1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:08,519 Prayer of the heart Wednesday of the fifteenth week of ordinary time. Come Holy 2 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:14,679 Spirit so that I may find wisdom in the midst of my limits, discomfort 3 00:00:14,679 --> 00:00:19,519 and weariness, for the sun that sets is as beautiful When I am healthy 4 00:00:19,559 --> 00:00:24,440 as when I am sick. Help me to appreciate the beauty of things beyond 5 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:30,079 my moods. Help me enjoy what you give me in the middle of my 6 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:38,079 troubles. Come Holy Spirit and teach me to live, because many times I 7 00:00:38,119 --> 00:00:42,280 can only look at what worries me, what I lack, what I dislike, 8 00:00:43,119 --> 00:00:47,640 as if there was nothing more than that. Today we celebrate San Alejo, 9 00:00:47,799 --> 00:00:56,399 Mendigo. The Gospel is from St Matthew, chapter eleven verses, twenty 10 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,920 - five to twenty- seven at that time exclaimed Jesus you Di. Thank 11 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:06,319 you, Father, Lord say of earth, why have you hidden these things 12 00:01:06,359 --> 00:01:10,200 from the wise men of understanding and revealed them to the simple people. Yes, 13 00:01:10,239 --> 00:01:14,040 Father, that' s the best way you' ve seen it You 14 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:15,280 ' ve given it all to my father. And no one knows the son 15 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,840 more than the father. And no one knows the father, but the son 16 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:23,599 of him whom he said he would reveal it to him. From the incarnation 17 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:30,400 of the verb, the mystery is revealed in the event of Jesus Christ, 18 00:01:30,719 --> 00:01:36,920 which is contemporary to every human person as a time, in any time and 19 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:42,680 place, through the church of which Mary is mother and moderate God has hidden 20 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,640 these things from the wise and understanding, making them known to the little ones, 21 00:01:46,879 --> 00:01:49,799 to the humble, to the simple of heart. For her own sake, 22 00:01:51,239 --> 00:01:55,719 at the call of God, the Virgin Mary manifests divine love among men. 23 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,680 In this sense, she, with simplicity and mother sara, continues to 24 00:02:00,319 --> 00:02:07,959 indicate the only light and the only truth. His son, Jesus Christ, 25 00:02:07,639 --> 00:02:13,199 which is the definitive answer to the question about the meaning of life and the 26 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:17,439 fundamental questions that are beset today there are also so many men and women. 27 00:02:19,479 --> 00:02:23,840 It is necessary to put yourself in the glasses of faith to contemplate all the 28 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:30,120 wonders and treasures that God made for us, rivers seas, snowy mountains, 29 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:34,879 sunrises and sunsets, the love of a mother and the caress of a father. 30 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:39,879 However, it is just to look at those wonders of God to recognize 31 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:46,199 his mercy and love. Light by virtue of people, circumstances and events, 32 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:53,759 acquires a new value that they could never have. Indeed, coming into the 33 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:59,319 world and coming and seeing among us, Jesus has always preferred simplicity and clarity 34 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:05,800 to darkness and wickedness. However, we can say that God is dark and 35 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:12,439 incomprehensible even to the proud who have a heart closed in themselves, who think 36 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,759 they have no need of anyone, neither of God nor of themselves alone. 37 00:03:17,599 --> 00:03:27,120 It is the same man who creates invental complications to make inaccessible the knowledge and 38 00:03:27,159 --> 00:03:30,159 acceptance of God' s will, as well as can make the leap to 39 00:03:30,199 --> 00:03:36,800 faith if his heart is recharged by the useless baggage of his hypocrisy and his 40 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:44,240 many anxieties. That wisdom is heavy on those who consider themselves wise in the 41 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:49,080 world, but it is vital for Christian cinema, because it is put with 42 00:03:49,199 --> 00:03:53,680 its eyes closed in the hands of God. Let us learn, therefore, 43 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,960 to practice the humility of the heart and mind and learn to discover to God 44 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:02,360 the everyday, realizing that he is in the small of heart and that we 45 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:06,680 must have the heart full of joy and peace, because his God is with 46 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:15,080 us. You really want to be holy, you ask Joseph Mary, you 47 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:19,480 do the little duty of every moment to what you owe and is in what 48 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:23,759 you do. It says on the way to number eight hundred and fifteen. 49 00:04:23,959 --> 00:04:29,920 He would later develop this realistic and concrete perspective of holiness in the midst of 50 00:04:30,439 --> 00:04:33,920 the world in the homily. To love the world in the past, passionately 51 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:39,160 leave behind dreams, false idealisms, fantasies, what I usually call mystical tinkering. 52 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,600 I wish I hadn' t married. I wish I didn' t 53 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:48,399 have this profession. I wish I had more health. I wish I was 54 00:04:48,519 --> 00:04:55,240 young, I wish I was old. You have already soberly changed to the 55 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:59,040 most material and immediate reality, which is where it is. God is the 56 00:04:59,079 --> 00:05:04,279 Lord this saint of the ordinary, invites us to truly immerse ourselves in the 57 00:05:04,319 --> 00:05:09,920 adventure of the everyday. There is no other way, my children, or 58 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:13,439 we know, to find God in our ordinary life or we will never find 59 00:05:13,439 --> 00:05:18,920 him. God is near, says the 16th Fighter. This is also the 60 00:05:18,959 --> 00:05:27,000 way the exan José María was sweetly accompanying the interlocutors. We live as if 61 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,120 the Lord were far away, should not the stars and we do not consider 62 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:36,600 that He is always at His side. How to find him, how to 63 00:05:36,639 --> 00:05:43,680 establish a relationship with him. Know it well, there is something divine holy 64 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,519 hidden in the most common situations that comes to you, to each of you 65 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:53,160 to discover said Sirxan Joseph Mary. In essence, it is a question of 66 00:05:53,439 --> 00:05:58,959 transforming all the circumstances of ordinary life, pleasant or less pleasant, into dialogue, 67 00:05:58,959 --> 00:06:03,519 into sources of dialogue with God and, therefore, of contemplation. For 68 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:12,040 Saint Joseph Mary, the aspiration of a life of authentic relationship is intimately linked 69 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:15,319 to a search for personal improvement through the acquisition of human discharges, attachments, 70 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:21,920 attachments, forgiveness in the life of grace, patience before the rebellious teenager, 71 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:30,879 a sense of friendship and a capacity for fascination in relations with others, serenity 72 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:41,399 in the face of a painful failure, etcetera. Here, according to Joseph 73 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:46,319 Mary, is the primal Madrid of dialogue with God, the field of exercise 74 00:06:46,439 --> 00:06:51,000 of sanctification. It is about materializing the spiritual life, avoiding temptation, leading 75 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,199 as a double life the inner life, the life of relationship with God, 76 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,600 one part, and another part, different and separate, the professional social family 77 00:06:59,639 --> 00:07:09,120 life, full of small earthly realities. Our daily life is essentially a life 78 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:23,240 of relationship of relatives and aristos professionals sources of joy, as well as inevitable 79 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:29,839 decisions. The secret of knowing how to recognize Christ who has met us in 80 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:33,160 our brothers, men and in one person is a loose kiss, but we 81 00:07:33,199 --> 00:07:40,120 are all part of the same divine poem that God writes with the aid of 82 00:07:40,199 --> 00:07:47,240 our freedom. From this intimate and continuous dialogue, Christ should also naturally rive 83 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:51,879 the desire to speak to others about him, the postulate is the love of 84 00:07:51,920 --> 00:08:01,800 God who overflows by giving himself to others. Everything that is done out of 85 00:08:01,839 --> 00:08:09,560 love acquires beauty and is magnified. This is undoubtedly the last word of the 86 00:08:09,079 --> 00:08:16,480 spirituality of St Joseph Mary. It is not about trying to do great deeds 87 00:08:16,519 --> 00:08:22,720 or expecting extraordinary circumstances to behave heroically. The question is rather to strive humbly 88 00:08:22,759 --> 00:08:28,319 in the small duty of every moment, setting out all the love and all 89 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:33,000 the human perfection of which we are capable. Thank you, Holy Spirit, 90 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:37,279 for your gifts of understanding, wisdom and knowledge. It allows me, following 91 00:08:37,279 --> 00:08:41,919 Mary' s example, to use them for good, not to close my 92 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:46,639 pride or undersufficiency or pride in good, wanting to put me to depend on 93 00:08:46,639 --> 00:08:52,399 myself, rather than to abandon myself in the mercy of love, with the 94 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:56,080 confidence with which a child rests in the arms of his father. I give 95 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:01,159 you the blessing desvis in your heart that you may know frame with all him, 96 00:09:01,399 --> 00:09:05,159 that he may be on your lips, that you may open with strong 97 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:07,960 faith of his resurrection, that he may be in your arms, that you 98 00:09:09,159 --> 00:09:11,120 may work without rest for his sake, and that they may post of his 99 00:09:11,159 --> 00:09:15,080 kingdom, that it may be on your feet, that you may walk through 100 00:09:15,159 --> 00:09:18,240 the whole of peace, that the Lord may show you that he is in 101 00:09:18,759 --> 00:09:22,240 your clean gaze, that your eyes may see Jesus in others, that he 102 00:09:22,399 --> 00:09:26,960 may be in your joy, that you may never lose, even if you 103 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,120 have reason and may call upon others the name of the father and son and 104 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:28,120 of the Holy Spirit Amen.