Prayer of heart Sunday of the sixth week of Easter. Come holy spirit and
help me to put in your presence everything that worries me, everything that worries
me, everything that disturbs my peace. You know what my worries are.
It' s profound to me, but I want to tell you, because
it' s better to share them with you than to pretend to face them
with my own strength, my few human forces. Listen to me, sir,
because I cry to you with all my soul, I raise my arms
to you and I beg you to help me. Today we celebrate Saint Hilary
of Arles, the Gospel is from Saint John, chapter fifteen mesicles nine to
fifteen seventeen. At that time, Jesus told his disciples as my beloved father.
Thus have I loved you, and remain of my love. If I
keep my commandments, it remains my love, as I have kept my father
' s commandments and remain his love. I have spoken to you of this
so that it will make me glad in you and you will relieve me to
its fullness. This is my commandment that you love one another as I have
loved you. No one has greater love than the one who gives his life
for friends. You are my friends, you do what I command you,
I no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what His
lord does to you, I call friends, for everything I have heard from
my father I have made known to you. It is not you who have
chosen me. I am the one who has chosen you and appointed you to
go and the fruit and your fruit to last, so that whatever you perish
to the father of my name, I will hinder you from loving one another.
Lord, charity, your commandment of love is the essence of Christianity and
must be my hallmark in everything I do, think and say. I need
to be docile to your grace so that it is you who take charge of
my life and I humbly offer it to you. In my prayer today,
Jesus, give me the grace. Call yourself in the same way as the
Virgin in prayer, dedication and works. Commenting on the Francisco payment. If
we are here to praise the Lord and we speak reaffirming our will to be
His instruments so that they may praise God, not only some peoples, but
all, with the same power of Paul and Gobernabe and we want to announce
to the Lord the Gospel to the two young people so that they may mutate
Christ and become builders of a more eternal world. In this regard, I
would like to reflect on three aspects of our vocation called by God, Called
to proclaim the Gospel, called to promote the culture of encounter, Called by
God. I think it is important to always rebuff this fact that we often
take for granted in everyday checking data. It is not you who heard me
chosen, it is I, who am chosen from Jesus in a walk again,
again to the source of our call. We lost Mary to teach us
to meet Jesus every day And when we become distracted that we have many things
and to sacrifice is abandoned, to take us by the hand? Let us
ask for it Mary sees mother, when first of all, before means,
before forgiveness, when she walks half, many things and the wages are abandoned,
that she takes us by the hand? And when does he walk halfway?
That way, on the other hand, they take me hand in hand
that least pushes me out of the encounter of so many brothers and sisters who
are on the periphery, who thirst for God. And there' s no
one who told him not to throw us out of the house, but to
push us out of the house. And so let us be disciples of the
Lord who already grants us all this grace. Here, the Pope' s
text, this Sunday' s Gospel passage, is a perfect continuation of last
week, not only when a theme, but also in the verses of the
liturgy. Eight days ago, the Gospel offered for our meditation the beautiful lightness
of life, the branches. Or in the Church he presents us with the
application of that discourse. As we can live united to Christ to be good
branches, friends, good friends of his, as the Father has sent me,
he has if I sent you, you remain of my love, says
our Lord. As we meditated on the allegory of the vine, we felt
the rewarding need to remain united with Jesus in order to have life and bear
the fruits of eternity. And now, sir, we' re on our
way. If I keep my commandments, I will remain that my love,
as I have kept my father' s commandments and prepare his love. The
way of life united to him is out of fear of love, but a
love made now real and apparent, a love of pure words or beautiful speeches.
It is a platonic and empty love within, a love of pure feelings,
purposes and good intentions. It is false, misleading and sterile. It
' s not real. It' s a farce and a pantomine. Our
grandparents used to say it and it was a very plastic expression. The road
to hell is paved with a hundred good intentions. You don' t want
them to be good Christians. Or I wish and and true sucipulo of sir
edits a resounding operative want. I want a resounding operative with all its consequences.
It is said that one occasion the little sister asked him as Thomas Aquinas
her sister, when she will still be very young. Listen, Thomas,
what I have to do to be Saint her, but I expected a very
complicated and profound answer, but the Holy One answered her Sister to be Saint
it is enough to want, but to want her truly, that is,
putting all the means to achieve it, with God' s help, with
works and behaviors support and confirm our repositories afterwards. Popular wisdom has condensed it
into a very well- known sentence. Works are loves that are not good
reasons and, in fact, there is a great stretch. We have to
cut that strait to show the Lord that we really love you with the works.
So did he, as I have kept my father' s commandments and
remain in his love. That' s the only way we' ll build
our house on rock and not overflowing. But the Lord makes our way even
more concrete. If we fulfill a commandment, s says, we will remain
in his love and what his commandments are. This is my commandment that we
love you, like them, beloved charity toward the Projimo. Charity is the
nuck of the good news throughout the gospel. This is his new commandment,
the distinctive century of which all would recognize his disciples and this precept of love
of neighbor is so fundamental that this will be the first battery of final judgment.
Truly I say to you that how many times and say one of these
my younger brothers, to me you did it San Juan de la Cruz,
commenting on that passage, affirms with a certain air of provocation in the evening
of life, we will be judged by the love of sovereignty. Our lord
claims that no one has a greater love than the one who gives his life
for his friends. You are my friends, if you do them I command
you and this I command you to submit to one another. This is the
answer that Lord gives us to practice with generosity sincere and selfless love towards others,
towards our neighbors. Here, then, it is in secret to be
good branches and ariz to be true friends of Jesus. I wish I could
have more dissipus and friends of truth already you are of the blessing, that
the Lord be in your heart so that you know how to love with all
of him, that your lips may be, that he may ablate with strength
and consecrate the resurrection, that he may be in your arms to work without
rest for love of him and, for that matter, his kingdom, that
your feet may be, that you may eat in the ways of peace,
which, Lord will show you, that it may be in your clean gaze,
that your eyes may see Jesus in others. Hey, it' s
in your joy that you never lose it, even if you have motive and
can catch others in the name of the father and said to him and of
the Holy Spirit Amen.