has the
answer that is surprising for the choice, for the common opinion, blessed,
the poor of spirit, the meek, those who weep, the books of
heart and adds the ho last adventure. For my sake, this is the
key. This is the key. The release for love, meekness for love,
sacrifice, for love, chastity for love, for love of jes,
for supernatural love for God and for others, for God, who is the
holy spirit pours out our souls. Jesus Christ has set us as lamps,
that we might become teachers of others, that we might act as torment,
that we might live as angels among men or adults, among children, as
spiritual ones of people only rational, that we might be seed, that we
might bear fruit. You wouldn' t have to open your mouth. If
our life were to shine like this. They would overwhelm the words, if
we showed the works, there would not be only one pagan if we were
truly Christians. The Lord teaches us a supernatural logic, which is science to
be happy by building our life on rock the sense of divine afreation, identification
with Christ, and not on the ground I mobilize, material well- being
or success or divine affiliation, edification with Christ or precarious forgiveness illusions that do
not resist the onslaught of the contrarieties. It is necessary to soak up this
new logic in which the words of the apostle are fulfilled to the letter.
What the world considers to be eschewing and foolishness is, however, it says
God' s strength and wisdom of God. The person who lives, according
to the Beatitudes, transmits around him the good smell of Christ, a gentle
perfume that pleases without drawing attention. It is a conduct full of naturalness,
equal in many respects to that of so many of the same position, culture
and procession. And yet, it has unequivocal signs to a s a s
a n n nsto, the inner happiness, the deep violence that the Lord
promises to those who live like this for his love and also external signs.
As a testimony an ancient writing describing the life of the early Christians with a
pagan world. Christians, says the Letter of Onetto, and Christians are not
distinguished from other men neither by the place in which they live, by language
nor by the way of life. They do not, in fact, have
their own cities, nor use unusual speech, nor do they carry an extinct
kind of life. They live in the flesh, but not according to the
flesh. They live on earth, but their citizenship even in heaven, obey
the established ecclesiastical laws forgiveness and with their way of life, exceed those laws.
To put it simply, Christians are in the world what the soul is
in the body. The soul, in fact, is scattered and s s
s s. S. S. S. Yes, by all the vibrate
of the body. So too Christians are scattered throughout all the cities of the
world. The soul inhabits the body, but it does not come from the
body. Christians live in the world, but they are not of the world.
The soul is perfected by mortification in eating and drinking. Also the Histians,
constantly mortified, multiply more and more. So important is the position that
God has assigned to them, from which it is not lawful for them to
desert. Jesus asks us for assistance governed by divine logic, life according to
the spirit radically oriented to the love of God, not opposed to forgiveness,
which opposes life according to the flesh subjected to self- love. And in
this demand of Christ we warn a constant call to conversion, a change in
the heart and mind that consists in becoming like children. I praise you,
Father, lord of heaven and earth, for you have hidden these things from
the user and wise and revealed them to the little ones. Yes, Father,
so was your pleasure. The Lord' s Beatitudes are inseparable from his
cross. Whoever proclaimed the poor blessed in spirit allowed them to strip him of
everything and did not even have a tomb of his own. He who declared
the meek happy offered his back to the whips and his cheeks to the slapped
ones. He who taught to suffer with joy persecution and insults was persecuted,
insulted and despised. From the Mount of Livings the summit of another mountain,
the Cumbre, the Calvary, seems to be diverse In the first one he
taught us how you are happy. In the second he gave his life to
reach us that happiness and teach them by his example the way of eternal glory.
Every beatitude is like a blade of Christ that he himself has wanted to
teach them so that we will follow the steps seriously. The saints took these
words of Jesus seriously. They believed that their publicity would come from translating them
concretely from their consistency and they proved their truth in the daily confrontation with experience.
In spite of the trials, the shadows and failures already enjoyed deep joy
on earth in Communion with Christ. In him they discovered present of time the
initial germ of the future crane of God’ s Kingdom. This is precisely
what is meant by the persecutions that we believed in the ungodly Gospel. This
also covered them with very particular Mary Most Holy, who lived in unique communion
with the incarnate verb, giving herself unreservedly to her saving destiny. For this
reason he was granted to listen with anticipation regarding the sermon on the mountain,
the beatitude that summarizes all the others, well adventurous you who have believed,
for what the Lord has told you will be fulfilled. I give you the
blessing God almighty. Bless you with all manner of heavenly goods so that you
may be holy and restable in His presence, pour out upon you the riches
of His grace. Teach you by the word of truth and by the Vangelius
of salvation. Make us rich with the fraternal charity and blessing of God,
almighty father, son and holy spirit, come down upon you and remain always to come