1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:05,919 Prayer my heart. Wednesday of the seventh week of Easter, come Holy Spirit 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:10,119 and help me to put in your presence everything that worries me, everything that 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:14,599 stills me, everything that endures my peace. You know what my deepest concerns 4 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:21,079 are, but today I want to tell you, because it' s better 5 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,079 to share them with you than to pretend to face them with my own human 6 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:27,280 forces. Listen to me, sir, for I raise my arms to you 7 00:00:27,359 --> 00:00:31,760 with all my soul, and I beg you to help me. Today we 8 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:36,759 celebrate St Isidro, Labrador, patron of farmers and Madrid, the Gospel of 9 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:41,920 St John, chapter seventeen verses eleven onwards and at that time raised two eyes 10 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:47,479 to heaven Gold Jesus saying Holy Father Keep them, come your name to those 11 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:51,719 you have given me to be one like us. When I was with them, 12 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,600 I kept your name to those whom you gave me and kept it and 13 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,240 no one was lost, but the son of the apparition to fulfill the scripture. 14 00:01:00,039 --> 00:01:03,400 Now I come to you and say this in the world so that you 15 00:01:03,439 --> 00:01:07,480 have in yourselves your joy fulfilled. I have given them your word and the 16 00:01:07,519 --> 00:01:11,239 world has hated them because they are not of the world, nor am I 17 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:15,480 of the world. I do not pray that the cies of the world are 18 00:01:15,599 --> 00:01:19,400 not but that the guards of the evil one are not of the world, 19 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,079 nor am I of the world. Sanctify yourselves in the truth. Your word 20 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:26,040 is true. As you gave me to the world, send me to the 21 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,400 world. Thus I also send them into the world, and therefore I sanctify 22 00:01:29,439 --> 00:01:36,640 myself, that they also may be sanctified in the truth. I beg you 23 00:01:36,719 --> 00:01:40,000 not to receive them from the world, but from the evil one. This 24 00:01:40,079 --> 00:01:44,400 petition made by the Lord to his father at the last supper is introduced into 25 00:01:44,439 --> 00:01:49,480 human reality, in which we must sanctify ourselves and meet the Lord of the 26 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:53,000 world, sanctifying all the human realities that God has created and are good in 27 00:01:55,239 --> 00:01:57,959 the beginning. I believe God, heaven and earth. The expression of heaven 28 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:06,040 and earth means everything that exists. The blind is the world of men and 29 00:02:06,239 --> 00:02:12,080 God created the world moved by His love and wisdom to communicate His goodness and 30 00:02:12,159 --> 00:02:21,479 manifest His glory and the biblical time of creation offers a profound teaching about God, 31 00:02:23,039 --> 00:02:28,759 man, about man and about the world. About God, who is 32 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:35,719 one and only creator of all things and of man in particular, transcendent to 33 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:42,759 the created world and its supreme owner over man, who, if God' 34 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,120 s image and likeness, will subdue all other created beings and placed in the 35 00:02:46,159 --> 00:02:51,919 world with the task of mastering the whole creation over the world, which is 36 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:58,319 good and is at the service of man. I had constantly taught in words 37 00:02:58,319 --> 00:03:00,439 of scripture, the world of God. Saint Joseph Mary, it is not 38 00:03:00,439 --> 00:03:05,719 bad, because he has come out of the hands of God, because he 39 00:03:05,759 --> 00:03:07,599 is his creature, because he had already looked at him and saw that he 40 00:03:07,599 --> 00:03:12,400 was good. It is men who make it bad and ugly with our sins 41 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,759 and our infidelities. Don' t hear my children. Any way of avoiding 42 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:22,599 honest human realities is for you, men and women, of the world, 43 00:03:22,879 --> 00:03:28,680 something opposed to God' s will. We are in the world and that 44 00:03:28,759 --> 00:03:32,520 is our environment what God wants us to carry and sanctify ourselves in the priestly 45 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:36,800 prayer of Jesus, that collected in the Gospel. According to Saint John, 46 00:03:37,719 --> 00:03:40,879 our lord asks for his disciples. I pray for them and, among other 47 00:03:40,879 --> 00:03:45,879 things, I do not ask you to take them out of the world, 48 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,240 but to defend them from the evil one. That is why Christians love the 49 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:53,520 world passionately because it reflects God’ s goodness, the intimate relationship of integration 50 00:03:53,560 --> 00:04:00,319 and redemption. We have to love the world work human longitudes, because the 51 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:02,800 world is good. It was Adam' s sin that broke the divine harmony 52 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,639 of the created. But God, Father, has sent his naive son to 53 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:13,360 restore that peace so that we, as sons of Acteon, could free the 54 00:04:13,439 --> 00:04:19,360 creation of disorder, reconcile all things with God. We want a better world. 55 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:24,160 We see that sin has destroyed the world, but, as one French 56 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:30,240 writer said, the world has only been saved by how many men who are 57 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,680 fully in the world, but who do not resemble the world at all, 58 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:41,639 said Franshois Mauriac and Saint Augustine. It' s these words. We are 59 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:46,360 the times. Times will be what we are. We live well and the 60 00:04:46,439 --> 00:04:56,279 times and times will be good. We do not need to make an effort 61 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:01,519 to catch up, because our secular Christian vocation does not allow us to retreat, 62 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:06,199 but to accept and anoint all human values. We don' t compromise 63 00:05:06,199 --> 00:05:11,360 with horror. We love everything human, but we purify it from the hanga 64 00:05:11,439 --> 00:05:15,800 that by sin to offer it clean to God what the soul is to the 65 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,360 body. That' s the Christians in the world. The soul is scattered 66 00:05:18,439 --> 00:05:23,519 through all myrrh of the body and we Christians are all over the cities of 67 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:27,680 the world. We understand very well that it is not the same, it 68 00:05:27,759 --> 00:05:31,079 is not the same to be in the world, because we are of the 69 00:05:31,079 --> 00:05:34,000 world, than to be worldly. This was explained very well by the blessed 70 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:40,040 tree of Portillo. With these words, the secularity that characterizes our Christian vocation 71 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,120 not only the fact of being of the world and living in the midst of 72 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,000 the world. It' s a lot more. It is to be and 73 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,279 to know ourselves responsible for this world that is ours, for God has given 74 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:54,399 us in Christ as an inheritance so that from within we may lead him to 75 00:05:54,399 --> 00:05:59,399 the Creator. But this is why it costs you in a clear way that 76 00:05:59,399 --> 00:06:04,120 secularity deteriorates and very gravely when their greater vocational sense is disassociated by gentrification. 77 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:11,879 It is sterilized when it becomes an occasion file to validate commitments with sensuality, 78 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:16,279 with greed, with the pride of life. Secularity, leaving with the ripita, 79 00:06:16,639 --> 00:06:24,000 cannot be translated, because it is a concession to the invasive manifestations of 80 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:29,560 pagan or mundane life forms. It means, on the contrary, fortitude and 81 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,920 seriousness in the way we face the circumstances that we are to sanctify. We 82 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,639 must participate in the tasks and problems of human history with the firm conviction that 83 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:47,160 God wants to use us to recapitulate all things in Christ. Christians must be 84 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:53,040 present in all the fields of work in the world, where the society of 85 00:06:53,079 --> 00:06:57,399 tomorrow is made, where the acupunctures of Europe are located, where men study 86 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:05,399 bus work. They have difficulties, they also suffer where they take their more 87 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:09,839 and more abundant distractions. But, at the same time, they must retain 88 00:07:09,879 --> 00:07:14,279 original suffering, without diluting it to the taste of opinions or of riologies, 89 00:07:14,959 --> 00:07:19,800 without betrothing strange customs to the Gospel. These are the words of Huaxahuabros, 90 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:28,879 San Juan Pablo II. Surely this will often involve going countercurrent. Nolite conform 91 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:32,680 and huik seculo says the Letter of the Romans. Don' t follow the 92 00:07:32,759 --> 00:07:38,079 current of the world. Be Christ who passes from the world implies understanding well 93 00:07:38,279 --> 00:07:44,439 that one thing in nature and another hides our condition as Christians. The latter 94 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:47,720 would be to conceal the presence of God of Christ in us, to prevent 95 00:07:48,439 --> 00:07:53,199 the light from illuminating what is around us. One thing is secularity and another 96 00:07:53,319 --> 00:07:58,079 is exceeding a harsh secularized environment. Being in the world and being of the 97 00:07:58,199 --> 00:08:03,560 world does not mean mundane. That is why we can fully apply those words 98 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:07,079 of the priestly prayer of Jesus that St John says. I do not ask 99 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:11,600 you to take him out of the world, but that the perseveres of preserve 100 00:08:11,639 --> 00:08:15,040 and evil they are not of the world. Like I' m not from 101 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:16,879 the world either. There' s an anecdote. The one who was President 102 00:08:16,879 --> 00:08:24,360 of the French Republic goal chart This made an old Russian Communist and Catholic fidera. 103 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:26,920 He wanted to attend Mass as it was. It has to be said 104 00:08:26,959 --> 00:08:31,799 that at this moment in Russia every belief, especially the Catholic religion, was 105 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:37,440 persecuted, but de Gol gave a wonderful example And thanks to his example, 106 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,360 a boy who attended the same Mass that the French President decided to become a 107 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:48,440 priest. That young man became the Catholic archbishop of Moscow. Saint Mary lived 108 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:50,960 in the same world in which we live and reached the Summit of Holiness. 109 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:58,360 His example teaches us that without leaving the world, we can reach the holiness 110 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:05,000 that God wants for each of us of the blessing. God, almighty father 111 00:09:05,039 --> 00:09:09,639 bless you with this day that his son ascended into heaven and opened the entrance 112 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:13,000 of glory for us to come to be beside him, Christ, who appeared 113 00:09:13,039 --> 00:09:16,799 to the reciples after the resurrection, manifests himself also to you. Full of 114 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:22,720 mercy when the final judgment comes to the end and when he proclaims a glorious 115 00:09:22,799 --> 00:09:28,519 beside the father, He grants you the joy of experiencing that which remains with 116 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:33,320 you until the end of the world, as He has promised you, and 117 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:37,919 the blessing of God almighty father, son, and holy spirit, descend upon 118 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:37,919 you, and abide always Amen.