1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:05,960 Prayer of the heart Friday of the sixth week of Easter. Come Holy Spirit 2 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:10,199 and help me to put in your presence everything that worries me, everything that 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:14,240 worries me, everything that disturbs my peace. You know what my deepest concerns 4 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:20,239 are, but today I want to tell you, because it' s better 5 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:22,719 to share them with you than to pretend to face them with my few human 6 00:00:22,719 --> 00:00:27,359 forces. Listen to me, sir, because I cry to you with all 7 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:29,480 my soul, and I raise my arms to you. I beg you to 8 00:00:29,519 --> 00:00:34,439 help me. Today we celebrate Saint John of Avila, patron of Spanish clergy, 9 00:00:34,759 --> 00:00:40,719 and Father Saint Damian of Molocay, patron of the Bae, priest and 10 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:50,079 martyr of lepers. The Gospel is from St John, chapter sixteen verses twenty 11 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:53,600 to twenty- three. At that time he said you use his disciples. 12 00:00:53,759 --> 00:00:59,000 Really. Verily I say unto you, Ye shall weep and mourn while the 13 00:00:59,119 --> 00:01:02,920 world shall be always joyful, ye shall be sad. But your sadness will 14 00:01:03,039 --> 00:01:07,760 become joy to the woman when she will give light, being sadness because her 15 00:01:07,799 --> 00:01:11,079 hour has come. But as soon as he gives light to the child and 16 00:01:11,159 --> 00:01:17,000 remembers the trouble for joy that the world will be made a man, you 17 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,920 also now if you feel sadness. But he will see you again and your 18 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,480 heart will be made and no one will take your joy away from you. 19 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:30,599 On that day you will ask me nothing, but I saw you again and 20 00:01:30,599 --> 00:01:33,719 your heart will rejoice. I' ll see you again. What comforting words 21 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,879 in the midst of pain and tribulation and how they fill us with the hope 22 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:49,480 we so much need. We could say with some boldness that hope is necessary. 23 00:01:49,719 --> 00:01:53,680 Whoever lives it travels in a climate of trust, of abandonment, being 24 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,959 able to say with the psalmist, Lord You are, my rock, my 25 00:01:57,079 --> 00:02:00,560 shield, my fortress, my refuge look to my shepherd, my salvation. 26 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:05,640 Even if I was confronted by an entire army, I wouldn' t be 27 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:08,120 afraid of my heart. And if a battle rises against me that I will 28 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:12,919 then still be, then I will be trusted. But it is possible that 29 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,560 the psalmist has always done well for all things, surely they would not do 30 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:23,159 well. He always knows too and says that the bad ones are many times 31 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:29,759 more fortunate and the good despised. He even regretted it once the lord even 32 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:38,240 came to say why he sleeps, sir, why you keep quiet wake up 33 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:43,360 listen to me, sir, but he kept the hope and to him and 34 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:47,280 to all those who wait can be applied what You Abraham said, what Abran 35 00:02:47,319 --> 00:02:53,479 said to you. Paul believed that he was waiting against all hope. We 36 00:02:53,560 --> 00:03:00,719 can still think about how he gave that up, how we can believe and 37 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:04,639 live against all hope happens because we cling to three ideas that are true. 38 00:03:07,199 --> 00:03:13,400 God is omnipotent. God loves me immensely. God is faithful to the promises. 39 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,800 He is the God of mercy, who kindles my trust. Thanks to 40 00:03:17,879 --> 00:03:23,520 him. I do not feel alone, useless or abandoned, but committed to 41 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:29,120 a destiny of salvation that will one day lead to paradise. We have alluded 42 00:03:29,159 --> 00:03:34,639 to the psalms the same confident living in the wrath of Saint Augustine. One 43 00:03:34,719 --> 00:03:39,199 Easter day he preached about the Luya and said more or less the true Hallelujah. 44 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:44,479 We' ll sing it in paradise. That will be the age of 45 00:03:44,479 --> 00:03:49,039 full love. This one down here is the hallelujah of hungry love. This 46 00:03:49,159 --> 00:03:54,000 is of hope. Maybe we' ll think. But if I am a 47 00:03:54,039 --> 00:04:00,960 poor sinner, I will respond as I was told to advise an old Sans 48 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,159 Dondo, an unknown lady who went to confess with him. I was disheartened 49 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:09,960 because I said I had had a morally obnoxious life. I can ask you, 50 00:04:10,719 --> 00:04:12,240 he said, if you don' t mind, how old he is. 51 00:04:12,719 --> 00:04:15,639 Thirty- five. The lady answered thirty- five, but you can 52 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,759 still live about forty or fifty years and do a lot of good things. 53 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:25,319 Then repentant, as he is, instead of thinking about the past, think 54 00:04:25,399 --> 00:04:29,120 about the future and renew with God' s help his life and God hates 55 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,800 faults, but because they are faults. But, on the other hand, 56 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:38,639 he loves in a certain sense the faults in that they give occasion to him 57 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:45,439 to show his mercy and to us to remain humble and also to understand and 58 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,639 sympathize with the faults of the Projimo, as I read some time ago in 59 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:53,319 a picture of Christ of the great power he uses that a priest had in 60 00:04:53,319 --> 00:04:58,759 the cocesionary. Putting that phrase on the Lord' s lips this phrase I 61 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:03,199 rejoice in your sins because you give me the opportunity to forgive you and show 62 00:05:03,199 --> 00:05:09,319 you my mercy. Not everyone understands that. The mitche hope, for example, 63 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:14,879 the so- called virtue of the weak would make a Christian a useless 64 00:05:14,879 --> 00:05:16,959 being, a segregated one, a resigned one, a stranger to the progress 65 00:05:16,959 --> 00:05:23,199 of the world. Others will know about alienation that kept Christians out of the 66 00:05:23,319 --> 00:05:29,160 struggle for human proportion. But the Christian message has said the council, far 67 00:05:29,199 --> 00:05:31,360 from contributing, of turning men away from the task edifice from the world, 68 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:38,800 rather commit them to it with a more demanding obligation. It says on gaudinet 69 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:43,480 spés. It is a joy to see how the saints are cheerful and active, 70 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:54,319 understand Christian humanism and explain a comprehensive theology. Tomas of aquino, for 71 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:59,439 example, includes among the virtues the yucunditas, that is, the ability to 72 00:05:59,439 --> 00:06:04,040 turn into a cheerful smile in the measure and convenient way. Things heard and 73 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:11,199 seen. Funny in this regard, it was that the Irish mason, Irish 74 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:15,439 who fell off the scaffold and broke his legs, taken to the hospital, 75 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:21,199 came to him the doctor and the religious nurse. The poor nun said you 76 00:06:21,199 --> 00:06:25,639 have done a lot of leo warden to, what he answered. He answered. 77 00:06:25,639 --> 00:06:28,519 The wounded not mother. It has not been when falling, It has 78 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:32,120 been when I arrived to earth when I have hurt myself, declaring virtue to 79 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:36,800 joke and make smile if Thomas placed himself in the line of the joyful new 80 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:44,839 preached by Christ, of the Hilaritas, recommended by St John Augustine Defeat pessimism 81 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:50,319 dressed with joy Christian life encouraged us to encourage us with the healthy and pure 82 00:06:50,439 --> 00:06:57,920 joys that we find on our way. Andre Andrade Cornishen a Scotch who marched 83 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:01,120 with his parents America, where he gradually became one of the richest men in 84 00:07:01,199 --> 00:07:06,959 the world. He was not a Catholic, but he spoke insistently of the 85 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,079 healthy and authentic joys of life. I was born in misery, but I 86 00:07:12,199 --> 00:07:15,800 would not change the memories of my childhood, for those of the children, 87 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,680 of the millionaires who know them, of the family joys, of the sweet 88 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:26,920 figure of the mother who gathers in herself the functions of nanny, the cook 89 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:30,879 flag, Master Angel and Santa. My young man had been employed in a 90 00:07:30,959 --> 00:07:36,319 spinnery in Pittsburgh with a stipend of six fifty- six miserable monthly iras. 91 00:07:36,439 --> 00:07:40,639 One afternoon, instead of paying him the cashier right away, he told him 92 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:44,639 to wait for Rieger to tremble. Now you fire me and you think. 93 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,319 On the contrary, after paying the others, the cashier told Andyun I have 94 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:53,959 followed closely in his work and I have come to the conclusion that it is 95 00:07:53,959 --> 00:07:56,639 worth more than the others. I' ll raise you to sixty- seven 96 00:07:56,639 --> 00:08:01,199 lire. Carrige ran home, where the mother wept happily for the promotion of 97 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:05,839 the son. You talk about millionaires, Camis said. Many years later, 98 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:11,920 all my millions together have never given the joy of those eleven liras of increase. 99 00:08:13,439 --> 00:08:18,439 In conclusion, I would like to refer to a hope that some proclaim 100 00:08:18,519 --> 00:08:22,000 as a Christian, but that is only Christian to a certain extent. It 101 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:26,240 is a mistake to say that political, economic and social liberation coincides with the 102 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:31,959 salvation of Jesus Christ and that the Dai kingnum who identifies himself in the Hominis 103 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:39,840 king, because then he would end up affirming that Ubilenin and Villerusalén, presenting 104 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:45,080 this liberation as the true Christian hope where Levin is the ay comonism is in 105 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,519 Jerusalem, says the phrase. I believe that the Magisterium of the Church will 106 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:54,159 never insist enough on presenting and recommending solutions to the great problems of freedom, 107 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:58,759 justice and peace and development, and Catholics will never fight enough to solve those 108 00:08:58,759 --> 00:09:05,919 problems. But always from the Christian perfection of the liberation from sin, as 109 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:11,759 true and authentic freedom in Hostia on the seashore, in a famous colloquium, 110 00:09:11,879 --> 00:09:18,799 Augustine and his mother Monica, forgotten from the past and looking towards the future, 111 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:26,080 wondered what eternal life would be, this is Christian hope. That hope 112 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:30,159 refers to Pope John 23rd and to her we mean when the Egecism prays. 113 00:09:33,159 --> 00:09:37,399 My God, I hope in your goodness, the eternal life and the graces 114 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:43,120 necessary to deserve it with the good works that I must and want to do, 115 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:48,240 my God, that I never cd ever confused for all eternity, all 116 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:52,279 blessing. May the Lord be in your heart so that you may know how 117 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,240 to love with all of him, that he may be on your lips so 118 00:09:54,279 --> 00:09:58,960 that you may speak with strength and faith of his resurrection, that he may 119 00:10:00,039 --> 00:10:03,639 be in your arms to work tirelessly for his sake and possess his kingdom, 120 00:10:03,799 --> 00:10:05,159 that it may be on your feet that you may walk the paths of peace. 121 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:09,399 May the Lord show you that he is in your clean gaze, so 122 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:13,080 that your eyes may see Jesus in others who are in your joy, so 123 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,240 that you will never lose him, even if he is tribes you have and 124 00:10:16,279 --> 00:10:22,440 can give him to others in the name of the father and son and of 125 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:22,440 the Holy Spirit Amen.