1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:07,679 Prayer of the heart Friday of the fifth week of Easter. Come Holy Spirit 2 00:00:08,519 --> 00:00:14,759 and help me to put in your presence everything that worries me, everything that 3 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:23,519 worries me, everything that disturbs my peace. You know what my deepest concerns 4 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:31,600 are, but today I want to tell you why it is better to fight 5 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,159 them with you that I intend to face them with my few human forces. 6 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:40,920 Listen to me, sir, because I cry to you with all my soul 7 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,039 to you, I raise my arms and I beg you to help me. 8 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:53,679 Today we celebrate the feast of St Philip and St James, Apostles the Gospel 9 00:00:53,679 --> 00:00:58,920 of St John. Chapter fourteen, verse six to fourteen. I am the 10 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:00,359 way, the truth and the life goes to the father, but for me. 11 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,439 If you know me, you know my father too. Now you know 12 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:11,480 him and you have seen him and Philip tells him, Master, to the 13 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:17,439 father and it is enough for us Jesus replies to him so long that I 14 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,719 am with you and you do not know me Philip, who has seen me, 15 00:01:19,719 --> 00:01:25,280 has seen the father. How do you say you show yourself to the 16 00:01:25,359 --> 00:01:29,159 father you don' t believe that I am in the father and the father 17 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:33,000 I am telling you not what I spoke for my own account the father who 18 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,400 remains to me. He himself does the works believe me. I am in 19 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:40,439 the father and my father if you do not believe the works, truth or 20 00:01:40,439 --> 00:01:44,799 the loser I say the one who believes in me will also do to him 21 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:49,200 the works that I do and even greater, because I go to the father 22 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,719 and what you ask in my name. I' ll shoot you so that 23 00:01:51,799 --> 00:01:53,599 the father can be a ravenous son. If you ask me for my name, 24 00:01:55,079 --> 00:02:00,439 I will. Listen to three of May. The Church recalls the Apostles 25 00:02:00,439 --> 00:02:06,799 Holy Selipe and James, who were part of the group of young people closest 26 00:02:06,959 --> 00:02:13,080 to Jesus the Apostles. They both crowned their lives dedicated to the proclamation of 27 00:02:13,159 --> 00:02:17,159 the new girl through martyrdom. That was the sign of his absolute fidelity to 28 00:02:17,199 --> 00:02:23,000 Master Jesus of Nazarez. Philip appears in several passages of writing. He was 29 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:28,599 the one who asked the Lord how we are going to feed so many people 30 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:32,719 concerned about those who followed the Master and did not have to eat. He 31 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:38,879 then left for the Frigia region, located today between Turkey, Hungary, Ukraine 32 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:42,080 and eastern Russia, to announce the good news to the people of those lands. 33 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:49,439 According to tradition, Philip died stoned and crucified in Hierapolis in the first 34 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:53,199 century or a li who were taken to Rome and placed in the Basilica of 35 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:58,120 the Twelve Apostles. Formerly, the martyr Logio Romano celebrated the feast of one 36 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:00,560 of May, but the feast rose on the third day of the month. 37 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:07,439 Santiago. In the scripture James receives the name of son of Alceo. He 38 00:03:07,479 --> 00:03:10,240 is also known as the lord' s cousin, because his mother was a 39 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:14,280 relative of the Virgin Mary. He is credited with the authorship of the first 40 00:03:14,319 --> 00:03:19,639 Catholic epistle. In this is found cosity, one of the most important principals 41 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:24,280 of Christian life. Faith without works is dead. Tradition preserves the account of 42 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:28,840 an episode in which Santiago was a cause of frieze scandal and is written. 43 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:34,840 The high priest won the second. Taking advantage of the attendance that appeared at 44 00:03:34,879 --> 00:03:38,360 the feast, Jewry interpreted it by telling you that, since the people feel 45 00:03:38,439 --> 00:03:44,599 great admiration for you, come to the crowd and tell them that Jesus is 46 00:03:44,759 --> 00:03:49,639 not the Messiah or redeemer. In response to this earlier request, he replied. 47 00:03:49,919 --> 00:03:53,560 Jesus is God' s envoy for the salvation of those who want to 48 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,280 be saved and we will see him one day on the clouds. Sitting at 49 00:03:57,319 --> 00:04:00,759 the right hand of God. Then His priests, enraged by this answer, 50 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:05,960 fearing that the Jews would convert to Christianity, commanded James to be captured and 51 00:04:06,039 --> 00:04:13,719 taken to the top of the temple. From there he was thrown to the 52 00:04:13,719 --> 00:04:18,000 cliff. The apostle fell to his knees and died while repeating the words of 53 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:23,759 Christ, Father God, I beg you to forgive us because they do not 54 00:04:25,399 --> 00:04:30,600 know what they do in the meditation of the Holy life of these two apostles 55 00:04:30,639 --> 00:04:34,199 encourages us to think about our life and the situation of society today, as 56 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:41,199 we are aware that it is worrying, so many people are thirsting for charity 57 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:46,240 to know true love. The new organism that invades the whole world is characterized 58 00:04:46,319 --> 00:04:49,319 by the search for the fatherly well- being at any cost. In the 59 00:04:49,399 --> 00:04:57,000 face of so much ignorance, so much ridiculous and presumptuous pride, so much 60 00:04:57,079 --> 00:05:01,600 violence and so many symptoms of spiritual old age as we saw in the ho 61 00:05:01,639 --> 00:05:05,879 environment, we have felt the responsibility to sow Christian peace and joy full of 62 00:05:06,199 --> 00:05:09,399 hands on all the paths of the world, as did the Apostles Fanto Felipe 63 00:05:09,399 --> 00:05:15,800 and Santiago. Faced with a society that succumbs to the temptation of relativism and 64 00:05:15,879 --> 00:05:21,759 alde atheism with charity and strength, we feel the urgency of re- Christianizing 65 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:26,720 and contributing from within this society to lead its friends and acquaintances along the path 66 00:05:26,759 --> 00:05:30,120 that the lord left boated with his tracks in his passage through the earth. 67 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:34,920 Riscipals of Christ are not worldly, we are not worldly, but we are 68 00:05:34,959 --> 00:05:39,399 in the world. Therefore, Christians must be present in all fields of the 69 00:05:39,439 --> 00:05:43,279 world’ s work, where men have their cares, for this world of 70 00:05:43,879 --> 00:05:48,319 our day will only be saved by those who are fully in the world without 71 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:54,600 being left to be filled by worldly spirit. We are therefore asked to be 72 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:59,399 at the crossroads of the roads, where young people study, where men and 73 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,879 women work, where people suffer and seek a sense of pain, where difficulties 74 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:14,160 have to be overcome. But, at the same time, we must preserve 75 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,439 our original faith, without diluting it to the taste of opinions or ideologies, 76 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:25,519 without adjusting to strange customs of the gospel. There is an immense task of 77 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:30,079 spreading the truth. There is an urgent need to proclaim the message of Jesus 78 00:06:30,199 --> 00:06:33,839 Christ without fear in the best possible way. Blessed are those who to evangelize 79 00:06:33,879 --> 00:06:38,720 assume that thought and purpose that is not left for me, because what I 80 00:06:38,759 --> 00:06:44,040 do not will remain unfulfilled. This is the task we are charged with announcing 81 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:48,000 Christ. In him are fulfilled the promises of God made to man, to 82 00:06:48,199 --> 00:06:53,040 proclaim his message of salvation, of love and peace, to speak of the 83 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:57,279 divine affiliation, highlighting the infinite mercy of God and the remission of sins, 84 00:06:57,759 --> 00:07:01,879 to foster hope in which things of the inheritance of heaven offered to all men 85 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:09,199 at the beginning of the new Millennium, echo from our hearts the words with 86 00:07:09,319 --> 00:07:14,399 which Jesus, one day having spoken to the crowd from Simon' s boat, 87 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:19,439 invited the apostle to row in the sea to fish duke. The altn 88 00:07:20,319 --> 00:07:26,120 Peter and two first bet companions trusted the word of Christ and cast into nets 89 00:07:26,199 --> 00:07:31,360 and, having done so, collected a huge amount of fish. This begins 90 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:36,439 with the Apostolic Letters Nobo Millenium and not even a tedés to Don John Paul 91 00:07:36,439 --> 00:07:42,920 III, one can think that the task is not easy. Indeed, seeing 92 00:07:42,959 --> 00:07:46,319 the panorama of the world, knowing the atmosphere that society breathes, taking into 93 00:07:46,319 --> 00:07:53,120 account the powerful media that today serve anti- Christian ideologies. It is a 94 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:57,759 difficult task, but we have to be full of oti itself, because we 95 00:07:57,839 --> 00:08:03,480 have our omnipotent and merciful lord said St Joseph Mary in a speech delivered in 96 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:09,040 still would join that of navarra. They will save this world of ours, 97 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:15,680 let them remind us of those who do not seek to bow to the life 98 00:08:15,759 --> 00:08:20,399 of the spirit, reducing everything to economic matters or temporary welfare, but those 99 00:08:20,439 --> 00:08:26,079 who have fires and in the eternal destiny of man and know how to receive 100 00:08:26,199 --> 00:08:30,560 the truth of Christ as the guiding light for action and conduct, For the 101 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,240 god of our faith is not a distant being who contemplates the fate of men 102 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:37,639 indifferently. He is a father who ardently loves his children, a creative god 103 00:08:39,159 --> 00:08:43,679 who overflows with affection for his creatures and grants man the great privilege of being 104 00:08:45,039 --> 00:08:50,559 able to love, thus transcending the ephemeral and the transitory. So far the 105 00:08:50,639 --> 00:08:54,360 text of St Joseph Mary. Truths must be learned with crocordiality and sympathy. 106 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:01,480 Such truths should not be expressed with cordial sympathy. We cannot feel enemies of 107 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:07,720 anyone and we must always treat others with respect, trying to understand their points 108 00:09:07,759 --> 00:09:13,720 of view, knowing how to listen, fleeing everything, growing and going hand 109 00:09:13,759 --> 00:09:16,759 in hand with those who do not think like us. Christ' s proposal 110 00:09:18,159 --> 00:09:20,720 is to be made to all with confidence. Adults, families, young people, 111 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:24,320 children must be addressed and the most radical demands made by Javangelic mense must 112 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:31,519 never be hidden, taking care of each other' s actions in terms of 113 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:37,399 sensitivity and language, according to the example of Don Pablo, when he said 114 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:43,120 that everything was done to everyone to save everyone, at the expense of some, 115 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:52,120 all, at any cost, some forgiveness. Catholics render a great service 116 00:09:52,159 --> 00:09:58,120 to society when we promote with a uniform, multiform initiative, a culture of 117 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:03,720 Christian roots that informs from the law to the last popular custom. Let us 118 00:10:03,799 --> 00:10:09,759 grow up by this exciting task of enlightening with the light of Christ, the 119 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:13,759 society of our days, the cession of Saint Apostles, Philip James and the 120 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:18,159 protection of Saint Mary I give you the blessing that, gentlemen, may your 121 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,240 heart be in order that you may love with all that your lips may be, 122 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:24,120 that you may speak with strength and faith of his resurrection, that it 123 00:10:24,159 --> 00:10:28,559 may be in your arms that I may work tirelessly for his love and that 124 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,159 his kingdom may be in your feet, that you may walk in the paths 125 00:10:31,159 --> 00:10:35,840 of peace that the Lord will show you, that your eyes may be clean 126 00:10:35,879 --> 00:10:39,519 so that your eyes may see Jesus in others, that your joy may never 127 00:10:39,519 --> 00:10:41,799 appear, even if you have and may be able to be to others in 128 00:10:41,879 --> 00:10:46,120 man, of the father, of the son in the Holy Spirit Amen.