Prayer of the heart Friday of the fifth 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 deepest concerns
are, but today I want to tell you why it is better to fight
them with you that I intend to face them with my few human forces.
Listen to me, sir, because I cry to you with all my soul
to you, I raise my arms and I beg you to help me.
Today we celebrate the feast of St Philip and St James, Apostles the Gospel
of St John. Chapter fourteen, verse six to fourteen. I am the
way, the truth and the life goes to the father, but for me.
If you know me, you know my father too. Now you know
him and you have seen him and Philip tells him, Master, to the
father and it is enough for us Jesus replies to him so long that I
am with you and you do not know me Philip, who has seen me,
has seen the father. How do you say you show yourself to the
father you don' t believe that I am in the father and the father
I am telling you not what I spoke for my own account the father who
remains to me. He himself does the works believe me. I am in
the father and my father if you do not believe the works, truth or
the loser I say the one who believes in me will also do to him
the works that I do and even greater, because I go to the father
and what you ask in my name. I' ll shoot you so that
the father can be a ravenous son. If you ask me for my name,
I will. Listen to three of May. The Church recalls the Apostles
Holy Selipe and James, who were part of the group of young people closest
to Jesus the Apostles. They both crowned their lives dedicated to the proclamation of
the new girl through martyrdom. That was the sign of his absolute fidelity to
Master Jesus of Nazarez. Philip appears in several passages of writing. He was
the one who asked the Lord how we are going to feed so many people
concerned about those who followed the Master and did not have to eat. He
then left for the Frigia region, located today between Turkey, Hungary, Ukraine
and eastern Russia, to announce the good news to the people of those lands.
According to tradition, Philip died stoned and crucified in Hierapolis in the first
century or a li who were taken to Rome and placed in the Basilica of
the Twelve Apostles. Formerly, the martyr Logio Romano celebrated the feast of one
of May, but the feast rose on the third day of the month.
Santiago. In the scripture James receives the name of son of Alceo. He
is also known as the lord' s cousin, because his mother was a
relative of the Virgin Mary. He is credited with the authorship of the first
Catholic epistle. In this is found cosity, one of the most important principals
of Christian life. Faith without works is dead. Tradition preserves the account of
an episode in which Santiago was a cause of frieze scandal and is written.
The high priest won the second. Taking advantage of the attendance that appeared at
the feast, Jewry interpreted it by telling you that, since the people feel
great admiration for you, come to the crowd and tell them that Jesus is
not the Messiah or redeemer. In response to this earlier request, he replied.
Jesus is God' s envoy for the salvation of those who want to
be saved and we will see him one day on the clouds. Sitting at
the right hand of God. Then His priests, enraged by this answer,
fearing that the Jews would convert to Christianity, commanded James to be captured and
taken to the top of the temple. From there he was thrown to the
cliff. The apostle fell to his knees and died while repeating the words of
Christ, Father God, I beg you to forgive us because they do not
know what they do in the meditation of the Holy life of these two apostles
encourages us to think about our life and the situation of society today, as
we are aware that it is worrying, so many people are thirsting for charity
to know true love. The new organism that invades the whole world is characterized
by the search for the fatherly well- being at any cost. In the
face of so much ignorance, so much ridiculous and presumptuous pride, so much
violence and so many symptoms of spiritual old age as we saw in the ho
environment, we have felt the responsibility to sow Christian peace and joy full of
hands on all the paths of the world, as did the Apostles Fanto Felipe
and Santiago. Faced with a society that succumbs to the temptation of relativism and
alde atheism with charity and strength, we feel the urgency of re- Christianizing
and contributing from within this society to lead its friends and acquaintances along the path
that the lord left boated with his tracks in his passage through the earth.
Riscipals of Christ are not worldly, we are not worldly, but we are
in the world. Therefore, Christians must be present in all fields of the
world’ s work, where men have their cares, for this world of
our day will only be saved by those who are fully in the world without
being left to be filled by worldly spirit. We are therefore asked to be
at the crossroads of the roads, where young people study, where men and
women work, where people suffer and seek a sense of pain, where difficulties
have to be overcome. But, at the same time, we must preserve
our original faith, without diluting it to the taste of opinions or ideologies,
without adjusting to strange customs of the gospel. There is an immense task of
spreading the truth. There is an urgent need to proclaim the message of Jesus
Christ without fear in the best possible way. Blessed are those who to evangelize
assume that thought and purpose that is not left for me, because what I
do not will remain unfulfilled. This is the task we are charged with announcing
Christ. In him are fulfilled the promises of God made to man, to
proclaim his message of salvation, of love and peace, to speak of the
divine affiliation, highlighting the infinite mercy of God and the remission of sins,
to foster hope in which things of the inheritance of heaven offered to all men
at the beginning of the new Millennium, echo from our hearts the words with
which Jesus, one day having spoken to the crowd from Simon' s boat,
invited the apostle to row in the sea to fish duke. The altn
Peter and two first bet companions trusted the word of Christ and cast into nets
and, having done so, collected a huge amount of fish. This begins
with the Apostolic Letters Nobo Millenium and not even a tedés to Don John Paul
III, one can think that the task is not easy. Indeed, seeing
the panorama of the world, knowing the atmosphere that society breathes, taking into
account the powerful media that today serve anti- Christian ideologies. It is a
difficult task, but we have to be full of oti itself, because we
have our omnipotent and merciful lord said St Joseph Mary in a speech delivered in
still would join that of navarra. They will save this world of ours,
let them remind us of those who do not seek to bow to the life
of the spirit, reducing everything to economic matters or temporary welfare, but those
who have fires and in the eternal destiny of man and know how to receive
the truth of Christ as the guiding light for action and conduct, For the
god of our faith is not a distant being who contemplates the fate of men
indifferently. He is a father who ardently loves his children, a creative god
who overflows with affection for his creatures and grants man the great privilege of being
able to love, thus transcending the ephemeral and the transitory. So far the
text of St Joseph Mary. Truths must be learned with crocordiality and sympathy.
Such truths should not be expressed with cordial sympathy. We cannot feel enemies of
anyone and we must always treat others with respect, trying to understand their points
of view, knowing how to listen, fleeing everything, growing and going hand
in hand with those who do not think like us. Christ' s proposal
is to be made to all with confidence. Adults, families, young people,
children must be addressed and the most radical demands made by Javangelic mense must
never be hidden, taking care of each other' s actions in terms of
sensitivity and language, according to the example of Don Pablo, when he said
that everything was done to everyone to save everyone, at the expense of some,
all, at any cost, some forgiveness. Catholics render a great service
to society when we promote with a uniform, multiform initiative, a culture of
Christian roots that informs from the law to the last popular custom. Let us
grow up by this exciting task of enlightening with the light of Christ, the
society of our days, the cession of Saint Apostles, Philip James and the
protection of Saint Mary I give you the blessing that, gentlemen, may your
heart be in order that you may love with all that your lips may be,
that you may speak with strength and faith of his resurrection, that it
may be in your arms that I may work tirelessly for his love and that
his kingdom may be in your feet, that you may walk in the paths
of peace that the Lord will show you, that your eyes may be clean
so that your eyes may see Jesus in others, that your joy may never
appear, even if you have and may be able to be to others in
man, of the father, of the son in the Holy Spirit Amen.