Prayer my heart. Wednesday of the seventh week of Easter, come Holy Spirit
and help me to put in your presence everything that worries me, everything that
stills me, everything that endures my peace. You know what my deepest concerns
are, but today I want to tell you, because it' s better
to share them with you than to pretend to face them with my own human
forces. Listen to me, sir, for I raise my arms to you
with all my soul, and I beg you to help me. Today we
celebrate St Isidro, Labrador, patron of farmers and Madrid, the Gospel of
St John, chapter seventeen verses eleven onwards and at that time raised two eyes
to heaven Gold Jesus saying Holy Father Keep them, come your name to those
you have given me to be one like us. When I was with them,
I kept your name to those whom you gave me and kept it and
no one was lost, but the son of the apparition to fulfill the scripture.
Now I come to you and say this in the world so that you
have in yourselves your joy fulfilled. I have given them your word and the
world has hated them because they are not of the world, nor am I
of the world. I do not pray that the cies of the world are
not but that the guards of the evil one are not of the world,
nor am I of the world. Sanctify yourselves in the truth. Your word
is true. As you gave me to the world, send me to the
world. Thus I also send them into the world, and therefore I sanctify
myself, that they also may be sanctified in the truth. I beg you
not to receive them from the world, but from the evil one. This
petition made by the Lord to his father at the last supper is introduced into
human reality, in which we must sanctify ourselves and meet the Lord of the
world, sanctifying all the human realities that God has created and are good in
the beginning. I believe God, heaven and earth. The expression of heaven
and earth means everything that exists. The blind is the world of men and
God created the world moved by His love and wisdom to communicate His goodness and
manifest His glory and the biblical time of creation offers a profound teaching about God,
man, about man and about the world. About God, who is
one and only creator of all things and of man in particular, transcendent to
the created world and its supreme owner over man, who, if God'
s image and likeness, will subdue all other created beings and placed in the
world with the task of mastering the whole creation over the world, which is
good and is at the service of man. I had constantly taught in words
of scripture, the world of God. Saint Joseph Mary, it is not
bad, because he has come out of the hands of God, because he
is his creature, because he had already looked at him and saw that he
was good. It is men who make it bad and ugly with our sins
and our infidelities. Don' t hear my children. Any way of avoiding
honest human realities is for you, men and women, of the world,
something opposed to God' s will. We are in the world and that
is our environment what God wants us to carry and sanctify ourselves in the priestly
prayer of Jesus, that collected in the Gospel. According to Saint John,
our lord asks for his disciples. I pray for them and, among other
things, I do not ask you to take them out of the world,
but to defend them from the evil one. That is why Christians love the
world passionately because it reflects God’ s goodness, the intimate relationship of integration
and redemption. We have to love the world work human longitudes, because the
world is good. It was Adam' s sin that broke the divine harmony
of the created. But God, Father, has sent his naive son to
restore that peace so that we, as sons of Acteon, could free the
creation of disorder, reconcile all things with God. We want a better world.
We see that sin has destroyed the world, but, as one French
writer said, the world has only been saved by how many men who are
fully in the world, but who do not resemble the world at all,
said Franshois Mauriac and Saint Augustine. It' s these words. We are
the times. Times will be what we are. We live well and the
times and times will be good. We do not need to make an effort
to catch up, because our secular Christian vocation does not allow us to retreat,
but to accept and anoint all human values. We don' t compromise
with horror. We love everything human, but we purify it from the hanga
that by sin to offer it clean to God what the soul is to the
body. That' s the Christians in the world. The soul is scattered
through all myrrh of the body and we Christians are all over the cities of
the world. We understand very well that it is not the same, it
is not the same to be in the world, because we are of the
world, than to be worldly. This was explained very well by the blessed
tree of Portillo. With these words, the secularity that characterizes our Christian vocation
not only the fact of being of the world and living in the midst of
the world. It' s a lot more. It is to be and
to know ourselves responsible for this world that is ours, for God has given
us in Christ as an inheritance so that from within we may lead him to
the Creator. But this is why it costs you in a clear way that
secularity deteriorates and very gravely when their greater vocational sense is disassociated by gentrification.
It is sterilized when it becomes an occasion file to validate commitments with sensuality,
with greed, with the pride of life. Secularity, leaving with the ripita,
cannot be translated, because it is a concession to the invasive manifestations of
pagan or mundane life forms. It means, on the contrary, fortitude and
seriousness in the way we face the circumstances that we are to sanctify. We
must participate in the tasks and problems of human history with the firm conviction that
God wants to use us to recapitulate all things in Christ. Christians must be
present in all the fields of work in the world, where the society of
tomorrow is made, where the acupunctures of Europe are located, where men study
bus work. They have difficulties, they also suffer where they take their more
and more abundant distractions. But, at the same time, they must retain
original suffering, without diluting it to the taste of opinions or of riologies,
without betrothing strange customs to the Gospel. These are the words of Huaxahuabros,
San Juan Pablo II. Surely this will often involve going countercurrent. Nolite conform
and huik seculo says the Letter of the Romans. Don' t follow the
current of the world. Be Christ who passes from the world implies understanding well
that one thing in nature and another hides our condition as Christians. The latter
would be to conceal the presence of God of Christ in us, to prevent
the light from illuminating what is around us. One thing is secularity and another
is exceeding a harsh secularized environment. Being in the world and being of the
world does not mean mundane. That is why we can fully apply those words
of the priestly prayer of Jesus that St John says. I do not ask
you to take him out of the world, but that the perseveres of preserve
and evil they are not of the world. Like I' m not from
the world either. There' s an anecdote. The one who was President
of the French Republic goal chart This made an old Russian Communist and Catholic fidera.
He wanted to attend Mass as it was. It has to be said
that at this moment in Russia every belief, especially the Catholic religion, was
persecuted, but de Gol gave a wonderful example And thanks to his example,
a boy who attended the same Mass that the French President decided to become a
priest. That young man became the Catholic archbishop of Moscow. Saint Mary lived
in the same world in which we live and reached the Summit of Holiness.
His example teaches us that without leaving the world, we can reach the holiness
that God wants for each of us of the blessing. God, almighty father
bless you with this day that his son ascended into heaven and opened the entrance
of glory for us to come to be beside him, Christ, who appeared
to the reciples after the resurrection, manifests himself also to you. Full of
mercy when the final judgment comes to the end and when he proclaims a glorious
beside the father, He grants you the joy of experiencing that which remains with
you until the end of the world, as He has promised you, and
the blessing of God almighty father, son, and holy spirit, descend upon
you, and abide always Amen.