Prayer of the heart Wednesday of the tenth week of ordinary time. Holy Spirit,
You who make everything clear to me, who illuminate all the ways for
me to reach my ideal, You who give me the divine gift of forgiving
and forgetting the evil that they do to me and that in all the moments
of life you are with me. I want, in this short dialogue,
to thank you for everything in confirming that I never want to separate myself from
you however much material illusion is. I want to be with you and all
my loved ones and perpetual glory. Thank you for your mercy to me and
mine. Thank you, my God. Today we celebrate Saint Onofre of Egypt
Aracoleta, the Gospel of Matthew, chapter five verses seventeen to nineteen. At
that time he said high jesus. Do not believe that I have come to
abhor, to read the prophets, I have not come to bolir, but
to the pruritus, or I assure you that before they will pass in heaven
and earth they will fail to fulfill until the illuminous letter or tida of the
law. One who skips only one of the less important precepts and thus teaches
only men will be at least important in the Kingdom of Heaven, but whoever
fulfills and teaches us will be great the Kingdom of Heaven, Pope Francis said
about this text the following, what advantages we have received to fulfill God'
s commandments, while the proud are doing evil, multiplying and even provoking God
who give impunity. Many times we see this people bad or better said,
people who do evil, it seems that life is doing well. They are
happy, they have what they want, they lack nothing, because this one,
who is a brazen, who doesn' t care about God or us,
who is an unjust and bad person, who goes well in life,
has everything he wants and we, who want to do him well, have
so many problems. The answer is found in the psalm which proclaims blessed man
who does not follow the counsels of the wicked and finds his joy, that
the joy of the Lord is something first. Now we see, now we
do not see the fruits of these suffering people, of these people who bear
the cross as they saw Holy and Holy Saturday. The fruits of the crucified
son of God from his sufferings were not seen. Likewise, what the psalm
says about the wicked, about whom we think all is well with him,
says straw that overflows the wind, for the Lord protects the way from the
righteous and righteous, but the way of the wicked ends badly. The faith
we gain through the Gospel is an enormous treasure that gives us the knowledge of
Christ and through him comes to life. However, it is our duty to
convey the word that we have received according to your command and go throughout the
world to preach the Gospel. We cannot remain alone in the experience of his
word when there are so many people in this world who do not know him.
Thus, every baptized person is called to be a witness and apostle to
Jesus, a friend of mine who has already died of tremendous cancer, repeated
many times in his illness and pain. How many good people there are and
I am really pregnant and there is much good we can do, although we
think very little of what we can do. But that little bit is asked
of us by the Lord because he transforms it into a lot. I met
Miguel many years ago in an accident when he was twenty- two years old
who said tetraplegic for life. He died consumed in his room, from his
village house. He took care of his mother, who is already in heaven.
Miguel spent a lot of time in the hospital, as nurses, the
doctors took great care of him and each stay of Miguel in the hospital was
a party. Why Michael always carried joy, peace and a permanent smile despite
his permanent pain. She studied with Miguel the day before she died She couldn
' t speak to me or die. Then his cousin, who is a
great priest friend of mine who also died, told me that Michael died smiling.
His mother had put a little cotton wet in water in his mouth to
relieve him and managed to say before he died. Sir, I' m
cold, my pain, my thirst for my warmth. He was a saint
of those who never wrote anything, but with what God writes straight with some
crooked ones. To me, Miguel’ s example helped me a lot and
changed my life. Michael was a messenger of the kingdom of God. Without
drawing attention, passing by hidden, because it is not uncommon for us to
ask about the sense of suffering. What in such varied ways it afflicts us.
These are questions that can torment and paralyze and desamise us or, on
the contrary, fill us with a new and enriching dimension alien to any sterile
rebellion. On his trip to Cuba, St John Paul II also approached a
pain enclosure, at San Lázaro Shrine. The pontiff did not get there,
there he did not get there as a theorist, but as a witness of
his own flesh, of the meaning of the value of suffering when he welcomes
himself by confidently approaching God the Grich and Mercy. In fact, St John
Palo II experienced to himself the loss of a family, the ordeal of hard
work, the oppression of a Marxist dictatorship, a repeated attack by the Crophan,
various diseases, an old age increased by all the previous vicissitudes and the
weight of the ide is found out by its spiritual vis-à- vis
and by so many contrarieties. He knew very well what he was saying when
he assured the erpods Saint Lazarus that pain is a mystery. He said many
times unsculptible for reason is part of the mystery of the human person, which
is only clarified in Jesus Christ, who is the one to reveal to man
his own identity. Only from him can we find meaning to everything. It
is Christ who gives answers to questions about the various misfortunes that may come upon
them, but he does not do so in an abstract and conceptual way.
Christ gives no answer to a theory about grief. Man perceives the sacrificial response
as he himself becomes a sharer of Christ' s sufferings. That is to
say, there is an experimental personal response if you will, when the man
touched by grace decides not to see very heavy crosses, but the only one
as of Christ that he, Christ himself, carries not without mystery. Paul
also wrote these words in the Letter to the Colossians. Now he says I
am glad of my sufferings for the others and I supple in my flesh what
is missing from the tribulations of Christ by his body, which is the Church.
Certainly, Christ' s passion lacks nothing, only that, like Paul,
he knows very much so jealousy to run along with them. This is
the sense of pain that each one must perceive personally seeking the closeness of Jesus
Jesus a very high sense of continuing to make redemption. Perhaps those words of
the founder Opus DEI can help your troubled heart. Don' t give up
on the cross. He said resignation is an ungenerous word. He wants the
cross when you really want it. Your cross will be a cross without a
cross. And I assure you like him that like him, you will find
Mary on the way. I give you the blessing of the goodness and mercy
of God, Father, has the heart, that the gaze of love of
God, son, perish in your soul and be purified from any restlessness and
lack that can separate you from God, that the love of God the Holy
Spirit and grant you the peace you need, that the tenderness of Mary,
mother of God and our mother caresses and protects you and the strength and simplicity
of St Joseph, our father, Lord led you to heaven and the mission
of God. Almighty father, son, and holy spirit descend upon you and
accompany you always amen